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Imagining Apps for a Better World at Mozilla Ignite App Challenge Idea Jam

Tech Soup

What happened when TechSoup gathered a room full of nonprofit and library professionals, social entrepreneurs, and programmers together on a recent Thursday ? At last Thursday's idea jam, despite only having about an hour to brainstorm, eight ideas were proposed. The ideas addressed major areas of concern for the U.S.:

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What Is a Capital Campaign? The Complete Guide

Neon CRM

You’ll probably want to have at least two phases to your own campaign. A “silent phase” will emphasize private fundraising conversations with your major donors and corporate sponsors. The later public phase will focus on raising money from smaller individual donors. You will also want to determine if your idea is viable at all.

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Participation Starts with Staff: The Ruru Revolution

Museum 2.0

Ruth is a curator of pictorial collections for Puke Ariki, a museum/library/visitor center in the small city of New Plymouth, New Zealand. This entire first phase of the project is set up to encourage staff to participate and reward them for doing so. Where do you start? Ruth Harvey has a brilliant solution to this problem.

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Nonprofit Consulting Firms: 26 Leaders in Their Spaces

DNL OmniMedia

Create a request for proposal (RFP). Review their proposals. Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal. Plus, the resources section on their website has a library full of information to help your nonprofit succeed. Review your candidates.

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Bay Localize & Green Roofs: An Interview with Ingrid Severson

Have Fun - Do Good

That's pretty much the last phase of the project, working on a policy level to create incentives, financial incentives, tax credits, things like, that would help people to implement these rooftop systems. It just so happend that Bay Localize was a good vehicle to propose this project, and so that's how it happened.

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[VIDEO] Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle: Grant Seeking Lessons and Pro-tips from the Field

Bloomerang

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. My team thinks of the grants lifecycle as having five phases.

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This Month at TechSoup: Sharpen Your Website

Tech Soup

Over the next five weeks, we're going to be sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. You can also view sample RFPs and visit our RFP Library for more resources to start any tech project out right. Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website. Week 1: The Basics.