NTEN is looking for your brilliant session ideas. Submit up to two ideas to be considered for 14NTC at the Marriott Wardman Park, Washington, D.C., March 13-15, 2014!
NTC Scholarships don't just help first-time conference attendees. And that helps goes beyond just the scholarship recipient. TEXT "NTEN" to 25383 to donate $10 and nominate your scholarship attendee now!
This year's conference wasn't going to be a possibility for Amy Quinn, Content Curator & Speaker , Fundraising Innovators, LLC. However, through the community contributions to the NTC Scholarship Fund, Amy was able to attend this year and came back bursting with information to share.
If you've been to NTC, you know that it can be an incredible event full of knowledgeable nonprofit techies - and donating to the 2014 NTC Scholarship Campaign can bring that awesome experience to others. For 2012 NTC Scholarship recipient, Lyndal Cairns, being able to attend NTC was life-changing.
Flickr: W.D. VanlueFundraising tips, some new (and free!) research and tools, and a list of creatures that walk a fine line between ugly and cute bring this week to a close--check out what your industrious community has been up to!
Flickr: jasonshimBy Jason Shim and Shubhagata Sengupta
At Pathways to Education, we offer cross-cultural conflict resolution training called YOUCAN, and one of the first topics we cover with the students is that the analogy of an iceberg can be useful in understanding people.
Typically, you only see about 10% of an iceberg above the water, and the remaining 90% remains submerged and unseen.
Jill Farrow, NTEN's chief financial and operating officer, quickly learned that "operationally, we at NTEN do everything in the Cloud," and that includes financial and operations management.
Everything Megan Keane does as the community engagement manager for NTEN is driven and supported by one simple principle: "It's all about the people," she said.
When it comes to tracking and using “engagement” data – the actions, interactions, and even conversations that relate to an organization’s work but don’t necessarily represent the transactional or financial data that have been traditionally used for measuring an organization’s health – today’s nonprofits are either tracking a lot, or hardly anything at all. And very few organizations are applying that data to make decisions about their programs or measure their strategic outcomes.
