| How Has Interactivity Made a Difference? |
| Written by Jennifer Flaten | |
 Fostering strong relationships with donors is essential to the survival of a non-profit. For the longest time, non-profits relied on newsletters and other mailing to reach out to their donor base. Rising costs in both printing and mailing forced many non-profits to limit the number of mailings, which non-profits feared would damage their relationship with their constituents. So, they turned to email.
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| FundRaiser Basic Software |
| Written by Karen Corey | |
 FundRaiser Basic Software (www.fundraiserbasic.com ) is designed to assist small nonprofit organizations with their donor and donation management. This solution allows the user to keep all donor information in one location and eliminates the need for numerous spreadsheets. This software has flexible and customizable coding capabilities. A nonprofit organization can store all constituent data and history in one database.
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| Trends in Online Giving and How to Use Them to Your Advantage |
| Written by Lorna Doone Brewer | |
 The information in this article comes from a presentation titled "Your Donor in the World Economy" delivered recently by The CashLINQ Group, that provides merchant services and software solutions for nonprofits, ministries, and small-to-medium businesses.
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| Blackbaud Social Launches to Help Nonprofits |
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| Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) has announced the launch of Blackbaud SocialTM, a new offering that provides social media solutions for nonprofits to create both private-label and public socially-enabled communities. It is the only integrated social platform that offers organizations an easy way to extend their mission, access user data, and leverage it for meaningful constituent engagement. | |
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| FailFaire Gives NP Tech Experts a Forum to Discuss Failure |
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| The New York Times is reporting that non profit technology experts routinely get together in an event known as FailFaire to discuss failure and how to learn from it. | |
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Blackbaud Social Launches to Help NonprofitsBlackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) has announced the launch of Blackbaud SocialTM, a new offering that provides social media solutions for nonprofits to create both private-label and public socially-enabled communities. It is the only integrated social platform that offers organizations an easy way to extend their mission, access user data, and leverage it for meaningful constituent engagement. News | Friday, 27 August 2010 |
CAFAmerica Launches Donor Advised Fund to Invest Giving Proceeds from “The Gumpathon”CAFAmerica, a member organization of the UK-based Charities Aid Foundation international network of offices, today announced that it has created a new Donor Advised Fund (DAF) to allow Americans to support the movie-inspired "Gumpathon" marathon across the United States (http://www.thegumpathon.com/index.php). News | Friday, 27 August 2010 |
Celebrity-Driven Auction Site ClubCharity.com Partners with Toronto Blue Jays Star Vernon WellsClubCharity.com (www.clubcharity.com), an online auction site for celebrity and corporate charitable giving founded by CharityBids.org and visionary entrepreneur Robert L. Johnson, today announced its launch in Canada through a partnership with Toronto Blue Jays centerfielder Vernon Wells. To kick off the partnership, ClubCharity.com is auctioning a Toronto Blue Jays helmet signed by Wells and covered in Swarovski crystals. Proceeds will... News | Friday, 27 August 2010 |
Industry Growth and Specialization Spur Increase in Sage MIPSage North America announced today the addition of four business partners representing its Sage MIP Fund Accounting nonprofit financial management software. ADSS Global of Exton, Penn., JOSEPH EVE of Great Falls, Mon., Kernutt Stokes Brandt & Co. LLP of Eugene, Ore., and Kerr Consulting & Support of Houston, Texas, were recently certified on the software. Resellers and accountants increasingly view... News | Friday, 27 August 2010 |
bly|Apps Extended Solutions Available from BlythecoDevBlythecoDev, the development division of Blytheco, LLC, is pleased to announce that Sage Extended Solutions are now "bly|Apps." Blytheco will upgrade the top-selling 170 former Sage Extended Solutions to Version 4.4 and beyond within 12 months as part of bly|Apps, the BlythecoDev suite of products that includes the former Sage Extended Solutions, bly|Mobile, and other enhancements to Sage ERP products.... News | Friday, 20 August 2010 |
Waterfall Mobile Partners With mGiveWaterfall Mobile, the leader in digital messaging software, announced today it has partnered with mGive, the leading provider of mobile services to non-profit organizations, to offer mobile giving to its clients. mGive is a proven technology platform that powers the mobile giving process for non-profit organizations. This new strategic partnership brings industry leading mobile giving functionality to Waterfall Mobile's current... News | Friday, 20 August 2010 |
