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Resources and News for NonprofitsYelp Advice for Nonprofit Organizations
Yelp is an online resource that many individual use to research restaurants, coffee shop, or hair salon. If your nonprofit organization provides services to the community, you may also be listed on Yelp. Below are a few tips to help you ensure that you’re maintaining...
Weekly Roundup – Avoiding Age-Based Stereotypes
Time Magazine got attention this week by releasing an issue with a cover story about the Me Me Me Generation. The premise of the article is that millennials are a selfish and narcissistic generation that will ultimately provide positive output. Since Time published...
A Woman’s Nonprofit Worth
While women comprise a large percentage of the workforce and are having a great impact on charities through donations and participation, there is still a surprising gender gap when it comes to leadership positions and giving potential in nonprofits. With Mother’s Day...
Weekly Roundup – Helping Your Supporters Tag Your Organization
Yesterday Instagram announced that users now have the ability to tag any person or brand in their own photos. Instagram spent over a year building the new tagging and Photos Of You section. The obvious advantage for nonprofit organizations that operate an Instagram...
The Importance of Evaluating the Methodology
The Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) and M+R Strategic Service recently released their 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. This study provides data and analysis on a number of key topics for nonprofit organization including advocacy, fundraising, mobile usage, online...
Weekly Roundup – Using Data to Prove a Point
Some news from the political front - a popular economic theory that has been much discussed in regards to efforts for austerity in the Federal budget process, has recently been debunked. A college student looked at the data set for a school assignment and noticed that...
What Have You Tried?
An interesting blog post making the tech community rounds this week is written by Matt Gemmell entitled, “What Have You Tried.” The post has two main points - the problem with looking immediately for answers instead of understanding the problem, and how when asking...
Silicon Valley Thinking in Nonprofits
News coming out of Silicon Valley has focused on the new nonprofit created by Mark Zuckerberg. He, along with other innovators in the region, are forming what's known as a 501(c)4, a non-profit organization that can raise unlimited amounts of money to lobby congress...
Weekly Roundup – Nonprofit Fundraising Study Review
This week the Foundation Center provided a quick summary of the Nonprofit Fundraising Study created by the Nonprofit Research Collaborative. The entire report is a great read for data nerds. There were two data points in this report that we wanted to highlight. One of...
How Automated Messaging Can Hurt Your Nonprofit
Many small and mid-sized nonprofit organizations utilize affordable tools designed to streamline communication, including popular tools such as Hootsuite, Constant Contact and Vertical Response. These tools are a valuable way for organizations to reach people in an...