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Plugging In: Utilizing the Most Important WordPress Options

Byte Technology

It takes only a brief look at the impressive statistics surrounding website builder WordPress to realize what an online juggernaut it really is: Currently, nearly 75 million sites are built on the platform and half of all those accounts are hosted directly on the company’s site. Additionally, WordPress-related keywords get 37 million searches each month; the program is available in 40 different languages; and 22 percent of new U.S. registered domain names run exclusively on the platform.

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Four Great Reasons to Join a Nonprofit Board

BoardAssist

Why should you consider filling one of the 1.8 million nonprofit board seats that open up in the US every year? Most candidates come to us with an answer to this question before we even ask. We hear, “My wife is pregnant and I want to model ‘giving back’ for our children,” “I was always a leader in college and grad school but until now I’ve been too busy to give back,” and “I feel an obligation to share because I’ve been so fortunate” among many other great reasons.

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Meet the See3ples: Mitch Hurst

See3

In March, Mitch Hurst joined the See3 Communications team. He is a Senior Consultant, working to expand the See3 network. The post Meet the See3ples: Mitch Hurst appeared first on The See3 Blog.

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Powering the Nonprofit Community through Customer Support

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Powering the Nonprofit Community through Customer Support Guest Post. by Dorie Wallace Vice President, Customer Support, Blackbaud. Millions of nonprofits around the globe do incredible work each day to make the world a better place for all of us. Running a nonprofit is possibly one of the most important jobs out there. At Blackbaud , we get very excited and inspired by our nonprofit customers’ successes and breakthroughs –it constantly drives us to look for ways to improve our technology and cu

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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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Six Things I learned From Our Visitors Part II

Gyrus

Six Things I Learned From Our Visitors Part II. How to overcome challenges experienced by LMS users from ATD 2016. In my previous post “ Six Things I Learned From Our Visitors ” I delved shortly into the gloomy cloud of sadness that engulfs the perception of the entire LMS industry. In particular, I highlighted six statements of Industry professionals and paraphrased what that meant to problems they experienced with their LMS providers.

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The Cost of Starting a Nonprofit in Every State

NonProfit Hub

The process of starting a nonprofit requires a fair amount of savvy and know-how. Building from the ground up, it’s often difficult knowing where to start. Questions arise like “What do I need” and “Why do I need it?” One of the biggest question marks comes up when it’s time to calculate the cost of your nonprofit. Harbor Compliance offers free informational resources for every state that can begin to answer the “whats” and “whys” in your initial budget.

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13 Energizing Verbs To Use More Often

Eric Jacobsen Blog

From the book, Anticipate, the Art of Leading by Looking Ahead , by Rob-Jan De Jong, here are 13 energizing verbs the author recommends we use more often : Discover (instead of See) Explore (instead of Discuss) Radiate (instead of Display) Uncover (instead of Show) Transform (instead of Change) Engage (instead of Involve) Mobilize (instead of Gather) Stretch (instead of Develop) Boost (instead of Increase) Propel (instead of Move) Deliver (instead of Give) Grasp (instead of Understand) Connect (

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Four Reasons to Replace Your Outdated LMS

Gyrus

Four Reasons to Replace Your Outdated LMS. A Learning Management System (LMS) provides a strategic solution for planning, delivering, managing, and reporting on various learning/training events and activities within an organization. Organizations across industries depend on learning management systems for handling their day to day training activities, compliance training, eLearning, etc.

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How to Draft an Effective Nonprofit Proposal

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Eric Rardin Vice President of Business Development, Care2. The bottom line may not be the driving goal behind nonprofit work, but, let’s face it, we all need money. Except for the lucky few organizations with large endowments or patrons with deep pockets, finding new funding sources and asking for money are key functions of charitable and advocacy organizations.

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10 Insights into Women’s Philanthropy

Donor Search

I often speak passionately about the importance of broadening our philanthropic initiatives to include women philanthropists. I recently recorded a short video interview on the subject and would like to share with you what I think are some very important insights into Women’s Philanthropy.

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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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Leaders: Six Tips For How To Get Feedback

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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Spendrise: New Platform Helps You Spur Change Where You Shop

Care2

Running the Women S tartup Challenge and our social change web agency, Rad Campaign I get pitched a lot of different products. I recently discovered Spendrise , a platform for creating positive change everywhere you spend money. Here's how it works. 1. Start a Pledge You support a Spendrise campaign by pledging to spend money if the business makes a positive change that you believe in.

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The Free 2016 Guide to Grants Management Is Now Available

Tech Soup

One of the best free things in foundation technology came out in late May this year. The new edition of the Consumers Guide to Grants Management Systems is a 300-plus page downloadable report that provides detailed comparisons of 29 grants management systems. It's a noncommercial report that's sponsored by the Grants Managers Network (GMN) and Technology Affinity Group (TAG) , with research conducted by Idealware.

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Growth in Giving Database Offers Behavior Analysis

Donor Search

Fundraising is all about donors. That seems obvious. And yet, for the longest time executives at charities and the fundraising profession didn’t have basic information about some of the most obvious and fundamental aspects of fundraising. How well do we retain donors? How much should organizations focus on acquiring donors versus retaining them?

