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A Closer Look at Giving Contests: Free White Paper Examines "Give to the Max DC"

NTEN

In a new white paper, " How Giving Contests Can Strengthen Nonprofits and Communities ", long-time NTEN Member Geoff Livingston takes a look at the next level: coordinated integration. The full white paper, published with the support of the Case Foundation and the Razoo Foundation, is available as a free download.

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How To Transform Good Intentions Into Great Performance

Eric Jacobsen Blog

He teaches leaders the foundation for effectively engaging people's heads, hearts and hopes -- all necessary to enable effective and lasting (sustainable) change in today's constantly changing world. You'll also likely enjoy as I did all the great leadership quotes sprinkled throughout the book, such as these: Losing good people is costly.

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Developing staff technology skills in your nonprofit

NTEN

Digital Skillsets: An Imperative for Today’s Nonprofit Leaders — a white paper describing what skills executives need and how those connect to organizational effectiveness (free but requires you to provide contact info). Match the learning environment as closely as possible to the environment where people must apply the skill.

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Change-friendly Leadership

Eric Jacobsen Blog

He teaches leaders the foundation for effectively engaging people's heads, hearts and hopes -- all necessary to enable effective and lasting (sustainable) change in today's constantly changing world. You'll also likely enjoy as I did all the great leadership quotes sprinkled throughout the book, such as these: Losing good people is costly.

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How to Win the Story Wars

Care2

Check out these great tips and this insightful white paper from Jonah Sachs, author of Winning The Story Wars , and cofounder of Free Range Studios who joined us for this Care2 webinar along with Justin Perkins, Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2. Download this white paper on Winning the Story Wars.

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Recruiting Geeks for Human Rights!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Teach good programming practice and provide general programming and tech support (everything beyond basic IT stuff) to the rest of the team, who are experts in statistics and social science with varying degrees of techiness. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration.

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Who Gets to Be in Your Nonprofit’s Major Donor Portfolio?

Bloomerang

Today I want to help you avoid my mistake by teaching you what I’ve learned. Yet the bigger organizations tend to know this stuff because they have a system in place where staff teach other staff and train their replacements. . You get a plan… and you get a plan… and you get a plan… EVERYBODY gets a plan! It’s pretty simple.

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