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We’re 39 percent similar; how can we be exponentially better?

Candid

Professional References/Testimonials (others who can speak on the organization’s behalf). Organization’s Founding Date/History. consider mapping the common fields identified here to any data fields available via Application Programming Interface (API) in your public database. Organization’s Contact Information.

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Nonprofit Blog Writing 101: Best Practices, Tips & Tricks

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Another great topic is the history of your organization. Use your About page as a jumping-off point and go more in depth, using engaging historical photos, maps, and documents as much as you can. Link to resources In your blog posts, make sure to reference other pages on your blog.

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The Art of Facilitating Meetings with Sticky Notes

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Post-It Note Facilitation of A Network Map - 2012 Pakistan NGOs. David Lavenda wrote this excellent article in Fast Company about the history of the Post-It notes and their potential for becoming a killer innovation technology. What’s in your facilitation toolkit? But wait, paper??? And, I’m not alone.

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22 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, there are some resources and tools that I continually refer to and use again and again, and others that I am still experimenting with that may (or may not) become integral to my communications routine. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns.

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Top 10 Tough Donor Data Migration Decisions

3rd Sector Labs

For data that you ‘retire’, export it into a usable format, like an Access database for Excel spreadsheet, so you can refer to it later if needed. D6: We have a couple of ad hoc text fields with a lot of donor history notes – what do we do about them? You stop and review your map again.

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3 BIG reasons not to build a Mobile App!

Whole Whale

This adage is commonly referred to as the Law of the Instrument , and this cognitive bias pushes our solutions towards what’s familiar. Note the version history on whatever updates are available, and note the major changes. To someone with a hammer, everything is a nail.

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33 Fun, Useful, and Totally Random Resources for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Simply enter your nonprofit’s name and Addictomatic then creates a page of all your search results for easy future reference. Nonprofits can use Dipity to create timelines that highlight their organizational history, current events, and special campaigns. Alexa Top Sites :: alexa.com/topsites. FrontlineSMS :: frontlinesms.com.

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