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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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Four Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

Foundations need tech support as much as anyone. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. It’s a free comprehensive resource that distills the best practices in impact measurement into five steps. The Technology Affinity Group.

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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.” Knowing how to get your message out and how to get support will help position you out in front the next time something like Sandy roars ashore (although hopefully not anytime soon!).

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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.

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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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Great Resources for Foundation Technology

Tech Soup

Foundations need tech support as much as anyone. " TAG is an active community of around 300 foundation techies who: Discuss foundation technology on the TAG listserv and blog. It’s a free comprehensive resource that distills the best practices in impact measurement into five steps. The Technology Affinity Group.

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Are Memes Really Just Slacktivism?

Care2

Can You Build a Base of Supporters with Memes? Should they have taken that new list of supporters (whether it was on Facebook, email, or Twitter) and focused on a ladder of engagement plan to build real relationships these new people? . Could they have leveraged this opportunity to build their email list, and raise money?

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