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First-Ever Video Benchmarks Survey for Nonprofits

Care2

But what kind of a direct impact do these “social actions” really have especially for nonprofits? Are people who like or comment on these videos signing up for organization’s enewsletters, are they donating money, volunteering, taking an advocacy action?

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Fundraising Year In Review

The Agitator

Key takeaways from the Atlas of Giving November report: In terms of sectors, ‘Education’ was the biggest gainer (up 9.3%) and ‘Religion’ posted the greatest decline (but still 6.5% As we head for 2011’s fundraising finish line The Atlas of Giving on Friday reported that overall giving this year will finish 7.4%

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Care2 Adds Two Experts to Nonprofit Services Team

Care2

Largest Online Social Action Community of 10 Million "Do Gooders" Adds Fundraising and Advocacy Experts Allyson Kapin and Stephen O’Keefe, Who Bring Decades of Experience at Helping Nonprofits Succeed Redwood City, Calif.

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Online Marketing Strategy & Website Makeover - Example from #09NTC

Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Their challenge was to remake the online presence of Youth Speaks, a nonprofit presenter of Spoken Word performance, education, and youth development programs. You may recall that Britt Bravo asked Nancy Schwartz, Katya Andresen, Nedra Weinreich, and me to review the Social Actions home page back in October.

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Dr. James explains why the feeling “People like me make gifts like this” is so powerful in major gifts fundraising

iMarketSmart

Another study found that showing people data on how their giving compared with others of their same age, education, and region increased their subsequent charitable giving.[22] A habit of social action: Understanding the factors associated with adolescents who have made a habit of helping others. Taylor-Collins, E., Harrison, T.,

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Leadership Development Beyond Projects

Stanford Social Innovation Review

That vision, which draws on the Social Change Model of Leadership and the Social Action Leadership and Transformation Model , defines leadership as “a dynamic, transformative, relational process of change” that confronts injustice while promoting equity.

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Teaching Cooperative Intelligence, for a Solidarity Economy

NonProfit Quarterly

But to build cooperative intelligence, cooperative education needs to start at a much earlier age. Such, at least, is the thesis of work I’ve been involved in to create a cooperative education curriculum at the high school level in the Bronx. In Dare the School Build a New Social Order? ,