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Four Models for Active User Engagement, by Nina Simon

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Last year, Rick Bonney and a team of educators and science researchers at the Center for Advancement of Informal Science Education (CAISE) tackled this question in a project designed to define the structures and benefits of public participation in science research (download the full report as a PDF here.)

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A look at 15 best and (almost) free mind mapping tools for nonprofits

Candid

It improves collaboration between teams: according to the research by mind mapping expert Chuck Frey, employees who use maps are 30 percent more productive. This online collaborative whiteboard platform is perfect for teamwork. The instrument comes with ready-made templates for even more efficient team collaboration.

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Better Together: What Collaboration Strategies are Necessary to Increase Nonprofit Effectiveness?

ASU Lodestar Center

However, nonprofit leaders can combine operational and programmatic strategies through collaboration to combine resources and funding in order to increase social efforts. However, collaboration has the ability to strengthen the sector by combining weak nonprofits with strong nonprofits to assist in overall greater community impact.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Structuring Major Gifts Conference. Discover how these and other factors are irrevocably changing the ways donors structure their largest gifts of a lifetime. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors.

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The Intersection of Marketing and Fundraising: Tips from the Autism Society of Minnesota, a CauseVox Nonprofit

CauseVox

AuSM serves Minnesotans, throughout their lives, with a fundamental commitment to advocacy, education, support, collaboration, and community building. We send them the full PDF. Don’t be afraid to reuse content: you can always make small adjustments to make it seem fresh. Maybe they don’t open that email. I don’t want to read that.’

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5 Things Oakland Taught Me about Civic Hacking

Tech Soup

I was lucky enough to attend CityCamp Oakland earlier this month to see this collaboration in action. This inclusive spirit was also reflected in the structure of the event itself. How to unlock data from PDF reports on the city's website. The answer is: something pretty amazing. Here's what I learned.

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[VIDEO] Building Your Nonprofit’s Engagement Engine

Bloomerang

And the book is structured in a way where each of these elements is given its own chapter with a whole bunch of stuff in it. Because those communications people need to really collaborate well with their colleagues in the development team and the programs team, you know, throughout your organization. People people.

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