Our Favorite January Blog Posts
Whether you started the year resolving to be a better nonprofit board member, or to join your first (second or third) board, thirteen of our favorite bloggers were there to help you keep your resolution to do the best job you could giving back in 2014.
Thirteen of the blog posts that taught us the most us in January:
1. With all the amazing infographics being circulated last month, we loved this round-up of some of the best nonprofit ones from Nonprofit Tech for Good 19 Must-See Social Media and Fundraising Infographics for Nonprofits.
2. Nonprofit Technology Network reminded us not to get lazy about our online fundraising efforts in This isn’t your grandma’s online fundraising.
3. Always helpful Kivi Miller provided us with 10 Insanely Useful Free Twitter Tools for Nonprofits.
4. Nonprofit Hub drew us in with One Commonly Missed Marketing Opportunity for Nonprofits.
5. For those board members who needed a little refresher on nonprofit finance, the Nonprofit Finance Fund gave us just that with Nonprofit Finance 101.
6. Finance-focused board members found another great resource with The Nonprofit Accounting Cheat Sheet, shared by npENGAGE.
7. Want a reminder why board service is so important? Alice Korngold provided that in her Huff Po blog post explaining just why Companies Seek to Meet the Challenges of Nonprofit Board-Matching.
8. In Investment vs. Expense: How Do You Categorize Your Communications Costs? Geri Stengel made us focus on the value of investing in your nonprofits’ communications.
9. Still need help with your 2014 resolutions? Nonprofit marketing guru John Haydon suggested 7 Marketing Resolutions for every Nonprofit Marketing Plan
10. Huffington Post Impact inspired us with 7 Millenials who are too busy changing the world to take selfies.
11. How the Latino Community Foundation Used Learning and Pivoting to Get Better Fundraising Results by the clever Beth Kanter shared some terrific fundraising ideas with us.
12. Joanne Fritz challenged us with Rethinking the Print Newsletter: did you jump to email too soon?
13. And finally Mashable Social Good made us smile and push ourselves to keep coming up with ways to help others in Indestructible Soccer Ball brings sports to Kids who Need it Most.
It’s not too late to keep that resolution to join a board, if you didn’t already dive in last month. Hopefully this blog post will inspire you to join a nonprofit board…or two!
Cynthia Remec
Executive Director
BoardAssist
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