One Simple Way to Give Your Twitter Chat Legs – Market the Repurposed Chat Summary

One Simple Way to Give Your Twitter Chat Legs – Market the Repurposed Chat Summary: "Twitter chats are an excellent source of content to repurpose. You get a few to dozens of people participating and sharing resources and ideas on typically a narrow topic. The conversation ebbs and flows, but there are usually good nuggets of information that can and should be pulled out and shared."

Harvard program helps retired leaders shift gears - The Boston Globe

Harvard program helps retired leaders shift gears - The Boston Globe: "But Denham is indeed attending Harvard, as part of the school’s Advanced Leadership Initiative, a yearlong fellowship for people with 20 or more years of leadership experience who, instead of retiring, want to spend the next phase of their lives starting socially conscious ventures. Fifty-five fellows have paid roughly $50,000 each to get help leveraging their past experience into starting new and meaningful projects."

Two Blueprints For Successful Donor Retention

Two Blueprints For Successful Donor Retention: "Two Blueprints For Successful Donor Retention

By Mark Hrywna

Retention programs are designed to keep supporters engaged on an annualized basis, and some such programs can be the most effective strategy to improve lifetime value of donors, with the ultimate goal to grow the donor file, maximizing revenue and building long-term value."

Cause Marketing, Selfishness Drive Consumer Giving | Cause marketing for nonprofits

Cause Marketing, Selfishness Drive Consumer Giving | Cause marketing for nonprofits: "New research out of the University of Michigan confirms what I always knew was true: I was right to name my cause marketing blog Selfish Giving. After giving college students the choice between donating through a cause marketing promotion or donating directly, the students that chose the former felt more selfish, less generous and even less happy.

Maybe I should change my blog to SelfishStingyUnhappyGiving.com"

Need seen for policy research | Philanthropy Journal

Need seen for policy research | Philanthropy Journal: "As the environment for nonprofits becomes more challenging because of high-profile scandals, rising needs, fundraising pressures and government budget crises, sector leaders see the need for more and better research on the effects of public policies on nonprofits, a new report says."

Interview - Jane Wales | .

Interview - Jane Wales | .: "Jane Wales founded the Global Philanthropy Forum ten years ago, with the aim of building a community of donors and social investors and enhancing strategic giving. Since then, the forum has grown from its Silicon Valley roots to encompass donors from around the world. Have the last ten years been as she expected in terms of both the forum and wider philanthropy, asked Caroline Hartnell, and what developments can we expect to see in the coming years?"

Heifer Blog | The Official Blog of Heifer International: Shoeless Heifer Hooves to Promote One Day Without Shoes

Heifer Blog | The Official Blog of Heifer International: Shoeless Heifer Hooves to Promote One Day Without Shoes

Benchmarking and Analyzing Salaries: A Fast How-To | Blue Avocado

Benchmarking and Analyzing Salaries: A Fast How-To | Blue Avocado: "To illustrate ways to analyze salaries, let's look at a simplified example of an environmental research organization. First we'll chart salary ranges, then add benchmark salaries, and then look at two ways to look at analyzing individual salaries.

The five salary categories in this fictitious organization:"

Marc Gold travels Asia paying it forward through little acts of kindness - CSMonitor.com

Marc Gold travels Asia paying it forward through little acts of kindness - CSMonitor.com: "Everywhere he goes, Gold performs acts of kindness, both random and preplanned. He hands out soccer balls and art supplies to children at a Tibetan orphanage. He helps an elderly scavenger in Sulawesi, Indonesia, open a small grocery store. He buys a year's supply of rice for battered women at a shelter in Jaipur, India."

Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks young philanthropists - Fosters

Big Brothers Big Sisters seeks young philanthropists - Fosters: "PORTSMOUTH — Big Brothers Big Sisters of the Greater Seacoast invites community members in their 20s and 30s to apply for a new initiative, 'Young Philanthropists for Mentoring,' also known as YP4M."

The Nonprofit Quarterly | @npquarterly | No Drop in the Bucket: Salvation Army Seeks $22 Million in Lawsuit

The Nonprofit Quarterly | @npquarterly | No Drop in the Bucket: Salvation Army Seeks $22 Million in Lawsuit: "April 1, 2011; Source: New York Times | One of the largest charities in the country is seeking the court's help to salvage the damage from what it claims were bad investment decisions made without its approval. The New York Times reports that in its lawsuit seeking $22 million, the Salvation Army's southern division alleges that the Bank of New York Mellon's 'misconduct' resulted in losses and left the charity with 'unproductive, toxic assets with extended maturity dates, the values of which have substantially declined.'"