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Workforce development for the nonprofit tech professionals of the future: It will be a consortium, not a building with a dome!

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

It’s been about a year and a half since I starting agitating for a Massachusetts Institute of Nonprofit Technology , an initiative that will kick off by training the nonprofit data analysts of the future. The Massachusetts Institute of Technology can rest easy, without fear of competition, or brand encroachment.)

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

Get Fully Funded

Spend time building your donor base by doing things like online fundraisers, fundraising appeals, starting a monthly giving program, and asking folks within your network for donations. This is a subscription-based service, but there’s a way to use it for free – through their Funding Information Network.

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Keeping Your 2016 Resolutions with NetSquared's Free Workshops

Tech Soup

Now, I'm no Houdini, but I predict that your New Year's resolutions are noble, high-minded stuff like "find a mentor" or "learn a new skill every month." Boston, Massachusetts: 501 Tech Club Open Board Meeting and Happy Hour! Luckily for you, NetSquared is here to keep you on track.

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Finding a Community of Nonprofit Technology Experts

Tech Soup

What if there were regular gatherings where nonprofit techies could come together to learn, laugh, and network with their peers? TechSoup's NetSquared is the world's largest volunteer-driven network of in-person nonprofit technology training and peer support events. Most NetSquared organizers now have a peer mentor.

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From Humanities Major to Career NPtechie in Two Easy Steps

NTEN

Over the last decade, I've unexpectedly stumbled my way from religious studies major to accidental techie to a job I completely love as Director of Technology Strategy at a small, statewide org in Massachusetts that does health care reform work. And what are these learning and networking activities?

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How I Got Here

Museum 2.0

Part 1: It's What You Want In 2002, I was finishing a bachelor's degree in electrical engineering at WPI, a hands-on, technical university in Worcester, Massachusetts. Heroes I admired from afar became friends and mentors. Seek out mentors. But internship after internship didn't live up to those expectations.

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A Few Social and Collaborative Fundraising Approaches

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nancy White recently blogged about a tool called ChipIn which is designed to simplify the process of connecting with people in your social network to collect money for a personal cause, to purchase a gift, or for community fundraising. " Amazingly 350 people signed up and this lead to the Mentoring Worldwide project.