The latest round of the America’s Giving Challenge is on. This is a national competition to encourage people to use their personal and social networks to help win cash for their favorite nonprofit. The Giving Challenge is not focused on how much money you can raise, but on how successful you are at getting people to [...]

Tags: Online Fundraising, Social Media, Web 2.0

Our friends at NTEN have launched a survey to examine nonprofits’ data ecosystems. Your first question is probably "what is a data ecosystem?" NTEN describes it as follows:

The nonprofit ecosystem is a way of thinking about how data is shared by and flows across the different departments and activities in your organization. Similar to the [...]

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The Chronicle of Philanthropy isn’t known for giving away money, but for talking about how to get it. They’ve come up with a contest to benefit a few lucky nonprofits. Here’s the deal:
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What: Another in The Chronicle of Philanthropy’s series of online discussions: How to Use Facebook Causes to Promote Your Nonprofit Group
When: Tuesday, October 13, at 12 noon, Eastern time
Where: http://philanthropy.com/live/2009/10/facebook/
How Much: Free
Description:
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Tags: Online Fundraising, Social Media, Web 2.0

Diff’rent strokes for diff’rent folks: I like to get information by email.  I prefer listserves over online forums and email to IM.  And I don’t like having to look at a web page/feed reader every day to find out whether anything new has appeared on an RSS feed.  I want information to come to me [...]

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