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Remote Donor Management: How to Engage Donors from Afar

Top Nonprofits

We’ll dive into three common opportunities in which nonprofits have found success: Provide plenty of giving opportunities. Especially right now, some donors are facing financial hardship, business setbacks, or illness within their families. Online Concert: Chances are your donors are missing live music right about now.

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Book Reviews

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

They fall into that category of “business&# books that I basically never read. in order to get an idea to stick, the idea needs to be Simple, Unexpected, Concrete, Credible, tug at Emotions, and tell a Story (their acronym is SUCCES). One of which is something I would love to talk with other consultants (and clients, too) about.

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4 bbcon 2019 Takeaways to Help You Maximize Your Foundation’s Impact in 2020

Connection Cafe

bbcon 2019 last month in Music City was the biggest and best one yet, breaking the record with over 3,000 attendees from close to 1,700 unique organizations. Continued to consult with the #GivingTuesday.org staff. Moral of the story? In addition to the above, they also…. The end result? What is impact, and why does it matter?

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Sean Kosofsky , is the Nonprofit Fixer and founder of Mind the Gap Consulting. He offers courses, consulting, and coaching to transform your organization and your leadership. Consult with an attorney if you plan to do this. Many of us are familiar with local businesses sponsoring local sports teams. Get creative.

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Six New Games for Change: Check Out the Future of Gaming for Good

NTEN

Considering the documentary style approach of data gathering for the game, the jury suggested using the game engine more as a story telling device rather than a game play tool. Frontiers may have better success if it were made specifically for those in migration policy work or the arts community. JURY FEEDBACK. JURY FEEDBACK.

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Penguin Day Reflections: OS as FairTrade, OS Feminism, and OS - the Next Generation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I think that of advocates need to have open source technology stewards behind them to be successful -- there is a need for stewards to guide the choices, training, translators -- to help nonprofits adopt open source software. He told the story about the growth and challenges facing the Joomla! UPDATE: His name is Johan Janssens.

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) Webstats alone only tell a tiny fraction of that story, if at all.

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