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The Networked Nonprofit – June 17

Care2 is sponsoring what looks to be an intriguing webinar this Thursday the 17th, 2p eastern … The Networked Nonprofit. Content is based on new book by Beth Kanter (Beth’s Blog) and Allison Fine (writer on social change): The Networked Nonprofit: Connecting With Social Media To Drive Change. Two very wise heads. You can register […]

Learn More June 15, 2010

Creating Viral Videos

Ricky Van Veen started College Humor in his dorm room. The website now has 10,000,000 unique visitors a month, and his company produces TV shows, films, live tours and books. [Another one of those guys we love to hate!] In this article, 10 Web Content Urban Legends, he shares his thoughts on creating compelling web […]

Learn More June 14, 2010

Pew Data On Online Citizenship

Pew Internet Research has issued two studies that should be great interest to nonprofits in the advocacy and community action spaces. The first, Neighbors Online, notes the increasing use of online tools by citizens interested in tracking community events, news and issues. Most folks still engage each other around such matters either face-to-face or over […]

Learn More June 10, 2010

Idle Hands Are The Devil’s Playground

It’s not exactly like we were sitting around wondering what to do with our free time (other than reading Chaucer), but when the request came from our colleagues over at DonorTrends to contribute to their new blog named Fundraising Action, we leaped at the opportunity. We thought about the economy of merging the two blogs […]

Learn More June 9, 2010

Cashing In On The Chasm

In the case of many non-profits the much-vaunted “Fundraising Pyramid” too often resembles an hourglass. Fat on the ends, skinny in the middle. So I was particularly pleased to see Nicole Wallace over at the Chronicle of Philanthropy recently tackle the subject of middle donor or mid-level donor programs. As the name implies, Mid-Level or […]

Learn More June 8, 2010

The Risk of Cooperation

The catastrophe in the Gulf of Mexico has intensified the never-ending debate over just how close non-profits should get to corporate benefactors whose behavior is sometimes the antithesis of everything the non-profit seems to stand for. Although The Nature Conservancy has never hidden the fact that it has received $10 million in gifts of cash […]

Learn More June 7, 2010