Selfish Giving

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

Facebook made some interesting changes last week that may help evolve how nonprofits and businesses use Facebook “likes” for cause marketing. If you “like” the nonprofit’s (or sometimes the businesses’) page the company makes a donation to the nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada , and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site. One thing I can say is that Canada is a smaller nonprofit market and because so many charitable processes and administrative things are geared to American 501(c)3s, it is sometimes more difficult for us.”

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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. The post Crafting A Letter That Grabs A Donor appeared first on The NonProfit Times. The purpose is to draw the reader’s attention to the key message first, grabbing their attention.

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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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Planned Giving

NOVEMBER 15, 2024

You see evidence of this truth every month on the cover of this magazine. Each issue we feature a leader in nonprofit development. Love is in the air. Well, actually it’s not … not any more or less than it is in January or March anyway. In the last 25 years, the planned giving industry has changed a lot.

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 6, 2017

Last week I spoke at the annual Engage for Good Conference in Chicago on how nonprofits can dramatically increase their cause marketing success with content marketing. website, print magazine, database, etc.) Content marketing is the tide that raises all boats, including the mother load of money that can be raised from individuals.

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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. To see an impact in our communities, Black nonprofit leaders focus on community care and often do the work ourselves with limited resources.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2011

I spend time each week combing through the latest technology news to discover green technology items that are hopefully of interest to nonprofits, NGOs, libraries, and (by extension) people in small- and medium-sized offices. eWeek (formerly PC Week) is both a print and online weekly magazine for enterprise-level IT professionals.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

Are you considered a social media guru (gag), maven (double gag), or rock star (gag me all the way) at your nonprofit or charity? We've also recently begun using Flipboard and engaging staff to curate magazines in their expertise areas. It seems obvious, but one of the hallmarks of social media is that they are social.

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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? Acumen — For finding a cost-effective way to evaluate its work.

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 29, 2012

If your nonprofit works with young people, make QR codes a priority. 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.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 15, 2017

Whether they're to serve up content, answer questions, or bolster fundraising efforts, chatbots hold great promise for nonprofits and charities. And although chatbots are relatively new to the nonprofit community, some organizations are already using them in interesting and innovative ways. What Is a Chatbot, Anyway?

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

He publishes how-to articles on NTEN, TechSoup Canada , and the surprising Nonprofit MarCommunity site. One thing I can say is that Canada is a smaller nonprofit market and because so many charitable processes and administrative things are geared to American 501(c)3s, it is sometimes more difficult for us.”

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 19, 2022

Your nonprofit should develop a wide-reaching donor stewardship strategy to build strong, long-lasting relationships with supporters. Creating unforgettable donor stewardship experiences for your nonprofit’s supporters helps your organization stand out from the crowd. A free publication, such as your quarterly magazine.

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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. Over the last quarter-century PlannedGiving.com has delivered thousands of planned giving websites for nonprofits both large and small. Q Why is that?

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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. Retention on subscription platforms, on average, is 70% while standard nonprofit donor retention was 43% in 2019. What would it mean for your nonprofit if you had 70% donor retention?

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DoJiggy

MARCH 20, 2025

The most popular items for nonprofit sales include custom clothing and merchandise with your nonprofit brand. Some nonprofits work with print-on-demand carriers to avoid these inventory issues. Make sure your goal is realistic and achievable based on your teams capabilities and current resources.

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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. Be yourself and share about your nonprofit’s work through your eyes. One point particularly sticks out at me and I wanted to share it with you. This is such a valid point. Let’s hear it!

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Network for Good

OCTOBER 21, 2020

While big grants and major donors shimmer like gold on the horizon, the reality for most small nonprofits is that sustaining revenue through large gifts is a mirage. Individual gifts represent a big opportunity for small nonprofits. For example, if your nonprofit is a pet shelter, a pet supply store would make an ideal partner.

