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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

posted by Seth Cothrun, Class 9, American Express Leadership Academy at the ASU Lodestar Center. Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? percent in 2009. percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. We just saw this.

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How’s that donor database of yours?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DonorPro and NEON CRM are at the top of the class, and will, I’m sure, get into Harvard Med. But its safe to say that these are good contenders, and did well. Last but not least, the grading. Who’s going to get into med school? Donor Perfect, CiviCRM and Antharia’s On Deposit have solid A’s, and will for sure get in.

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Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Anyway, SugarCRM is basically “enterprise class&# CRM, and is worth a look. { I’ve been hearing good things about SugarCRM from organizations that use it. It also gets kudos from NTEN’s satisfaction survey (it came in third, after CiviCRM and Salesforce.) 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 04.20.08

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Ubuntu open week

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Ubuntu open week November 26, 2006 Next week is Ubuntu Open Week , a series of events and classes about Ubuntu Linux , and for people interested in getting involved in Ubuntu.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’m developing a class about WEB 2.0 and nonprofits I’d love your input! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It is an enterprise-class client/server CRM, and has the kind of features you see in such packages as Blackbaud’s Raiser’s Edge. This post gives me the chance to finally write the very belated post on MPower I’ve been meaning to write since I got back from NTC. MPower is not a new product.

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Technology providers and Linux

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In their words: “CentOS is an Enterprise-class Linux Distribution derived from sources freely provided to the public by a prominent North American Enterprise Linux vendor. Debian or Ubuntu are just as “Enterprise-class&# as RHEL without Red Hat behind it. I had not heard of it until then. CentOS is a bit of an odd beast.

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