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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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Managing Millennials

Eric Jacobsen Blog

In their book, Millennials Who Manage , authors Chip Espinoza and Joel Schwarzbart explain that there are nine managerial competencies essential to managing Millennials. They are: Be Flexible - Focus more on what gets done than on how it gets done and give Millennials the leeway to work how they want when possible. Create the Right Rewards - Rewards don't need to be overdone for every accomplishment, but Millennials should be recognized when things go well.

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Time to Submit a Workshop to the Nonprofit Technology Conference

Care2

Good news! It's that time of year again when the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) puts out their call for workshop proposals. The Conference will be in Washington D.C. next March 23-25, 2017, and we think you should submit !

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How to Stop Donor Attrition and Track Relevance

NonProfit Hub

If you find a donor and don’t plan for how to keep him or her, the costs are too high. According to Ken Burnett, “Our nonprofit sector is bleeding to death. We’re hemorrhaging donors, losing support as fast as we find it, seemingly condemned forever to pay a fortune just to stand still. It’s time we stemmed the flow.”. It’s understandable why Retention Fundraising author Roger Craver chose Burnett to write the forward for this book.

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Advocating Nonprofit Advocacy: The Myth That 501(C)(3)s Can’t Engage in Advocacy

Connection Cafe

When I encounter 501(c)(3) organizations that would be suited well to engage in online advocacy but don’t currently have programs set up, I tend to hear the same story, “We don’t want to engage in advocacy because we don’t want to risk losing our 501(c)(3) status.” It is a common misconception amongst nonprofits today that advocacy brings a risk of losing nonprofit status, but this perception is pure myth.

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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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Four Words Your Customers Don't Want To Hear

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Author Harvey MacKay wrote the following spot-on advice in his column in the Kansas City Business Journal a few years ago. He wisely points out that all employees at every level should never use these four words in front of a client/customer for both obvious and perhaps not so obvious reasons: Can't -- As in, "We can't do that." "We can't meet that deadline.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: What IS Relevance?

Museum 2.0

This month, I'm sharing a few chapters from my new book The Art of Relevance in advance of its release. I wrote this book because of a fundamental curiosity about what relevance is and how it works. Here's the second chapter of the book, which answers a basic question: what IS relevance? Who are the experts who study it, and how do they define it? Note: this chapter is slightly edited to make sense in standalone form.

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How to Optimize Your Nonprofit Newsletter for Success

Tech Soup

Your email newsletter is crucial for the success of your organization. Sixty-three percent of organizations surveyed in Australia did not send a single email to new subscribers within the first 30 days of signing up. They're missing out on one of the most effective ways to convert fans online. In this post, you'll see how you can make the most of each element, from the subject line, through the body text, and to your call to action at the end of each newsletter.

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How Can My Nonprofit Get Started with Measurable Advocacy?

Connection Cafe

In my last post, I answered the age-old questions, “ Can my 501(c)(3) really engage in advocacy? ” The answer is a resounding YES. With that settled, it’s time to move on to the benefits of advocacy. How can advocacy make a measurable difference for your organization? Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant suggest that “[a]n organization… has to walk a tightrope of building the skills necessary to engage in advocacy, while continuing to provide services (or vice versa).”[1] This is apparen

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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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Why Lunch Hour Is So Important To Team Building

Eric Jacobsen Blog

According to Flavio Martins , the author of the new book, Win The Customer , the most important team building hour of the day is lunch hour. He explains (using insights from Joel Spolsky ) that, "great workplace cultures and places where people love to work are environments where people are emotionally involved, happy and excited to come to work. One of the keys to achieving this is getting to know each other as individuals and a part of a team.

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6 Email Marketing Hacks to Increase Open Rates

NonProfit Hub

Joseph Cole is a guest contributor for Nonprofit Hub and a writer for those who do good. Leveraging ten years of experience in the nonprofit world as a program leader and fundraiser, he proudly writes for both nonprofits and for-profits who serve the nonprofit sector. Connect with Joseph at freshideacopywriting.com. Do you have an email newsletter that’s flat-lining?

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How to Use Your Organization's Data in Fundraising and Planning

Tech Soup

A few years ago, I was working with an organization trying to build a statewide email network. Its staffers attended community festivals and events, working many nights and weekends to reach their goal. It wasn't until a new staffer started asking questions that they really looked at their outcomes. How many people per hour did the organization recruit?

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Unlock the Door to the Right Funders with a Powerful Grant Strategy| Part 2

Connection Cafe

This blog is the second in a three part series that will focus on the tools you need in order to build a comprehensive grants seeking program. Today’s topic will outline a 6 step process to grants research. You need to fund a project. But, first, you have to identify the right grantmaker for the project. Developing a set of project descriptions to guide your funding research can help with this process.

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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 Use Your Organization's Data in Fundraising and Planning

Tech Soup

A few years ago, I was working with an organization trying to build a statewide email network. Its staffers attended community festivals and events, working many nights and weekends to reach their goal. It wasn't until a new staffer started asking questions that they really looked at their outcomes. How many people per hour did the organization recruit?

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