Sat.May 16, 2015 - Fri.May 22, 2015

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4 Reasons Why Your Nonprofit Should Register.NGO and.ONG

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In 1985 the.ORG domain was released to the public along with.COM,NET,GOV and.EDU – the original top-level domains of the Internet. Over the next 30 years the.ORG domain would become the Internet home of the nonprofit sector worldwide and become synonymous with the term “nonprofit organization.” Consequently, in poll after poll conducted by the Public Interest Registry , the nonprofit responsible for managing the.ORG domain, the online masses have communicated that more than any other

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5 Ways Technology Can Help Your Nonprofit Do More Good

EveryAction

The way people give is constantly changing. People may care about your cause, but it doesn’t mean they will donate. So what drives them?

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The Pros and Cons of an RFP for Non-Profit Organizations

Byte Technology

Virtually every sector of our economy—the government, the military, educational institutions, venture capitalist firms and multi-national corporations—use the Request for Proposal (RFP) process at one time or another. And well they should as, on paper at least, the process would seem ideal for gathering multiple bids on a particular project or initiative, commodity or service.

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Want To Learn How To Use Your Database To Grow Your Membership?

Wild Apricot

What exactly is a membership database and how can it help you achieve your organization's goals? Here are details on an Expert Webinar with Wes Trochlil that can answer your database questions.

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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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Why Good Habit Formation Is Important for Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Flickr Photo by Celestine Chua. For the past few months, I’ve been working on a new project that will launch next month. It is a leadership professional development project for emerging leaders in nonprofits in collaboration with Third Plateau funded by the Packard Foundation. This pilot project will test a leadership development training model for emerging leaders in environmental organizations that uses a combination of peer learning, coaching, and mentoring.

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Expanding the Reach of Nonprofits Through the Power of Influencers [Guest Post]

EveryAction

Read on for insights from Roz Lemieux, CEO at Attentive.ly , on how your nonprofit stands to gain from better leveraging the power of influencers.

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Nonprofits Are Looking to Leave Spreadsheets Behind

Wild Apricot

Here is a Q&A with nonprofit market researcher Janna Finch, who discusses key findings from a survey of over 200 nonprofits about how technology can influence nonprofit performance and success.

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My Most Engaged Follower On Twitter Is @JenniferPreston

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My most engaged follower on Twitter this past week is Jennifer Preston. I know why Jennifer, who is the VP at the Knight Foundation is one of my engaged followers this week. Earlier this week I was in Miami to do a social media pre-workshop at the Knight Digital Media Seminar. Jennifer was observing and tweeting during the session. (If you want to read the re-caps or view the videos for the seminar itself, the Knight Foundation blog has full documentation here ).

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Announcing the Digital Inclusion Fellowship

NTEN

Only when everyone is online can we truly support our entire community with necessary services, access to education and information, avenues to employment, and social connections to friends and family regardless of income or where someone may live. Today, more than 60 million Americans still aren't using the Internet at home. Most organizations don't have the know-how or resources to address key barriers of digital literacy, awareness of affordable options for access and devices, or even availab

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Get Real, People: Authenticity as a Social Media Strategy

See3

Yes, you should be smart and thoughtful and strategic. And part of that strategy is to, quite literally, be yourself. The post Get Real, People: Authenticity as a Social Media Strategy appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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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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A New Generation Redefines Philanthropy

Wild Apricot

Philanthropy is a changing! Who will be the "new generation of citizen leaders" and how will they impact the future of philanthropy? Some thoughts for the May Nonprofit Blog Carnival.

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Board Recruiting Best Practices – What do you REALLY want from me?

BoardAssist

As a nonprofit ourselves, we know just how hard it is for nonprofit leaders to ask their board to financially participate in the important work their nonprofit is doing. With board members giving so much of their time and energy to their board service, many Executive Directors feel uncomfortable asking board members to financial contribute as well.

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16NTC Session Submissions Now Open

NTEN

It's that time again to start the process of gathering session proposals from the NTEN Community to help inform the program for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) in San Jose, California on March 23-25. So whether you have a few sessions you would like to present or some great ideas to suggest for community voting and have others present, we want to hear from you!

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Fiscal Year-End Reminder — Place Donation Requests Before June 30, 2015

Tech Soup

Hi everyone! Several people have responded to this blog asking about requesting donations. Please sign in to TechSoup to request products and services by browsing our catalog and checking out using the cart. If you have questions for our customer service team, please call them at (800) 659-3579. Make sure your nonprofit, charity, foundation, or library gets all of the hardware or software it needs from TechSoup before our fiscal year ends on Tuesday, June 30, 2015.

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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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How To Become A Stronger Career Mentor

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Author Paul Falcone offers the following great advice for how to become a stronger career mentor and coach by helping your subordinates grow and develop in their own careers. Encourage others to engage in random acts of kindness. Find creative ways of surprising your customers. Focus on making bad relationships good and good relationships better. Look for new ways of reinventing the workflow in light of your company's changing needs.

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Why Passion Isn’t Enough for Your Board of Governance

NonProfit Hub

This post was originally featured in our May/June edition of the Nonprofit Hub Magazine. To get our next issue delivered to your mailbox, sign up here. _. Passion simply isn’t good enough for a fruitful board of directors. This may come as a surprise to some, but Chris Grundner has some compelling points that suggest otherwise. Someone on your board could be extremely passionate about your cause, but terrible with numbers.

