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This year my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation includes training, coaching, and facilitating peer learning sessions for grantees on using social media effectively, becoming a Networked Nonprofit.    It has been incredible laboratory to put the big ideas in the book in practice.
I’ve had the pleasure working with one of [...]

Editor (and fellow nonprofit consultant) Nancy Worssam and I will be reading from our essay anthology In Our Prime, by and about women 50 and over, next Thursday evening, July 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Women and Children First bookstore, 5233 N. Clark Street in Chicago.  I hope some of you can join us that [...]

Editor (and fellow nonprofit consultant) Nancy Worssam and I will be reading from our essay anthology In Our Prime, by and about women 50 and over, next Thursday evening, July 29, at 7:30 p.m. at Women and Children First bookstore, 5233 N. Clark Street in Chicago.  I hope some of you can join us that [...]

Becoming A Networked Nonprofit
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Earlier this week I had the opportunity to deliver a half-day training workshop for staff members working at Junior Achievement Offices at their worldwide conference.    This workshop is called “Becoming A Networked Nonprofit:  Using Social Media Strategically.”
The learning objectives:

To understand what a Networked Nonprofit is and [...]

I’m so thrilled that the Networked Nonprofit has made it Australia! A few years ago, I had the opportunity to keynote Connecting Up, the national gathering of Nonprofit Techies hosted by Connecting Up. I’m thrilled that they shared a photo of themselves eating tim-tams and their #squirrel mascot!
I just had to blog [...]

Dear Nonprofiteer: We are a small non-profit music school. We have been running into a problem with grants strategy–as in, we aren’t getting any. I am consistently getting feedback: 1.    “Lovely program but we are only funding projects that can promise to reach 500-1000.”  We are small with 350 students and while I can conceive [...]

Mark your calendars! Citizen Effect’s CitizenGulf project will become a National Day of Action on August 25th, in alignment with the week of the fifth anniversary of Katrina. The benefit — to be promoted by Gulf Coast Benefit — seeks to help fishing families find a new, more sustainable future by providing education resources for [...]

Taglines are tough.  Try to sum up your essence in a few pithy words.  It’s hard!  It feels like telling your life story in a haiku.

So Nancy Schwartz comes to the rescue with her inspiring annual tagline awards - and a pithy summary of how to write a great tagline: make it snappy!  Let people know within two seconds what your organization does and how it helps them!

As Nancy says:

Too many nonprofits don’t have a tagline because they can’t craft one that works, or, even worse, they use one that doesn’t work very well. That’s 72% of all nonprofits according to a recent GettingAttention.org survey.

If that’s you, Nancy 2010 Tagline Contest for Nonprofits will inspire you. Nancy is a nonprofit marketing expert, and she’s hosting the third annual Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards Program (a.k.a. The Taggies).

This year there are three new categories —Special Event, Fundraising Campaign and Program (product, service or other program) taglines—in addition to Organizational taglines. You can enter up to four (4) separate taglines—one for each of the award program’s categories: your organization’s tagline; a tagline for any program operated by your organization; a tagline for a fundraising campaign; and a tagline for any special event your organization produces.

All entrants will receive a free copy of the fully-updated 2010 Nonprofit Tagline Report in late fall. It’s the only complete guide to building your org’s brand in 8 words or less—filled with how-tos, don’t-dos and models.
Enter today—the deadline for entries is July 28.

Go for it.

This is a quick roundup of some of the wonderful reviews, blog posts, photos, and videos of The Networked Nonprofit.
If you’re in the Bay Area and didn’t make it to our launch party at TechSoup,  there’s a book party in the East Bay on Friday, July 23rd.  The staff of Donordigital Bay Area are [...]