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Fundraising Event Team 101: Choosing Your Vendor Team

Greater Giving

Planning a successful fundraising event requires meticulous attention to detail, juggling various aspects of logistics like venue selection, catering, photography, entertainment, and more. From the venue providing the backdrop to the caterer creating delectable treats, each vendor plays a vital role. But fear not!

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Tribute to My Mentor

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And stuck was the operative word: I stayed in that role for seven years. I was always coming up with new, crazy ideas of social ventures, and Gerry was a great sounding board. Not only that, Gerry also turned me and a bunch of the Benetech team onto digital photography. Gerry enabled my life’s work in so many ways!

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Books That Changed Us in 2020

Media Cause

What I found most interesting was the honest descriptions of navigating evolving roles as a parent and professional–of making mistakes, owning up to them and finding ways to improve oneself. The Wild Robot is about a shipwrecked robot who learns to survive on an island only inhabited by animals – which I admit sounded pretty nice.

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The Information Diet: Not Just A Book, A Movement For Conscious Consumption of Information

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

His chapter on “Data Literacy” describes what sounds a lot of good content curation skills minus the social sharing part. There is also a social change role. He doesn’t recommend quick fixes like “unplugging” which is the metaphorical equivalent to a crash diet because it doesn’t work.

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6 Tips for Nonprofit Professionals on Speaking Brilliantly with Your Slides

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Placing yourself in the role of your audience will allow you to think outside of your own box. Eileen on sound bites: “If you are watching an interview on TV and some brilliant sound bite rolls off the person’s tongue, chances are very high that did not happen by accident. Is this information truly useful to them? Crank it up!

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6 Online Speaking Tips for Nonprofit Professionals

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Placing yourself in the role of your audience will allow you to think outside of your own box. Eileen on sound bites: “If you are watching an interview on TV and some brilliant sound bite rolls off the person’s tongue, chances are very high that did not happen by accident. Is this information truly useful to them? Crank it up!

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Brooklyn Clicks with the Crowd: What Makes a Smart Mob?

Museum 2.0

They're now running a compelling experiment in crowd-sourced exhibition creation and curation via the photography exhibition Click. This may sound obvious, but we all fall victim to featuritis when we get seduced by the idea of live bodies. What is Click? They don't want your home address to send you brochures.

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