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How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How Helpful is Teaching Nonprofits How to Fish? When thinking about fundraising, many nonprofits and funders believe in the old adage, “Give a person a fish, and you feed him for a day; teach a person to fish, and you feed him for a lifetime.” What you think? Guest post by Paul Connolly.

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Building A Nonprofit Board That Understands Financial Stewardship

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Because no one wants board members approving budgets that they don’t fully understand or making decisions to expand staff when they aren’t clear if the budget can withstand additional salaries and benefits or voting on fundraising approaches when they don’t understand cost/benefit analysis. Teach them about fundraising.

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Event Data Management: How To Make The Most Of Your Data

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This in-depth analysis can reveal helpful information about your individual donors and your fundraising teams so that you can help them fundraise more successfully in the future. You can start out simple and perform more complex analysis later when you have ample time to dig in. The first type of analysis is the simplest.

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AI for Nonprofits and Social Good: Link Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is funded by Open Society Foundations. AI for Social Good: The McKinsey company recently released its “ AI and Social Good Report ,” which includes a landscape analysis of how AI is currently being used to solve big hairy problems. How To Teach Artificial Intelligence More Common Sense: Deep learning is the king of AI.

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The 990: From Compliance to Communication 

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Who’s Funding What and Where, and Who Benefits? The questions we field most often pertain to the story the grants data tells us about where funding is going, where it’s not going, and who does and does not benefit. Investment information, including whether stock holdings run counter to the foundation’s programmatic goals.

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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Highlights of this Letter: SocialCoding4Good CityOptions Read2Go and Route 66 Literacy Selected Program Updates Human rights: Legal victory in Guatemala, PBS NewsHour stories Literacy: Major milestones for Bookshare at home and abroad SocialCoding4Good Just funded by the John S. and James L. This is a huge legal victory!

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

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Complete a needs analysis: Clearly, you see an urgent need in your community, otherwise you could not be going down this road. And also think about how you can fund those new programs because you may need some seed money before you can start. But you can’t self-fund your nonprofit. What need will you address?

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