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Our Hiring Practices Are Inequitable and Need to Change

NTEN

Vu Le. Executive Director. Rainier Valley Corps. Go ahead and bake some unicorn-shaped cookies. While you're at it, how about taking some time to ponder more equitable hiring practices? We have been relying heavily on the for-profit world’s hiring model, which has not been aligned with our sector-wide values of equity and community. It leaves out too many good people, and it is time that we as a field examine and change how we hire people.

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Where to Find Great Free Music for a Video

Tech Soup

If you're creating a video, a podcast, an online training, or any other project that might benefit from adding some sweet tunes, the Free Music Archive (FMA) offers more than 80,000 free, completely legal-to-use audio downloads. Here's how to get the most out of this free resource. A Little About Us. The Free Music Archive is a curated, interactive library of high-quality, legal audio downloads directed by WFMU , the most renowned free-form radio station in America.

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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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Don't Let These 20 Excuses Derail Your New Business Transformation Ideas

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In their book, How Excellent Companies Avoid Dumb Things , co-authors Neil Smith and Patricia O'Connell list 20 excuses commonly heard in companies for reasons why new business transformation ideas are not considered. The authors recommend eliminating these 20 excuses from your vocabulary : Our company is well run; there are no opportunities. We're inefficient, but my department is not the problem.

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How to Attract the Right Nonprofit Talent for Your Organization

NonProfit Hub

Spoiler alert: we’re hiring. We’ve had some amazing applications come in, and it got me thinking about the hiring process at nonprofit organizations. We’ve also had countless inquiries from people whose hearts are in the right place, but don’t necessarily fit the job description. But let me tell you, nonprofit professionals, there is a person out there who is the right fit for whatever nonprofit job you’re trying to fill.

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Utilizing Campaigns to Grow Long-Term Organizational Strength

NTEN

Charles Denson. Membership Director. Civil Liberties Defense Center. The ability to harness a campaign for the long-term benefit of the organization's mission and vision is an art. Campaigns are short term and set out to accomplish a goal, while long-term organizations are more permanent and mission based. A successful organization will have many campaigns during its time.

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Protecting Wild Lands Through Art

Tech Soup

TechSoup member Braided River has used a TechSoup donation of Adobe Creative Cloud to astounding effect. Braided River, a Seattle-based nonprofit publishing company, has undertaken 16 conservation projects to date with just three staff people. Among the wild places Braided River has featured, millions of acres have been moved to a stronger level of protection.

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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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Observations About Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

A relatively small Kansas City-area newspaper for readers over 50 years in age published an article by C.W. Hanson a couple years ago where he offered these keen observations about leadership: The longer the contact with those you offer leadership to, the more scrutiny you will receive and the more self-disciplined you must be. People will pay attention to what you do as well as what you say.

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The Future of Doing Good: What’s Old is New Again

NonProfit Hub

We. Were. Warned. And the future of America’s social capital was discovered in a bowling alley. In 2000, Robert D. Putnam, a public policy professor at Harvard, published Bowling Alone. Putnam recognized that Americans were becoming less politically and socially engaged. And the support of his argument was that the activity of bowling was on the rise but bowling leagues were actually declining.

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Happy Global Accessibility Awareness Day: A roundup of accessibility resources

NTEN

Recall a time when you encountered one of those websites where it was hard to read and navigate. You wanted to get some basic information or perhaps complete a simple transaction, and you ended up spending a lot longer than necessary, or maybe even left the site in frustration. For many people with disabilities, this is a daily reality when they encounter the common problem of non-accessible websites.

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Turning Waste into Beautiful Art

Tech Soup

"There is no such thing as 'away.' When we throw anything away it must go somewhere." — Annie Leonard. Throw-Away Society. Waste. It's not something most of us normally think about, but where does it all go? In the United States, we generated over 251 million tons of trash in 2006, the most recent year recorded by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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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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How To Reduce Employee Turnover

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Knowing why an employee leaves your company can help you to reduce your employee turnover rate. That's because you can use the reasons a departing employee provides to gather information about processes, people and departments that might need some redirection to correct situations that may have contributed to the employee's reasons for leaving. So, do an exit interview whenever possible with each departing employee.

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How to Take the Blind Date Out of Grant Writing

NonProfit Hub

Rejection stinks. Right when you think you have a perfect match, the other party lets you know they don’t think so. It might take a few attempts at first, but with enough practice you will learn how to say the right things, make sure you have all the right qualifications and eventually you’ll live happily ever after. We are, of course, talking about grant writing.

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A Note About Those Notes

NTEN

Ash Shepherd. Education Director. NTEN. A reveal of the magic behind the 15NTC collaborative notes URL creation. For a number of years at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC), we have created “Collaborations Notes” for each of the sessions. This is a Google Doc that anyone can access and contribute to before, during, or after the session. We have found it adds great value for those who attended and also for folks who, for whatever reason, couldn’t attend that particular session.

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10 Amazing Environmental Nonprofits You Need to Know About

Tech Soup

Our recently completed 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest winners and finalists are an impressive group, showcasing the broad reach and impact of TechSoup member charities doing environmental work. Their stories also highlight how important having the right technology is to accomplishing this important work. We had many excellent submissions to the contest.

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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.