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Blackbaud Headed to SXSWi 2011

NetWits

With more than eight years of experience in the nonprofit arena, he has worked with a diverse group of organizations including LIVESTRONG, United Methodist Church, American Heart Association, Family Life, Darkness to Light, University of Richmond, Big Brother Big Sisters, ChildFund Int’l, and more. Follow Frank on Twitter. You coming?

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Quick Hit: Three Blogs to Expand Your Arts Nonprofit Universe

Museum 2.0

Joe Patti runs a performing arts center in Ohio. His posts open up questions and ways of thinking about audiences, marketing, management, and engagement that get me thinking differently. He is based in Seattle, but the blog is pretty universal. Butts in the Seats. For ten years (!) he has been blogging about arts management.

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Essential Marketing Tip: Let Your Mission Statement Inspire Action

NonProfit Hub

In a study done at Ohio University, they found that millennials are drawn to a strong mission statement. Ask questions and find out what is important to the people you’re working with. Typically, mission statements are viewed as a bureaucratic necessity: something to impress funders and push across communication channels.

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Computer Refurbishment and Accessibility

Tech Soup

There are local government based nonprofit programs like Cuyahoga County Board of Developmental Disabilities in Ohio, and ARC Broward. There are university based nonprofit programs like Assistive Technology of Ohio at The Ohio State University , which has a unique Adaptive Toy Lending Program.

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We are addressing key questions such as: When is a tactile required? Against each of these questions we are targeting projects on which we collaborate with some of the leading experts in the field. Image by the National Braille Press, a DIAGRAM subcontract. How can we make tactiles easier to produce, use and share?

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A simple, but profound, change in how we think about volunteers

ASU Lodestar Center

Before responding, I ask them questions about the roles they have for volunteers, how they recruit volunteers, how volunteers are “on-boarded” to the organization, who supervises them and how, and how successful they are at retaining volunteers. She currently teaches NMI 104: Managing Staff and Volunteers for the ASU Lodestar Center.

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How to Celebrate AAPI Heritage Month: Listen, Reflect & Connect

Saleforce Nonprofit

To help us personally reflect and connect with these stories, I’ve included questions from Terri Givens’ book, Radical Empathy: Finding a Path to Bridging Racial Divides. We don’t talk about [cultural differences in communication],” said Grace Wang, executive vice president for research innovation and knowledge at Ohio State University. “We