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Your Top-Secret Fundraising Tool? Empathy.

Bloomerang

The human tool to unlock philanthropy: empathy. When you can unleash the veritable biological orchestra working in the background of activating the emotionally rich tool of empathy , why wouldn’t you do this in your work of attracting, building, and maintaining donor relationships? We feed people, because no one should be hungry.” “We

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Tips for reducing IT costs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

He has a recent article in “ Director Magazine &# which is a UK-based business magazine (no, I don’t read it, I just got the link from his blog,) entitled 10 tips for reducing burgeoning IT costs. Most of the 10 are applicable to nonprofit organizations (I’d skip the “Offshore work&# tip.)

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Blog shout outs

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

ReviewBasics is a collaborative editing and reviewing tool. BlueAvocado is a new online blog/magazine/website specifically for folks who work in and with nonprofits. I don’t always have a lot of time to investigate them, or figure out if they are useful, but I do like to not completely ignore the ones that look interesting.

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Tagged Again. Media Consumption.

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a few tools I'm using: Email: I'm using the comfort blanket that is outlook. I listen to music on my IPOD while I blog. Recently, I'm addicted to Sarasate and virtusouso violin music. Magazines: Can't afford subscriptions, but when you get offers for your extra miles. Right now I have wired and runners magazine.

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150+ Creative Ways to Show Donors Appreciation

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Nonprofits need every tool possible to entice donors to join and then stick around for years. Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Some organizations use donor perks or benefits to do this.

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Meg Worden, Feed Me Darling : How I Have Fun, Do Good

Have Fun - Do Good

She writes for Elephant Journal, The Nervous Breakdown, Jack Move Magazine and has been published in a variety of other places both online and in print. Learning how to tell a personal story is a powerful tool for healing. Meg works with clients to heal and balance their bodies so that they can do their best work in the world.

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