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The Ultimate Nonprofit RFP Guide

Whole Whale

We recommend creating an excel doc to track the bids and give grades across desired criteria for each vendor. Purpose Overview: Purpose and objectives with summary statement of what you’re looking to do. Design requirements : How much is needed? Filter out the junk and only share the top proposals with the team.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Encourage brainstorming. Develop shared language.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English. Nonprofittech blog also has a new design and some big banner ads.) Through TechSoup's Netsquared project, blogger Beth Kanter, was commissioned to write a weekly summary.

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8 Tips for Facilitating Nonprofit Hybrid Meetings

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The hybrid workplace will have a huge impact on the way we design and facilitate meetings, the primary method of how many organizations get stuff done. Our new normal will most likely be more complex to design and facilitate. Here are some considerations for designing and facilitating pandemic-era hybrid meetings.

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Observations and Reflections on #TakeBackThePink

Amy Sample Ward

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. and Facebook, plus Stephanie’s graphic design expertise. I also created a customized bit.ly

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[VIDEO] Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle: Grant Seeking Lessons and Pro-tips from the Field

Bloomerang

So designing a highly effective program that you can apply for will make winning grants that much easier, especially given the competitiveness. So if you’ve answered all those questions, you’ve designed an effective program. Your programs and services are the cornerstone of the whole grants lifecycle.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Because of their designation as independent contractors—that is, because they are not defined as full-time employees of a company—platform workers typically receive very low wages, and have few worker protections or benefits. Trebor Scholz et , “Executive Summary,” Policies for Cooperative Ownership in the Digital Economy , 7–10.

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