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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. Put yourself in our shoes – would you spend 10-20 hours on a project if the person you’re sharing it with won’t give you time to answer a question? Expand your reach by sharing it with different groups, listservs, and affinity networks.

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Information: The Better Half of IT

sgEngage

Maybe that’s your Database Administrator, your CFO, or an office support staff person. Find that person, tell them they are amazing , and help them get in touch with their peers. Having the support and encouragement to scrub data or write down basic data-related procedures will get your data person on the path to good data management.

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8 Actionable steps for any nonprofit RFP

EveryAction

Is there a person or a team dealing with a problem you’d like solved? Ask friends, share on listservs and with affinity groups, or post it on Prosal to reach consultants around the U.S. These eight steps are simple yet powerful ways to save time in the long run and hire a better partner for your nonprofit. State the problem.

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5 Proven Tips for Building Your Nonprofits Email List

NetWits

If visitors have to search around the tabs on your site, they may never find your listserve sign up. If you have a link to your Facebook and Twitter at the top of your homepage and your listserve at the bottom, it implies that you prefer to interact with your audience on your social media sites. Clearly marked. With a call to action.

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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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Controlling data entry

Robert Weiner

A member of the PRSPCT-L listserve (for prospect researchers) asked "What do other institutions do to regulate or “police” data entry work, specifically when you have multiple users with authority to make updates?". Some organizations make that person fix the mistake. It's a tough problem. You need clear data entry standards.

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Help Us Help You: Austin-area service opportunities wanted for the 15NTC

NTEN

Are you an Austin-based organization that could use some help either in person between March 3-6, 2015 or virtually in advance of the conference? Kindly include a link with the project suggestion and include contact information for the person leading the volunteer opportunity. We would love to hear from you!

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