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Doing Your Appeal In-house? 5 Tips to Save Time & Money

Get Fully Funded

That’s why nonprofits outsource to nonprofit mail experts as their donor file grows. Below are my 5 top tips to save you precious money and time when preparing your own appeal. Your local printer can perforate for you, too. Puts color on the front of the letter and grayscale on the back to save money. from the bottom.

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Due diligence before you donate

ASU Lodestar Center

People who wouldn't dream of investing money without performing the necessary due diligence may blindly give money to organizations that use the majority of donations for executive salaries, fundraising and advertising. If the scope of your aspiration is local, find charities that are based in your neighborhood or city.

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Pros and Cons of Cloud Software for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

"Cloud-based" refers to any software or application not physically installed on a local server or computer, but rather hosted outside your organization and accessed via an Internet connection. Productivity and file storage. Money saved is money that can be reinvested in public programs and your mission.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. It first works with local community people to see what its children need and then tailors programs that are specific to that locale.

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The Participatory Museum Process Part 4: Adventures in Self-Publishing

Museum 2.0

I decided to self-publish The Participatory Museum for four reasons: OPENNESS: I wanted the flexibility to license and distribute the book using an open structure to promote sharing. Few publishers was open to Creative Commons licensing and to giving away the content for free online. I chose the Attribution Noncommercial license.

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The Fantastic Five GIS Tools for Nonprofits

NTEN

Most nonprofits only ever need the ArcView license, available heavily discounted from TechSoup. We love these map layers for local work, but for nonprofits working across nations these are incredible time savers. These PDF files contain the location details from your map and can also contain some of the attribute data you created.

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. the shift is now from the organization raising money to the supporters taking on that role/responsibilities. Money: [link] I'm so excited! Act 2: Why.