NonProfit PRO

APRIL 19, 2022

To learn more, check out the advice of the experts featured in this month's ZGIVE INSIDER magazine. Expensive design, strategy, and marketing are no longer the norm. Nonprofits now have affordable, accessible resources available, and it is more important than ever to show up well to capture your share of voice.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This month the news is about WiFi embedded in a magazine, Braille smartphones, ultramobile devices, innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the mobile app of the month. Strange News. Yes that's right. Health Center.

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Media Nonprofit Conference Award 48

Selfish Giving

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Managing a Facebook page is like running an interactive magazine that has deadlines, a real need for engaging and varied content and a drive battle every day to rise above the noise and competition. Managing a Facebook page will now be more more like turning out People Magazine than getting votes on American Idol.

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Management Donation Nonprofit IT 107

Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Baystate Parents magazine is putting them on the back cover for October. Exhale magazine has given them a quarter page ad. The Ellie Fund makes life easier and better for cancer patients because it helps with the little but important things: transportation, childcare, housekeeping, groceries and meals, all at no cost.

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Planned Giving

DECEMBER 19, 2023

According to Forbes Magazine, here are the top five New Year’s resolutions for 2024: Improved fitness: 48% Improved finances: 38% Improve mental health: 36% Lose weight: 34% Improved diet: 32% Here’s an easier way to look at this… 1, 4 and 5 go together. So we’ll just call it Fitness, and we’re now down to three.

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Clairification

JULY 31, 2023

Coincidentally, I found a back issue of Lifestyles Magazine from 2008 (yes, I’m a bit of a hoarder) and was struck by some of what the publication had to say—a veritable peek inside the minds of major donors. How can I make the biggest impact on the future? Have you ever wondered how major donors think about philanthropy?

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The NonProfit Times

AUGUST 1, 2024

It is credited to direct marketer Frank Johnson who used the technique to improve response to subscription offers for American Heritage magazine. For new letter writers, the Johnson box is at the of top of the letter to donors , containing the key message. When it comes to the ask, it should happen early and often.

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Planned Giving

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

You see evidence of this truth every month on the cover of this magazine. Love is in the air. Well, actually it’s not … not any more or less than it is in January or March anyway. It’s just that the greeting card and flower and chocolate industries want us to believe this is the month of l-o-v-e.) Everyone else, including Dolores Nypaver (p.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2011

eWeek (formerly PC Week) is both a print and online weekly magazine for enterprise-level IT professionals. There are a lot of green news blogging services, but surprisingly few devoted to green IT. One of them is eWeek's Green IT News. It is published by Ziff Davis. I saw him speak at the Green IT Summit last month.

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 6, 2017

website, print magazine, database, etc.) Here's something I bet you didn't know: the National Trust Magazine , the print publication of the UK's National Trust , which cares for the country’s historic monuments and properties, has the highest print circulation of any magazine in the United Kingdom. And their traffic HAS TRIPLED.

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Planned Giving

JANUARY 17, 2024

This and some other opinions of mine are revealed in an interview with Karen Martin and Patrick O’Donnell, editors of Giving Tomorrow Magazine at PlannedGiving.com. In my 25 years in the planned giving business, I can state confidently that less than 1% of nonprofits take planned giving seriously. One does not need my experience to see this.

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Candid

AUGUST 8, 2022

According to the 2020 Smithsonian Magazine article, The Storied History of Giving in America , the practice of philanthropy can reflect and reinforce inequity. One of the earliest philanthropic efforts for the Black community was the abolitionist movement.

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Engineering Policy Policies Award 128

Selfish Giving

JUNE 29, 2012

You can’t open a women’s magazine or pick up a product for the ladies that doesn’t have a QR Code on it. You can’t open a women’s magazine or pick up a product for the ladies that doesn’t have a QR Code on it. I’m happy to announce the release of my new book, QR Codes for Dummies.

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Wild Apricot

JANUARY 17, 2010

One small nonprofit I work with has chosen to publish its monthly membership newsletter as a magazine-style document in Portable Document Format (PDF), rather than as an email blast. read more ).

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

I really enjoying reading science magazines like Nautilus , as well as the classics like Popular Science , and Popular Mechanics. I like reading old-fashioned paper magazines. After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him.

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Nonprofit Award Digital Media Conference 93

Planned Giving

DECEMBER 16, 2023

Viken Mikaelian is the CEO of PlannedGiving.com and Publisher of Giving Tomorrow Magazine. Interviewed by Karen Martin and Patrick O'Donnell, Editors, Giving Tomorrow Magazine. Viken’s firm began creating planned giving websites back in December 1998, when his company was called “Virtualgiving.com.” He may have been ahead of the curve.

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Indirect Pass-Through Publishing Demographics 111

Network for Good

MAY 14, 2021

Between Netflix, music streaming services, and even magazines, your donors are already used to a subscription-based engagement plan. That means that donors haven’t stopped giving, they have just moved to other charities. So what do we do? Adopt a Subscription Giving mindset. How much more would you be raising? Segment donors.

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Metrics Software Fundraising Management 86

Get Fully Funded

JULY 20, 2009

In the latest issue of Fundraising Success magazine, Editor Margaret Battistelli has a good column on using social media. One point particularly sticks out at me and I wanted to share it with you. But I’d bet they wouldn’t mind hearing from you more, rather than just from your organization. This is such a valid point.

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Media Fundraising IT Nonprofit 63

Tech Soup

AUGUST 28, 2012

Louis through sales of a street newspaper, What’s Up Magazine. The TechSoup Global network has donated 9.7 million technology products to 183,000 social benefit organizations in 40 countries across the world. Sure, the numbers are impressive, but even more impressive is the impact those technology product donations have made.

