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Mark Becker founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions. Keep your data clean. Additional Fundraising Resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

Here’s a tidbit of a Infoworld report about the study: By one measure — “value added,&# which the report defines as “an industry’s gross output minus its purchased intermediate inputs&# — the fair use economy is greater than the copyright economy. economic growth and almost 11 million American jobs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

You might hear them say things like: It’s difficult to run reports and get the information they need when they need it. If your organization’s peer-to-peer fundraising team doesn’t seem to be working as efficiently as it seems like it should be, it might be time for new software. Contact Cathexis Partners today.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

First – thanks to both of ou for blogging about the report. We certainly hope that now the folks have seen what these reports are about, it will boost participation in future surveys to make the data even more valuable. [link] 4 Holly 12.17.07 at 11:33 am Hi Michelle and David!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology News from NTC ‘08 March 20, 2008 I’ve been having a great time here at NTC – running into lots of folks I’m happy to see again, and meet, learning about new things, being involved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

The data warehouse initiative is to allow their customers access to large amounts of data for reporting and data mining. Basically, third parties will be able to build applications which will allow two-way communication into the platform. The APIs will be without cost. That part looks very interesting. - Non-Profit Tech Blog 08.17.07

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2019

Blackbaud’s latest Charitable Giving Report sheds light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. According to the latest research from Blackbaud’s Charitable Giving Report : The average donor retention rates for first-year offline-only donors is 29%. Their donor file has quintupled since 2008.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2014

When the economy crashed in 2008, we all felt the negative impact, including K-12 private schools. Use True Admission Office Databases. They were moving away from the world of Excel and Access and bringing in software partners who offered admission-centric databases. This allowed for sound, data-driven strategic decisions.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

Not about how many hours you spent at the client office, or how many reports you wrote. His examples are things like saving millions by reducing employee turnover, increasing profits by streamlining processes, etc. Really, what he thinks is that these forms of billing reduce the fees you can charge.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 14, 2009

Forms sent go to email, or a separate database, and someone manually enters that data into the CRM. Data from the CRM is manually reported and put up on the CMS. There are four strategies that can be used for this integration: Manual. The old fashioned form of integration. It’s amazing how much this still needs to be done.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

There are 5 elements key to an effective transfer or exchange of knowledge, the report suggests: Audience, Message, Method, Messenger, and Evaluation: Audience. in combination with the other delivery methods tailored to your particular audience and message, such as reports, newsletters, fact sheets, etc., June 6, 2008 10:41 PM.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

If your offline database tracking activities can communicate with your online system (whether through data syncing or old-school spreadsheet downloading and uploading) you have a great wealth of information at your fingertips. Ask folks what they are interested in and use that information to change what you report about.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

Earlier this year, a group of informal science researchers, led by Rick Bonney of the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, published an extremely useful report on public participation in science research (PPSR). In this report, the authors describe three specific models for public participation: contribution, collaboration, and co-creation.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

Adrian Sargeant says “a 10% increase in donor retention can increase the lifetime value of your donor database by 200%.”. But at the heart of it all is an ask-thank-report-back strategy as power plant. And they regularly maintain and update their database. Their donor file has quintupled since 2008. There are no silos.

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Forj

DECEMBER 29, 2017

Reporting CE issuance to accreditors is also a mess (are you familiar with PARS? ). There are other projects underway to solve it, including the MedBiquitous Activity Report standard and (in a sense) the Mozilla Open Badges project. This profile will promote standardization in how simulators report over the Internet to databases.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

You ignore it until you need something from it, then throw it a cheap spreadsheet, change the font, add a border, and make it sit in a report for people to stare at. It can be difficult to extract it from time to time, but it's usually sitting in the databases and spreadsheets we use every day. It's feast or famine. Big problems.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

This part of the stack includes web servers (Apache), database engines (MySQL, Postgres), version control (SVN, Git), programming languages and frameworks (PHP, Ruby, Zend). . This can mean purchasing of open source development companies (Sun MIcrosystems -- now owned by Oracle -- purchased open source database developer MySQL AB in 2008).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 17, 2007

