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What’s Your Type? Adding Custom Fonts to Your WordPress Site

Byte Technology

Ask yourself this question: what’s one consistent element of every outstanding and beautifully designed WordPress site you’ve ever seen? Most likely it’s—in a word—typography. Indeed, having the perfect fonts can mean so much to the readability of a site, and using typefaces that meld perfectly with other design elements can really make a huge impact on the user experience.

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This Formula Tells You When Your Association Will Die (and what to do about it)

Wild Apricot

Are you worried your association is dying off? Member engagement expert Sarah Sladek gives you a formula that will predict your organization's life expectancy, and shows you how to ensure your association continues to thrive.

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Does Your Nonprofit Suffer from Fire Drill Culture?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Gavin St. Ours. Last week, I was honored to do several workshops hosted by the Fund for Santa Barbara on how nonprofits can link a culture of well being to outcomes based on my book, The Happy Healthy Nonprofit: Strategies for Impact without Burnout. The workshop includes a facilitated process based on the “ World Cafe ” method where participants work in small groups to discuss the challenges in the workplace and how to address them.

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Treat Your Website Project Like an Investment Rather than an Expense

Tech Soup

Every day, cultural and nonprofit institutions face unique challenges while working towards a mission with a small technical staff and digital budget. Limited money, revolving staff, and regulatory pressures require that visionaries think ahead of their competition. They need to build a digital experience that doesn't tie their hands with expensive proprietary licenses and high maintenance code.

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The Retention Ripple Effect: Nonprofit Staff and Donor Dynamics

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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7 Ingenious Fundraising Ideas to Raise Money Online

BoardAssist

Think your nonprofit has tried every possible way to raise money for their good work? Nonprofit Hub has inspired us with lots of great new ideas in this week’s guest post. Has your nonprofit tried them all? Thanks for the tips Nonprofit Hub! 7 Ingenious Fundraising Ideas to Raise Money Online. Raising money for charity is such a rewarding experience, but it can be challenging even at the best of times.

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Wild Apricot Wins Award for Top 5 Easy to Use Membership Management Software

Wild Apricot

It’s with great pleasure that Software Advice, one of the top software review sites, just awarded us their Top Five spot for Ease of Use when it comes to membership management software.

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An Offline Social Media Exercise That Improves Online Content

Tech Soup

For the Professional Social Media class I teach at Sonoma State University , I created an exercise designed to help folks practice both content creation and looking at metrics. Nonprofits can use this at a staff meeting or other gathering to help people improve their content creation skills as well as their skills with looking at social media data. The equipment is mostly analog: the index cards and colored dots pictured below, plus a place to record the results.

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A Boss Versus A Leader

Eric Jacobsen Blog

"A boss creates fear, a leader confidence. A boss fixes blame, a leader corrects mistakes. A boss knows all, a leader asks questions. A boss creates fire, a leader creates passion." -- Russell H. Ewing, British Journalist.

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FAQ – Why would a nonprofit board want ME as a board member? What do I have to offer?

BoardAssist

Thinking about joining a nonprofit board but not sure where to begin? Many BoardAssist candidates start by reading our book Giving Back , downloadable from the top of every page of our website. Don’t have the time to read our whole booklet on what to think about before joining a board? That’s where our new FAQ blog series comes in. We’re pulling out the most frequently asked questions about board service from Giving Back and starting with this first installment, plan to sha

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An Ingenious Texting Bot from @SFMOMA

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As we enter the age of automation, more and more nonprofits are using bots. If bots are designed well, they can have impact. The San Francisco Museum of Art recently launched an ingenious bot called “Send Me” that allows anyone to send a simple text message and receive a picture of a piece of art matching the idea, words, or phrase texted.

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How to Design a Seamless & Personalized Digital Donor Journey

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio

The average nonprofit uses five or more different software platforms to create their donor’s journey, making the experience clunky and disjointed. If you want to design a magical online giving experience for donors, making their journey as seamless as possible is key. In this webinar with expert Tim Sarrantonio, you’ll learn the fundamental steps to create an immersive and personalized online giving experience for your donors.

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Building a Culture of Philanthropy: Hear it From the Experts

NonProfit Hub

Sponsored by Blackbaud Institute. The word philanthropy is derived from the Greek meaning “love of humanity”. It’s a perfect definition for the sector and the people who power it. But there’s another important word that isn’t as commonly used in the sector: synergy , from the Greek meaning “ working together ”. It’s a concept that’s easier said than done.

