Non-profit Storytelling: 6 Tips for Interviews
Merritt Engel, in an article for Network for Good, has some great tips on getting the most out of your stories.  The one tip I would add to this are to get video and/or pictures.  Pictures and video tell a graphic picture of the subject of the story and really bring home the message that these are real people with real problems.  Also, pictures and video

How can I charge $1 per project?
That question was posed to me recently as a comment on the blog and its a question I get alot.  Hopefully, by posting my reply it might generate more discussion and interest in this idea. “I accidently found you through logoworks and had to find out more which brought me to your website. I am a nonprofit consultant over in Fort Worth and I am so ever curious how this works! Are you an LLC or nonprofit? how do you only cha

Great examples of how Social Media can be used to raise money for charity
Benny Evangelista, Staff Writer for the San Francisco Chronicle has an article out today that discusses ways Facebook and other Social Media are being used to raise money for charity. Here are a few of the examples, check out the link below for the full article. – YouTube asked viewers to donate to the U.N. World Food Program for World Food Day on Oct. 16. YouTube said the “billion for a billion” promotion (for the number of videos

Seven Things Any Nonprofit Needs To Know About the 2010 Census
(This is the first of an ongoing series to provide tips and tools to nonprofits for getting the most out of their 2010 census involvement.) The North Texas area receives over $8 billion in federal funding a year. These dollars are an important source of revenue for many local nonprofits and charities. Communities served by nonprofits are at the greatest risk for being undercounted in the 2010 census.  Groups such as Hispanics, African-Americans, the elderly, the homeless, and the mentally ill and/or disabled represent the people most likely to be undercounted. Click the link below to learn more about the census, and how your organization can get

Scheduling a meeting just got easier…
Have you tried scheduling a meeting with multiple people and been beaten down by the process? Phone calls and emails going back and forth about which times were good and which times weren’t? ScheduleOnce.com could be your answer. It allows you to schedule a meeting with multiple parties, via an online tool. Attendees selec