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A Few Reviews of The Networked Nonprofit

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. Tags: Networked Nonprofit. I trained her staff on how to blog.

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Accounting for Development Gifts

Tech Soup

Tag every gift with the donor’s designation: When we get a gift that is designated for a specific purpose, we are required to spend the gift for the stated purpose. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to "meals for homeless children," just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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Accounting for Development Gifts

Connection Cafe

Tag every gift with the donor’s designation: When we get a gift that is designated for a specific purpose, we are required to spend the gift for the stated purpose. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to “Meals for Homeless Children”, just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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Guest Post by Amanda Rose: Reflections on Cause Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Sure $5,000 sounds like a fantastic fundraising goal, but what if I told you by meeting that target, a local cause would be able to launch an evening food program for the homeless, or make much needed repairs to a home for abandoned girls and boys. Twestival Tweet Report reviewed by Tweetag.com. Tags: fundraising2.0

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NpTech Summary: Advocacy 2.0, Sketchcastes, and NpTech in Different Languages

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development.

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NTC Day of Service: Reflections

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Day Before the Day of Service is always a crazy blur for me because I'm generally in the office our local partner, along with Cheryl Hanback , generating the last version of the check-in list, name tags, and materials. I'm even more of zoombie after the event because managing events takes a lot of adrelin. Deborah Finn's thoughts here.

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Stellar year-end fundraising strategies for busy nonprofit leaders

Get Fully Funded

Or to help you eliminate your waiting list so every homeless person can get medical care. Spend a little time reviewing the kinds of stories your local media covers so you know what story to pitch them. No one cares about your goal. Ask donors to contribute to your food pantry so you can feed 100 new families going through tough times.

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