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Mitigating Fraud at Your Not-For-Profit: Lessons Learned

Blackbaud

The most common tactics include: Gift Card Scams: These scams typically involve social engineering, whereby a fraudster poses as a senior leader and attempts to trick your team into handing over sensitive information without having to crack your security systems. Require multi-factor authentication on all accounts.

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Data Digest: Introducing the Information Chef

Tech Soup

Information is what we feed our brains, so we should consume healthy, fresh, local, organic information, and be concerned with ethical sourcing. I take a unique approach to designing and implementing information systems, and prefer to think of my craft as similar to that of artisanal brewers and chefs, rather than technology-focused.

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Online Community Meetup: The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community

Tech Soup

Make It Sustainable : When Care2 was founded it was intended to be an engine for good. While some might see a conflict in developing partnerships with for-profit companies, Care2 believes that including businesses rather than excluding them is a more productive way to move businesses towards making more ethical choices.

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Nonprofit Fundraising: Are You Choosing the Right Grants?

Blue Avocado

The search engine has a whole suite just for nonprofits ! Consider other “fits” as well (like ethical considerations, for example). However, keep in mind federal grants are best for a larger organization; one with a multi-million budgets. Use Google — I know, this is probably what you started with.

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Security: The Scary Part of Cloud Computing

Tech Soup

that affected their Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) service that in turn took down multiple cloud websites including Engine Yard , Foursquare , HootSuite , Heroku , Quora , and Reddit. In February, Google had a 30-hour outage that destroyed 40,000 Gmail accounts. In April, Amazon had an eight hour outage. The Greatest Security Risk to Nonprofits.

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Unlock the Power of Social Media for Fundraising: Tips and Strategies to Boost Your Success

Get Fully Funded

Some nonprofits have made an ethical decision not to be on Facebook—and there are many ethical concerns with this extraordinarily powerful tool— but it’s hard to make up the opportunity you lose by disengaging from Facebook. In fact, YouTube is the 2nd largest search engine in the world, behind Google. With more than 2.9

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Grant Search Tools and Writing Resources

California Grants Portal

In addition to the resources above, there are several grant search engines requiring a paid subscription. The Center for Nonprofit Management offers seminars, certificate programs, special events and an annual conference to introduce best practices for managing people, projects and organizations. Updated on 9/8/22

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