Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2016

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Not all email lists are the same. You may have an e-newsletter list that includes all donors and supporters, another list specifically for repeat donors, and another list for supporters who have not yet donated. Your ability to segment your email lists will depend on your CRM and your email communications software, but having multiple lists can help your nonprofit better craft your messages and fundrais

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Click to See Visualization. Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. This version of the tool is a significant upgrade to the tool launched previously by Media Impact Funders.

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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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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 8, 2016

You'll learn a lot about marketing from the book, Does it Work? , by Shane Atchison and Jason Burby. Most important, you'll discover their 10 principles for getting digital marketing right. What also really caught my attention was the book's discussion about the elements of good culture. Culture created from as high up in the organization as possible.

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Donor Search

JULY 5, 2016

Charity auctions can be some of the most lucrative events for nonprofit organizations, but they can also be some of the most difficult to plan. Between soliciting auction items, booking an event space, recruiting a team of volunteers, and more, there are many logistics that nonprofits must consider when hosting an auction.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2016

Acrobat, Adobe's family of software designed to create, view, and edit PDFs, is everywhere. You likely have Acrobat Reader installed on your computer right now, and you may even use a version of Acrobat Pro to create your own PDFs. Acrobat Pro DC is the latest version from Adobe, and it includes several new features you may not be aware of. Here are five tips for making the most of Adobe Acrobat Pro DC.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 7, 2016

Edward M. Marshall's book, Transforming The Way We Work -- The Power Of The Collaborative Workplace , remains relevant today, more than a decade after Marshall wrote it. Particularly useful is the book's section that teaches readers how to be a collaborative leader. Marshall says that there are seven different, important roles and responsibilities of collaborative leaders when leading teams , and those leaders should select the appropriate style to meet the team's needs.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 7, 2016

We’re excited to announce our brand new vehicle of Nonprofit Hub content this week – we call it the Hubcast. It’s nonprofit education like you’ve never heard it before, delivered to your ears in a game-changing podcast. In episode one, we sat down with digital marketing expert John Haydon to have a conversation about the changing landscapes of social media fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 7, 2016

It’s easy to feel like you’re alone on your mission to do good and create real change in the world. You think you’re making progress only to realize that your work is nowhere near finished. A simple scroll through your newsfeed leaves you thinking that there are people out there who actually want you to give up, for you to be so burnt out that you decide, “Maybe status quo isn’t all that bad after all…”.

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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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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2016

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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NonProfit Hub

JULY 7, 2016

We’re excited to announce our brand new vehicle of Nonprofit Hub content this week – we call it the Hubcast. It’s nonprofit education like you’ve never heard it before, delivered to your ears in a game-changing podcast. In episode one, we sat down with digital marketing expert John Haydon to have a conversation about the changing landscapes of social media fundraising.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 7, 2016

If there’s one thing I’ve learned about social media it’s this: It’s all about human connection. Virtually every social media platform was first created for and because of human connections. Facebook was started to connect friends in college and grew to connect families and friends. Twitter began as a way to connect with influencers. Social media gives us the opportunity to show up, be seen, and connect with other people.

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Advertiser: Digital Ocean

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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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2016

As many of us are closing the books for our previous fiscal year, it's a good time to reflect on the year we've had, set objectives for the year ahead, and think creatively about how we can achieve our goals. For foundations and nonprofit organizations, this often means shoring up plans and budgets in support of organizational strategies. And for those responsible for their organization's communications (or who take an active interest in the organization's communication strategy)

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2016

From John Blakey 's book, The Trusted Executive , here are these four tips from Jim Collins for how to be a humble leader : Demonstrate a compelling modesty, shunning public adulation and never be boastful. Act with quiet, calm determination and motivate others through inspired standards, not inspiring charisma. Channel ambition into the company, not the self, and set up successors for even more greatness in the next generation.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 5, 2016

Persuasion gets a bad rap, and it’s time to change that. Think about it – what sorts of imagery come to mind when you think of somebody who possesses a persuasive quality? Different people think of different things. For me, when somebody says persuasion I see a car salesperson doing anything they can to “get you in this car today.”. At its core, persuasion simply means getting somebody to understand where you’re coming from so well that they decide they want to believe it too.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2016

Pop-ups , lighboxes, modal windows—you may have heard at least one of those terms. They all are the same thing: a window that pops up upon a certain trigger (on entry or right before a user tries to exit the site) and stops visitors from interacting with the page until they complete an action. I’m sure you’ve seen them, interacted with them and, most likely, been really annoyed by them in the past.

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Advertiser: Syncrony

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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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2016

High-functioning and effective teams can disagree and still produce excellent products and results. Team members can also disagree and still care about each other. And, they can challenge each other to think differently. Best-selling leadership book authors Scott J. Allen and Mitchell Kusy recommend that leaders ask seven tough questions of their teams to help maximize their results.

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Gyrus

JULY 7, 2016

Academic vs. Corporate LMS – Where the Lines Blur. In the vastness that is the LMS market, there are two clear market segments; referring of course to the Academic and Corporate Learning Management Systems. Though these two approaches may be very different, it appears as if everyday solutions are providing a means to bring them closer than many would care to believe.

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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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Advertiser: DonorDock

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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 3, 2016

You made it through the first half of 2016. So, now it's a good time to check on your progress with your New Year's Resolutions for how to be a better leader. Hopefully, you're still doing great. So good that you're ready to add another one or two resolutions to your list to tackle during the remainder of the year. Here are some choices to choose from.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2016

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