Introduction to the Domain Name System (DNS)
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Featured Resources
These pieces highlight how organizations across the .ORG community communicate meaningful impact, from long-term transformation to transparent storytelling, while building trust, credibility, and deeper connection with supporters.
Feature: Tom Steinmetz, Executive Director of Healthy Community Initiative (HCI)
For more than 30 years, Healthy Community Initiative (HCI) has worked alongside families, schools, and community partners in Rice County, Minnesota, to help young people turn potential into opportunity.
Letting Go of the Lens
Instead of outsiders telling their story, locals in Malaysian Borneo are grabbing the camera! Green Empowerment’s “community-led storytelling” empowers villagers and gives supporters the authentic, unfiltered connection they crave.
Kula Project: Communicating Long Term Impact with Clarity and Credibility
Explore how Kula Project communicates long-term, transformational impact, sharing practical ways to use milestones, data, and storytelling to build trust and help supporters understand progress over time.
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Connecting for Success: A Networking Guide for Non-Profits
Establishing and nurturing personal and professional networks is imperative. But, prioritizing networking can be challenging, even more so for non-profit leaders. When you’re focused on making the world better, who has time to schedule coffee dates and attend conferences? Plus, even the idea of networking can feel daunting or unappealing. According to this piece in […]
Online Brand Protection for Non-Profits
Presented by Statton Hammock, Vice President, Global Policy and Industry Development, MarkMonitor This video was captured during the .ORG Community Forum held in Washington, DC in October of 2019. Online reputation management protection can shield your brand from many threats. About Statton HammockFor more than 15 years, Statton has provided companies with strategic business advice […]
Mastering Digital Storytelling
Presented by Brian Fanzo, iSocialFanz This video was captured during the .ORG Community Forum held in Washington, DC in October of 2019. How telling your story leveraging video will help you standout from the noise & build a community that will follow you where ever you go! About Brian FanzoBrian Fanzo is a digital futurist […]
Website vs Social Media
Presented by Julia Campbell, J Campbell Social Marketing This video was captured during the .ORG Community Forum held in Washington, DC in October of 2019. These days, virtually all organizations have websites as well as a social media presence. Did you know both have benefits and drawbacks?!? About Julia CampbellJulia Campbell is on a mission […]
NGOs and Data Security: Best Practices for Data Breach Prevention
This post is part of a Public Interest Registry series called “NGOs and Data Security” and is aimed at providing educational insight to noncommercial internet users around different data and information security themes. As more of the world’s information – much of it sensitive and/or personally identifiable – is transferred, stored, and accessed online, people […]
NGOs and Data Security: Developing a Data Breach Action Plan
This post is part of a Public Interest Registry series called “NGOs and Data Security” aimed at providing educational insight to noncommercial internet users around different data and information security themes. If you’ve read Part 1 of this blog series – NGOs and Data Security: Best Practices for Data Breach Prevention – you know that no matter […]
NGOs and Data Security: What to Do in the Aftermath of Data Breach
This post is part of a Public Interest Registry series called “NGOs and Data Security” aimed at providing educational insight to noncommercial internet users around different data and information security themes. Part 1 of this blog series walked through best practices for preventing a data breach and Part 2 discussed the key elements of a data breach response […]
PSA to Non-Profits: GDPR May Apply to You
By Beth Bacon, Director of Policy and Privacy, Public Interest Registry(This article was originally published on Social Fish) If you’ve been keeping up with the news over the past several months, then you’ve likely heard about the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), a data privacy regulation coming out of the European Union that goes into effect […]
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