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5 Design Techniques That Will Increase the Lifespan of Your Nonprofit’s Website

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Still, understanding your audience is the foundation of all other design strategies and directly influences the success or failure of a website. For example, if someone might be in a worried state while browsing your site, intense colors like red or orange won’t help them; it would be better to choose calming colors like blues and greens.

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Build a Non-profit Website that Works [Steal These Ideas!]

Get Fully Funded

The experience people have on your non-profit website will influence what they think about you and if they think they can trust you. Blue and green are cool, calming colors that work great for outdoorsy, environmental nonprofits. Building a non-profit website might be the most intimidating aspect of launching an organization.

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Guest Post by Geoff Livingston: Creating Movements

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Both posts influenced this speech. And frustrating challenges like fighting off big oil’s influence on the ever delayed climate change bill otherwise known as Waxman Markey. There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. Dynamic movements such as the Iraqi election.

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An Offline Social Media Exercise That Improves Online Content

Tech Soup

The equipment is mostly analog: the index cards and colored dots pictured below, plus a place to record the results. Using the dots, they will indicate if they would "Like" (blue), "Share" (yellow), or "Comment" (green) on the post. The cards are collected, mixed up, then each person is given one card.

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Confessions from a Donor: I Didn’t Donate for 10 Years, but Now I’m a Sustainer.

Connection Cafe

Even though I get my news every morning from the great Morning Editions hosts, Steve Inskeep, Renee Montagne and David Greene and spend my days listening to This American Life, Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me and TED Radio hour, it’s never really crossed my mind to donate. How I became a sustainer. Who has the time to surf though 400 channels?

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How Can Philanthropy and Technology Co-Evolve for Development?

Tech Soup

It not only illustrates how they could influence future developments but how they could respond to a future made even more unpredictable by technology. Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa. It examines how philanthropy and technology are now interlinked for development initiatives.

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Planning a Showstopping Fundraising Event in 10 Steps

OneCause

Look to your donor database to get a picture of the kind of event your donors might be interested in. Keep in mind that the type of event you choose to host will also influence the kind of venue you select. The executive director manages the big picture ideas and assigns roles and responsibilities to other staff and volunteers.