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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. I’ll review some new green IT developments like how nonprofit solar electricity is thriving in Haiti. Now, here's the latest: Email.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. The key to getting your nonprofit’s story in the news is building relationships with local journalists.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

You should periodically perform a nonprofit self-audit to see how your website, email marketing, and social media are performing. A nonprofit self-audit is a chance to back up and look at the whole picture, to see how your marketing efforts are performing and where you can improve. What’s working? Let’s take it one step at a time: 1.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2011

Working at nonprofits, we all want to be better fundraisers, web innovators, and social media gurus in order to meet our mission. As mobile and social media innovations become more accessible, many nonprofits are struggling to find ways to implement these new channels. As technology evolves, so to does the journey for our supporters.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

While both are important to your nonprofit, charity, cause, or library, both together just might be its secret weapon. Check out this how-to in TechSoup's Nonprofit Social Media 101 Wiki and watch the video below. Digital storytelling is everywhere these days. Join us on Tuesday, April 9, at 10:00 a.m. About Matthew Scharpnick.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

Mercy Corps publishes his writing in the form of exclusive stories for newspapers and magazines. We chatted about the sad decline in international newspaper correspondents , but Roger suggested that this downturn could open new possibilities for nonprofits. Of course, to market ourselves as an impartial source, we need to be one.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2021

You offer something for sale that benefits a nonprofit, and people scoop it up! Volunteers, sellers, and your nonprofit leadership need to feel like they are being informed on a regular basis about progress toward the all-important goal! It would be nice if a product fundraiser miraculously raised money on its own, right?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Volunteers are the backbone of any nonprofit organization. Clearly, volunteers are essential to your nonprofit’s ability to move its mission forward. Clearly, volunteers are essential to your nonprofit’s ability to move its mission forward. Why are volunteers important to nonprofit organizations?

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

The Social Enterprise Alliance is the nonprofit membership organization that has been organizing the conferences and building this field since the mid-1990s. Nonprofit Social Enterprises. B Corps are certified by the nonprofit B Lab to meet rigorous standards of social and environmental performance, accountability, and transparency.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2013

For example, you can search "nonprofit technology" to find related blogs, or you can peruse Feedly's curated "Technology Hub." Flipboard (Android, iOS) is like your own personal magazine for your smartphone or tablet. This app lets you sort your news into categories, such as nonprofit technology or fundraising.

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Selfish Giving

JANUARY 3, 2017

Why branding is important for nonprofits. How communications isn't decorative for a nonprofit - it's a workhorse! And the main difference between a nonprofit and a for-profit rebrand. Where does social media fit into a nonprofit's communications strategy? What stands in the way of a successful nonprofit rebrand?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 4, 2012

The proliferation of social media has paved the way for newer curation tools, many of which organize and display content like an online newsletter or magazine with minor feature differences. Content and Curation for Nonprofits. The best advice is to take a tip from libraries and museums and curate all that information.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. Research from NTEN: The Current State of Nonprofit Technology Assistance.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Networking Your Nonprofit — Two Scenarios. But, like with any complex technology, there's no one-size-fits-all solution when it comes to networking your nonprofit, charity, or library's offices. However, most nonprofits are like our other scenario, with a few employees in one large room. This usually means LANs.

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Selfish Giving

AUGUST 14, 2017

Equally important – and in some ways more significantly – Smithfield has the distinction of doing business responsibly and sustainably, and they are redefining what it means to create cooperative efforts between for-profit and nonprofit organizations. The Fund calls this “the most ambitious commitment yet by a U.S.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

AFP’s president and CEO, Andrew Watt, is on the 2013 NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector. He’s a nonprofit technology veteran and something of a cherished resource among AFP members. I’m now a fan of Reed Stockman’s AFP technology blog.

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Tech Soup

JULY 28, 2014

Last week, the UK-based nonprofit Raspberry Pi Foundation announced the latest version of their popular Raspberry Pi computer. Raspberry Pi Model B. Dubbed "Model B+," it's the third model the organization has released to the public since Model A went on sale in 2012. Programming with Raspberry Pi. Beyond Learning to Program.

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