Here are some useful resource links I found from the last four weeks. ENJOY!
- Cracking the Boys Club in Web 2.0: Ten Women Pioneers of Web 2.0
- People-Powered Content: It’s Driving the Web and Could Drive Your Community!
- How to Defend Your Nonprofit Marketing Budget
- Professional Networking: Just for Fun or Part of Your Job Or Combination? Tips for managing multi-memberships in social networks?
- Wired’s How-to Wiki
- Obama Win Signals Communications Game Change — Get on Board
- What Can Nonprofit Marketers Learn from the Election?
- It’s the (Stupid) Economy – The Impact on Nonprofits
- Consumers Respond Positively to Cause-related Marketing
- eMetrics Panel Slides, Notes, and Blog Posts: ROI of Blogging, Twitter, and Digg for Nonprofits
- Mixed Links – Good Stuff for Nonprofit Marketers
- using social media in a tough economy
- FLiPs role in Web 2.0 by Elizabeth Miller
- What Type of Blog Should Your Nonprofit Write?
- For nonprofits in a tough economy, marketing pitch must be perfect – The Wisconsin Jewish Chronicle
- Cranking Up Your Email Marketing for Fall Fundraising
- Emetrics Reputation and Relationship Management in A Social Media World
- Who’s Your Target Audience? Please Not the General Public!
- What I Learned about Nonprofits at the NC Conference
- Nonprofit Charts & Graphs at the Carnival
- Strategy and Messaging: How to Make Your Ideas Stick | AFP Web/Audioconferences
- The Digital Storytelling Revolution For Nonprofits
- Avoid the Tactical Syndrome: Help for the 2/3 of Nonprofit Communicators Who Don’t Track Results
Fundraising & Philanthropy
- Business Day – News Worth Knowing
- Paul Brest – Strategic Philanthropy
- Regulation is Good for Philanthropy
- Professional Fundraising: Face Value
- Foundations Have Role in Fostering Innovation
- Big Donations Bring Complexities
- Prospecting: Low-Cost Ways to Improve Fund Raising
- Study: $1 Million Gifts Given Mostly From ‘Self-Made’ Wealth
- National Philanthropy Day Recognizes Importance of Giving in Tough Economy :: PNNOnline ::
- Give and Take: China’s Growing Embrace of Philanthropy
- How to serve your donors
- Foundation Center Research Update
- Charities that invest ‘can prosper in the recession’ – Third Sector
- Advice for Family Foundations Looking to Avoid Succession Pitfalls
- Leave the funny out of fundraising
- It’s (almost) all about asking
- Corporate Giving Expected to Remain Flat in 2009
- Charity Thrift Shops See Big Increase in Donations
- Give and Take: A Charity’s Approach to Video Gets Attention
- Perks can tighten your relationship with donors
- Giving important in bad times | MiamiHerald.com
- 70% OF AMERICANS PLAN TO GIVE DURING THE HOLIDAYS, SURVEY FINDS
- If I were a Foundation Officer
- Churches Cope With Drop in Donations and Investment Income
- Colleges Consider Tuition Hikes to Offset Endowment Losses
- Giving to Largest Charities Increased 4.5 Percent in 2007
- From The Chronicle: Year-End Giving
- Fund Managers for Charitable Endowments Stay the Course
- Tips on Wise Giving: Ensuring Your Contribution Is Used Appropriately – MarketWatch
- From The Chronicle: Philanthropy Enhances CEO Reputations
- College’s attempt at fundraising gives alumni the blahs – USATODAY.com
- Meredith Clark: Money isn’t all a philanthropist has to offer | tallahassee.com | Tallahassee Democrat
- Local couple makes philanthropy a livelihood
- Growing a Profession By Erin Hall-Westfall & Naomi Marshall
- Committee Encouraging Corporate Philanthropy: Excellence in Corporate Philanthropy Awards
- Lucy Bernholz: The end of philanthropy as we know it?
- Older Americans Explore Ways to Donate Their Wealth
- Prospecting: Crafting a Direct-Mail Appeal
- Crafting a First-Time Direct-Mail Appeal – Philanthropy.com
- Foundations hope bailout provision boosts giving -
- Colleges creating an education in philanthropy -
- Retiring With a Windfall? How to Give It Away – washingtonpost.com
- Donor-advised funds grow in popularity | ScrippsNews
- Who Is Giving Anonymous Gifts – Executive Articles – Portfolio.com
- If Stock Market Rebounds, Foundation Giving May Not Dip in 2009, Researcher Says
- Young Donors: Not Just Playing Around
- Q&A; – DOW Disaster – What Does This Mean for Philanthropy?
- From the Chronicle: Grant Makers Urged to Respond to Financial Crisis
- Prospecting: Hard Times Should Prompt Fund Raisers to Step Up Direct Mail
Conferences and Trainings:
- TWS Consulting: Google Docs Webinar
- International Economic Development Council Leadership Summit
- Grantseeking During a Recession: How to Broaden Your Grant Support
- How to Make Your Website More Donor Friendly
- How the Downturn Affects Giving by Retirement-Account Holders – Philanthropy.com
- ‘Common Cents’ offers unique philanthropy | thetimesherald.com | The Times Herald
- Forum of Regional Associations of Grantmakers and Council on Foundations
- Government and Politics Watch: A Proposal for a White House Office to Aid Charities
- Nonprofit Finance Fund Receives $50 Million in New Markets Tax Credits
- New Lobby Rules Could Help Nonprofit Groups
- Change.Gov is Up — Obama Shares Vision, Plans & Hopes, Wants to Hear Yours
- Campaign 2008: Philanthropy and Politics
- Tax-Exempt Organizations Look to Congress for Incentives for Giving
- Obama — Don’t Let Your Hard-Won Community of Hope Die
- Advocacy 2.0 Guide: Cross-Posting
Leadership:
- Nelson Mandela’s 8 Lessons of Leadership
- Charity Village®NewsWeek: Cover Story
- Leadership Conference on Civil Rights Offers Fundraising Fellowship for Person of Color
- Wal-Mart charity chief: Nonprofits must team up – BostonHerald.com
- Nonprofits Look to New Administration for More Favorable Treatment, Report Finds
- Older Workers May Find Open Arms at Nonprofits – The Inside Job (usnews.com)
- Seventh Annual GuideStar Nonprofit Economic Survey Reveals Significant Challenges for Charities – International Business Times -
- Learning Communities: The best investment we can make
- It’s not just who you know, it’s who knows you
- Economic Crisis Affecting Nonprofits Large and Small
- Hamburger Helper as a sign of work-life imbalance
- Wal-Mart Foundation Leader Says Some Charities Should Fail
- Nonprofit Risk Management Center
- Why Gen Y Should Nominate Our Own
- CTCNet Community Technology Conference
- Social Entrepreneurship Growing in Popularity
Thoughts? Comments? Share them with me here at the EDA Consulting Cafe!
