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Five Creative (and Smart) Uses of Social Media Icons on Nonprofit Homepages

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Granted, my job is to research how nonprofits use social media, but it’s not that far of a stretch to assume that supporters and donors often go to nonprofit’s homepages looking for links to their social networking communities as well and more often than not have difficulty finding them. Stay Teen :: stayteen.org.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What’s The Best Place To Look For Grant Opportunities If Your Nonprofit Is New?

Bloomerang

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on where to look for grant opportunities for new nonprofits: Dear Charity Clairity, I am a new nonprofit and want to pursue a grant(s) to fund our mission. Any advice on where to look for grants that fit our mission or other funding sources? Sounds great!

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[VIDEO] Get More Grants with Donor Cultivation

Bloomerang

will focus on donor cultivation, an essential step to getting the grant. We are here to talk about how to get more grants, specifically through donor cultivation. You can even do grant tracking, which we love as well. Her initials may be MBP, but to me, she’s the MVP of grants. Margit Brazda Poirier, GPC, M.S.

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Pop the champagne: This year Candid’s grants data set turns 21!

Candid

Candid’s grants data set currently includes comprehensive information about over 30 million grants and other philanthropic transactions, such as pledges, in-kind gifts, program-related investments, etc. This typically resulted in about 900-1,300 funders represented and 100-150k grants collected in a given year.

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Guest Post by Heather McLeod Grant: Reflections on the Personal Democracy Forum

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Submitted by Heather McLeod Grant, senior consultant at the Monitor Institute and a principal contributor to Working Wikily. These themes of race and class were not lost on ethnographer danah boyd , who gave one of the most provocative presentations of the conference – quoting both Habermas and inner-city teens!

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Encyclopaedia Britannica Supports Bookshare!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We just announced: Encyclopaedia Britannica Grants Digital Rights to Bookshare -- Major Reference Collections Now Accessible for Individuals with Print Disabilities Worldwide. We have already gotten close on trade books: juvenile and teen literature. The news is excellent. We're working very hard on textbooks.

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Insider Newsletters: A Short, Sweet, and Easy Way to Keep Your Board Thinking Happy Thoughts About You Between Meetings

Blue Avocado

You use the same subject line on every one, like: “Insider Newsletter,” “Top of the news from the Teen Action Program,” or “Sound bite from the Teen Action Program.” For example… We got our major grant renewed this afternoon. She said, “A teen girl came to the library for talk time. Congratulations to them both!