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Donate Your Brain! Microvolunteering at TechSoup

Tech Soup

Our virtual volunteering offerings also include Donate Your Brain , a microvolunteering initiative. In our Donate Your Brain initiative, volunteers choose how and when to participate whenever they want to. We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities. Simple, right? Not even hundreds.

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Fundraising Planning Guide, Calendar, Worksheet, + Template

CauseVox

That’s why we created this 2021 fundraising calendar worksheet and template to help you map out the best possible plan. It’s a time to focus on evaluating what fundraising approaches from 2020 worked and be honest about what didn’t pan out as planned. You should be able to pick up these templates and start working with them right away.

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A look at 15 best and (almost) free mind mapping tools for nonprofits

Candid

The same principle lies at the heart of a mind map. Mind maps help us stay organized in the world of content shock, informational chaos, and short attention span. Psychologists revealed the power of this instrument for the human brain a long time ago. They say mind mapping makes people more creative and retentive.

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Nature vs. Nuture, or Why You Should Follow Your Gut on the Social Web

NTEN

On a daily basis we listen, we connect, we share, and we evaluate -- all steps in a solid social media plan. You listen to a conversation, you connect with those involved, you share your relevant information, and then, when you walk away, you evaluate that interaction. Think about your in-person interactions.

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Drawing Networks on Napkins with Peter Plastrik and Madeleine Taylor, Co-Authors of Net Gains

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We also discussed the whole issue of network evaluation and the difficulty of measuring those relationships versus a specific impact. Also, the idea of faster tools like social network analysis that give us real time information and the need for someone who is embedded in the network as a real time evaluator.

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Top Ten Chart Secrets from A Nonprofit Data Nerd

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social network maps, tree maps, and dot plots are some of the newest charts to enter the nonprofit field.† Social network maps are for visualizing relationships between people or organizations, like your nonprofit’s role in a nationwide advocacy campaign or your professional network as Andy Carvin did below.

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[VIDEO] Why You Should Ditch The Way You’ve Been Doing Strategic Planning

Bloomerang

And a lot of the research is market research, is, you know, evaluating our constituents and our stakeholders. So we actually draw our strategic plans, our impact strategies, as mind maps. They are not documents, there is no fancy graphic design, they are mind maps. You can really imagine eight weeks well in your human brain. .

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