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5 Ways Your Nonprofit Can Use Behavioral Science to Raise More Money Online

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By understanding how people make the decisions they do, your NPO can take strategic steps to raise more money and drum up more support, without running yourself ragged in the process. While it’s a broad field of study, its application can be narrowed to focus on a particular group of people, separated by age, nationality, gender, or race.

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Burnout, Budgets, Staffing Vexing NPO Leaders

The NonProfit Times

A majority of nonprofit leaders are seeing new or continued efforts from their funders to change their grantmaking practices, including reduced restrictions and streamlined application and reporting processes.

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Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO

NonProfit Hub

When people check in X number of times, they receive a badge from the application. Check out how UNICEF is using Storify to get some ideas for your NPO. The post Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO appeared first on Nonprofit Hub. Just take the American Red Cross as an example.

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Securing a Free Website for your Non-Profit

Byte Technology

Of course, there’s the aforementioned issue of money: how does a start-up NPO, likely working under tight budgetary constrictions, afford a new or redesigned site? Therefore, every NPO should be aware of the paths they can take towards securing quality free (or extremely discounted) web services. Get the word out.

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Angels as Assets: The Importance of Volunteer Management Software

Byte Technology

According to Finch, measuring impact is a crucial component of any non-profit’s business plan, and a dedicated volunteer management application can “simplify coordination and serve as a central database for volunteer performance data.” Hence volunteer statistics are lost, as are volunteers, the lifeblood of many NPOs.

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Advice for Consultants - Part 2

Robert Weiner

The tech underground model (loose yet organized affiliation of npo techs who share skills and back each other up) is one of the good models out there. I attend user group meetings, especially where applications of software I use is demo’d. They/we may soon have an operations manual to share on how to do it. (2) 2) Get a wiki.

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The MetLife Foundation/Civic Ventures Break Through Award for NPO

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The application deadline is February 1, 2007. s a salute to any nonprofit or public sector agency that takes on local, national, or international challenges by engaging this vast and vibrant workforce for the common good. Learn more and nominate or apply at www.civicventures.org/breakthrough. Awards will be announced in the spring of 2007.

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