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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. Internal evaluation Create clear guidelines for your project and try to rank the proposals across different attributes. Filter out the junk and only share the top proposals with the team. Organization Background : Who are you?

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Nonprofit Leadership Transition: Best Practices

NonProfit Hub

If you’re part of the organization being left, use these as a guide to help the exiting person leave well and feel free to download our sample transition checklist here. . A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Don’t Run for the Exit. Probably not. Best of all?

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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action

Amy Sample Ward

First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). See the Google Doc for links.).

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The Ideal Year-End Fundraising Campaign Timeline

CauseVox

Spreadsheets and shared files (such as on Google Docs or Dropbox) are phenomenal ways to keep everyone on the same page. Download this Sample Year-End Fundraising Goals Spreadsheet: You’ll see this fundraising goal sheet is broken up into 2 parts: A donor thank-you campaign from 11/2-11/13 and a fundraising campaign from 11/14-12/31.

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Nonprofit Engagement: Why Website Logins Matter

NetWits

Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? For example, maybe everyone can see a certain resource or sample quiz, but you must login in order to also download the white paper or answer guide.

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13 Tasks to Do Right Now to Plan for Fundraising Success

Get Fully Funded

Get a legal pad and a pen or pull up a Google Doc or a Word Doc. Give them sample language to include with their email to friends and family members. It’s too easy to drop parts of your imaginary plan, shift others, and back off your goals because you don’t feel like following through. And start writing.

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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.