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Your organization is doing great work, but you may not always be telling that story in a way that resonates with potential donors and other supporters.

In It's Not You, It's Your Stories at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference, Steve Daigneault (VP of eCampaigns at M&R Strategic Services) and Sue Citro (Director of Digital Strategy, Global Programs at The Nature Conservancy) shared their tips for telling better and more effective stories.

TechSoup and GrantStation are pleased to present a special offer for eligible U.S. public libraries and nonprofit organizations to help you become a successful grant seeker. Connect to thousands of grants and other funding opportunities with a specially discounted membership to GrantStation.

Last month in Philadelphia, the Edge Coaltion had plenty of opportunities to learn what librarians and staff from libraries big and small thought about the benchmarks being created to support public access technology.

Hopefully you know about the free webinars we offer every month here at TechSoup. I just wanted to give props to the great job that the Texas State Library's Library Development & Networking Division does in gathering up and posting free webinars for the library community. I find interesting sessions listed on their blog every month!

On Thursday, April 26 at 11 a.m. Pacific time, we are holding our second webinar in collaboration with the Foundation Center, Toolkit Essentials: Finding Funders for Your Cause. This webinar is designed to answer one of the most frequently asked question at the Foundation Center: “How do I find funders that are interested in my cause?”

This roster of shocking statistics about wasting paper was originally part of TechSoup's GreenTech Initiative's Reduce Your Paper Use challenge.

These statistics, we hope, convey why it is so important to conserve paper in your organization's office.

April 22-28 is Preservation Week @ your library. Libraries, museums, archives and other organizations help preserve our cultural history. Over 4.8 billion artifacts are held in public trust in the United States. During Preservation Week, libraries offer events, activities, and resources that showcase how to preserve our personal and shared collections.

According to the EPA, buildings consume 40% of the energy used in the U.S. and 72% of the electricity generated. There is a direct link between the amount of energy your library consumes and the annual operating expenses for your building. Once you manage your library's energy consumption and loss, your utility expenditures will go down, allowing funding to be directed to other programs.

Big congratulations go to the Norton Public Library in Norton, MA whose teens helped create the creative winning video, 12 Things to Do in a Library. 

If you've ever been involved in creating something the public sees or uses, you know how setting it free feels: you're vulnerable, you want others to believe in it, to see what you see, you want positive feedback. For me, I want to know what people think. To really know, even if it's negative, because that's important information I can use.