Byte Technology

JULY 6, 2016

It’s a common and absolutely frustrating problem: you send an important email to a friend, colleague, family member etc. and, when you hear no response or feedback you follow up only to find they never received the message. Upon further examination the recipient discovers it got automatically dropped into their spam folder. If the sender and receiver are lucky the message wasn’t crucial: and yet, what if in different circumstances it was?

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See3

JULY 6, 2016

These projects represent deliberate investments by organizations in solutions that strongly position their ideas in the digital marketplace and move their audiences to action. The post Three Strategic Ways to Tell Your Organization’s Story Through Video appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2016

The topic of habit change is something that Aliza Sherman and I researched and experimented with as we wrote “ The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Impact without Burnout ” over the last year. Habit change research was one of our favorite rabbit holes to explore. It lead us to discover the works of Gretchen Rubin , Charles Duhigg , BJ Fogg , and others.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 6, 2016

This blog is the third in a three part series that will focus on the tools you need in order to build a comprehensive grants seeking program. Today’s post will focus on how to build a grant strategy and apply it to your grants calendar. Grants are hard work. They require thoughtful planning, research, and management. But when you fit the right funders to the right projects, the results can literally be life changing.

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Speaker: Andrew Olsen, CFRE - EVP, Fundraising Solutions at DickersonBakker | Kat Landa, CFRE, CSD - SVP, Talent Solutions at DickersonBakker

Across the nonprofit sector, organizations invest heavily in donor retention efforts, yet the struggle of cultivating lasting relationships remains. While attracting new donors is crucial, the lack of repeat donors poses significant financial risks. Through a comprehensive analysis of industry data, experts argue that there is a direct correlation between donor burnout, donor retention, and the talent retention crisis.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. Read more online and buy your own copy today. This chapter, from the last section of the book, is very personal to me. One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2016

We all know technology is radically changing our world and accelerating your organization's ability to achieve your mission. A huge amount of that technology is available to you for free. But should you pursue every free solution just because it's free? Actually, no — successful organizations spend the time understanding the problem they are trying to solve and exactly how the free solution can (or in some cases cannot) help.

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