Thanks to all who submitted their blog posts on the theme of New Year/Old Year for the December Nonprofit Blog Carnival. We received quite a variety of trends, tips, and predictions that I'm sure you will be chewing on for a few days.
Under New Year Resolutions:
The consultants at Beaconfire resolve to Know Yourself and Your Audience. Discover all the ways you can carry that mantra throughout your work.
Karen Zapp proves her copywriting creds with a fanciful riff on an old song while making her New Year resolutions in "Auld Lang Syne" Guides Nonprofits in 2011. Great fun!
Gayle Thorsen of ImpactMax presents 12 New Year's resolutions for nonprofit communicators. This is a very ambitious list that any communicator could adopt as their own.
Fundraiser Jonathan Grapsas digs deep for resolutions in Fundraising Resolutions: Version 2011
We always expect a different twist from Jake Seliger of Grant Writing Confidential, and he didn't fail us. He explains why he doesn't need resolutions and segues into some prognosticating in Not having New Year's Resolutions and Some Predictions for Nonprofits 2011.
Pam McAllister generously dreamed up 7 New Year Wishes for My Friends in Nonprofits. May we all enjoy these benefits in the new year.
Trends and More:
Sherry Truhlar of Red Apple Auctions nails what's to come in Looking ahead to 2011: Trends in Benefit Auctions. One trend is electronic bidding devices. I don't think anyone will miss those bid sheets!
Madeleine Milan of Big Duck has rounded up predictions for the new year from all the little ducks there and produced Ducks Look Back (And Forward). Read about more mobile, infographics, and rebranding.
Nell Edgington of Social Velocity presents 5 Nonprofit Trends to Watch in 2011. Nell is a big vision thinker so don't miss her predictions.
Jono Smith sent along this from the team at Event360: Event Fundraising Strategy & Planning: 10 Tips for 2011. Are you applying the 80/20 rule to your events?
Allyson Kapin of Frogloop asked some top notch experts to name their Game Changing Strategies for Nonprofits in 2011. Check out these gems from the likes of NTEN's Holly Ross and Beth Kanter of Zoetica.
From the world of philanthropy, ace futurist Lucy Bernholz of Philanthropy 2173 delivered a decade's worth of predictions in Ten for the next 10: 2010 - 2020. Lucy delves into the factors/forces shaping philanthropy during the second decade of the 21st century.
Not to be outdone, Sean Stannard-Stockton of Tactical Philanthropy leaps out to 2033 in Philanthropy Predictions: Giving in 2033. Learn about social stock exchanges.
Looking Back
Allison Jones looked back to tell us about Six events that got us talking about nonprofits in 2010. Nonprofit is definitely top of the mind and the news...for better or worse. Jones highlights the big news events of 2010 and how they brought attention to nonprofit causes, advances, and needs.
Whew! There is a lot here to think about. Enjoy!
P.S.
Issue Lab's Footnotes blog will host the January Carnival. Get all the details at Nonprofit Blog Carnival: Call for Posts on Openness
Comments
You should checkout ConnectToCharity.com, they appear to have some pretty neat solutions and look like they are paving the future for online solutions for nonprofits, donors and fundraisers.
Here is an article I found which is very interesting…
Connect To Charity addresses nonprofit challenges in 2011 (http://www.articlesbase.com/non-profit-organizations-articles/connect-to-charity-addresses-nonprofit-challenges-in-2011-3859353.html)
Nice choices, Joanne!
At the Nonprofit Law Blog, we published two posts that may be relevant:
Top 10 Events of 2010 (impacting the nonprofit sector) – http://bit.ly/hYF3bZ
5 New Year’s Resolutions for Nonprofits – http://bit.ly/hxaIsd
Thanks, Gene and Sherry for these other New Year lists.