Capacity-building tools Tuesday (September 11, 2018)

DonorPerfect's Giving Tuesday 2018 is useful for those working for a nonprofit. The guide, which can be downloaded in PDF, also includes several training opps. One such opportunity is How To Set Up Your Online Donation Forms, September 26.
Study: Gen Z likely to buoy email as a favored channel is good for organizations of all kinds. Businesses, nonprofits, government, and formal and informal community groups can benefit from this report from 2017. One finding, for example, is "Email is so essential, important and entrenched in the lives of people today that it is nearly impossible to imagine life without it - Email isn’t going away, 83% of Generation Z respondents believe their email usage will stay the same or increase in the next 5 years."
Social Media Today reports Twitter Rolls Out Audio-Only Live-Streams on Twitter and Periscope.
NPR is getting rid of some of its news blogs (with more blog "changes" to come). Better check those bookmarks.

If Nonprofits Can Pay More, Why Don't They?
In This Data Shows Who Grabs the Mic at Public Planning Meetings, Jared Brey discusses the paper Racial Disparities in Housing Politics: Evidence from Administrative Data by Boston University professors Katherine Levine Einstein, Maxwell Palmer, and David Glick. It shouldn't be any surprise that individuals who are white, wealthy, and homeowners are over-represented at planning and zoning meetings and hearings. Brey also considers the paper Who Participates in Local Government? Evidence from Meeting Minutes
by the same professors. The takeaway, from Brey's article:
She [Katherine Levine Einstein], says their analysis confirms the widely held impressions that NIMBYs tend to be older, whiter and wealthier than their typical neighbors. She hopes it provides some empirical evidence for policymakers who are thinking about how to make public participation in development more democratic.

Communicating the State of Your River: Basin Report Cards and the Swim Guide, September 25. Free.
Nonprofits Count! Preparing for Census 2020, September 20. Free.
Wild Apricot's 46 Free Nonprofit Webinars for September 2018 is another winner. Faves September 16-30 are Playing by the Rules: Creating an Effective Volunteer Handbook (September 18), 10 "Magic Wand" Questions to Transform Your Good Ideas Into Great Grant-Funded Projects! (September 20), and The Power of Community: Why Social Media Isn't Enough (September 25).
Connecting and Allying with the Disability Rights Movement, September 26. Free.