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Money for your nonprofit: Writing a grant proposal

ASU Lodestar Center

Executive summary. The cover letter, executive summary, and organization information (1/2 to 1 page each). Spend time writing a great cover letter by addressing a specific person, quickly (but meaningfully) introducing your organization, and presenting a clear and concise summary of your grant proposal. A fully developed budget.

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Nonprofit Adoption of Social Media: Results of New Research Study

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

at a much faster pace than the business world, with 75 percent using some form of social media like blogs, social networking sites, podcasts, wikis or other formats. There is an executive summary available at the site with a couple of charts showing familiarity, usage of tools, monitoring and management.

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Google + for Social Change Activists: Dive in Early or Wait?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last week, I helped launch a peer exchange Webinar for Packard Foundation for Children’s Health Insurance grantees with Spitfire Communications (creators of the SMART chart ). The focus is how to effectively integrate social media channels and measure and learn.

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NTEN and TechSoup Webinar: Share Your Story - ROI and Social Media - Slides and Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. Over those 80 years, the chart has been polished, refined and so deeply embedded in business thinking. Unique Blog Readers.

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NpTechTag Summary: Happy Thanksgiving and Geeky Gobble Gobble

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Social Signals launches a podcast series with " From Org Charts to Sitemaps: How Organizational Structure Affects Web Strategy and Implementation." And, for a quick summary of recent Second Life stats, see here. Social Networking Random Thoughts on Life and Works has a post called " How Connected Are You?

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The ROI of Social Media - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

You can see the metrics in action in the chart below. I’m going to summarize the basics and provide the link to the Women Who Tech podcast at the end, which is far better at laying out all the critical details in each case study. May 27, 2009 | Mark Horoszowski Thanks for the great summary of our session, Heather!

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112 Nonprofit Blog Posts, Articles, and Stories from 2013 You Can’t Miss.

Connection Cafe

Focusing on Donors, Not the Charity in your Appeals – The Chronicle of Philanthropy shares their monthly podcast hosted by Tony Martignetti. Beth Kanter’s guest star, Ann Emory, offers up the Top Ten Chart Secrets from a Nonprofit Data Nerd.

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