Nonprofit

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 06:28pm

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:53pm

Here are some of my favorite tweets from the past week: FSP 117-1 and UPMIFA: Separating Myth from Reality -http://is.gd/594Es (AICPA) #nonprofit @GrameenFdn Acquire knowledge, understand possibilities, personally contribute, passionately lobby, collaborate globally. #give27 EndPoverty GreatNonprofits   Great advice on how to find nonprofits making a differe[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 01:29pm

With dollars being harder to raise, many organizations turn to vendors, local businesses, schools, churches, media outlets, etc. for donations of goods and services rather than dollars. Some publish “wish lists” in their newsletters; others conduct book, clothing or food drives with local schools, churches or employers. One agency I know of solicits surplus goods from retailers and man[...]

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 11:20am

Raffles are a time-honored way for small nonprofits, churches, clubs, schools, and other good causes to raise funds at the community level. Now, Raffle.it offers UK nonprofits a fun, free, and easy way to raise funds through online raffles....(read more)

Tags: Non-profit technology, nptech, Fundraising

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 10:39am

The Social Impact Exchange is a new effort from Growth Philanthropy Network and Duke University with funding from the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The Exchange is designed as a focal point for studying, funding and implementing large expansions of proven social purpose organizations. To that end the Exchange offers an “investment clearinghouse” (free registration needed) of top-perf[...]

Tags: Fundraising, transparency, philanthropy, Effective Giving, Capital Market Philanthropy, Philanthropic Equity

Friday, December 4th, 2009 at 05:57am

30 Hour Day is a cockamamie scheme concocted by Cami Kaos of Strange Love Live and Rick Turoczy of Silicon Florist. The concept? Livestream for 30 hours straight in an effort to raise money for charities like Free Geek, Oregon Food Bank, and Toys for Tots.  Yes these are Portlanders, hoping to fundraise to support local organizations in Oregon (USA), but they are hoping it helps you fundraise[...]

Tags: Fundraising, Video, community, 30hourday, portland, freegeek

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 10:22pm

When the charity is Nothing But Nets. Peter Singer has explained the problem with the “net = life” equation, and any other serious analysis we’ve seen of insecticide-treated nets agrees. Why does this matter? Because Nothing But Nets also prominently states that the total cost of each net is $10. For donors looking to maximize “bang for the buck,&#8221[...]

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 06:57pm

Catching the Wave View more presentations from kanter. Today I had the pleasure of giving a presentation for the Packard Foundation board of directors to provide a brief report on how I spent my time as Visiting Scholar and share some insights about social media and the nonprofit sector.  As I said in my introduction,  I am grateful for the Packard Foundation for my time here as Visiti[...]

Tags: scholar

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 05:28pm

In 2006, filmmaker Faythe Levine traveled 19,000+ miles visiting over 15 cities, and interviewing more than 50 indie artists, crafters, and designers. The result is a fun, fabulous documentary that recently came out on DVD, Handmade Nation: The Rise of DIY, Art, Craft, and Design.I watched it a couple nights ago, and *loved* it. Levine not only captures artists like Jenine Bressner, Nikki McClur[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 03:46pm

Photo art by ArtByChrysti on Flickr. Lucy Bernholz, president of Blueprint, Research & Design and author of the blog Philanthropy 2173, just relayed her buzzwords for 2009 on Marketplace.  Here are her three – along with my own! 1. Impact investing:  Lucy feels people looking to put their financial resources to work for a quantifiable financial, social and environment[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 02:15pm

It’s out!  Get it here.  Thanks to SeaChange and Care2!

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12:41pm

Author: Jordan Viator The #Convio09 Summit has come and passed, and one thing was for sure - this year's nonprofit technology conference was bigger and better than ever! And now that the dust has settled and the turkey has had time to digest, I've had time to sit down and reflect on some of my top favorite highlights from this year's event. 1. Nonprofit [...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:12am

If you don’t have evidence one way or the other, should you assume an aid’s projects benefits are reaching the poorest? We think it’s fair to assume the people with the most need are the people with the least power. We’d also guess that, in general, the people with the most power are best positioned to get anything valuable (training, materials, loans, or whate[...]

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Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 11:04am

The use of addressee and salutation functionality in The Raiser's Edge is a very powerful feature that nonprofits leverage as part of their communication and stewardship efforts. Adding integration for this feature to Blackbaud NetCommunity is something clients have requested in the past. We're pleased to announce that support for addressee and salutation[...]

Tags: Blackbaud NetCommunity

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 07:00am

A great tagline separates your organization from the pack while expressing the heart and soul of your organization.  So when you integrate your tagline into all of your communications, you’re well on your way to having a memorable brand. Here’s how: First and foremost, train your staff and volunteers (if you have them) to use your tagline in conversations about your organizat[...]

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 06:25am

It’s the time of year again when organizations, large and small, try to break out the holiday wishes, stories, and campaigns to get one last donation, one last gift and one last pledge in before the new year.  Oxfam is no different, but the way they are going about it is!  They’ve created a space online where visitors can better understand some of the areas served by [...]

