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5 Essential RFP Writing Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Engage in online forums, email listservs, and directly with vendors or agencies. Here are some essential tips to kick off your project successfully: Meet with whoever will be impacted by the project (staff, stakeholders, supporters) to integrate all ideas and opinions at the start. Read other RFPs to understand what works.

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Sharing my #EpicThanks – please join me!

Amy Sample Ward

Whether it’s on listservs, forums, blogs, facebook, twitter or anywhere else – there are so many people looking to foster open dialogue on issues important to and impacting the work of changemakers, activists and innovators around the world.

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Four Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

" TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. Foundation techies can ask any type of question on the TAG listserv, strategic or very specific, and nearly always get an informed answer from a member on the same day. Hold a yearly conference.

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Groups: A Review of Five Platforms to Build Community

Care2

If your group would make for an active and participatory email listserv, it will probably work as a group too. Can building a Facebook Group impact advocacy? This campaign should give us a much better idea of advocacy impact from the group… It could get unwieldy quickly.

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Five Steps to Successful Crisis Communications

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note From Beth: I remember back when Hurricane Katrina struck, I saw a post to the Museum ListServ that said “ Chuck Patch Is Not Dead.” Above all, don’t reach out to people who have been directly impacted by the disaster, or it will come across as tone deaf. Flickr Photo by Rob Howells. Be specific.

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What We Talk About When We Talk About Organizational Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

And GEO has been our guide and our ally in explaining how learning, streamlining and stakeholder/grantee involvement all come together to improve impact. We’re going to start a listserv and take some initial steps to become our own combination of learning community and support group.

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Case Study: How Human Rights Watch Leverages Employee Personal Brands on Twitter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Leveraging the networks and personal brands of your staff as champions can help your organization’s communications strategy have more impact. With a few guidelines and a little training, employees can use social channels effectively in service of your organization’s mission AND their own learning.