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How To Involve Your Employees To Create A Successful Business

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Here are some good tips for leading a successful business operation from the handy booklet, 144 Ways To Walk The Talk , by Eric Harvey and Al Lucia : Involve your team in setting standards that are achievable but also require everyone to stretch their knowledge and skills. Remember that regardless of what you say, it is the performance you're willing to accept that becomes your true standard.

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TechSoup Global Launches Local Impact Map

Tech Soup

The TechSoup Global network has donated 9.7 million technology products to 183,000 social benefit organizations in 40 countries across the world. Sure, the numbers are impressive, but even more impressive is the impact those technology product donations have made. It would be impossible to tell all those stories in one blog post, but you can find them using the TechSoup Global Local Impact Map , powered by Microsoft technology.

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P2P Fundraising: Expanding Beyond the Fundraising Event

Connection Cafe

Peer-to-peer fundraising or P2P fundraising is a style of fundraising where an organization recruits supporters to solicit donations from their friends and family on behalf of that nonprofit. While the most common form of P2P fundraising has been associated with events like a race or bike tour, the nonprofit sector is trending toward expanding P2P fundraising beyond the paradigm of event fundraising.

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Nonprofits Are Leveraging the Cloud, but Does It Have to Be So Complex?

Effectively managing cloud technology is getting more complex. From cybersecurity concerns, vendor lock-in, cost increases, or lack of transparency on costs, it can quickly get out of control. Knowing what you can control and finding a platform that’s built with nonprofits in mind is key.

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4 Resources to Transform Your Nonprofit’s Marketing Strategy

NonProfit Hub

There are more than 1.5 million tax-exempt organizations in the United States, comprised of churches, neighborhood associations, universities and charitable organizations. If you’re one of those nonprofits, you’re likely on a tight budget so you can use the most funds possible to achieve your organization’s goals. That means you might not have a full-time marketing person (or even a part-time one!

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Eight Ways To Value Your Employees

Eric Jacobsen Blog

There are eight specific actions business leaders can take to show that they value their employees , according to Andrew Leigh , author of the book , Ethical Leadership -- Creating and Sustaining an Ethical Business Culture. Those eight behaviors are: Attention -- Pay attention to what people say to show your interest. Listen -- Make time to hear what colleagues, peers and employees have to say to show you care.

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Youth Programs Featured in TechSoup Global’s Local Impact Map

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured IT to further their missions. By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children. Here is just a sampling of what we have collected so far. Read on for a little Monday morning inspiration and then take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you se

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[New Report] 3 Key Findings for University Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Blackbaud recently released its fifth annual Charitable Giving Report, and it offers major lessons for institutions of higher education looking to increase fundraising capacity over the coming years. The Report analyzes over $23 billion in charitable giving in 2016 to summarize what is working, and what isn’t, for non-profits across the United States.

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Nonprofit Technology Kick Start: Free World Class Board Meeting Software

Looking for cost reductions for your nonprofit? Why not consider modernizing with a digital board management system that's designed to work with remote meetings, with immediate cost reductions if you still distribute paper packets to members? Get going in less than an hour on a fully hosted cloud solution built on the latest technology that runs on any device - from desktops to tablets and smartphones - without any installation.

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How Do You Inspire Visitors to Take Action After They Leave?

Museum 2.0

This month, we opened a new exhibition at the MAH, Lost Childhoods: Voices of Santa Cruz County Foster Youth and Foster Youth Museum (brief video clip from opening night here ). This exhibition is a big accomplishment for us because it incorporates multiple ways we push boundaries at the MAH: we co-designed it with 100+ community partners (C3) , including artists, foster youth, and youth advocates, with youth voices driving the project from big idea to install to programming. we commissioned ori

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How To Get The Feedback You Need

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Getting feedback is an important way to improve performance at work. But sometimes, it can be hard to seek out, and even harder to hear. “Feedback is all around you. Your job is to find it, both through asking directly and observing it,” says David L. Van Rooy , author of the book, Trajectory: 7 Career Strategies to Take You From Where You Are to Where You Want to Be.

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TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile: Nonprofits Back to School — In Brazil

Tech Soup

Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. Our theme this month is educational nonprofits like The Luciano Bareto Júnior Institute in Brazil. We'd also like to introduce Bea Dominguez, who is writing about some of the nonprofits highlighted on the map.

