Here’s just a quick summary of this week’s headlines and fundraising / nonprofit items of interest. As always, please feel free to forward this. Thanks again for reading!
FUNDRAISING
- What to offer your sponsors when you think you have nothing to offer http://cli.gs/U6uXp
- Some thoughts on starting a planned giving program at your nonprofit. http://cot.ag/cgyFaS
- Want to recruit people to have fundraising events that benefit your cause? Here are some tips: http://bit.ly/cPIOC0
- Trust your copywriter when you’re preparing an appeal! http://bit.ly/cFr015
- 12 Ways to Use Social Media to Market Your Fundraising Event http://bit.ly/btZQ4p
- If you talked to people like your appeals talk to people, they’d punch you in the face! http://bit.ly/b1Laio
- People Give to People – “Fat Cyclist” Raises $100K+ via social networking http://bit.ly/cJKjFx
- Your Charity is not in Competition with Haiti http://bit.ly/a4Lttr
TECHNOLOGY
- Facebook Passes the 400 Million User Mark http://bit.ly/dlFcp2
- 20 Tools for Tracking Social Media Marketing (via @associationjam) http://cot.ag/6x9sQB
- Social Media for Nonprofit – Rules of Engagement (or the importance of a call to action) http://cot.ag/aT40Tq
- What Not to Wear – for your nonprofit website. http://bit.ly/amMzXu
- Your Nonprofit’s Backup Strategy http://bit.ly/9bafAp
- Free Webinars for Nonprofits http://bit.ly/934BR5
- Sounds like Pepsi’s Refresh Project may avoid some of the challenges of other recent social media contests. http://bit.ly/cnEvU2
OTHER ARTICLES
- K.I.S.S. for Good: Improving Nonprofit Messages (or three steps to becoming a better writer) http://cot.ag/bouCoS
- State Of Arizona, Ignoring Donor Intent, Takes Donor’s Gift From Parks http://cot.ag/brDTJh
- Obama’s Budget Proposals Will Thwart Charitable Giving (says AHP) http://cot.ag/90UTnl
- President’s budget proposal would hold steady or increase money to many nonprofit programs http://ow.ly/130Aw
- A digest of the Chronicle’s extensive coverage of how charities are responding to the Haiti disaster: http://ow.ly/13B3g
- Social Investors using big-business-style strategies and expecting results to match. http://bit.ly/bsodLO
- 10 Most Generous Cities: Is your city one of them? http://bit.ly/c4Wyks
- Once-Robust Charity Sector Hit With Mergers, Closings, WSJ article http://bit.ly/9LutZG
