Steve Boland

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Every charity should have a home for distributing information on the Internet, and most often that is going to be a web site. There may be exceptions for very small organizations using things like ...

GiveMN announced a new tech partner. They will be transitioning to Kimbia this summer. Learn what this means for your nonprofit, and for Give to the Max Day this fall.

Page posts on Facebook aren't showing up in newsfeed without paying. But let's do the math, and think about value. Then make some changes when warranted.

Ideas about the social nature of giving days, and how to maximize that connection for success. Hint: Start now.

Sometimes free is good, and sometimes free means new incurred costs. Which can be good. Or bad. Just know the difference.

Freakonomics explores giving, and what motivates gifts. It gets a lot of it right, and misses one thing.

The impact of a nonprofit increases exponentially when leveraging the value of networks.  Just like most things do.

Charities need to define their own  Nonprofitiness™, which is to say, why are you a charity and not a business?

A bird in the hand is worth two in the bush. Because that one bird is something you have RIGHT NOW. Why it matters when you get a donation.

New tools and tactics allow us to show how to nonprofit resources are used to create change in the world. Published at Community TechKnowledge.

Program evaluation is a critical component of building trust for nonprofit organizations, and so is openness about just how that evaluation is performed. Published at Next in Nonprofits.

Gamification can help nonprofit organizations reach long-term goals. Published at Next in Nonprofits.

Nonprofits have long benefited from United Way, Combined Federal Campaign and other federated giving. The future is flexible groups, not workplace giving. Originally published at Minnesota Council on Foundations.

Nonprofits use volunteers and permanent staff, but don't take best advantage of just-in-time staffing and teams to get projects moving at low costs.

Nonprofits that ask for a home phone number are asking the wrong question. Ask for preferred numbers, not home, regardless of the database or forms.

Should nonprofit organizations do their own evaluation work? Lacking the resources to outsource, yes. Yes, they should. Written for Community Tech Knowledge.