Tags: case studies, Games, campaign, gifts, giving, holidays

Thursday, December 3rd, 2009 at 12:24am

Allison Fine and I just submitted the manuscript to the book we've working on for the past 9 months!  It has a title, "The Networked Nonprofit."   But now our publisher, J Wiley, tells we need a sub-title.  We were told think about the following: Put yourself in the shoes of potential buyers who don’t know either of you and are looking for some answers, [...]

Tags: networked nonprofit

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 10:09pm

Recently, we’ve criticized (in one way or another) many well-known, presumably well-intentioned charities (Smile Train, Acumen Fund, UNICEF, Kiva), which might lead to some to ask: should GiveWell focus on the bad (which may discourage donors from giving) as opposed to the good (which would encourage them to give more)? Why so much negativity and not more optimism? The fact is, we are ve[...]

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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 07:24pm

The late Irving Kristol, writing in 1977, in the NY Times, On Corporate Philanthropy. Much of the last few decades of public life have been shaped by this piece and others like it. Kristol taught those with money, business folks, that they did not have to fund Yale and Harvard and the lefty intellectuals who reside there. Instead business people could fund free enterprise institutes who would furt[...]

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 07:22pm

Is your nonprofit about to launch a year-end online fundraising campaign? If you answered yes, then check out this fundraising checklist before you hit the “send” button to your entire list. Have You Defined a Specific Campaign Message?  Millions of people are hit with online fundraising campaigns during December. If you think your organization can compete in the &amp[...]

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 02:48pm

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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 02:47pm

Photo by Beth A few months ago,  I wrote about a report from Charlene Li that discovered that deep engagement with social media correlates with financial performance.  The report suggests that in order to scale this engagement, social media needs to be part of everyone's job, making the argument that a few minutes each day spent by every employee adds up to a wealth[...]

Tags: change management

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 12:05pm

Are you using Joomla! yet? Why the heck not? | Education IT | ZDNet.com: "One of my big projects over the last month, aside from taking care of a c-sectioned wife and new daughter, was rebuilding our district’s website in Joomla. The short-term goal is, of course, to just make our web presence far more user-friendly and attractive. The long-term goal, however, is to create a unified pla[...]

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 11:37am

From Philanthropy UK. This is the distilled wisdom of the wise, indeed. Best of the best I have seen. The site addresses how to discuss philanthropy with clients who have the capacity to be philanthropic. It does  not get into the tax and legal issues involved with setting up charitable tools and does not address the advisor's polite but insistent question, "Ah, right, so ho[...]

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 10:59am

Two days ago, I critiqued the message sent by charts on Smile Train’s “Financial Information” page, particularly the idea that a surgery was being provided for every $250 in donations. My recollection is that the page had been up in this form since at least the summer of 2006 (when I first started investigating surgery charities), and Internet Archive appears to con[...]

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Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 10:46am

The “newsworthy” element of the anti-overhead ratio press release yesterday was the involvement of Charity Navigator. The group has 3 million users, is regularly pointed to by the mainstream media and studies show that their ratings affect donor behavior. The fact that they are transforming their system, a system that they’ve successfully built their organization around, is big n[...]

Tags: philanthropy, evaluation, New Philanthropy, Individual Giving, Effective Giving

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 10:36am

This week kicks-off the 6th year that Rhode Island-based Ocean State Job Lots will sell cause marketing pinups to benefit cancer care at my hospital. You can read all about how a delivery of 40,000 pounds of frozen chicken in 2003 turned into one of the most successful corporate partnerships in our history here. It’s quite a story! For all the different types of point-of-sale programs my[...]

Tags: Cause Marketer&#039, s Journal, cause-related marketing, Cause Marketing In Action, pinups, Capplause, ocean state job lots

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 09:00am

I come across so many great conversations, ideas, and resources across the web ever day. Here are some of the most interesting things I’ve found recently (as of December 2nd). You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which i[...]

Tags: nptech, metrics, community, bookmarks, postalicious, onlinecommunity

Wednesday, December 2nd, 2009 at 08:26am

Top 10 Ways to Boost Online Giving at Year-End - Resource Center - AFP: "Top 10 Ways to Boost Online Giving at Year-EndBy Gail Perry, CFREAuthor and fundraising consultant Gail Perry offers advice to fundraisers on how to ramp up online giving in the final months of the year.(Dec. 1, 2009) The most important--and most critical--giving season is upon us. And for many nonprofits, one out of eve[...]

Tuesday, December 1st, 2009 at 02:58pm

Version 3.3 Version 3.3 has entered the final testing stages (what's called "regression testing," when every single function in the system is reviewed and tested a few times — even if it was not supposed to be affected by new features and changes). Barring major unforeseen troubles, it will be launched around December 10th. We have already sent out a preliminary notice to all [...]