Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

For nonprofits, libraries, and their constituents, training is esse ntial to keep knowledge and skills up to date. Whether your organization is training its own staff in nonprofit management, or teaching others technical skills, TechSoup can help you get started. Train on Over 150 Products with Atomic Training.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

It might be possible to keep staff members on a contract basis until your organization can sustain employees long-term. If you have a long-term relationships with or have a great connection with your current vendor, let them know that someone else has offered a better price for the same service. Above all, be gracious.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Learning and Development: The Presidential Debate Edition. The first two topics will focus on the direction of the “Learning Management Systems Industry (LMS).” Disclaimer: I shall start this post by stating that the internal views of this article are that of the blogger himself and not Gyrus Systems as an entity.

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.orgSource

MAY 1, 2023

We need another term for “digital transformation.” I try to be very clear that no one is exempt from learning and mastering new skills.” To be successful,” he notes, “you have to be open to lifelong learning. If only it were that simple. Real “transformation” requires a commitment that goes beyond updated equipment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

My style of teaching is participatory; I don’t lecture with PPT endlessly and involve the audience. I believe that interactive training makes for better learning and there is research to back that up. However, the term “Walking Meetings,” is ableist. I make it okay to modify so no one feels excluded.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 3, 2024

This is evident in the work nonprofits like yours create as well as in the impacts they have on those in the community who see these works, engage with them, and learn from them. Nonprofits of all sizes have one need in common: funding. Without it, your nonprofit can’t operate and do the important work that fuels your cause.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

The educational goals for the funders in this list include increasing postsecondary and higher learning opportunities, advancing innovation inside the classroom, engaging more students in the arts, and enhancing early childhood development, just to name a few. Education is one of the more popular issues that many foundations focus on.

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Bloomerang

MAY 17, 2021

We’ve been trained in our society that it’s not polite to talk about money. If you’re a fundraiser bemoaning the lack of your nonprofit’s culture of philanthropy , you don’t get off that easily. . You’re part of the problem. In fact, you may BE the problem. Why is that? It’s in your job description. — Simone Joyaux.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. He has a BS from Juniata College and an MA in Philanthropy and Development from St.

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Bloomerang

MAY 24, 2021

Old dogs must learn new tricks to keep getting rewards. Brian Solis, and psychologists and neurobiologists, uses the term somatic marker to help define this experience and its effects. We are witnessing the rise of a new generation of donors and nonprofit employees. The digital revolution created hyper-connection. — Brian Solis.

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Double the Donation

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Train callers on matching gifts. Phonathons are a tried-and-true resource for all sorts of nonprofits and higher education institutions to engage donors and raise money effectively. While the benefits of a phonathon campaign are fairly straightforward, running a successful campaign is no easy task. Create a standardized script.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Learn how Qgiv can help you and your volunteers make the most of your fundraising efforts! However, to know the true value of volunteers to your unique organization, you should work with your team to identify how they’ve helped your nonprofit power its programs and services in the past. Request a Demo.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Learn basic HTML. One of the simplest ways to significantly increase your nonprofit’s return on investment (ROI) from using social media is to learn basic HTML. There’s no shortage of year-end-and-beginning blog posts about social media, but I thought I’d throw mine into the mix as well. Diversify your news sources.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

Question : What can a budding entrepreneur learn from watching television shows, such as Shark Tank? Despite the pressure to “get big fast,” hypergrowth can spell disaster for even the most promising ventures. Help Wanted. Cascading Miracles. Silicon Valley exhorts entrepreneurs to dream big. If so, why?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

O'Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant. O'Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant. O'Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant. Check out the #Storymakers2017 page for all the details.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community. Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. This morning, I had the huge honor of presenting the keynote at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, ON. What is a movement?

