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Facebook for Associations: Build a Community for Your Nonprofit with These 5 Best Practices

Wild Apricot

Want to start harnessing the power of Facebook for associations? Here are the five best practices you need to apply to your nonprofit's Facebook strategy today.

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How To Get Started With Mobile Giving To Reach Fundraising Goals

Nonprofits Source

In today’s landscape of mobile and online technology, nonprofits are flooded with a large variety of choices for almost any solution they can think of. This principle applies similarly to the event management and fundraising spaces. In this article, we’re going to share: Why nonprofits are investing in mobile giving to reach their fundraising goals.

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New Pew Research Report: The Future of Digital Life and Well-Being

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Pew Research Center has released a research report called “ The Future of Digital Life and Well-Being.” Pew interviewed technology experts and scholars (including me) about the benefits and drawbacks of our digital lives. The expert predictions about the impact of the internet over the next 10 years came in response to questions asked by Pew Research Center and Elon University’s Imagining the Internet Center in an online canvassing conducted between Dec. 11, 2017, and Jan. 15,

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“The Power of Dialogue on Nonprofit Data and Evaluation.”

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

Happy dance. This is a blog article about a blog article. I’m doing a happy dance, because the Foundation Center ‘s GrantSpace blog has published my article on “The Power of Dialogue on Nonprofit Data and Evaluation.” Please feel free to read the article and give me your feedback!

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Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide

Managing HR tasks like payroll, compliance, and employee data can overwhelm small businesses. That’s where a Human Capital Management (HCM) solution comes in. Our eBook, Why Every Small Business Needs an HCM Solution: A Comprehensive Guide , shows how an HCM system automates tedious processes, ensuring your business stays compliant and efficient. You’ll learn how to simplify payroll, eliminate costly errors, and empower your employees with self-service tools.

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DonorDrive client Miracle Network Dance Marathon named fastest growing peer-to-peer program

DonorDrive

In 2018, Dance Marathon was named the fastest growing program in the Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 30. At over 400 colleges, universities, and K-12 schools across North America, students dance 8 - 40 hours straight in support of their local children’s hospital.

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The Age of Automation: How Bots and Artificial Intelligence Help Nonprofits Work Smarter

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NYC Event: On Thursday, July 12th, Allison Fine and I will be leading an event at the NYC Tech Club on Bots, AI, and Nonprofits. If you are in NYC, you are invited to join us ! We will be talking about emerging best practices for using bots and artificial intelligence for nonprofits for fundraising, marketing, program delivery, advocacy, and internal management.

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How Can Systematic Evaluation of a Volunteer Program Positively Impact an Organization?

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Cara Pritulsky Spring 2018 Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. Evaluating volunteer programs within nonprofit organizations is a key step in continual improvement and data collection. Systematic evaluation can positively impact the organization by creating more structure, providing results for adaptability, increasing volunteer retention and improving staff-volunteer relationships.

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7 Ways for Arts & Cultural Organizations to Retain Members

Connection Cafe

Members are the catalyst of your arts or cultural organization. They believe in your staff, your mission and support your goals. And while attracting new members is a never-ending process, retaining existing members is equally as important. It’s easier to keep a member than to acquire a new one, so focus on communication and experiences for a successful membership retention rate.

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How To Find the Right Database For Social Justice and Advocacy Nonprofits

Everyaction

For nonprofits doing political advocacy and social justice work, having solid data management practices can sometimes be an afterthought. After all, dedicated nonprofit staff are often stretched to their limits, working at capacity to advance their causes, and may simply not have time to sit down and evaluate the organization’s data flow. However, many nonprofits often overlook the fact that clean, useable data empowers staff to “work smarter, not harder” and can increase efficiency by automatin

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Best Practices to Streamline Compensation Management: A Foundation for Growth

Speaker: Joe Sharpe and James Carlson

Payroll optimization can be one of the most time-consuming and complex factors of small business management. Yet, organizations that crack the code on streamlining employee compensation often discover innovative avenues for growth. With the right strategies in place, outsourcing and streamlining payroll processes can result in substantial time and resource savings.

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The Art of Gathering: A Fabulous Book to Help You Host Better Meetings and Events

Museum 2.0

I remember the first staff meeting I ever ran. I had just started at the MAH as the new executive director. The museum was in huge financial trouble. I wasn't sure we were going to make payroll that week. But I also had a more immediate problem: I had no idea how to lead a staff meeting. I felt like a new teacher on the first day of school. Everyone's eyes on me, expecting something.

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Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I believe in the power of books to change the world. That is not a particularly radical belief among librarians, but I hope to make you believe even more in the power of books. Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights.

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7 Steps for a Successful Lean Implementation at your Nonprofit

Connection Cafe

From self-driving cars to artificial intelligence, we live in a period marked by rapid innovation and change. Now couple the accelerating pace of change with increasing pressures from funders to spend fewer dollars on overhead, and the fact becomes clear: we need to find new ways of doing things! Efficiency Drives New Ways of Thinking. I wasn’t born an efficiency expert.

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Halcyon's By The People Festival: How One Organization is Using Data to Unite People Around Art

Everyaction

Halcyon is a DC-based arts and culture organization that brings together diverse groups of changemakers in art and social enterprise and provides a safe haven for their bold ideas to take flight. Their incubator, arts fellowship, and public policy dialogue programs encourage socially engaged creatives to advance their talents and visions, transforming their inspiration into impact.

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How to Scale Recurring Giving for Sustainable Growth

Speaker: Tim Sarrantonio, Director of Corporate Brand

Is your organization ready to build a recurring giving program that not only sustains but also propels your mission forward? 🚀 In this new webinar with industry visionary Tim Sarrantonio, we’ll guide you through the critical steps to establishing and scaling a successful recurring giving program. Whether you’re starting fresh or enhancing an existing program, this session will provide the strategies you need to deepen donor relationships and secure long-term support!

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3 Ways to Digitally Transform Stewardship in Higher Education

Connection Cafe

This article is part of the bbcon 2018 Speaker Series on npENGAGE. Get a taste of the 250+ sessions that will help your organization transform and have a bigger impact! Over 50% of colleges and universities are focused on creating more impactful donor stewardship practices in 2018. Stewardship professionals are looking to tackle this problem in a variety of ways.

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Predicting the Future: Driving Fundraising Outcomes with Models

Connection Cafe

My first experience with modeling happened at the University of Washington development office in the fall of 1992. I arrived as the freshly-minted director of prospect research. Life was primitive back then. Real people did not have cell phones, and the cell phones that existed were the size of bricks. The Internet barely existed; we navigated it with tools like Gopher and TelNet.

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The Importance of a Connected Hospital

Connection Cafe

“A mind is like a parachute. It doesn’t work if it’s not open” Frank Zappa . OK, we know it’s hard to listen to someone who names their child Moonbeam but go with us on this for a few minutes and we think you will understand our concept… . In May, we were lucky enough to help curate a healthcare marketing summit at the University of Southern California in Los Angeles.