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UPDATE: Benton Toolkit 3/9/98
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Date: Mon, 09 Mar 1998 12:17:36 -0500
From: Jillaine Smith
Benton Best Practices Toolkit UPDATE: 9 March 1998
Benton's "Best Practices Toolkit" (http://www.benton.org/Practice/Toolkit) is a list of Internet and other resources aimed at helping nonprofits make better use of information and communications technologies in their work.
If someone forwarded this message to you and you'd like to receive this
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New items in the Toolkit between 2/24/98 and 3/9/98:
Our Top Ten Recommendations
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Finally! Opportunity NOCs, a job-finding service of the San Francisco Management Center, has gone national (http://www.opportunitynocs.org/). Some cities' listings are more extensive than others, but this is a great service, done by people who have been promoting nonprofit careers for years.
Phil Agre has added "Against Chain-Letter Petitions on the Internet," an article he wrote explaining why he thinks they're an ineffective tool on the Internet. (http://weber.ucsd.edu/~pagre/petitions.html).
.NETPULSE (http://www.politicsonline.com/news) is a newsletter from PoliticsOnline about political uses of the Internet, delivered either by web or by email. Highlights of the website include The Toolbox - a guide to various ways political activists can use the web, Talkback - a place to share your thoughts on the Internet's use in politics, and Best of the Web
Web pages with great tools for nonprofits
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Jeff Hallett, continuing his tech series for Philanthropy Journal, has written "Banner ads, Web traffic and value" (http://www.philanthropy-journal.org/tech/hallett60298.htm). [Source: Nonprofit Online News]
Guidestar: the Donor's Guide to the Nonprofit Universe (http://www.guidestar.org) has great resources including a weekly news service, a resource section with links to nonprofit research, and a classified section for nonprofits to add requests, such as for volunteers or for services. They have also recently added an online database of nonprofit-related conferences. (http://www.guidestar.org/conference/conference.html) [which means that I'll stop updating the one I started a couple of weeks ago... Jillaine]
Eric Ward has posted his overheads and notes from his presentation at the 1998 Nonprofits Online entitled "Hawking Your Message in the Virtual Marketplace: Using the Web as a Marketing Tool" (http://www.netpost.com/speaking/npodc/private.html). [Source: Nonprofit Online News]
Martin Kelley, of The Nonviolence Web, has compiled "How to Use the Internet for Organizing" that can be useful to almost any organization. (http://www.nonviolence.org/support/). [Source: Nonprofit Online News]
The Nonprofit Managers' Library (http://www.mapnp.org/library) facilitates sharing of free, on-line and how-to management resources among nonprofits -- including, fundraising and grantwriting, marketing and public relations, using the Internet, and evaluation. The library is administered by The Management Assistance Program (MAP) for Nonprofits in St. Paul, Minnesota.
While prepared for schools, "A School's Guide to Getting On-Line" contains good information for any organization. (http://la.saic.com/online_guide.html)
Jayne Cravens has recently written "Introducing New Technology Successfully into an Agency." (http://www.coyotecom.com/database/techbuy.html). [Source: Nonprofit Online News]
Nonprofit-related electronic newsletters
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The Foundation Center publishes electronically its Philanthropy News Digest (http://fdncenter.org/phil/philmain.html) every week, highlighting philanthropy-related news from other print and electronic periodicals nationwide. Subscribe via the web site.
Action Without Border's IdeaList site maintains a directory of free or low-cost computer resources for nonprofit organizations. (http://www.idealist.org/orgs/cmptr2.htm). [Source: Nonprofit Online News]
Since 1991, the Drucker Foundation has offered the Peter F. Drucker Award for Nonprofit Innovation. The award seeks programs and projects that exemplify innovation as defined by Peter Drucker: "change that creates a new dimension of performance." The award is presented each fall, and is accompanied by a $25,000 price. The 1998 nomination form is available at http://www.pfdf.org, and the deadline for applications is June1, 1998.
Nonprofit Technical Assistance Providers
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iComm (http://www.iComm.ca) is a Canadian non-profit organization providing Internet access, services and support to other non-profit, charitable and community organizations worldwide. Since June 1995 they have helped more than 200 community groups at no charge.
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