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Nonprofit Fundraising: Are You Choosing the Right Grants?

Blue Avocado

Grant funding is great, but often comes with requirements such as financial tracking of the award, measuring the program, reporting to the funder, and more — so look before you leap ! Any awards will also probably be a reimbursement (you spend the funds, then invoice the government), meaning you have to already have funds to spend.

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4 Steps to Breaking Down Complicated Content

Media Cause

So you can see how these four steps work in practice, we’ll use a recent award-winning campaign for the Center for American Progress and their Generation Progress campaign as an example. So we created a carousel of images that broke down story slide by slide. Construct your ideal user journey. The carousel posts were viewed 5.6

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6 tips to create a volunteer group and successfully launch DEI initiatives

Nimble AMS

Try using icebreakers, gamification features, videos, a slide deck, breakout discussions, group activities, or roleplay to ensure the session is memorable. During the program offer awards for each volunteer who’s contributed to DEI initiatives. Keep your volunteer training interesting by making orientation content engaging.

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Great reads from around the web on March 2nd

Amy Sample Ward

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. " Pew: Open government is tied to higher levels of community satisfaction | Gov 2.0:

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Digital Storytelling Challenge Community Choice Voting Opens May 4

Tech Soup

You spent time and talent on creating your video or picture slide show, now we invite you to show it off! In addition to our expert judges selecting top stories , we are awarding a community choice prize as voted on by YOU! How It Works. Pacific time on Saturday, May 4 and will be open through 11:59 p.m. Pacific time on Friday, May 17.

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A Simple 6 Step Plan for Creating a Facebook Page that Works

NetWits

Significant accomplishments, awards, recognitions, etc. Make sure to check out the full presentation slides. You can view them below or download them from SlideShare by clicking here (look for the download button right above the slides when you get to SlideShare). Use photos as much as possible. Date when school was founded.

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11 Blog Content Ideas for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A day or two after the event, write up a brief blog post summarizing the event, with a Flickr slide show or YouTube video recapping the event. Quite often, a good slide show or video will entice supporters to give priority to attending your next event. It’s also good to feature quotes from supporters who attended the event.

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