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$370 Million In AmeriCorps Grants Available

The NonProfit Times

million) will support approximately 35,000 AmeriCorps members working on more than 300 projects focused on education, the environment, job training, addiction treatment, services for veterans, disaster preparedness and recovery, and more. AmeriCorps annually grants federal funding to local communities and organizations across the country.

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How to Prevent Donor Fatigue in a Nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

I adopted a pair of cats from the local shelter and excitedly offered to volunteer to help write grants or plan an event or help in some other way. In all fairness, the local shelter is operated by the county. As a donor, I’ve experienced giving to a nonprofit that I cared about only to turn away with a bitter taste in my mouth.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! The 2015 - 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar is ready for upload right into your Google or Outlook Calendar with a single click. Drop us a line!

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How to Backup Your iPhone or iPad

Tech Soup

iCloud, Apple's device syncing service, backs up your device settings (such as your wallpaper, contacts, and calendar data from your various apps), messages (SMS, MMS, and iMessage), and much more. If your iOS device crashes, you can then restore from that locally-saved backup. More Resources.

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Why Celebrity iCloud Hacking Should Matter to Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

No doubt that's a simplistic view of a complicated process, but what really concerns me is the perpetrators were able to access text messages, calendars, address books, phone call logs, real-time GPS of where people were at any given time, and any other data that was saved or backed up to the cloud. How to Protect Your Data.

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Keeping Your 2016 Resolutions with NetSquared's Free Workshops

Tech Soup

Our live, in-person events are hosted by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar.

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How I Learned to Think about Marketing/PR Differently, and a Job Opportunity

Museum 2.0

I've had bad direct experiences with high-priced PR firms that are slaves to antiquated promotion calendars. I love Trevor Donnell's brilliant book and blog, Marketing the Arts to Death , in which he documents the disasters caused by our inability to be audience- and data-driven in our marketing efforts.

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