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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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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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Emily Goligoski, The SanFranista: How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

and teaches yoga in San Francisco. It took a year of philosophy and anatomy study (and, more than I expected, self study) to earn my certification, but I found that the teaching staff's patience and encouragment made me a better teacher too. The fifth guest blogger in my Have Fun, Do Good series is Emily Goligoski.

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

Amy Sample Ward

The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. And the next location will be at MoMA where they are teaching a 10 week digital media course about building arcades and will actually build one with kids. Questions and Discussion.

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Fundwriter.ai 101 – Can A Robot Write Better Than You?

The Fundraising Authority

In fact, I am planning to post a how-to article to teach you how I go about writing a typical appeal with Fundwriter. Fundwriter further trains this AI using nonprofit-specific writing samples from websites to appeals to proposals to social posts. He didn't know he'd be diagnosed with brain cancer just five months later.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

If an applicant gets an interview, ask him or her to bring along a few writing samples. If you’re hiring a grant writer, request samples of grants he’s written. If you’re hiring an operations manager, request samples of strategic plans , program assessments, board reports, or other documents she’s written.

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

NTEN

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward shares from her experiences at the Games for Change Festival. The Brain exhibition, for example, has a table where people can work together to put together the pieces of the brain neuron by neuron. I'm at the 2011 Games for Change conference today and live-blogging a few sessions!

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