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Membership Retention Rate: How Associations Can Retain More Members

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For example, consider an organization for educators focused on improving literacy rates. One proven method of addressing literacy—especially in children with learning challenges—is approaching reading as a science. Membership has an impact because it can help uplift other educators and improve overall literacy rates.

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The Information Diet: Not Just A Book, A Movement For Conscious Consumption of Information

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. This is good, basic digital literacy principles that have been taught by educators and librarians taught in the early 2000′s and continue today. He suggests these goals: 1.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

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If the gift was toward a campaign or designated for a special purpose, it’s a good idea to include that information as well for the donor’s reference. These seven children are receiving a quality education, three meals a day, mentoring, and medical care. One in five Whitfield children experiences food insecurity at least once a month.

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Donor Recognition Strategies for All Supporter Tiers

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That thank-you email should be personalized, address them by name, and reference the specific dollar amount given. For example, if someone gave $50 to a literacy group, the email could say, “Your donation of $50 helped us give 100 books to 50 children.” You should also try to tie that figure to organizational impact.

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Carrie Karnos, recipient of the 2006 James H. Veale Humanitarian Award.

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

During Arkenstone's 11 years, Benetech sold literacy products under the Arkenstone brand in more than a dozen languages to over 35,000 individuals in 60 countries. She truly is one of the great, quiet humanitarians who carry on Matilda Ziegler's legacy of literacy for those of us who are blind." Matilda Ziegler Foundation.

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Philanthropy 2.0 Study Results Published on Mashable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It takes time, but does show results as the comments on the original Mashable post seem to indicate: Two years ago The Children's Wish Foundation of Canada established a presence on Facebook and incorporated guidelines for our Chapters to establish their local groups. I used a cli.gs link [link] so I could track traffic to the link.

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Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

How do increase internet literacy with communities? Use this to communicate with your children. References Lee LeFever's Common Craft Videos for basic introductions. If there is what should it be? What technologies do you need to encourage user-generated content on video? What are the best examples of social networking use?

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