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How to Use Twitter to Engage the Right Community for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Twitter has evolved significantly since it launched in 2006 as a simple, short messaging service. Twitter is no longer simply a platform to "microblog," as it was initially designed. Twitter is now a powerful platform to know, understand, and segment your community.

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Wild Apricot Software News - July 2010

Wild Apricot

For starters, we celebrated the official birthday of Wild Apricot software in early July -- commemorating the first public beta release launched in July 2006. For starters, we celebrated the official birthday of Wild Apricot software in early July -- commemorating the first public beta release launched in July 2006. (if read more )

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Grant Professionals Foundation (GPF) Scholarship Applications are Now Open! Invest in Your Future

Grant Professionals Association

The Grant Professionals Foundation (GPF) was established in January 2006 to ensure resources are available to educate, credential, and assist grant professionals who secure the funding necessary for not-for-profits to serve the greater good. Applying for a membership scholarship could be your step toward achieving something remarkable.

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Apricot Chat: Someone's having a birthday.

Wild Apricot

We've been lucky enough to have a number of our original clients from 2006 still with us today -- next month, Apricot Chat will showcase some of those clients. and that someone is Wild Apricot! Wild Apricot will be celebrating it's 5th Anniversary this coming July 2011.

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Storytelling is Old. You Need Storyselling.

Planned Giving

Extensive research has shown that stories: Activate oxytocin , the “love hormone” responsible for empathy Reduce cortisol , the “stress hormone” Reduce pain Motivate prospects to become donors In 2006, a study at Carnegie Mellon University showed the power of story over facts and figures. They smile, gasp or giggle at the same sections.

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The community approach to problem solving

Candid

Since 2006, more than 11,000 grants totaling $187 million have been made to or through participatory grantmaking worldwide. And it’s here to stay. . To be clear, participatory grantmaking has never been new. This huge growth in a short time demonstrates the growing interest and appetite for participatory grantmaking and its ethos.

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Cause Marketing is Perfect for a Bloody Massacre

Selfish Giving

It goes all the way back to 2006, but has some great points that are relevant today. It’s March 5th and you know what that means: it’s Boston Massacre Day! Back in 1770, British soldiers fired into a crowd of colonists, killing five. I’ll let you debate that point among yourselves. Remember that one? Well, enjoy.

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