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Organizations with Active Fundraising Boards More Likely to Meet Goal
The Nonprofit Research Collaborative (NRC) finds a direct association between active fundraising by nonprofit board members and the organization meeting its fundraising goals. Sixty percent of organizations where board members help with fundraising met their 2011 fundraising goal, compared with just 53 percent of organizations without board member engagement, a statistically significant difference given the sample size.
Read more...Eleven More Families Sign 'Giving Pledge'
The Giving Pledge has announced that eleven more families have signed on to the campaign, bringing to ninety-two the total number of pledge signatories.
Read more...Sage Links with MobileCause
Sage North America plans to integrate a cloud-based application from MobileCause with its fundraising products. The deal will enable Sage to provide mobile fundraising applications to nonprofit customers. The cloud-based MobileCause app will first be integrated with Sage Millennium and later with Sage Fundraising Online and Fundraising 50. Read more...
Tom Thornton New COO at JMT Consulting
During the summer, Tom Thornton became chief operating officer at JMT Consulting, a reseller specializing in nonprofit accounting. Thornton had been VP of business development from April 2011 through July and moved to the COO spot of the Patterson, N.Y.-based company in June (apparently with a month of overlap). Thornton was JMT's VP of sales from 2010 through July 2010 and then took the position of VP of community solutions with Nfocus Software before returning. Meanwhile (catching up on news that didn't come to my attention) in May former JMT president Kent Hollrah took the position of Orange Leap, where his job is as "chief architect of the partner program" according to his LinkedIn page.
Read more...Former Convio CEO Gene Austin Out at Blackbaud
Blackbaud announced the appointment of Joseph (Joe) D. Moye as president of its Enterprise Customer Business Unit (ECBU). Moye will replace Gene Austin, who has decided to leave Blackbaud effective September 7th to pursue new opportunities. Moye will begin his Blackbaud tenure on October 1st and will be based at the company's Austin, Texas location
Read more...Overall Charitable Giving Up 0.2% in July and Online Giving Up 5.3%
Electricity Cost Comparison Made Simple
Power2Switch enables businesses and residents to reduce their energy costs by switching electricity providers. The free website enables electricity customers to comparison shop all available rates in one place and make a switch to a lower rate. Customers should expect an annual savings of up to 27% for traditional energy sources, or up to 15% for renewable (wind, solar) energy sources. Read more...
EffectiveUI Spearheads Online Reporting for Water For People
EffectiveUI, Inc., a leading user experience (UX) agency, partnered with Water For People, an international nonprofit organization dedicated to providing access to improved water and sanitation systems and services in developing countries, to create a reporting platform as part of its Re-imagine Reporting initiative. Water For People's CEO, Ned Breslin, will demonstrate a prototype of the online reporting platform at the "Judge Us By Our Outcomes" session during World Water Week in Stockholm on August 28.
Read more...Dwolla partners with reddit and Stripe to help 12 Charities
"If I were asked to define humanity, for better or worse, I think I would point to reddit," says Dwolla's blog
Read more...Xero Offers to Lift Nonprofits to the Cloud
Xero, a provider of online accounting software, today pledged its commitment to help organizations that help others. Xero is offering a 25% discount on its Business Edition accounting software through xero.com to better serve non-profits (NPOs) and help them stay fiscally organized.
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