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 7, 2013

The simple, but profound, key is to change the semantics – to talk in terms of “wanting” and “engaging” volunteers rather than “needing” and “using” them. This way of thinking about and describing volunteerism is in stark contrast to how volunteers feel after rewarding service experiences. posted by Lisa Humenik. Faculty Associate.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Instead, people need to become ''resilient'' to stress, learning how to quickly recover from it," explains Evans. Evans teaches readers of her new book, THE RESILIENCY rEVOLUTION: Your Stress Solution For Life 60 Seconds at a Time , how to become resilient to stress. to create the resiliency you need to combat stress.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

Here’s what I learned: How did you get started working in the nonprofit sector? My work consists of interactive talks, workshops, trainings, and coaching. I love connecting with nonprofit technology colleagues who are also promoting work/life balance and how to avoid digital distractions.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

Modeling appropriate site use and enforcing the “Terms of Use” as appropriate. And you are ready to invest the money in selecting and developing the greatest system ever. Even better. But what good is your investment if noone takes advantage of it? User adoption is a tricky beast. Please share your own in the comments section.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

We’re not going to change or redefine what the system looks like, we want to TEACH YOU what it is and how you can be part of it. But as we learn these rules, we often forget to question where and how those rules were created in the first place. I was there for the same reason. We often think of design as objective and fundamental.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

Whether you lead a church, a temple, or another type of faith-based organization, fundraising is a recurring task on your to-do list. In order to lead your ministry, provide valuable programming, and connect your community to your mission, you need adequate funds. That’s where peer-to-peer fundraising comes in. Determine a goal, 2.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 30, 2010

I figured I could pay someone a lot of money to go to graduate school, or I could pay nothing (and hopefully get paid) to learn on the job. This decision fit well with my learning style--I tend to lean towards real-world experience and self-directed endeavors. It's a learning environment free of meetings and bureaucracy.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 16, 2021

We’re here to talk about 3 steps to closing over $10,000 gifts by December 31st. That’s right. We’re in the final stretches of year-end, and there’s still some cool things that you can do. And we’re going to give you those tips today. So I’m so glad you’re here. So thanks for taking the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

JournalMarketing's advice to communicators and execs: Doing new media is more important than learning new media. An excellent primer about RSS in Teaching Hacks Wiki that looks at RSS in terms of different outcomes - productivity, professional development, community building, and others. without leaving the virtual world!

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 12, 2019

During the first half of my 10-month service with Public Allies, I took 16 college credits at ASU with one of those credits counting for my participation in the Nonprofit Professional credential program. The Public Allies program hours averages out to about 43+ hours a week to get the 1,700-hour total for the 10-month service term.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Technology Support as Teaching April 24, 2007 I’ve been thinking a lot about technology support lately. Really a lot. All technology providers have to deal at some level with support.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 10, 2006

SOUL is a training center based here in Oakland. We place ourselves in the social justice work here in the Bay Area as a training center. We focus on political education and organizer skills trainings, and we definitely think it is critical to see the fusion of those two things. How did you get involved with this kind of work?

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NTEN

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Offer a valuable training process. If your volunteers have a positive experience with your virtual opportunities, from the time they sign up to when the opportunity ends, they’ll be much more likely to stick around for the long term. Virtual advocacy opportunities — Teach volunteers to be strong advocates for your cause.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

from pitching your cause to donors and funding agencies, to delivering services to members and clients; and from seeking public support and the ear of decision-makers, to collaborating with other organizations in projects of common interest. and more precisely, the effective transfer or exchange of knowledge â??

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2024

What if we could come from a place of feelings in all we do? And not just any feelings, but connecting , understanding, and coming-from-a-place-of-love feelings? Wouldn’t our relationships, our work, our community, and the entire world benefit and become a better place? Of course, the idea of loving all of humanity may seem too abstract.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

The service was super quick, but there have been a lot of spelling errors and some missed words, so I end up listening to the recording and reading along with the transcription once or twice before posting. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall.

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2022

With a good volunteer survey, you have the power to impact the effectiveness of volunteer orientation, training, recruitment, and retention. Does your association’s volunteer program already have plenty of recruits? When you prioritize volunteer engagement, your volunteer program benefits, and so does your association’s bottom line.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

I’m not a teacher by training and I don’t have special skills. I’ve learned the difference between being poor and being poor without hope. I’ve learned the difference between being poor and being poor without hope. Groups: Online Networking for Professional Managers of Volunteer Programs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Personal learning and reflection on and about your instructional topic. which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'm nervous.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

But she’s been in your shoes, like I said, being a leader of an organization and also raising a ton of money and does a lot of these trainings. She’s got an awesome YouTube channel where she does a lot of free trainings as well. Thanks to all of you for your patience. And I’m so happy to see a full room.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When considering what kind of event your organization could hold, you might find yourself suffering from choice paralysis. There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! How do you choose just one? We’ve broken them down into six major categories. Foot Race These are a classic of the genre.

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