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2009 Nonprofit Benchmarks: How Does your Organization Measure Up?

Care2

Establishing benchmarks helps organizations better leverage supporters, engage activists and keep websites dynamic with compelling content that drives people to take action. Offering compelling reasons to join the file is critical. 61% of organizations’ average gifts dropped in 2009. Online Fundraising.

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Marketing and Engagement: Making the most of your Emails

Amy Sample Ward

From 2009 to 2010, the open rate for organizations of all sizes and sectors declined by 12% on average. Meanwhile, unsubscribe rates held steady from 2009 to 2010. Advocacy actions and items of personal interest tend to result in more click-throughs from newsletters. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Highlights.

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Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It has shortcuts for all of your servers, has nice drag and drop for moving files around, allows you to do all sorts of remote actions on files, etc. No, it’s not slick, but Filezilla does the job nicely. It handles FTP, SFTP and FTP over SSL/TLS. I use it all the time, and I really like it.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. That doesn’t mean organizations sit back, relinquish all responsibility and control, and wait for the community to take action.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

(You can review the page edits here: [link] ) Links to news stories were included as they emerged and the occasional personal edit of sentiments like “no one knows what’s going on” contributed to the live action growth of the page. Those not in Haiti can also use the application as it aggregates news and actions to take.

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Steve Bridger › Woodland walk

Steve Bridger

Filed under photos , unplugged. Redesigning Charity for the Digital Age Skip to content Home More about Steve Bridger UK Charities Twitter 100 Woodland walk Took the family on a magical walk yesterday afternoon in Clevedon Court Woods. There’s nothing that compares to the majesty of trees. This was written by Steve Bridger.

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Steve Bridger › Colalife: make it real

Steve Bridger

Filed under ideas , video. Just this morning, Mark Charmer of Akvo alerted me to a United Nations University study , which says providing sanitation and safe water is the top route to reducing world poverty. Please join the Colalife group on Facebook; 6,391 members… and counting. This was written by Steve Bridger.

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