It Gets Better: Dan and Terry (some language is NSFW) I’m sure everyone has heard by now about Tyler Clementi’s heartbreaking suicide (with an assist from his incredibly cruel, amoral roommates) and probably has heard about all the other recent suicides of bullied teenagers. I’ll not launch into my personal feelings on this whole topic, [...]
My very first post as Donation Pay’s least consistent (and only) blogger was basically a love letter to The Uniform Project, a non-profit that appeals deeply to my respect of shrewd marketing, transparent fundraising, savvy use of various online platforms and, of course, fashion. The original concept of The Uniform Project, for the uninitiated, is [...]
And I hope you do too. . . Because I am an intermittent blogger at best, I end up accruing a large number of interesting gems from the Interwebs and elsewhere that I intend to share or reference later in my blog and then sometimes get lost in the shuffle. I always think I’m going [...]
Detroit is Pretty Awesome, You Guys Well, it’s been a light week for the blog, because I am vacationing (and very successfully, thankyouverymuch) in Detroit, to help ring in my best friends brand new masters degree in graphic design. Since I’ve already written a bit on the topic of web design this week, I thought, [...]
Kivi Miller and Her Fantastic Blog This post is not much of a much, just another rousing endorsement of one of our fellow non-profit bloggers- Kivi Miller. Kivi is an excellent writer and an expert in non-profit marketing development and management. She teaches workshops, keeps an extremely informative blog and is generally badass in the [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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. [...]
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 [...]
