NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2012

Will 2012 be pretty much like 2011? When NTEN asked whether I’d be willing to predict tech trends for in 2012, I, of course, asked my Magic 8 Ball™. It replied: Based on that, plus 27 years in the field, I foresee that 2012 will be pretty much like 2011. Weiner Consulting. it’s not cloud-based. it’s the cheapest.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

2002-2012 – Childhood During the first 10 years, Candid staff primarily focused on collecting grants of $10,000 or more awarded by a sample of the largest U.S. funders, and public foundations (aka grantmaking public charities). private and community foundations. Analysis tip : We still create these annual data sets.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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Allegiance Group

MARCH 7, 2024

Lisa Greer learned this first-hand when she and her husband became part of the 1% virtually overnight in 2012. She’s the author of the bestseller Philanthropy Revolution and is ready to guide charities to a new mindset that sees donors as people, not sources of revenue. She got more involved with nonprofits and began serving on boards.

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Pamela Grow

APRIL 29, 2023

The decline in donors has been a steady trend since 2012, with a 19% overall decrease. After all, unrestricted funding is what enables leaders to lead best. Nonprofit organizations need to focus on broad, grassroots support more than ever. Aim to be your donor’s favorite charity. Focus on donor communications.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The first GivingTuesday took place in 2012, and since then it’s grown into a global movement. GivingTuesday encourages people to give back and celebrate the holiday season by making donations to their favorite charities, and nonprofits. What will you accomplish with your GivingTuesday funds? Get familiar with the big day.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 27, 2017

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. Let’s take a look at what we can learn from the history of nonprofit organizations. Though the organization had been around for years, in the early 1900s we saw the U.S.’s

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

The 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference kicks off on Tuesday and the event to attend is the Science Fair! In celebration of our 40th birthday on April 1, 2012, CDS Global is bringing the party to NTC 2012! Charity Dynamics. Stop by the Charity Dynamics booth #42 to enter to win a Kindle Fire! CivicActions.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2012

In no particular order, here they are, 12 in 2012: books that nonprofit/marketing/fundraising nerds like us should give a gander. Uncharitable : By Dan Pallota, this book questions our fundamental canons about charity. The Influential Fundraiser : A wealth of creative and effective approaches for funding solicitations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 3, 2019

Nonprofits solicit and raise funds as a fact of their existence. To protect nonprofits and the general public, most states enforce certain compliance requirements on nonprofit organizations soliciting within their borders. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. posted by James Gilmer Harbor Compliance. The purpose of this post is twofold.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 27, 2019

Nonprofits solicit and raise funds as a fact of their existence. To protect nonprofits and the general public, most states enforce certain compliance requirements on nonprofit organizations soliciting within their borders. Illustration by Jocelyn Ruiz. posted by James Gilmer Harbor Compliance. The purpose of this post is twofold.

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NetWits

APRIL 26, 2012

If they’ve lost someone to breast cancer, they’re most likely interested in funding that type of cancer. Instead of just offering what you want (annual fund, matching gifts, etc.), CARE’s example above does this well, as does this one from The Peregrine Fund : 6) Create a feel-good post-donation experience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2013

With the recent scarcity of grant funding, excellent program evaluation practices are becoming a distinguishing element of effective and grant-competitive nonprofit organizations. 1 Even those who are eager to conduct evaluations often lack the funding and knowledge to evaluate their programs appropriately. As part of a.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Nonprofit credit card processing solutions are tools nonprofit organizations use to complete credit and debit card transactions securely and quickly. iATS Payments Best for: Organizations looking for a payment processing tool built specifically for nonprofit needs. per transaction 7. Assess integration needs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

Many of us will purchase hundreds of dollars in holiday gifts over the next six weeks, and with some conscious consumerism those dollars could also help some of your favorite nonprofits continue their work in 2012. You can purchase Kiva Cards which then can be redeemed by your gift recipient to fund a loan of his or her choosing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 6, 2013

There was a lot of buzz about crowdfunding in 2012: a video game called Star Citizen raised more than $7 million, Kickstarter banned nonprofits from using its platform (see #3 on that page), and a Tumblr popped up that takes aim at suspicious crowdfunding projects. million for Minnesota charities in just 24 hours.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

Semphonic Web Analytics Consulting: The X Change Non-Profit Analytics Challenge – "The Non-Profit Analytics Challenge is a rare opportunity for the brightest analysts in the digital measurement field to collaborate & assist non-profit organizations to optimize their websites. "What is your organization accomplishing?

