Announcements - Week of October 21, 2009

Affiliate News

• UCP of Orange County: New Chief Executive Officer.
• UCP of Central Arizona: YouTube - Teamwork with Circle K and other Sponsors
  
• UCP Land of Lincoln: Welcome to the opening of Gone For Good Document Destruction business. UCPLL celebrates National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the AbilityOne Program.
• UCP of the North Bay: WineBev - A Social Enterpise Subsidiary Employs People with Disabilities
  
• UCP of Greater Houston: 12^th Annual John Granato Celebrity Golf Classic (November 19, 2009).
• UCP of Mobile: Goldstein's Holiday Diamond Dig Date Announced.
• UCP of San Joaquin, Calaveras & Amador Counties: Recordnet.com - Three firms honored for helping new S.J. mothers.

Conferences/Summits

• Including Samuel: Official invitation/contest to attend the National Youth Inclusion Summit in Washington, DC (January 9-10, 2010). Anyone ages 12-21 who hosts an Including Samuel Movie Party can apply to attend the National Youth Inclusion Summit in Washington DC. Those selected will receive two nights’ lodging and one round-trip ticket from anywhere in the continenal United States to attend the Summit (application deadline: November 6, 2009).

Other News

• Internal Revenue Service: The New Form 990 - Getting Started - Video Series Introduction.
• Disability Scoop: Education Secretary Won't Accept Status Quo For Students With Disabilities.
• Disability Scoop: Obama Seeks Additional $250 Stimulus Payments For People With Disabilities.
• Disability Scoop: Advocates Worry That Autism Is Stealing The Show.

Marketing News

• Getting to the Point - Helping Nonprofits Succeed Through Effective Marketing: 13 Nonprofits Honored for Outstanding Taglines - "Nothing Stops a Bullet Like a Job" Pulls Top Honors for Homeboy Industries

Fundraising News

• Katya's Nonprofit Marketing Blog: Your supporter is a participant, not an audience.
• Katya's Nonprofit Marketing Blog: What your donor is really thinking - inside her mind.
• Step By Step Fundraising: Fundraising Training Events, Teleseminars for Fall 2009.
• Doing Good Things Well: What Do You Care About?
• TechSoup: Fundraising Week 3 - Donation Processing and Accounting.
• Convio (PDF): Toolbox for the Modern Nonprofit - Donor Management Made Easy. Is your donor database the source of more headaches than contributions? Missing data. Lost contacts. Unwieldy reports. Sound familiar? Managing your data and supporter relationships shouldn't be painful. If your database system has seen better days, it may be time to ease the pain and consider a flexible, easy-to-use system that fits your organization.

Social Networking/Web 2.0

• WebProNews: Balancing Blogs And Twitter (Blogger turns 10 years old)
  

• Beth's Blog - How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: June Holley and The Art of Being Rhizomatic (The Practice of Network Weaving).
• Beth's Blog - How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media: Can Networks Have Social Impact?
• Beth's Blog - How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media (Video): What do Twitter, Books, Wine, and Fundraisers have in Common?
• Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog: Mixed Links - Good Stuff for Nonprofit Communicators.
• CNN: Does your social class determine your online social network?
• Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) (Audio): Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission - Recap and Recordings of the ONTC.
• Web 2.0 - A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits: 29 Nonprofit Bloggers to Follow on Twitter.
• Philanthropy 411 Blog: 130 Foundations That Tweet.
• Blogher: 10 Elements of an Effective Nonprofit or Do-Good Blog.