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Adobe Absolute Beginners Courses: Go from Design Doldrums to Design Delights!

Tech Soup

If you answered yes to any (or all) of these, you are in the design doldrums. In the nonprofit and library world, it's not uncommon for staff — from management to service delivery team to volunteers — to be tasked with designing handouts, board presentations, or annual reports. Adobe Absolute Beginners: Photoshop 101.

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Using Segmentation To Boost Engagement In Email Campaigns

Bloomerang

Misdirected efforts—like inviting an out-of-state donor to a local gala—can diminish a donor’s sense of belonging and loyalty to your organization. Using a donor database enables you to design, segment, and personalize your communication strategies, ensuring your messages are tailored and relevant to each group.

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Nonprofits, Get Your License to Design!

Tech Soup

Go from zero to 60 — or at least gather enough speed to get on the highway entrance — with our Design for Nondesigner course series. Get your design driver's license by taking a few of TechSoup's online design courses. identify and apply standard processes for creating visually appealing and effective design.

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Learn Design Basics and Build Brand Guidelines for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Do the words "design" and "brand guidelines" make your toes curl and teeth grind? Does design lingo make you think you need to hire a professional designer or go to design school? recognize and define five basic core elements in design and in your organization's brand guide. spanhidden.

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New (Free) E-Book: Leading Systems Change Will Supercharge Your Facilitation Skills

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings.

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It Takes A Village: Joining and Participating in the WordPress Community

Byte Technology

For anyone who designs, owns, manages or administers a WordPress site, the importance of the “community” that surrounds the wildly popular content management system cannot be understated. WordCamps happen locally all over the world, so there’s a very good chance there’s one conveniently located near you.

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The Beginner’s Guide to Running Your First Capital Campaign

Get Fully Funded

You might do this through posts on social media, an article in the local news, and even a groundbreaking ceremony where you wear construction hats and hold golden shovels. A well-designed feasibility study will help you learn: The community’s perception of the proposed project and your organization in general. Current key major donors.