NetWits

MAY 15, 2012

The largest online gift received in 2011 was $260,000 – more than two-and-a-half times 2010′s largest gift. With that in mind, here are four online fundraising tactics that every nonprofit should have in place. With a retention plan in place, organizations can count on more past donors continuing their support.

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NetWits

OCTOBER 31, 2011

Reviewing the way you use links may be a good place to start – effective link copy and placement can have huge effects on click through rates and related fundraising results. The 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study found that as click-through rates increased, so did conversion rates. Where is this taking place?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 3, 2013

Launched in 2010, the purpose of community pages are still mostly unknown although a sound hypothesis would be that their existence is now connected to the recently launched Facebook Graph Search. Most nonprofit’s have no idea that they likely have a Facebook Community Page.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life. How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community?

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

One of the best ways schools learned to connect with their supporters is to use several different communication platforms. For example, you can place a collection box for a shoe drive at a 5K event. Often, these consistent and intentional forms of communication cultivated strong relationships with donors.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2011

Neither does linking to desktop sites inside smartphone apps, in group text alerts, or on location-based communities like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places. That said, I think it will be a much different story a year from now. The Big Wild launched the first-ever mobilized petition in August 2010 for a QR Code campaign.

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NetWits

JANUARY 25, 2012

To get the most from your event this year, it’s important to realize that your participants are a diverse group and you need to speak to each group differently. Your participants have different motivators, perspectives and needs. Superstar fundraisers respond differently than those who raise the minimum. Check out the results ….

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cloud for Good has successfully completed over 2,500 Salesforce implementations since our inception in 2010. Many of these implementations have taken place transitioning nonprofit and higher education institutions over from Blackbaud to Salesforce. Enhanced Configurability + Analytics.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! and how they like them.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 14, 2022

Many are already in the habit of giving in smaller amounts, in places like Facebook fundraisers and Patreon. Show them how you’re making a difference. In addition, she founded her own consulting practice in 2010. Demonstrate Your Impact. Show them how their dollars can have specific and measurable impact. billion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries." It’s so nicely done, I wish it could indeed become that unified place. Except… Everyone wants their site to be the unified place. Thanks for your great insights.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. One drawback is that the syntax of Dokuwiki is different than MediaWiki, and so the more I use it, the more I forget when I use MediaWiki. The one feature that makes my day: draft autosave!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2010

Some have even declared it to be the “ Twitter of 2010 “ I am not so sure about that, but it is fun. It is Different. Quite simply, you “Check-in&# to places while physically at the location and offer “Tips&# and send out “Shouts&#. And as of last week, FourSquare has gone global.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

My theory of practice is different than my consulting philosophy. I’d had bits and pieces of this in varied places, and in my head, but it was a good time to get it all down. They certainly are consistent with each other, but they are distinct. Glad you like it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Launched the advocacy Twitter handle in January 2010 (@Advocate4PanCAN) and it is growing steadily. Connecting and communicating online is different than over the phone or face-to-face; being able to effectively connect and communicate to constituents from all walks of life from all corners of the world is important. Anything else?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I’m in a little bit different of a place this year, than last. I’m also holding the consultant spot on the panel “ Changing your CEO from barrier to partner &# with Marnie Webb, David Geilhufe, and Steve Heye. Lots of wonderful folks, should be great panels.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

Idealware has a great article on CRMs, and how they are different, and how you can begin to figure out what might work best. After the webinar, I’ll be putting the slides up in varied places, and NTEN will have a recording of the webinar. {

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

WWT 2010: Apps and Tools to Energize Your Base. Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. A great place to start is MobileActive !

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Always willing to connect with new members and support the NTEN staff and all of our efforts, his unwavering participation this year has been no different and means so much to all of us here at NTEN. Welcome to the community Deborah's Place & The Cara Program, we're so glad you're here.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MARCH 16, 2021

At any age, with the desire and expertise, you can become a nonprofit leader who makes a difference. He became the youngest and first openly gay executive director of the Asian Pacifical American Labor Alliance in 2010. There’s no corporate ladder to climb, so you don’t have to wait until a certain time to take on new responsibility.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

And each of us explained it a little differently. In January 2010, we got agreement from our organization leadership to take a closer look at our brand and messaging. We signed a contract to have a Brandraising in March 2010, and it was complete and presented to us by the end of June 2010. We focused on the patient.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

In some ways, it is astonishing how many different donor management packages there are. Included in the bottom four are 3 properties of Blackbaud: Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry, and Kintera Sphere which was in dead last place. There is, of necessity, a lot of overlap betwen CRM systems and Donor Management Systems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

And none of these have the same syntax – they are similar, but slightly different. Different enough to drive me crazy. I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 16, 2008

Anyway, they were looking for a different article – one that was more about the advantages of FOSS, not about the broad category of free (as in beer) and low cost software, which includes FOSS, proprietary, and SaaS. at 4:01 pm I think there’s also some difficulty with different parts of the audience being at different places.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes. But at least the first technical hurdle to jump over is a small one. They just released version 1.5,

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

For another client, I helped them vet vendors for their new website, taught them the difference between Joomla, Drupal and Plone, and I helped free them from a vendor who was particularly egregious in their hosting charges, among other things. I have other kinds of projects as well – those that use my talents somewhat differently.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 20, 2012

However, there are at least three fundamental issues with colorblindness which youth service providers should note: differing needs, value expectations, and historical context. Different Needs. A study by USA Swimming in 2010 found that 70% of African American children and 58% of Hispanic children had low or no swimming ability.

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Media Cause

MARCH 15, 2021

But what I haven’t seen written about as as often—or maybe I’m just not looking in the right places—are stories about the little, delightful, unexpected things that changed us in 2020. . Thanks for giving us a place to hide from reality, to question our assumptions, or to escape into a fantasy world, depending on the day.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

The big guys quickly followed suit: Yelp introduced "Check-Ins" while Facebook launched "Places" and most recently, Google Latitude updated to incorporate check-ins and check-outs. But here's the thing: the trends aren't actually that good." Change the internet?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 15, 2007

I’ve been thinking a lot about different kinds of electronic communications, and what their advantages and disadvantages are. It makes sense that can make a difference in how people respond to appeals. He provides exactly the kind of advice that will help organizations connect with their donors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 18, 2011

Key Takeaways: The world is shifting to a networked place. Things are emerging in different places, mirroring what is happening elsewhere. by Robin Katcher, Management Assistance Group Summer 2010 Nonprofit Quarterly. How can networks facilitate that? How do networks evolve into movements?

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Yes, that’s right - up to 40% of donations come in at the end of the year for many nonprofits that have a solid year-end fundraising plan in place and an engaged list of supporters. In 2010 an estimated $291 billion was raised. Online fundraising grew 34% and raised over $20 billion dollars in 2010 – Blackbaud.

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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. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages. I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. The event itself has been fab. It is actually pretty mind-boggling.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 7, 2007

Although I’m sure that we differ in our perspectives on some issues, I very much look forward to working with the rest of the board to keep NTEN the vibrant organization that it has developed into, and to continue to speak to, listen to, and provide for its constituencies. { at 3:50 pm That seem like a great match.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

I came upon these three for different reasons, and although I’m not interested in adopting their primary points of view, there were tidbits that were worth the read (or a skim, in one case) in the end. The third book is in a bit of a different category – not about landing more business, per se, but making more money.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 15, 2007

To recap, I took the following steps: Set up my blog on a different domain (in this case, it was zenofnptech.com.) I’ve been rather impressed by how easy Wordpress was to set up and use, and how easy the migration process was. I’d recommend it to anyone. If, for some reason, yours stops working, try this feed. {

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