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6 Ways to Prepare Your Communications for Successful End-of-Year Fundraising

Nonprofit Tech for Good

2) Review Your Goals. Review your end-of-year fundraising goals, but think deeper. Hint: they should!) Your brand strategy and key messages should form the foundation for all of your donor communications, new and old. What does donor funding make possible for your community? Have these changed over the past year?

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Safe by Design: How to Boost Your WordPress Site’s Security

Byte Technology

Thanks to the popularity of the WordPress platform, the associated community of designers and supporters are always coming up with new ways to beef up the security of the content management system for all users. And yet too many users rely on login “hints” that give you options for accessing the site—password reset links, username clues etc.—when

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Five Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for January 2012 illuminating that Pinterest now drives more referral traffic than Google+, YouTube, and LinkedIn combined will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!).

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16 free nonprofit books for your summer reading list

Candid

Hint: It takes courage, vulnerability, and trust.) Check out these selections that promise to spark your imagination: Invitation to Impact: Lighting the Path to Community Transformation by Wendy H. Read this Philanthropy News Digest book review.) Tough Conversations. Whole Hearts. by Brené Brown.

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Nine Pinterest Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

UPDATED 4/3/12: If your nonprofit has yet to start using Pinterest , then hopefully new data released for March 2012 revealing that Pinterest now generates more referral traffic than Twitter will motivate you to start pinning – or at the very least to sign up and reserve your first choice of usernames (hint, hint!).

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The Science of Nonprofit Video Engagement: How To Use Emotion to Increase Social Sharing

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to Jonah Berger , the author of a study published in the peer-reviewed journal Psychological Science , arousing emotions are more likely than non-arousing emotions to spur engagement and social sharing. Watch what this group of teens did for their community. Join us in telling him this is unacceptable! We have to stop this!

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Donor Retention: Reasons to Keep Your Supporters Giving Year Round

Greater Giving

Make sure you follow up with them every once in awhile through emails or social media posts reminding them of your cause and asking if there’s anything new going on in their lives (hint: this can lead into asking for another donation). Reviewing your status and performance. The end of the year is always a time for reflection.