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12 free nonprofit books to help you achieve year-end fundraising success

Candid

These nonprofit books provide sample messaging and practical guidance to help you write appeals that resonate with your donors and compel them to support your organization. Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. The Annual Campaign by Erik J.

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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In practice: 1) The Brain Donor Project. Most people probably have never thought about donating their brains to science. The Brain Donor Project’s end goal is to get you to register your brain for donation after your death—a major ask that is likely to be shocking or even offensive to some people.

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Applications for the Nonprofit Tech Academy are due April 8

NTEN

We still have a few slots available in our Nonprofit Tech Academy for spring 2014, but the application deadline is fast approaching. Does the following sound good to you? Thanks to the generous support of the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, we''re able to offer the Nonprofit Tech Academy at no charge to qualifying organizations.

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#13ntc Nonprofit Technology Conference: Plenary Session on Failing Informatively

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You’ll hear a lot of F words flailing in this highly interactive plenary session – fearless, frameworks, fundamentals, forgiveness, forward-looking, and most importantly FUN! This session will be brains on and hands on and cover the best practices of content curation for nonprofit. April 12, 2013 – 1:30-3:00 PM. NpTech Fail.

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SXSW 2013 – Are You A Social Media Nonprofit Manager Looking for Your Peers? #npsmpeer

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After each presentation, one of the “responders” other experts in the field including Amy Sample Ward (see her write up ), Mark Horvath, and David Neff offered their insights in two minutes about the topic. ” @ brianreich #sxsw #npsmpeer #nptech — Amy Sample Ward (@amyrsward) March 10, 2013.

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VocaliD to Create Unique Voices for Millions Who Can't Speak

Tech Soup

Whether their vocal ability is limited due to illness, genetic factors, or brain injury, these individuals have the right to communicate using a unique voice, a vocalization they can identify with as they interact in the world. VocaliD was a winner of the 2015 SXSW Interactive Innovation Award for Health Med & Biotech.

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Games and Cultural Spaces: Live Blog Notes from Games for Change

Amy Sample Ward

Within our exhibitions, we have a focus on creating very dynamic, interactive opportunities. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. So, finding games and interactions that make it easy for people to engage with the information.

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