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Libraries pivot to survive pandemic

Candid

This National Library Week and on this National Library Workers Day, we celebrate our beloved libraries—and the librarians who sustained library services through the challenges of the past year. Libraries have helped fill the void by providing hot spot access and in some cases laptops computers to students.

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7 Ways to Avoid Fundraising Burnout

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

From courting potential donors to hours of grant writing, there are very few times a fundraiser’s job feels done. One man I supervise planned on taking his laptop on his honeymoon. 7) Celebrate your successes. Don’t forget to recognize and celebrate your successes and accomplishments. 7 Ways to Avoid Fundraising Burnout.

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NetSquared: In the Beginning

Tech Soup

One Laptop Per Child (just launched that year). If the Wikipedia community can build Wikipedia with the smallest handful of grant dollars and paid staff, what could the AIDs community do if it embraced these tools? things that it celebrated are now commonplace, and nonprofit technology and effectiveness still requires money.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

Darren Rowse celebrated ProBlogger's two year anniversary by using his blog to raise $830 US ($100 AU) for Oxfam Australia with his Blogging for Chickens campaign. You can also use reader comments, or posts by volunteers or constituents in grant applications.

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Nonprofit Technology News Celebrity Forecasts for 2014

Tech Soup

Privacy is also on Marnie’s top five list, so she agrees with several of our NPTech celebrities that it is a top issue and that it will shape our work in the coming year. Full disclosure, she also manages Simplify , a new partnership between TAG and GuideStar, which is a new approach to applying for grants. Peter Campbell.

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Lessons Learned About Social Networks and Fundraising from Cambodia Campaign on ChipIn

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It's important to have a challenge grant or contest or something that gives both urgency and some confidence that others believe in your cause. In addition, I'd like to thank Britt Bravo who gave her covered AOL laptop bag to schlep home the t-shirts from BlogHer and to Gina Trapani for donating her extra t-shirts. Here's an example.