Does your organization have a blog?  What are the barriers keeping your nonprofit from blogging? Do you know of a nonprofit blog that is remarkable?
We’re going to dive in to nonprofit blogging over the next few weeks, but in the meantime, I recommend Corporate Blogging for Dummies. Written by Douglas Karr and Chantelle Flannery, it is a treasure of blogging best practices and practical advice. Don’t let the “Corporate” in the title scare you. The ideas in this book can easily be adapted to the nonprofit world.

Has your organization delivered Wow today?  Have you exceeded the expectations of your clients, your volunteers, or your donors?  Have you done something remarkable?  Tony Hsieh and the team at Zappos have given us a marvelous insight to how they do this everyday with the best selling book Delivering Happiness.
Foundational to their approach are the 10 Core Values. Take some time on your own to dive into them, but today I wanted to touch on #1: Deliver Wow Through Service.

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Indy Media School offers small class sizes for more personal attention. Learn from the same team that brings you Blue Trolley Press!

Check out this post over at the Donor Power Blog, written by Stephen Ferrando.  It raises some interesting questions about the sustainability of the 1.5 million charities in the United States.
The pot of charitable dollars that the U.S. population is willing to contribute annually is rapidly approaching its threshold, which means that either charities need to redefine what a successful year means – where growth from one year to the next might not be possible – or larger organizations may need to begin to consider acquiring or absorbing smaller organizations …

A recent study of mobile giving during the Haiti crisis shows how effective “text to donate” campaigns can be. Convio, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies collaborated on the project and it is available to download in pdf format.