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Finance Software Donation IT 68

DoJiggy

MARCH 20, 2025

Make sure your goal is realistic and achievable based on your teams capabilities and current resources. A clear goal will help you stay focused and motivated throughout the fundraising process. It also provides a benchmark to measure your progress and celebrate your achievements. How do I choose the best location for my pop-up store?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

We've also recently begun using Flipboard and engaging staff to curate magazines in their expertise areas. For example, our in-house data expert Keisha Taylor curates a "Data for Good" magazine on the TechSoup Flipboard channel. It seems obvious, but one of the hallmarks of social media is that they are social.

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Media Policy Policies Nonprofit 63

PKS Grants & Accounting Solutions

OCTOBER 30, 2020

For the purposes of illustration, let’s say that you plan to apply for funds to create a youth literary magazine. Your statement of the problem needs to clearly describe the problem the magazine will solve. In this post, I will discuss how to describe problems for funding. The problem should be supported by data.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 29, 2011

There’s a great article in the latest Advancing Philanthropy magazine about using volunteers to get more work done in your office. I’m a huge proponent of using volunteers. Over my career, I’ve enlisted volunteers to do all kinds of things, and almost every time, had great success. Foundation research.

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Readiness IT 68

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Just 18 months ago I read a slew of magazines and three newspapers a day. My inbox was peppered with daily keyword alerts from Google and marketing newsletters. Today, I only use Twitter. And on my desktop to manage the influx of info is Tweetdeck. When I come across a tweet with a link I want to read later, I no longer save it to Delicious.

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Management Media IT 72

Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 3, 2012

While this article is about QR codes, the magazine it was in, CRM , isn’t quite up to speed on mobile technology and hasn’t optimized its site for The Third Screen. Tonight, in researching for my latest book, QR Codes for Dummies , I found this story on how Fort Smith Historic Site in Arkansas is using QR codes!

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CRM IT 64

Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2015

Every year Fast Company, a magazine and media enterprise with an "editorial focus on innovation in technology, ethonomics (ethical economics), leadership, and design" makes a list of The World's 50 Most Innovative Companies. Which Organizations Made the Grade? Seeding Labs — For providing the tools for medical innovation.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2011

I got to talking last week with Kiera Butler of Mother Jones magazine about the best ways to keep the rechargeable batteries in laptops and mobile phones healthy and long-lived. Like all batteries, rechargeable batteries wear out over time. Dell says that a full life span for a garden-variety lithium-ion laptop battery is 18 to 24 months.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

He's a columnist for Photoshop User Magazine and Layers Magazine. Capturing beautiful imagery and creating wonderful designs is only half of the story. If you're an amazing photographer, then in many cases your work will speak for itself. " I love looking at photos that make me think. Rule 2: Incorporate Variety.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

We're kicking off Black History Month with a spotlight on two of Grambling's own STEM students, Destney Johnson and Taylor Johnson, who will be featured in a special STEM Queens Commemorative print edition of EBONY magazine. The magazine will be out on Feb. It’s the home of the Eddie G.

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Education Media Funding IT 52

Network for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Local Media Partnership — Partnering with a local media outlet like a community magazine, newspaper, or radio station can provide you with free or reduced-cost advertising. Create messaging that lays out each of the benefits and explains why these benefits will make a difference to the company’s wellbeing. . Forms a Partnership Can Take.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 11, 2011

E-readers are electronic devices with LCD screens between five and nine inches that are designed for reading digital books, magazines, and other electronic documents. The answer is yes, if you buy and read lots of books, but no if you read less frequently or use your public library. They largely use e-ink technology to display content.

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Electronics Applicant Application IT 55

Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

He runs the design blog Redesigning Good on the Chronicle of Philanthropy, and has written for publications such as the Stanford Social Innovation Review and.net magazine. Digital storytelling is everywhere these days. And if there's any more widespread topic than digital storytelling, it's data.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Crystal Coleman is a community manager and consultant in Silicon Valley as well as a writer for Persephone Magazine. Marc's talk was fantastically insightful and full of ways that community managers can use social network analysis to gain greater insights into and grow their communities. What is social network analysis? More Informa tion.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2021

When not in the kitchen whipping up a pasta recipe, Carey can usually be found hiking in local parks, ripping recipes out of food magazines, or binge-watching Netflix with her husband and 8-pound Maltipoo. It would be nice if a product fundraiser miraculously raised money on its own, right? Alas…they don’t. Create a calendar and stick to it.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2010

Fortunately, Green Technology Magazine has helped me out with their compiled selection of the latest green holiday tips. There's such stiff competition in the world of green holiday tips that it's almost impossible now to come up with an original angle. I think I've found one, though. Nobody is talking about "precycling for the holidays" yet.

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IT 54

HSF House

APRIL 22, 2024

Emergence Magazine, 26 Oct. Forbes, Forbes Magazine, 28 Feb. . “Retail therapy” exemplifies the global overconsumption problem, as illustrated by Charles Eisenstein’s notion of an economy that transforms beauty into mere currency. Metahaven, Facestate, 2011. Photograph by gene Pittman. Edited by Suzanne Simard et al.,

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Retail Ethics Media Goals 52

Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

One of the best places to find out what social enterprise is all about is Forbes Magazine’s list of their top social entrepreneurs. TechSoup Global’s CEO Rebecca Masisak is presenting at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 this month in Minneapolis. That got me to wondering. What exactly is a social enterprise?

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