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When props don’t cut it – advocating for your virtual volunteer roles

Twenty Hats

Ali was expected to make a training video from home on how to extract a bone marrow sample — without an examining room, without equipment, and most especially without an animal. One of the participants had to take an onsite museum role, where volunteers staff educational carts and engage with visitors, and transform it info a remote position.

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Voices from the Community: Security

Tech Soup

Further complicating the issue of security is the delicate balance between ensuring staff are being productive online — ensuring they aren't doing inappropriate things on their work-issued network devices and platforms — while also not violating their privacy with overly intrusive software and policies.

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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

Get Fully Funded

This should be automated through your donor management software, but it still needs to be warm and friendly. If you use a ‘from’ email such as info@yourorganization or donationreceipt@yourorganization, the email will, from the very first moment the donor lays eyes on it, feel impersonal, like a form letter. But it’s not.

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Great reads from around the web on February 1st

Amy Sample Ward

" The Battle Against Info-Overload: Is Relevance or Popularity the Best Filter? We asked three people building cutting-edge social software what they think the relationship between relevance, popularity and filtering is going to be in the future. They offered three very different responses.

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Raising Awareness of Matching Gifts

Connection Cafe

Ensure that your telefund callers have a script for verifying and asking for employer information and reminding alums and donors alike of the possibility of matching gifts; input or import matching data into phonathon software. Check out some sample messages that can be easily shared on Twitter, Facebook, LinkedIn and Instagram.

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Women in Technology: 2 Ways you CAN get Involved!

Amy Sample Ward

For more info check out [link]. Whatever she does, whether she is a sysadmin or a tech entrepreneur, a programmer or a designer, developing software or hardware, a tech journalist or a tech consultant, we want to celebrate her achievements. She also wrote the very first description of a computer and of software.

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Donor Data Migration for Nonprofits: Explained

Neon CRM

Validation” is really just a technical data management term for “make sure that the info you have is correct.” Use Some (Free) Data Cleansing Tools Cleaning data is careful work that’s going to require long hours, but you can utilize data cleansing tools or software to automate the process.

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