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Attracting New Donors With Content That Serves (And Scales)

Bloomerang

While these investments may work, organizations quickly realize the time and attention needed is unsustainable and engagement is less than desired. Source To assess what your donors desire, you can map out a persona or identity or run a survey on your existing network and ask questions like: What topics would you like to learn more about?

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Using Everyday Technology to Improve Your Services

NTEN

Quinn, Idealware and Amy Wagner, MAP For Nonprofits Many nonprofits think of innovation as a luxury they can’t afford. Staff time and budgets are limited, and improving the different ways they use technology seems out of reach. Her simple, free solution substantially increased the number of teens who attend programs. By Laura S.

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What you need to know BEFORE you start a nonprofit

Get Fully Funded

If you skip on preparation, you will end up with a house of cards that can come tumbling down at any time. Or is it for people who are not accepted by current shelters, such as mothers with teen boys? Map out as much as you can with as many details as possible. Is the need for more beds seasonal? How will you find participants?

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Everyday Innovation: Using Technology to Improve Your Services

Care2

We talk to a lot of people who want to improve the way their organizations use technology, but who feel innovation is a luxury that limited staff time and budgets won’t allow. She began using text messages to communicate with them, and her free solution has substantially increased the number of teens attending programs.

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14+ Excellent Nonprofit Annual Reports

Whole Whale

In our data culture , we suggest your nonprofit takes the time to put one together as a means of showing your organization’s transparency — and bragging about your success in the past year. We love how Girls Who Code built an interactive map of the U.S. Save time on design and focus on showing your impact. Download Template.

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The Art of Relevance Sneak Peek: Part Ex-Con, Part Farmer, Part Queen

Museum 2.0

For the last time this summer, I'm sharing a chapter from my new book The Art of Relevance to celebrate its release. FoodWhat's staff and teens have taught me a lot about what it really means to be relevant to people who are often overlooked or ignored. FoodWhat empowers teens to change their lives through farming and food justice.

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Are You Serving Youth in Your Community? Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Pacific Time (PT) and ends July 19, 2014 at 11:59:59 p.m.

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