This free report is found on their site at HTTP://www.webconferencingcouncil.com. Check out the appliance at [link] 15 Brian 04.10.09 at 3:31 pm The best resource on the web for finding the right web conferencing vendor, solution, or product is the annual product reviews and Top Ten list from the Web Conferencing Council.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members’ names. Don’t forget your Constituent Database. Think carefully about your constituents when setting up your database or management tool. Helpful resources on Twitter: Pew Internet report. design: is it clean?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2023

The more data that your organization preserves about applicants and grantees, the more your GMS can simultaneously function as a CRM that can actively build reports, generate direct communications with grantees, and export buckets of data. Need a list of scholarship recipients who graduated from Harvard between 2008 and 2018?

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 17, 2009

Today, Stephanie Strom, Philanthropy reporter for The New York Times did a nice article around data from the Convio system that shows, at least behaviorally, the year-end tax deadline makes a big difference in online giving volume and revenue. had more than 365 donations in 2008).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

In 2008, the event netted about $18,000. CC also reported a significantly increased web presence and that it had engaged a much different constituency of young donors that the organization had not seen before—great potential for the future. The cocktail party had an auction and a raffle. Online Metrics as of June 23, 2009.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2008

The Congressional Management Foundation has put out a report on how to improve the state of affairs for communicating electronically with Congress. The report was released on December 8, 2008 (with an interim report published earlier this year in July). clearly state your position.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2008

CRM--short for constituent relationship management--might simply be called a database, but to nonprofits, CRMs are much more than that. Also, NTEN recently published a report on the results of a survey covering CRM satisfaction. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Its available for download here. Hatef editor, frogloop.

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Care2

MAY 15, 2009

opening: do you make your email seem personal, use your database to insert members names design: is it clean? Think carefully about your constituents when setting up your database or management tool. May 15, 2009 | Anne Dougherty Copyright © 2008, Care2.com does it rely on graphics/images? All rights reserved.

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Care2

JULY 10, 2007

Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine | Main | Just a Few Comments on Email Readability from Michael Leuthner » Tuesday Jul 10 2007 Make New Friends, But Keep the Old Tuesday, July 10, 2007 at 11:13AM | by Karen Taggart Reporting live from the DMAW/AFP Bridge Conference i n Washington, DC I love this conference.

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Care2

MAY 31, 2007

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? For example, Fossil (the watch company) reports tripling their email market revenue and increasing conversion rates by 84% after implementing their four-part welcome series.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Austin urged those nonprofits that use Raiser’s Edge as their donor database solution to pressure Blackbaud to publish and open up their API. Copyright © 2008, Care2.com The result is that it’s not as strong an integration, he said. To create a new comment, use the form below. All rights reserved.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2007

60) Search « Care2 Featured in "Greenvertising" Report | Main | Free Range: The Art of Story Telling » Tuesday May 29 2007 Cultivate, Educate or Activate? For example, Fossil (the watch company) reports tripling their email market revenue and increasing conversion rates by 84% after implementing their four-part welcome series.

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Care2

MAY 29, 2009

billion in 2008 to $29.8 At least, that’s the dire prediction of a new study just published in a report by research firm Borrell Associates. For our donor database, we only have email addresses for a small percentage of our contacts and still see a lot of checks coming in via the mail. billion in 2013. All rights reserved.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

It acts as a single database that is customisable, can track program information all in one place, and will allow you to get a complete and real-time view more easily. Since implementing Salesforce in 2008, they have grown their revenue from €7 million to €20 million annually. Reporting on Impact. Going Paperless and Mobile.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 29, 2008

May 29, 2008 NTEN just released their CMS satisfaction survey. Anyway, the survey report, and survey data are worth looking at if you are shopping for a CMS. { Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How’s yer CMS?

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 27, 2010

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 27th, 2010 Blackbaud has conducted its North American State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey annually for six of the past seven years.

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