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Your Nonprofit Should be Using Public Service Announcements (PSAs)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Peyton Leisner, Content Strategist at UncommonGood – an all-inclusive platform for nonprofits to manage their operations, marketing, and fundraising efforts. . Public service announcements are a great way for nonprofits to take advantage of traditional advertising tactics without the cost! What is a PSA? Step 3: Produce the PSA.

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Cybersecurity strategies for nonprofit websites

NTEN

Keeping a nonprofit organization’s website secure is critical. Despite these, organizations in the nonprofit sector tend not to be at the forefront of devoting significant effort or resources to cybersecurity. Grant users permission to read, write or execute only the files or resources necessary to do their jobs.

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A Quick Guide to Creating a Nonprofit Podcast: 5 Steps

Achieve

Leverage the benefits of this fast-growing industry and reach a larger audience by creating a nonprofit podcast. Why start a nonprofit podcast? There are many reasons why a nonprofit professional would want to start a nonprofit podcast. Or, you could co-host with another nonprofit professional.

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Phonathons: The Fundraiser’s Ultimate Guide & 15+ Top Tips

Double the Donation

Phonathons are a tried-and-true resource for all sorts of nonprofits and higher education institutions to engage donors and raise money effectively. Create a standardized script. Include matching gifts in call scripts. Create a standardized script. Practice with mock calls. Schedule calls when donors are home.

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Nonprofit Donor Retention 101: Always Do This

Bloomerang

For as long as the Fundraising Effectiveness Project has measured nonprofit donor retention it has been abysmal. Your Nonprofit’s Ameliorating WORDS + ACTIONS. Nonprofit donor retention requires building a relationship. Send something donors can feel great about right away, and that they can also file away for tax purposes.

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Amazon S3 for web server backup

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

We have a script going which runs by cron daily to do the backups. We started using S3fs as a way to mount an S3 bucket in the filesystem, then just copy the files to S3. One of the scripts we’ve use is here. (We We’ve been using it for “offsite&# backup for drupal sites for a while now. We also use rsync.)

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Finding The Best Board Retreat Facilitator – 9 Things To Look For

Kindful

More than 80 percent of nonprofit board retreat facilitators have never run a nonprofit. I believe the best facilitators have started or run multiple nonprofits. They don’t follow a script. Why spend a bunch of money on a retreat if the outcomes sit in a file and collect dust? They have in-the-trenches experience.