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Will Give Local America Be The Largest Crowd Funding Event in History?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: Give Local America , powered by Kimbia’s technology, is an effort to coordinate giving days on one platform. When we look at the challenges facing many individual nonprofit giving day programs, one of them consistently is the lack of a free agent influencer program. 4) Leaderboard App.

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Great reads from around the web on March 3rd

Amy Sample Ward

org will be awarded 20 votes to place on their favorite plans. The program helps accelerate the impact of visionary change agents who are incubating transformative solutions to the world’s most pressing challenges. "We’ll see more of this "instant" rewriting and reliving of history. Members of we20.org

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Data is transparent because of social media, data visualization, and open data from governments – all helping us to usher a remarkable period in human history. Today, more than ever, there are opportunities to collect, share, and analyze data, but there are also challenges. Why are we using data that is 3 years old?

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A Decade of Museums and Museum Work

Museum 2.0

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. They are also exemplars of partnership in the field; augmenting reach and showing how big orgs can lift up smaller orgs. It’s that second part that’s the challenging one.

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What will our future be like?

Museum 2.0

> First, I read The Optimist's Telescope by Bina Venkataraman , a book about the challenges of predicting the future. Dear readers, I value you all, but I rarely read 1 book let alone two as source reading for a post. :> In essence, the book said our present grounds so wholly as to bias our predictions of the future.

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Nonprofit Consulting Firms: 26 Leaders in Their Spaces

DNL OmniMedia

Nonprofit consulting services might solve a specific challenge, like customizing and cleaning up your database , or serve as more of a long-term investment, like designing a complete technology plan for your nonprofit. Generally, nonprofits partner with consulting firms when they face a clear need or challenge.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofit organizations have a lot of challenges relating to fundraising. History: Simply being around a long time has some cachet and may mean you have access to historical wisdom, knowledge, and records. This can be 4 emails a year dedicated to sponsors who give the org $10K or more. It is seen as wasteful overhead.

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