While it may be the dog days of August, GivingTuesday 2014 kicks off on December 4th. After spending a year facilitating a peer learning community of Knight Foundation grantees hosting giving days, one of the most factors for success for local no nonprofits participating is having about 6-9 months timeframe to develop a plan. NetworkforGood to the rescue! They've just published this terrific, free e-book with lots of tips and planning templates to help your organization decide whether … [Read more...]
Planning to Win: A Framework and Free Toolkit for Nonprofit Campaign Planning
Planning to Win is an online guide for nonprofits that are looking to win support for an issue, impact policy, or get a corporation or government body to change its policies. Spitfire developed this upgraded version of its first campaign planning tool because of the many new factors affecting what it takes to design and run winning campaigns in today’s rapidly changing world. The site and toolkit was created through a partnership and support of the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation and … [Read more...]
What leadership skills do nonprofit emerging leaders need to succeed?
Are leadership skills different for emerging "Millennial" leaders than for people from different generations? This is a question being asked in many nonprofits as they look at how to prepare younger leaders in their organizations to lead and develop their talent. And from the perspective of younger leaders, who are ambitious but often feel stymied in their career paths because they are often met with the following response: Be reminded of how young they are and that they need to wait their … [Read more...]
Kids and Kickstarter: The Rise of PhilanthroKids and Kid Crowdfunding!
Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1 billion in 2013 and nonprofit fundraisers using crowdfunding platforms and techniques continues to explode (according to this infographic from Craig Newmark). As nonprofits hone and refine peer to peer fundraising best practices, we are also seeing more more people make philanthropy a part of their everyday personal expression - whether on social networks or in the real world. There is a growing recognition, that personal success is not about … [Read more...]
The Art of Less As More: Micro Content
Visual.ly has published this really useful and free e-book on Micro Content. As our attention fragments and more and more of us are reading content on mobile devices, content creators are finding that the best way to engage audiences is with shorter, bite-sized chunks of content known as "Micro Content." The e-book, which at 32 pages, is definitely long-form content provides context, best practices, examples, tools, and resources. I don't know about you, but as a content consumer, I still … [Read more...]
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