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How to Get Leadership Buy-in for Streamlining Your Grantee Application

sgEngage

But you also want to respect your grantees’ time and resources and avoid asking them for information that you don’t use or that they have already provided elsewhere. Or you can track the time it takes you to fill out the form, either with sample data or by trying to collect similar data from your own systems.

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Asking For A Legacy Gift: 10 Practical Steps To Get Started

Bloomerang

I usually start my research with the board, volunteers, and staff members of the nonprofit to see if any of them meet the profile for a legacy gift. Profiling donors ready to make a planned gift is not an exact science, but we can identify certain characteristics and indicators that may suggest a prospect’s readiness.

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Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America spread #GoSilent across the web for Memorial Day

Amy Sample Ward

The timing coincides with the President’s remarks in Arlington, but one minute of silence can be pledged at any time, really. The key to true cross-channel engagement like the #gosilent campaign is to link your accounts or use common profile names so that supporters can easily find you.

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Enhancing Your Prospect Research Efforts: 3 Things to Try

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After you finish your presentation, the potential donor thanks you for your time and effort, but admits that they don’t feel a strong connection to your work and aren’t interested in contributing to your organization at this time. . Time and location requirements. That’s where this article comes in.

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The American Red Cross can’t be everywhere at the same time. Sponsored by Dell, the Center uses customized software produced by Radian 6 to monitor and analyze social media in real-time. We brainstormed a few: Real-Time evaluation of communications strategy for a nonprofit or foundation. Disaster work.

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New on SSIR: First and Foremost Know Your Community

Amy Sample Ward

As profiled in the New York Observer , Danah talked to the data uncovered in her four years of research on new media use in a presentation at the Personal Democracy Forum. You may hear about Facebook, but if your audience is on MySpace, it doesn’t matter how much time and energy you put in. I believe we have, and so does Danah Boyd.

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Strengthen Your Community with a Knowledge Sharing Network

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A robust knowledge sharing network might involve people sharing resources, best practices, worst practices, just-in-time information, quick tips, and deep thinking, all focused on a specific topic. See Amy Sample Ward's materials on Community Driven Social Impact for more details on strategically planning online communities.).