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6 Ways to Improve Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Participant Retention

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Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types. For example, offer email templates that they can use as a starting point to ask for donations from friends and family. This guest post comes from Mark Becker, founder of Cathexis Partners.

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Welcome to the new theme!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple. Also, it coincides with a new installation of Drupal for my consulting website , using the same basic template (called “ Blueprint “).

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How to Design an Engaging Nonprofit Live Auction Catalog

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If you use a premade design template, make sure you can customize it for your nonprofit. 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. Branding also makes your catalog look more professional.

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Free and open source tool #2: Limesurvey

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 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. So it has its challenges. It’s a LAMP stack application.

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How To: Put Technology to Use (November 2008)

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You've also got your step-by-step guides, from buttons to headers to sites templates. Apparently, it's simple : cheerful colors, rounded edges, and "Free, as in beer (not kittens)" We also recommend some advice from "web design from scratch" , but with reservations: their web site isn't as pretty.

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The Ultimate Nonprofit SharePoint App: The Case Management Database of Children's Network of Solano County

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We decided to upgrade the Childnet Results Manager from a local area network based system using Microsoft Access to a web-based system using Microsoft SharePoint 2010, backed with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008. I used SharePoint Designer 2010 and made use of SharePoint’s internal templates.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

The user doesn’t seem to notice or care as long as they are comforted by a familiar template. The challenge is to design a template that travels well and can be easily and consistently updated (when our organization moved, I had 5 different footers to update).