We have followed the development of the Jumo website and network over the last year or so, and that organization has recently announced a development ‘merger’ with Good.is that will make it/them arguably the largest nonprofit socially-conscious network around. The union will bring together Jumo’s model of searching for and supporting projects by topics with […]
#Fundraising: Susan Emfinger Offers Ideas On Raising Big Donations In Economic Downtimes
Last week, I said that I would spend some time exploring questions that to my mind are important to fundraisers from both the charity and the education sectors. I introduced a series of loaded questions from a colleague of mine about the challenges of fundraising in the midst of the difficulties most of us face […]
#Fundraising: Susan Emfinger Discusses The Difficulties and Faulty Assumptions of Raising Money
In my last blog post, I said that I would spend some time exploring questions that to my mind are important to fundraisers from both the charity and the education sectors. Be careful what you wish for: just this week a former, non-fundraising colleague asked me a question recently that, frankly, I didn’t have the […]
#Fundraising: Getting Your Donation Web Page Ready For The Holiday Rush
Most any nonprofit or charity has a website. And likely on that website is a page for donors to give to the cause. Such a page is considered a sure way to keep some funding trickling in. Probably not the biggest donations of the year, but enough of a stream to help further your cause. But has […]
#Enviro: Looking For Work? Jobs For Greenbacks And For A Green Mid-Atlantic
The jobs numbers continues to tetter between 9% and 9.3% unemployment, and involuntary under-employment blooms those numbers closer to 20%. If you are searching for work in the Mid-Atlantic region (Maryland, Washington DC, Virginia), The Mid-Atlantic Regional Collaborative (MARC) has been pushing green jobs at their website over the last couple of years – a […]
#Social Networking: Netflix Losing Control of Social-Network Goodwill
This author is not a Netflix subscriber. The draw of the story about the media-streaming service raising its rates by over 60% earlier this week (a raise that will not have an impact on current subscribers until the fall) is how Netflix’s subscribers jumped all over the service via their social networks and Facebook. Netflix runs the […]
#Development: Establishing Goals To Ensure Integrating Social Media In Your Organization’s Growth Plans
Integrating social media among your peers and within the overall strategy of your charity or nonprofit is not simply a matter of establishing a Facebook presence and hoping for the best. Steven Van Belleghem, branding and word-of-mouth strategist at InSites Consulting, and Dado Van Peteghem, strategic consultant at DearMedia, have spent the spring interviewing numerous […]
#Tech: Does The Smartphone Move Us To A Post-PC, Post-Camera, Post-mp3 player… World?
Few things in life are more futile, and such great fun, as predicting the future. From Francis Fukuyama’s The End of History to Harold Camping’s Time Has An End (the web design exhibited here ended, thankfully, about 1997), we invariably misunderstand what will be the next big thing. And when we get it wrong we […]