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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Start with your startup costs: Registering as a 501(c)3 with the IRS and with your state, subscribing to cloud-based software such as accounting, donor management, and other tools, hiring legal support or other experts, and leasing a facility, if necessary. Don’t slap your nonprofit’s name on a piece of clipart and call it done.

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4 Ideas for Incorporating Text to Give in Your Fundraiser

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Text-to-give is a powerful donation tool that offers donors a way to easily give to their favorite nonprofits right from their phones. Text-to-give tools streamline the donation process and can even encourage donors to give more (and more frequently!). Be sure to actively promote your text-to-give campaign.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How does SL compare to these other tools and where does it fit on the gradient? And, how does a virtual world tool help or hinder effective online collaboration or a synchronuous online communication? There is a new tool called SecondTalk that lets you integrate skype with Second Life. Co-editing WHILE discussing a document.