What Will Shape the Nonprofit World in 2010? Ideas From The Chronicle’s Twitter Followers

The Chronicle asked its followers on the social-networking Web site Twitter to suggest their ideas for the top trends facing nonprofit groups in 2010. Here are some of the ideas they offered:

“2010 NP Trend? Lots of volunteer interest, but with in-kind donations down, we don’t have enough for the volunteers to do!”
— Paige McDaniel, president, Community Partners of Dallas

“Sadly, see another year of orgs not truly embracing online — doing the shiny stuff, but not moving the needle.”
— Brian Reich, managing director of little m media

“State & local budget cuts deeper. More pain, more people in crisis as sector funds in shorter supply.”
— Gayle L. Gifford, author and activist

“Trend I’m seeing heading into 2010? A decreased amount of increasingly restricted funding from foundations “
— Lisa Miller, development manager, Alexandria, Va.

“More multisector partnerships.”
— Nicole de Beaufort, partner, Fourth Sector Consulting

“Contests/Challenges are an ’09 trend — I think orgs will need to develop more clever ways of mass fund raising in ’10″
— Alison McQuade, online marketing manager, GlobalGiving in Washington

You can find more ideas — and offer your own — by searching Twitter items with the tag #nonprofit2010. The Chronicle of Philanthropy can be found at http://twitter.com/philanthropy.