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How to Monitor & Adjust Your Fundraising Development Plan Throughout the Year

CauseVox

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. Sample SMART fundraising goals Reflect on Your Focus Areas Begin by asking yourself some key questions related to your goals and focus areas. Are you on track to meet your goals?

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Run a Productive, Fun Nonprofit Board Meeting

Get Fully Funded

If your by-laws do NOT include these things, you and your Board need to make this a priority to create these policies and amend your by-laws as soon as possible. and what the voting and decision-making process will be. By creating by-laws, you’re setting a standard for how your Board must function. Think of them as rules or guidelines.

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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.

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up: July 30 2010

NTEN

Amy Sample Ward is great at aggregating news and notes about nonprofits. employee policies regarding tech -- anything from hardware to social. Stay tuned to NTEN online community calendar for upcoming 501 Tech NoCo events, as well as other nonprofit tech community events. using and learning to use social media on her blog.

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SXSW: Future of Social Networks

Amy Sample Ward

calendar, call, sms, facebook, twitter, address book = level of closeness of social data. get your privacy and permission policies and proceses aligned with an open strategy. professional v personal = two profiles. w/ openid you pick where to put your context and info. friend management. relationships are always changing.

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2011: New Year, New Congress

Connection Cafe

DO make your messages relevant to specific bills that are pending in Congress - and mention the bill by name in your sample letter text in your online advocacy campaign or petition. DO include the name of your organization in the sample letter text. Otherwise it looks like your campaign is simply there to build your list. DO go local.

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What We Learned at 17NTC: Day 1

Tech Soup

This is just a sample of the secrets MacLaughlin revealed during his NTC session. Develop a strategy to keep members active: Build a content calendar, so you know what your constituents will get when and through which channels. Focus on human stories, not policies. Predicts consequences of multiple decision options.