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6 Strategies for #GivingTuesday
A wide range of nonprofits are teaming up; pronouncing the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving as a day to celebrate the spirit of giving. Giving Tuesday can kick off the Year End fundraising season with a bold call to action for both constituents AND consumers – GIVE...
A PM in a Nonprofit World
This blog was originally published on Kickass PM, a resource website for project managers. Nonprofit project management can, at times, be an uphill battle or even feel like you are inside an oxymoron. It can be tricky to implement process into an environment that has...
Volunteer Week 2015
Special Olympics Texas To kick off volunteer week, a small team of us helped organize t-shirts and supplies for the Special Olympics Texas (SOTX) at their new facility here in Austin. We spent most of our time in the warehouse (it has A/C, thankfully). There were lots...
New Ideas from Retained Services July 2015
All Charity Dynamics retained services clients get weekly status updates that allow us to keep track of all the various initiatives our teams are collaborating on. Each week, we share the most innovative ideas we see and look for ways to keep our clients on the...
SEO Basics: Key Steps for building a top rank SEO strategy
As a nonprofit, you might have a digital strategy or at least you've considered how digital channels effect your communication strategy. I recently went to a workshop about SEO essentials for business owners. While I have considered SEO in content strategies for...
Stop being a grouch about your data, tell your story with infographics
Sometimes I miss “green screens” from the good old days when computer commands were written in words and numbers. You see, I am icon impaired. Every time Google “simplifies” one of its products, it takes me weeks to re-figure out how to file an email in my gmail...