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Funding Rural America: Bridging the Resource Gap

Tech Soup

The Resource Gap in Rural Funding. If your charity or library happens to be located in rural America, it's not your imagination that it is harder to get grant funding in rural locations. The nonprofit Bridgespan Group did a special post-recession report on overcoming the resource gap in rural funding.

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How To Write A Nonprofit Mission Statement in 7 Steps (Plus 10 Great Examples)

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Have you had any major changes in funding? They could be helpful in finding new ways to talk about your mission in your fundraising appeals, grant proposals, and more. Iowa Healthiest State Initiative “To become the healthiest state in the nation by improving the physical, social and emotional well-being of Iowans.”

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Happy, Healthy 2016: What’s Your Theme for the Year?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In addition to the Emerging Leaders Peer Learning project, I continued to serve as the facilitator for a learning network of community foundations who are hosting Giving Days, funded by the Knight Foundation. I produced four “ Advanced Practices Webinars ” for the Knight Foundation for Giving Days hosts.

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Busting the Overhead Myth: How can nonprofits convince stakeholders to invest in capacity building?

ASU Lodestar Center

Overhead is defined as a “percentage of a charity’s expenses that goes to administrative and fundraising costs” (Guidestar, 2014). Therefore, other factors such as program performance, governance structure, staff professionalism, fundraising efficiency, and other practices should be considered as part of the bigger picture.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, April 17-23

Tech Soup

Sage is giving away fundraising software. It's been a big week in the TechSoup universe. From TechSoup Stock : There's only one more day to request Sage's special donation of Fundraising 50. Conferencing Virtually : The Iowa Small Libraries Online Conference. GreenTech's TeleGreen Your Work campaign is underway.

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How Healthy Do You Want Your Nonprofit Board To Be?

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According to the Executive Director Listening Project conducted by the Meyer Foundation, “Strengthening the Board of Directors” is listed as a top challenge affecting executive directors’ personal and professional effectiveness (“fundraising” and “managing human capital” were the only two challenges ranked higher). governance'

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Candid community: Expanding equitable access to nonprofit resources 

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Our network of partners includes public libraries, university and community college libraries, public charities, and nonprofit resource centers, including nonprofit associations. The state library systems of Hawaii and Iowa even took advantage of this opportunity to provide access to Candid resources at every public library in the state.