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Firstgiving Adds Youtube and Flickr Capability to its Web Pages
Firstgiving, a leader in providing Web-based fundraising services for individuals and charities, today announced the ability for its users to add YouTube™ video and Flickr photos to their personal Web pages. Mark Sutton, Chief Executive Officer of Firstgiving stated, “Experience shows us that the more personal the appeal, the more successful the fundraiser. Therefore, we made it easy for people raising money on Firstgiving to add their personal videos and photos to their fundraising pages.” The end result he says is more people raising more money for their favorite charitable causes.
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Nonprofit Organizations Adopt MPower's Free Open Source Relationship Management Software
More than 200 charitable organizations as well as consulting firms and professionals working in the philanthropic community now have downloaded MPower - the most open, flexible, and powerful, constituent relationship management (CRM) software for nonprofits - since it became available as an open source offering without licensing fees on March 11. (MPower is available for free downloading and use at http://www.mpoweropen.com .)
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Cisco Systems to Host Third TechSoup NetSquared Conference
2008 Event to Focus on Mashup Challenge
Nonprofit technology provider TechSoup (www.techsoup.org) has announced the third annual NetSquared Conference (N2Y3). As in the past two years, the two-day event (http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference) continues the tradition of "remixing the Web for social change." It will bring together innovators in social benefit initiatives, business models, funding for philanthropic initiatives, software development, and technology to advance social change around the globe using social Web tools. This year's event will focus on mashups and how this technology is driving a wave of opportunities (and challenges) for nonprofit organizations to leverage the sea of information on the Web to create change. Read more...
Nonprofit technology provider TechSoup (www.techsoup.org) has announced the third annual NetSquared Conference (N2Y3). As in the past two years, the two-day event (http://www.netsquared.org/2008/conference) continues the tradition of "remixing the Web for social change." It will bring together innovators in social benefit initiatives, business models, funding for philanthropic initiatives, software development, and technology to advance social change around the globe using social Web tools. This year's event will focus on mashups and how this technology is driving a wave of opportunities (and challenges) for nonprofit organizations to leverage the sea of information on the Web to create change. Read more...
Kintera Launches First Connect Developer's Challenge
Kintera® Inc. has announced its Connect Developer’s Challenge. The contest, sponsored by Kintera, is designed to provide nonprofits with innovative solutions to meet their business and technology needs.
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Software Helps Nonprofits Match Donors to Their Mission
Tracking donors and volunteers got a little easier for nonprofits with the help of a Phoenix-based company’s newest product. MatchMaker FundRaising Software Enterprise Edition from Heritage Designs is software that helps nonprofits track the lifeblood of their organizations – their donors.
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Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Best Practices Outlined by ASI
Integration of New Techniques Allows Improved Reach, Reduced Overhead, Increased Participation through Online Campaigning
Advanced Solutions International (ASI), the leading global provider of web-based software for associations and non-profits, today made public a set of best practices for using online tools – particularly peer-to-peer fundraising applications – to increase donor participation, reach new donors, and drastically reduce campaign launch time, administration and overhead.
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Advanced Solutions International (ASI), the leading global provider of web-based software for associations and non-profits, today made public a set of best practices for using online tools – particularly peer-to-peer fundraising applications – to increase donor participation, reach new donors, and drastically reduce campaign launch time, administration and overhead.
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The Global Fund for Children Wins Inaugural MacArthur Competition for Digital Learning
304 Grassroots Children's Organizations in 65 Countries to Share Knowledge
The Global Fund for Children (GFC) has been selected as one of 17 winners of the first-ever Digital Media and Learning Competition, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and administered by HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). Selected from a pool of 1,010 applications by a panel of distinguished judges, the winning projects are expected to produce promising innovations in the use of digital media for learning. Read more...
The Global Fund for Children (GFC) has been selected as one of 17 winners of the first-ever Digital Media and Learning Competition, funded by the John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation and administered by HASTAC (the Humanities, Arts, Science, and Technology Advanced Collaboratory). Selected from a pool of 1,010 applications by a panel of distinguished judges, the winning projects are expected to produce promising innovations in the use of digital media for learning. Read more...
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- Monday, 11 February 2008
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Metafile Information Systems, Inc. resultsplus! is a leading fundraising software designed to track donors, prospects, pledges, members, grants, gifts and solicitations for non-profit organizations.
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According to Giving USA 2007, charitable bequests totaled an estimated $22.91 billion in 2006. As in recent years, these charitable bequests made up less than eight percent of the estimated total giving that year. But research shows that one in three individuals would be willing to consider having a charity named in his or her will. Read more...
According to Giving USA 2007, charitable bequests totaled an estimated $22.91 billion in 2006. As in recent years, these charitable bequests made up less than eight percent of the estimated total giving that year. But research shows that one in three individuals would be willing to consider having a charity named in his or her will. Read more...
Kintera Connect Partner Creates E-Commerce Integration
Kintera® Inc. has announced that Kintera Connect partner Solid Cactus®, an award-winning Web design company and total solutions e-commerce provider, has created an integration between Yahoo! Merchant Solutions Stores and Kintera’s donor management solution. The integration enables nonprofits using both applications to get a more comprehensive view of donors and their e-commerce purchases.
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