Double the Donation

JUNE 10, 2021

Go through the online process. How many questions am I asked during the registration or donation process (and do we really need to ask all of them)? Make sure there are standard processes on communications used after someone commits to your cause. Some things to consider: Create a process for communicating with team captains.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 19, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program. They created a creative online check-in process that allowed people to check in for the event online and pledge to complet fundraising post-event. Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association. Komen for the Cure race.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. I’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field.

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MARCH 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How to choose a CRM March 26, 2008 I’ll be doing a webinar on open source CRMs tomorrow. I also wrote a software choice worksheet , that can help with the process of looking at a wide variety of tools.

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

Similarly, the Restaurant Opportunities Center (ROC) has pursued a legal strategy of suing restaurant owners for wage violations and used the legal settlement process as an opportunity to negotiate additional rights for workers. Funding to workers’ rights organizations increased since the 2008 financial crisis. million to $35.6

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NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Komen for the Cure race.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Ask for interests during the email signup process. MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, MarketingSherpa “Email Marketing Benchmark Guide” 2008. You may be wondering “How can I ask personalize our email if we only have someone’s email address?”. My answer would be start finding out more.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. It was there that I realized my RSS-based process for aggregating actions could be so much more with a robust distribution component. In fact, the name of the session was “APIs for Beginners.&#.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. The final program is selected through a combination of an open submission and voting process. The process has opened – so you can browse and vote for the nonprofit panels you think are worthy of being on the program until September 2, 2011.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Worth a look if your organization does surveys. {

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 22, 2007

The panel selection process is done by vote and anyone can vote. So when Ed Schipul invited me to be on a panel with him, Rachel Weidinger, Seth Mazow, and Erin Denny about using social media for fundraising, I decided go for it. Here's the link.

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MARCH 18, 2020

According to a study by The Russell Sage Foundation and The Stanford Center on Poverty and Inequality, the GFC reduced total giving by 7 percent in 2008 and by another 6.2 percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009. But start that process now, not when it is too late. percent in 2009.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist.

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JULY 19, 2007

If you want to switch, let me know, I’ll be glad to hold your hand through the process! 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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MARCH 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology If it’s good enough for the Navy … March 13, 2008 In a surprising move, the US Navy will stop buying proprietary hardware and software, and only buy open systems. This could be a watershed moment.

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JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. This is also an ongoing process. Intermediation.

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NOVEMBER 10, 2021

In late 2019, CROS found themselves looking for new vendors to host their website and to provide a fundraising platform to process online donations. And CROS Ministries’ (CROS) hard work and business decisions in 2020 helped pave the way to their incredible fundraising successes. Hunger Action Month.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Founded: 2014 Quiks works in both the nonprofit and corporate worlds as a mobile payment app that cuts the costs of processing ACH payments and donations. It should be noted that by using Salesforce.org for nonprofits and properly integrating with a cheaper donation processing tool, an enterprise solution can be created. MobileCause.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 26, 2021

After listening to the needs of YLP, we decided that the focus of this project with their team would be to set up the membership processes, build out a community to track the operation of the Pantries, and scale the system. Your Local Pantry creates the look and feel of a little local shop which elevates the experience by reducing stigma.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 15, 2023

But where the magic happens is when you use your GMS—the single place for all your grantmaking processes—as a powerful customer relationship management (CRM) system as well. Need a list of scholarship recipients who graduated from Harvard between 2008 and 2018? No problem! This blog was co-written by Henry Wiencek and Chrissy Haskell.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

I’ve been rather impressed by how easy Wordpress was to set up and use, and how easy the migration process was. July 15, 2007 As you will have undoubtedly figured out – this blog moved! I’ve moved it off of Typepad, and onto Wordpress. I’d recommend it to anyone.

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JULY 15, 2007

There is no question in my mind that free software has won the CMS/Blogging race, hands down. { Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite. There is no question in my mind that free software has won the CMS/Blogging race, hands down. {

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SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

September 19, 2008 Note: This blog entry was originally posted on Idealware’s new community blog. An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. I’m honored and happy to be contributing blog posts there. What can an organization use a LMS for?

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APRIL 25, 2011

This includes databases, operating systems and other software that is involved in that process. The current version of MS Server in use is Server 2008. On the proprietary side, there are two options. Proprietary Unix, and Microsoft Windows, and associated Microsoft Software.

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SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Losing and replacing dedicated staff members is an expensive and exhausting process. However, it became evident after the market crash in 2008 that many under-capitalized organizations were so financially fragile that they didn’t make it through. Demonstrate proactive, prudent management and planning.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

The second group’s priority is finding unique, high-quality items to bid on, but they’re happy to support a good cause in the process. In 2008 Jeff founded Winspre with the goal of helping non-profits across the country increase their event fundraising revenue and identify new fundraising sources.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Michael Stein talks about three different kinds of mistakes that one can make in technology consulting, including some errors of process, and the “Hot Dog&# syndrome. A great read for anyone who does development for clients. I’ve made most of the mistakes outlined in all three of these brave blog postings.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. It’s a great replacement for text or word processing files.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. And now, there is E2 – Elastic Compute Cloud – use only the storage, processing power and bandwidth you use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools. So, I’m starting with Mozilla Thunderbird.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 25, 2011

.&# It’s worth noting that beginning July 31 Google will delete all private Google Profiles (this best practice will then be revised to reflect the new sign up process), so at the very least your first name, last name, and profile picture will be public. Set up your Google Profile.

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Twenty Hats

APRIL 6, 2021

Some people emailed me their availability while others signed up on a google sheet (Google Forms wasn’t even a thing then, it came out in 2008). Now we’re working on the next phase of improvements to our process, which is prioritizing the data that we need in Salesforce on a more real-time, automated schedule.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 3, 2018

When the economy crashed in 2008, Gina opted to do something seemingly impossible for many by starting an unproven concept business instead of finding a new job. She specializes in training that helps people build stronger rapport and connections in business.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 28, 2022

Mark Becker, Founding Partner at Cathexis Partners – Mark 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2012

Here’s how it works, according to their recent Facebook and Tumblr posts: The Nature Conservancy has used photo contests to crowdsource photos from its network through social media in the post, as far back as 2008 when it ran a contest on Flickr. There are some obvious benefits: Engaging its network beyond the like on Facebook.

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