Resources You Can Use

Giving USA report on 2009 giving now available
online and for download! Use this information to educate your Board and
get your planned giving off the ground!
GivingUSA 2010 Executive Summary

NTEN and AFP Conference Info!

Information from the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC):

Barbara's favorite PowerPoint presentations are here.
All NTC slides can be found by clicking here.
NSA Listening Dashboard by David J. Neff
Care2 Petition site
Online Marketing Stategy in Two Hours by Kivi Leroux Miller
Barbara's blog posts on workshops she attended...read on.
Barbara recorded Cinchcasts with folks who attended the conference
To follow the Tweets from NTEN look here, you can follow the Twitter stream by searching #10NTC on Twitter
Join NTEN - it is worth it for the webinars, online affinity groups, reports and general information!

Information from the AFP International Fundraising Conference:

If the speaker shared their handouts you can download them here
Barbara also recorded Cinchcasts at AFP - great info and aha moments from attendees
Check out USA Today April 13 Sharing in the USA Bonus Section D
Top 10 Predicted Nonprofit Trends according to Blackbaud
Convio Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study
AFP 2009 State of Fundraising Survey released
AFP has developed a new Fundamentals of Fundraising course
Call for presentations for the AFP conference in Chicago, March 20-23, 2011 click here, deadline is April 30

Download the James Irvine Foundation Convergence Report.

Nonprofits must become futurists - "attuned to rapid and continual shifts"
New economy has permanently changed the landscape
Change is nothing new - but is happening faster (something Talisman has been working with clients on for years.)

Barbara has developed the materials below. Feel free to download, edit and use!

Get your conflict of interest policy signed by every Board and committee member. Get your sample here! Thank you National Council of Nonprofits!

Social Networking - Information for NonProfits Do you have a social media policy? The New York Council of Nonprofits has one! Click here to review and use for your organization. Thank you Valerie Venezia!