Bugs McLovin’ lounges I am one sick puppy (laryngitis, ugh) and instead of blogging, I’d really rather be bingeing on episodes of The Wire (warning: linked video is NSFW) and mango sorbet, so I’ll keep this brief. PAWS (the Progressive Animal Welfare Society) is awesome; they run a wonderful shelter in Lynnwood, about 20 minutes away [...]
Beth Kanter Freaking RULES So, I feel I’ve been quite explicit about this matter: social networking is good, very good, for non-profits. The Twittering, the Facebooking, the what-have-you. . . all these activities can be incredibly fortuitous for your organization, I think you should get on it, like, yesterday, blah blah blah. You’ve heard this [...]
Happy Monday, people! Hope everyone had a fabulously restorative weekend. I’m feeling kinda chatterboxy today, so here’s another long one. When you’re starting up a NPO, a small business or taking an existing business online, one of the most stressful aspects of your transition\startup can be finding a web designer. Its hard enough to manage [...]
La Casa Hogar is another wonderful Yakima-based NPO that does incredibly valuable and compassionate work in the community. They are a resource for recently-arrived and immigrant members of Yakima’s Hispanic population and they offer community services for the young and disenfranchised and for people of limited resources. La Casa also throws fundraising events, does educational [...]
Hope everyone is taking some time to reflect on one of the greatest spiritual, intellectual, inspirational agents for necessary social change ever to affect our nation. The video below is the ‘I Have a Dream’ speech in it’s entirety. I’ve been thinking a lot today about how much progress we’ve made as a country. . [...]
In my SEO Tips from the other day, I recommended using Google Analytics to track data and traffic from your website. Honestly, it wasn’t so much a recommendation as a ‘you’re a fool if you don’t. . . ‘ type of thing. Google Analytics is awesome; it’s free, easy to use, easy to interpret and [...]
Before and after: the Presidential Palace in Haiti Well, enough has been said by more intelligent writers than me about the unspeakably horrible tragedy in Haiti. They need money, supplies, and bodies down there to assist in the rescue efforts. Here is a quick list of places to send your financial support: YeleHaiti- this is [...]
Okay, folks, get ready, because this is kind of a long one. . . Search Engine Optimization (SEO) is not like a Magic Eye Painting, where only programming nerds and web designers can see the sailboat behind the chaos. It’s not an esoteric concept or a unicorn or something that only techie geeks can understand. [...]
These kids today. . . SYPP Members at the Youth Organizing Institute Well, after a return from a brief, sad hiatus (in Berkeley for a memorial service), I’m back with a new NP of the Week and, surprise, it’s based in Seattle and is of personal importance to me. Yes, I use this blog to [...]
Ready for the Weekend Well, folks, DonationPay is taking the weekend off, so I thought I’d leave you with a list of resources for a few non-profit-y things you might be considering in the new year. -One of my personal resolutions this year is to find an organization in town that I can commit to [...]
