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Leveraging Engagement to Sustain Our Organizations

VQ Strategies

The most common topic of discussion in meetings lately and the theme of many sessions during this unusual fall conference season is the need to advocate for volunteer engagement as a strategy to help sustain organizations during these challenging times. Know the Research.

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Bright Idea: Year-Round Giving Can Help You Reach Your Goal

Qgiv

Who they are: The Veterans Heritage Project’s mission is to connect students with veterans in order to honor their legacies and help develop future leaders, while bridging the gap between military and civilian life. Donors want to know who their gifts will help, so including images that make it more personal will inspire more folks to give.

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Predictions for 2009

Amy Sample Ward

Developers, consultants, experts and users all like to weigh in with their predictions for 2009’s big developments, innovations and attempts for the coming year. So, here are my 2009 Predictions for the Social Web. But I think 2009 will see a more refined world of mashups take over. What are your predictions for 2009?

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2009 GreatNonprofits Youth Thrive Awards

Amy Sample Ward

The 2009 GreatNonprofits Youth Thrive Awards will recognize the top-rated youth-focused nonprofits. In the month of September, the small, medium, and large organizations with the most positive reviews will be featured on GreatNonprofits and Guidestar. This will help highly-rated nonprofits attract more support and volunteers.”.

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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. Even in this dismal economy, online donations grew 14% and 69% of nonprofits raised more in 2009 than 2008. However it’s not all good news.

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Chain Reaction 2009: the Social by Social game

Amy Sample Ward

We succeed when we work together The Chain Reaction Networks helps individuals and organisations to connect together. Chain Reaction is taking place November 12th, 2009, at Canary Warf, London. To find out more, use these links: Why are people coming together this year at Chain Reaction 2009?

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Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp 2009

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Enjoyed my day in Berkeley yesterday at the Craigslist Foundation Bootcamp 2009. Lots of enthusiastic FB users in the audience helped make her points. Enjoyed Deb Jospin and Shirley Sagawa discussing the Charismatic Organization, their recent book. Announcing All For Good was a big piece of the event, of course.