Monterey County Gives! sets record with $1,347,191 in donations to 100-plus local nonprofits. - Monterey County Weekly: People: "There’s a lot to love about Monterey County Gives!, starting with the local nonprofit agencies well worth enthusiastic support.
As Gives! co-sponsor Community Foundation for Monterey County finalized numbers this week, there was more to like.
The best part: The sheer amount of people who gave. In the end, donors numbered 1,712 all told.
Individuals ultimately found the change in their heart to donate $969,325 in 2014, including a kid who gave $0.43."
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Thursday, January 15, 2015
[eBook] Private School Digital Insight: Enhancing Web Navigation and the Rise of Responsive Design | npENGAGE
[eBook] Private School Digital Insight: Enhancing Web Navigation and the Rise of Responsive Design | npENGAGE: "About a year ago we came up with the idea for an ambitious project to help us better understand the state of private school web navigation, and how schools are responding to the demands of web usability, responsive web design and more.
The idea led to a report that would answer some key questions about web usability — questions that hadn’t been answered ever before,"
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The idea led to a report that would answer some key questions about web usability — questions that hadn’t been answered ever before,"
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Wednesday, January 14, 2015
Top 2015 Nonprofit Content Marketing Challenges Are Budget and Buy-In
Top 2015 Nonprofit Content Marketing Challenges Are Budget and Buy-In: "One of the top takeaways from the CMI’s report, entitled “2015 Nonprofit Content Marketing: Benchmarks, Budgets, and Trends—North America,” is that 23 percent of nonprofits have documented content strategies in place. That’s a low number, and it could explain why it’s difficult for so many organizations to effectively manage and run their campaigns—especially those that integrate with other channels."
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Essential Nonprofit Software of 2014
Essential Nonprofit Software of 2014: " a survey of over 10,000 nonprofits and charities, 60 percent claimed lack of knowledge is the single greatest barrier to new technological advancement adoption. Technology spending is also reportedly a small portion of nonprofits’ budgets, averaging less than 4.2 percent.
So while foundations can fund or encourage innovation, they often have no means of sustaining financial support for internal innovation. However, low-cost, nonprofit specific software is becoming more popular, thanks in large part to the rise of software-as-a-service (SaaS)."
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So while foundations can fund or encourage innovation, they often have no means of sustaining financial support for internal innovation. However, low-cost, nonprofit specific software is becoming more popular, thanks in large part to the rise of software-as-a-service (SaaS)."
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#charity platform to connect experienced tech volunteers with charities | UK Fundraising
#charity platform to connect experienced tech volunteers with charities | UK Fundraising: "#Charity is a new digital platform that aims to connect experienced technology staff to charities who require their voluntary skills. Based in Budapest, Hungary, the initiative involves both an online community and project management platform to help find appropriate volunteers and manage the work they do for the selected charity.
The digital platform launches in March 2015 but is already ahead of schedule in terms of attracting volunteer IT staff. The organisation had hoped to recruit 500 volunteers but already has over 600 signed up."
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The digital platform launches in March 2015 but is already ahead of schedule in terms of attracting volunteer IT staff. The organisation had hoped to recruit 500 volunteers but already has over 600 signed up."
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5 Myths of Mobile Fundraising Debunked [INFOGRAPHIC] | npENGAGE
5 Myths of Mobile Fundraising Debunked [INFOGRAPHIC] | npENGAGE: "At the end of the 2014 giving season, we completed a mobile fundraising study across 343 nonprofit websites to help separate our facts from our opinions. The results are eye-opening and really thwack some of mobile fundraising’s biggest myths.
Get ready…"
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Get ready…"
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Tuesday, January 13, 2015
Awesome Games Done Quick: How Gaming Gurus Reinvented Telethons: Associations Now
Awesome Games Done Quick: How Gaming Gurus Reinvented Telethons: Associations Now: "he charity event Awesome Games Done Quick, a weeklong gaming livestream featured on the video-streaming site Twitch, raised more than $1.5 million for charity research earlier this month. How they did it says a lot about the value of embracing niche audiences online."
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Monday, January 12, 2015
‘Serve more and serve better’ | The Sanford Herald
‘Serve more and serve better’ | The Sanford Herald: "United Way of Lee County will roll out a new database later this month as a way to connect local nonprofits and churches to better assist those in need by keeping more detailed records on clients and eliminating redundancies.
United Way of Lee County will hold an information session about Charity Tracker, a database that connects local charities to maximize their efficiency, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Jan. 27 at Trinity Lutheran Church at 525 Carthage St. in Sanford. United Way Executive Director Jan Hayes said any Lee County nonprofit or church interested in the program is invited to attend, but she encouraged an RSVP to United Way at (919) 776-5823 beforehand."
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United Way of Lee County will hold an information session about Charity Tracker, a database that connects local charities to maximize their efficiency, from 10:30-11:30 a.m. on Jan. 27 at Trinity Lutheran Church at 525 Carthage St. in Sanford. United Way Executive Director Jan Hayes said any Lee County nonprofit or church interested in the program is invited to attend, but she encouraged an RSVP to United Way at (919) 776-5823 beforehand."
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Create Facebook Interest Lists to Listen and Stay Organized | The Net Naturalist
Create Facebook Interest Lists to Listen and Stay Organized | The Net Naturalist: "What is a Facebook Interest List?
The simple answer is that an interest list is a collection of pages or profiles on Facebook. By creating lists, Facebook allows you to organize and have some control over posts you see other than the standard algorithm they decide for you. When you group pages or subject matter experts, they call them interest lists and this allows you to see timely updates from pages that are part of the lists you follow."
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The simple answer is that an interest list is a collection of pages or profiles on Facebook. By creating lists, Facebook allows you to organize and have some control over posts you see other than the standard algorithm they decide for you. When you group pages or subject matter experts, they call them interest lists and this allows you to see timely updates from pages that are part of the lists you follow."
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Create Facebook Interest Lists to Listen and Stay Organized | The Net Naturalist
Create Facebook Interest Lists to Listen and Stay Organized | The Net Naturalist: "What is a Facebook Interest List?
The simple answer is that an interest list is a collection of pages or profiles on Facebook. By creating lists, Facebook allows you to organize and have some control over posts you see other than the standard algorithm they decide for you. When you group pages or subject matter experts, they call them interest lists and this allows you to see timely updates from pages that are part of the lists you follow."
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The simple answer is that an interest list is a collection of pages or profiles on Facebook. By creating lists, Facebook allows you to organize and have some control over posts you see other than the standard algorithm they decide for you. When you group pages or subject matter experts, they call them interest lists and this allows you to see timely updates from pages that are part of the lists you follow."
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