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Donor Retention 101: Master Donor Email Marketing

NonProfit Hub

So someone just donated to your cause, that’s great! But now what? Email marketing is a great way to meet donors where they’re at and keep them connected. Once someone donates, you have to communicate with them quickly, and often times the quickest thing you can do is send an email. Email marketing is a critical tool in maintaining a good relationship with your donors.

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Donor Engagement Guide: 8 Key Steps to Better Retain and Engage Donors

Are your donors your biggest fans, or are you lacking donor loyalty? The truth is, your donors have expectations of what their relationship with your organization should look like. This ebook will help you learn how to live up to those expectations!

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How to Engage Everyday Instagram Influencers and Reach Millennial Donors

Connection Cafe

Instagram is here to stay. All organizations should definitely get on board with as strong an Instagram game as they have on Facebook and Twitter. In order to do this, however, you’ll need to play the influencer game—connecting with everyday influencers. But don’t be scared— jump in! The water’s fine and solid influencer engagement can be very rewarding.

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Seven Things Motivated People Do To Stay Motivated

Eric Jacobsen Blog

To learn how to stay motivated, read High-Profit Prospecting , by Mark Hunter. It's a powerful read that includes counterintuitive advice and cutting-edge best practices for sales prospecting in today's business world. Today, I share one of my favorite sections of the book where Hunter describes his seven things motivated people do to stay motivated : Motivated people ignore voices in their lives.

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Seniors Learn to Use Tablets in Georgia — TechSoup Local Impact Map Profile

Tech Soup

Is back to school just for kids? Apparently not. The Blue Hair Technology Group in Johns Creek, Georgia (northeast of Atlanta), is educating senior citizens to use new technologies like tablet computers and Facebook so they can keep in touch. Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. The nonprofit provides laptops, tablet computers, training, and other technology resources to elderly people.

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Your Official #NN17 Local's Guide to Atlanta

EveryAction

We're just a few weeks away from one of the most highly-anticipated progressive conferences of the year and we're so excited to be headed down South to the front lines of social change. Considering our team is obsessed with weekend trips to Hotlanta, we thought we'd share some favorite local spots to eat, drink, party, and enjoy the sights while visiting for Netroots 2017.

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Nonprofit Technology Adoption: Why It Matters and How to Be Successful

Organizations like yours are increasingly realizing that technology adoption is only as good as the technology you choose. Statistics from a 2014 NTEN study show that seriously investing resources in training for your staff corresponds to higher adoption and ultimately technology effectiveness. In this report, we’ll give you a high-level overview of how to get your organization in shape for technology adoption and best practices for facilitating this critical process.

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Improving Fundraising Outcomes Requires Emotion Not Just Logic

Connection Cafe

A recent webinar was entitled, “Using Neuroscience to Improve Your Fundraising Results.” Several studies lately have delved into modern science to help fundraisers be more effective in engaging donors in the cause. But there isn’t a single topic that can be covered in webinar or article that can replace a genuine connection with your donors. Yes, your nonprofit is “a good cause.

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Flashback: Best Leadership Book Of 2016

Eric Jacobsen Blog

After reading nearly 30 new books about leadership this past year, my pick for 2016's best new leadership book is, Mastering the Challenges of Leading Change , by H. James Dallas. Technically, the book came out in the fall of 2015, but gained its popularity and momentum in 2016, hence my selection as my 2016 pick. Virtually every business is undergoing change.

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How to Visually Show Your Impact to Funders with Silk

Tech Soup

More than ever, funders want compelling and visually interesting proof of the value of our charitable work. When I look at the gorgeous examples of what is possible in FlowingData's Best Data Visualization Projects , I wonder how a nonprofit without a big graphic design budget can compete. But I think I may have found something: Silk is a free-for-nonprofits online tool that helps you create interactive data visualizations of your work, just by uploading a spreadsheet.

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Harnessing Philanthropy to Promote Diversity, Equity & Inclusion in the Nonprofit Sector

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Christy Dargus Graduate Alumna ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. There is a glaring lack of diversity within the nonprofit sector and philanthropic community that harms not only minority communities but nonprofit institutions themselves. Research shows people from diverse groups create novel solutions, introduce different thinking patterns and increase performance, creativity and innovation within an organization (Chandler, 2016).

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Achieving Organizational Transformation: Pathways to Success

Association executives—and hopefully their boards—know that they are facing perilous times. Driven by the pace of cultural and technological change, they are experiencing major disruptions in the traditional business models that used to guide organizational growth strategies.orgSource offers a straightforward approach to navigating these changes and readying your organization for growth.