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Tips for Getting More Out of Your Nonprofit’s Facebook Followers
For many nonprofits, sharing messages on Facebook is part their marketing strategy. Â But this has become more of a challenge in recent months as Facebook’s…
What Social Media Platforms Charities Should Use
At our recent Membership Assembly, citing all the algorithm updates and changes in post reach, a member asked if they should even bother using Facebook…
Five Tips for Building Impactful Relationships with Nonprofit Partners
Waggener Edstrom Communications (WE) did what most companies should do: learn more about their nonprofit partners in order to strengthen their partnerships. This mirrors the…
Millennials Can Help Businesses Put the Value of Profit, Society and Cause on Equal Footing
MCON14 | June 18-19, 2014 | Register Now By Sarah Ford This past week in his article, Where Profits Aren’t Enough, Marc Ross stated, “If we…
Diversity and Inclusiveness in Corporate Philanthropy
Companies are realizing that thoughtful attention to issues around diversity can offer many benefits, from helping to drive employee retention and productivity to improving the…
Make it Engaging, Easy, and Theirs
When Kaitlin Carpenter visited a nonprofit’s website to make a donation, there was a box where she could make a comment as well. Â Thinking how…
Four Learnings for NGOs and Non-profits to Better Align Themselves With Corporations
How can you truly create innovative partnerships? The Social Innovation Summit was held on May 28-29 at the United Nations. While the focus was on…
Radical Focus and Driving Demand for Scale
By Nancy Lublin & Aria Finger DoSomething.org just cut more than half of its programs. That’s right, we cut the majority of the programs we offered.…
What To Do When Your Corporate-Nonprofit Relationship Just Isn’t Working
So what do you do when your corporate-nonprofit relationship isn’t working? Â Perhaps you were overcommitting or they were overcommitting and certain deliverables aren’t being delivered,…
250 Organizations Join Independent Sector in Urging Lawmakers to Protect Important Giving Incentives
A number of critical giving incentives that are often included as part of the annual “tax extenders” package were extended in January 2012 for two…
Outcomes Are Complex, But Speak to Nonprofit Value
By Jason Saul In my 20-plus years working in the nonprofit world, one of the most common mistakes I’ve seen nonprofits make is measuring activities…
Validating Charities Through Donor Reviews
Perla Ni is CEO and Founder of Greatnonprofits.org, the largest nonprofit review site (think Yelp for nonprofits). Donors and investors want to know that their…