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Report: Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency

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Opening Up: Demystifying Funder Transparency is a new GrantCraft guide released in collaboration with Glasspockets from the Foundation Center. A foundation that operates transparently is one that shares what it does, how it does it, and the difference thatit makes in a frank, easily accessible, and timelyway. Increased public trust.

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Webinar: Monthly Donors, Social Media, and Cross-Channel Integration: Critical Tactics to Boost Your Fundraising in 2013

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Make 2013 the year your fundraising comes of age. Join Paul Habig of SankyNet, Sarah Alexander of Food & Water Watch, and Eric Rardin of Care2 as they outline the critical and often easy ways you can boost your fundraising results in 2013. Say good bye to "online fundraising" and "offline fundraising," there is only fundraising.

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New Tips from the Giving Day Playbook on Crowdfunding Campaigns

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Note from Beth: I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. After processing about 66 donations per minute during their 2013 event, the website crashed at 12:30 p.m.—for

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Attention Data Nerds! NTEN Change Journal: It’s All About Data

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In the book, we have a chapter about how one changes the organization’s culture to one that uses data for decision-making. She also recommends using the “fail fest” method that DoSomething had been using for years! (Wouldn’t a failfest be an awesome session at the NTC 2013?). His answer: 1.)

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Going for Goal: Shared Knowledge Inspires Successful Giving Days

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I’m working with the Knight Foundation to facilitate a peer learning exchange that will help their community foundation partners learn and spread best practices in planning and implementing Giving Days. The post was also published on the Knight Foundation blog here. The campaigns were treated as works in progress.

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Nonprofits Who are Making A Difference Through Play

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A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Around Gender.

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How Do We Balance Measuring Outcomes with Measuring to Learn and Improve? (#SM_RE)

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This chart comes from Chapter 5 of Measuring the Networked Nonprofit where we discuss how to measure outcomes from social media versus activities. It is about how social media (and other digital tools I might add) help an organization move towards longer-term outcomes in their theory of change or articulated goals.

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