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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

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Yes, you can get people to put down their phones and pay attention. Only include information that is needed to see the big picture. Don’t Forget Policies and Procedures There’s more to oversight than reading the financial statements. Be sure to review important policies and procedures. Is that even possible?

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5 Ways to Use Your Smartphone for Social Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a nonprofit, there are certain ways you can encourage your donors to use their phones for good. According to The Guardian , people are spending an average of three hours and 15 minutes on their phone per day. Registering for a charity walk, bike, or run just takes a few minutes and participants can do it right from their phones.

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5 Common Questions About Calculating Your Nonprofit’s Indirect Cost Rates

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Nonprofits are often justified in their confusion about indirect costs because government agencies and foundations have different policies and rules around indirect costs, so there is more than one way to calculate a cost. Not sure if your organization’s stakeholders are ready to incorporate indirect costs into your planning?

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New Email Tests Improve Clicks, Slow Exiting

The NonProfit Times

Nearly half (48%) of donors cited email as their preferred giving channel ahead of social media, text messaging, direct mail, and phone calls in a study published last year by fundraising platform Neon One in Chicago. There were some concerns early on that the policy might dissuade people from signing up,” she said.

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How Advocacy Fits Into Your Nonprofit’s Fundraising Strategy

NonProfit Hub

When you reinforce your mission and publicly support the policies that impact your cause, it provides an additional platform to discuss your organization with potential supporters. You may ask them to stop something in their policies that is actively harming your mission or to incorporate a new policy that would help.

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Blame the Crowd, Not the Camera: Challenges to a New Open Photo Policy at the National Gallery

Museum 2.0

Five years ago, I wrote a post arguing that museum photo policies should be as open as possible. Last week, he wrote a series of posts about the British National Gallery''s reversal of their photo policy. A scene like the one shown above is not just a mess because of the bevy of phones and cameras. Reader, I was wrong.

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Five Tips for Nonprofits to Avoid Virtual Fatigue

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Simulate the Office Water Cooler or Open Door Policy. The one I like the best is called “Two Pictures” where everyone shares 2 pictures about anything unrelated to work and spends some time sharing it with the team. see the photo at the top). Need so more ideas for energizers, check out this list from Dancing With Markers.

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