Capaciteria also added a couple of hundred new resources (links, articles and books) in these categories: - Performance, Metrics & Evaluation Category - Community Stakeholder Management - Volunteerism - Marketing Research - Revenue Generation & Sustainability - Governance - Advocacy - Etc. One involves tangible resourcing.

In her new book, The Nonprofit Marketing Guide: High-Impact, Low-Cost Ways to Build Support for Your Good Cause , Kivi Leroux Miller asserts that in the "Connected Age" marketers have to learn to become community managers vs. The recruiter: persuades people to join the online community. mass marketers. I agree! Cheers! Jocelyn.

Can your nonprofit's supporters (volunteers, donors, community collaborators) or your agency's beneficiaries (clients, etc.) You must consider what the newsletter can raise in your current donors, your current volunteers, and potential new community collaborators or other stakeholders. Perhaps you have! Have you conducted a study?

Former Talk Show Host Jenny Jones Announces Continuation of Community Grant Program Deadline: Open Talk show host and philanthropist Jenny Jones has announced that she will donate an additional $1 million to continue her Jenny's Heroes ( [link] ) community grant program. [Please help us. Click on: Nonprofit Needs Survey. Thank you.

Deadline: April 30, 2009 Entries Invited for Wachovia NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance The aim of the Wachovia NEXT Awards for Opportunity Finance is to propel Community Development Financial Institutions to a higher level of growth, success, and sustainability. Tags: community building RFP grants From The Foundation Center.

How many of you view fundraising as community building? Do you partner with your donors to provide them opportunities to engage their friends and community in your cause? There are more and more opportunities through social media to engage our donor communities and I’m curious if you’ve had a chance to do just that?

It is important as you develop and grow your online community that you have an intentional culture. Create some kind of opportunity for your community to engage you online via a comment box, forum, or Facebook page. When you are creating an online community, you want to think about your audience this way too.

As Strom asserts, what about the critical services that nonprofits provide to our communities, especially to those with no or little resources? Tags: community building Taxes the economy From The New York Times. Now a percentage of each dollar might be allocated to some states' tax bases? if they tax these organizations.

Organizations' leaders, in the very nature of their work, envision what could be better for the community, they imagine what could get done through the work of the agencies that they work for, and they imagine what could improve the world. Community buy-in is earned and retained because a nonprofit is worthy of its community's support.

Today, I heard that fundamentally there are three main purposes of a Web site: 1) informational , 2) transactional and 3) community-based. And lastly, a community-based Web site is one that is designed to encourage people to interact, network and share. Facebook–Community. Is building a Web site easy as 1, 2, or 3?