Blackbaud Receives Green Business Pioneer AwardBlackbaud, Inc (Nasdaq: BLKB), the leading global provider of nonprofit software and services, is rounding out the third quarter with a continued focus on its core value of "making the world a better place." As a result of its many employee-led initiatives, Blackbaud was named a Green Business Pioneer by the City of Charleston and the Charleston County Council. The... News | Friday, 20 August 2010 |
Target Analytics Launches ProspectResearch.com, for Fundraising ProfessionalsTarget Analytics, a Blackbaud company, (Nasdaq: BLKB), has announced the launch of ProspectResearch.com, a site designed specifically for prospect researchers and fundraising professionals. The site will focus on fostering new ideas for research practices and promoting the benefits of prospect research in fundraising. The company is also announcing its involvement with the Association of Prospect Researchers for Advancement (APRA) at... News | Thursday, 5 August 2010 |
Welch Allyn Employees Participate in “A Show of Hands” Volunteer CampaignWelch Allyn, a leading global manufacturer of frontline medical products and solutions, sent over 400 employee volunteers to over 20 non-profit organizations across central New York today as part of its new "A Show of Hands" corporate social responsibility (CSR) campaign. Another 200 employees were stationed at the company's headquarters assembling international aid, school supply and homeless shelter care kits.... News | Thursday, 5 August 2010 |
BlackbaudTV Provides Online Video Portal for NonprofitsBlackbaud, Inc (Nasdaq: BLKB) has announced the launch of BlackbaudTV, a new resource for the nonprofit community, with videos featuring nonprofit news, technology tools and tips, philanthropy in action, Blackbaud customers, partners, and events. News | Thursday, 5 August 2010 |
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About the Author: Dianne Crampton is Group Development Consultant and Leadership Coach. For the past twenty years she has helped not-for-profit leaders and their teams learn how to work well together to consistently achieve goals with high levels of group and individual satisfaction. She is also the founder of the TIGERS group development model. The model addresses six collaborative core values necessary for creating an ethical, quality-focused and successful team culture. The values are trust, interdependence, genuineness, empathy, risk and success. The TIGERS model passed a rigorous validation study through Gonzaga University and was Crampton’s dissertation for her Master’s of Arts designation in Organizational Leadership. As president of TIGERS Success Series, Dianne has published in a business anthology endorsed by Stephen Covey and written for trade magazines. Merrill Lynch nominated her business for Inc. Magazine’s regional small business and entrepreneurial awards. Her work with Native Americans was recognized at a United Nations sponsored conference in 1994. Dianne is also the creator and distributor of the TIGERS Team Wheel game. This game helps Board Chairs and Executive Directors identify behaviors that build collaborative groups and behaviors that cause conflict, morale problems, production failures, and misunderstandings. For more information go to http://www.corevalues.com/Game.htm |
Not for profit organizations typically have great causes, but that doesn't mean anyone in the organization is an email marketing expert. Yet email marketing is becoming more critical for fundraising and generating awareness. The placement of elements on the page, the font choice, even the colors you use all create an impression before the recipient reads a single word of text. So you want to be sure the impression you're creating is a good one.
When you run a nonprofit organization, it can seem like your days are full, solving one urgent problem after another. Looking and planning ahead is more than just a pipe dream; it's something that we often fail to even take into consideration. With the constant need to focus on the present, it's far too easy to avoid planning for the future.
Investing in technology and selecting new software is a major decision for any organization, as it can significantly impact its day-to-day activities. It can be especially challenging to complete an implementation on time and under budget, while improving operational processes. Non-profits should consider the following best practices to make their future software implementations a success.
When it comes to nonprofits, there is no shortage of "need." In fact, most exist to fill a need in our communities, whether they be local (a neighborhood food pantry serving the poor), national (a huge organization funding the search for a cure to a disease), or global (protecting the world's oceans from pollution). Of course, each of these organizations has needs of its own. Heck, there are nonprofit organizations that exist just to fill the needs of other nonprofits.
Having recently put together both a web site and some print materials for a personal project, I was confronted with the reality that not all graphic file formats are created equal. This is something that I've known in theory for years, but this was a good reminder that not everyone is aware of the differences among JPEG, GIF, TIFF, EPS, and others.
Donors are the lifeblood of a non-profit, and keeping their information secure is critical to the success of the non-profits. And there are several ways to protect donor data.