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2012

While Heather (shown in image below) may have raised just $100 for the 2012 event, she’s solid gold … actually, a “Double Diamond” fundraiser for Children’s Hospital of Colorado, with over $50,000 and 5 to 9 years of participation in the Courage Classic under her belt. Fundraising badges for repeat fundraisers. Email Signatures. Disclaimer.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

percent increase in 2012 to $5.3 More than three-quarters of corporate respondents said their giving budgets would be flat – essentially the same as 2012 levels. The 2012 leaders were: Wells Fargo Bank ($315 million cash). The median cash amount given in 2012 among those companies surveyed was $25 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. We thought we’d ask some past winners to tell us about how they’ve been using their videos and how important storytelling is to their organization.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

Huddle is offering its online service to charities and libraries at a one-time admin fee, and a very reasonable one at that. Collaboration Is How Charities Function. According to our 2012 NGO Global Cloud Survey , collaboration is already one of the top ten current uses for cloud-based software among charities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2012

They do it through corporate foundations, intermediary charities such as United Way, and by directly supporting social causes. For-Profit with a Social Overlay: Under this classification we have the for-profit organizations that by law or by definition are expected to work for the common good.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Started in 2012, this movement inspires millions of individuals to donate to their favorite causes annually. million gifts were given to charities participating in #GivingTuesday with $400 million raised online. For many organizations, this is not a realistic target. To put this in perspective, in 2018, 3.6

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

percent increase in 2012 to $5.3 More than three-quarters of corporate respondents said their giving budgets would be flat – essentially the same as 2012 levels. The 2012 leaders were: Wells Fargo Bank ($315 million cash). The median cash amount given in 2012 among those companies surveyed was $25 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Whether it was a 12 year old starting a fundraising drive to help homeless , GivingTuesday matching grant challenges , nonprofits launching crowd funding campaigns , sharing unselfies about why they give , people sharing their giving stories – yesterday was about abundance in the nonprofit sector versus scarcity.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2017

We'll kick this off with a completely original, new, and free fundraising service for charities, churches, and libraries. Your charity can host local workshops, activities, and tours so guests can get to know your cause. One hundred percent of what guests pay goes directly to your organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 11, 2017

Recent trends in philanthropic giving indicate that the new generation of donors has a high interest in ensuring that their donations generate outcomes (Flandez, 2012). At the same time, nonprofits should be aware of the challenges and limitations to this emergent form of funding.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

In the spirit of helping others, Amazon recently announced a new option for gift giving that benefits nonprofits and charities. With the recent launch of AmazonSmile, customers simply go to smile.amazon.com , designate a 501(c)(3) organization, shop the same way they would on amazon.com, and the AmazonSmile Foundation donates 0.5%

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

Over $1,640,000 in gifts were given this year, and over $177,000,000 was raised online for charities and nonprofits. Researchers and analyzers found that since 2012, there have been sizeable and increasing donation spikes each year during #GivingTuesday, and that data projections show this will only continue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

” From its humble beginnings, DonorsChoose.org has cumulatively raised $335 million and funded nearly 600,000 classroom projects. Today, DonorsChoose.org is the go-to site for alternative sources of funding for the classroom. Two More Charity Platforms that Will Keep the Disruption Going. Disruptor: Kickstarter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

As public-facing and serving organizations, nonprofits are held to higher ethical standards than their business counterparts are. Organizational transparency, the disclosure of operational, financial, and decision-making information, remains a significant factor in the formation of the public’s trust in an organization’s mission and intent.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 10, 2013

Many charities or nonprofits only require activists to “like our Facebook page” or “retweet this” or “hashtag that.” Kony 2012 turned slacktivism on its head. In the end, Kony 2012 made some noise and was a success, but it was still considered slacktivism. But does that really help? Like this article? Get another!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Recently, TechSoup presented GivingTuesday and Year-End Fundraising Strategies , a webinar aimed at helping organizations integrate #GivingTuesday into their end-of-year fundraising campaigns. It's an organizing principle that encourages the energy and creativity of people to work together for good. Resources for Organizations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2012

When all was said and done, we received a 2005 seed-funding grant from Full Circle Fund and launched the Refurbished Computer Initiative program. And then the program really got going with a major grant in 2007 from California Emerging Technology Fund. Fast Forward to 2012. to scale up RCI in California. Using the U.S.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 18, 2014

This day of giving is truly becoming an international movement and tradition gaining momentum each year since its founding in 2012. Cancer research funding is very competitive right now, but because of their strategic approach, CCS was top of mind by the time #GivingTuesday rolled around. Rally the Troops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2010

This month he explores why and how networked nonprofits should rally for more transparency in campaign funding based on a more detailed article over at the Chronicle of Philanthropy. The first thing any charity can do is to exercise its own rights to engage in nonpartisan electoral education activities.

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