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“Is Your Nonprofit Blog a Snoozer?” Find the Solution at SXSW Interactive 2011

Ever wonder how nonprofits write successful blogs, turning high readership into active support? Believe me, it’s a challenge.  No matter how interesting your nonprofit’s work, if you don’t offer a variety of content on your blog–a range of technical, informative and human interest stories–it won’t engage supporters. If you’re the editor of a nonprofit blog–or even Read more…

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Bring Opportunity to SXSW 2011 and Find Out if There’s “Life After Blackbaud”

Bring Opportunity to South by Southwest (SXSW)! Jonathan Neddenriep, our software engineer, is proposing one of two interactive panels featuring Opportunity at SXSW 2011 in Austin, Tex. His panel is called “Life After Blackbaud.” He says it will explain how Opportunity[/intlink] “left nonprofit-specific technology platforms and hasn’t looked back.” More details: Traditionally, nonprofits have used CMS and Read more…

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Opportunity International’s MicroEnsure Named Runner-up

Congratulations to Opportunity International’s subsidiary MicroEnsure, which has been named runner-up for the 2010 Financial Times Sustainable Banking Award for Banking at the Base of the Pyramid. MicroEnsure was recognized for its successful health insurance product serving the low-income market in India. This was the first product in India to provide coverage for maternity and pre-existing Read more…

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“Will Kiva Kill Your Nonprofit? Donations 2.0” Nope, not ours!

Ian Haisley, Jonathan Neddenriep, Reuben Thiessen and I will be meeting in Austin, Tex., this Friday to attend the South by Southwest (SXSW) Interactive Festival. We are very excited to be with the “world’s most creative web developers, designers, bloggers, wireless innovators, content producers, programmers, widget inventors and new media entrepreneurs.”  The festival includes presentations Read more…

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Social Change is the Business of the Future

As many would agree, we are in a turbulent time. Old business models are breaking down and our future seems a bit more uncertain with each passing day. At the 10th Innovating Social Change Conference hosted last week by the Kellogg School of Management, I learned that now is the time to forget old business Read more…

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