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12 free nonprofit books to help you achieve year-end fundraising success

Candid

Read this book to gain confidence by learning tools, sample dialogues, and techniques to ask anyone, for any amount, for any purpose. Get step-by-step guidance and practical tools for running an effective, well-coordinated annual giving campaign. The hardest part of fundraising is making the ask.

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What Your Nonprofit Needs To Know About Machine Learning

Global Giving

To do this, we use a process called machine learning that allows us to “teach” computers how to tackle these tasks. Most machine learning techniques revolve around simple arithmetic. Do you have an appropriate question in mind? Does answering “no” to any of those questions mean my organization can’t use machine learning?

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Social Media Listening: You Don’t To Be Joey Chestnut on the 4th of July!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One strategy is to use it as a professional learning tool. This can be put practice by using listening (and engaging techniques) for program development. Think of Professional Learning As A Gift To Yourself. Here are some steps to get started with listening for professional learning via social media.

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What are your most useful synchronous online facilitation practices?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It worked for me because of the clock technique we often use to facilitate conference calls. So, I read it with this question in mind: What techniques can be applied or adapted to Second Life facilitation or virtual world interface facilitation? How can we take advantage of the medium of Second Life?