Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

The Spring 2013 State of Grantseeking Survey includes these five new questions chosen by participants: What is the household income in your service area? Can you help us make the Spring 2013 State of Grantseeking Survey a success? Please take five minutes to complete this survey before March 15, 2013.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

Join our upcoming webinar, QuickBooks 2013 Made Easy for Nonprofits and Charities , on Thursday, February 28 at 11 a.m. Learn more about how you can streamline your day-to-day business with the new 2013 updates to Intuit's QuickBooks. Want to learn more about the newest version of QuickBooks ? Pacific time. More About the Speaker.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! " It is intended to be a dynamic public database of tech innovators for good around the world. Nominet Trust is a leading social technology funder in the UK.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. Ginny's Pick: Environmental Mobile App of the Month in Honor of Earth Day 2013. The app uses its database to find out the source of the mail and will contact the sender to remove you from its distribution list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

The data is organized by a revised taxonomy, initially developed in 2013 with support from the Knight Foundation, which now includes five main subjects: Media Content and Platforms (previously known as Media Platforms). I find databases that let you search and visualize data fun and highly useful. Telecommunications Infrastructure.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

Le-Marie Thompson who is creating an online conflict-free electronics database, a source for companies to get information about reputable electronics parts suppliers worldwide. You point it at an unknown substance, it takes a spectrographic image, and then it will compare that image with a cloud-based database of materials.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

Bing Dictionary (Word 2013) is not your traditional online dictionary. This app uses the cloud to constantly refresh its database of words so you have the latest definitions and spellings available. Bing Maps (Excel 2013) helps you use location data from a given column in Excel 2013 and plot it on a Bing Map.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 28, 2017

“ Finding the Right Donor Database for Your Nonprofit ”. In this post originally from 2013, but updated this year, we share our favorite donor databases and which one might be right for your organization. Not surprisingly, our readers want to know how to manage their donors.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 4, 2013

2013 is off to a bang with Accel-KKR's acquisition of Sage's Nonprofit Solutions Group and iModules acquisition of Harris Connect. Last year the big news in my industry was Blackbaud's acquisition of Convio and the merger/acquisition of Datatel and Sungard Higher Education (now called Ellucian).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

The NMC’s annual reports that highlight emerging technologies and their impact on the education sector over the next five years include NMC Horizon Report: 2013 K-12 Edition and the NMC Horizon Report: 2013 Higher Education Edition and were published this spring.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

We will offer a daily prize to a member drawn at random from the database. There are also three prizes each week: one each for a members that has renewed for 2013, participated in #NTENThanks, and participated in a program during the week. Prizes : Who doesn't love a fun NTEN prize? This week's sponsor is Beaconfire!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

2013 Community Impact Webinar November 6: Nurturing Your Small-Dollar Donors Oh, and did we mention we''re giving away prizes all month long? Christopher Hertz of New Signature, who we randomly selected to receive a free database consultation from Cloud for Good. This week''s webinars include: November 4 (today!):

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2013

Grant Management Databases Online Grantseeking Reporting Running Your Organization nonprofits tsgrantstation GrantStation The State of Grantseeking Survey Fall 2013' Over 1,000 individuals representing nonprofit organizations, educational institutions, government entities, and consultants took part in the spring survey this year.

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NTEN

JULY 5, 2013

A: Until Midnight Eastern Time on July 31, 2013. This has dramatically increased the load on our database server during the session voting period. A: Session designers will be contacted no later than October 31, 2013. Q: How long will voting be open? Q: Why does it take the pages so long to load? A: We could never hate you.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

We will offer a daily prize to a member drawn at random from the database. There are also three prizes each week: one each for a members that has renewed for 2013, participated in #NTENThanks, and participated in a program during the week. Prizes : Who doesn't love a fun NTEN prize? This week's sponsor is Event 360!

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

We will offer a daily prize to a member drawn at random from the database. There are also three prizes each week: one each for a members that has renewed for 2013, participated in #NTENThanks, and participated in a program during the week. Prizes : Who doesn't love a fun NTEN prize? This week's sponsor is the Foundation Center!

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 10, 2020

Cloud computing is the delivery of server data, software, databases, and intelligence over the Internet or “the cloud”. Siegal works for Christ’s Community Church (CCC) in Glendale, AZ as the Director of Creative Arts since 2013. A variety of price structures make this tool accessable for organizations of every size. Cloud Computing.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Google launched a similar service for their Chrome browser in 2013. The app uses the Guidestar database to search for charities and Network for Good to process donations. For instance, you can ask what the population is of the U.S., and then ask what percentage is Hispanic. The Give App. It allows Americans to easily donate to any U.S.-based

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

billion in 2013 and are expected to reach 5.07 When you consider that texts have a 45 per cent response rate , it makes sense for nonprofits to invest in expanding their SMS database. How Text Messaging Has Revolutionized Giving. As mobile phone use continues to surge, texting is becoming an increasingly relevant tool for nonprofits.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 2, 2013

If this sounds like your organization, then it may be time to do some sort of analysis of your database to help uncover some potential upgrades to your annual fund and major/planned gift prospects to assign and qualify in your portfolios.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The core responsibilities for this position are accounting entry including A/R, A/P and GL, financial statement preparation and review, database support, some office support and special projects. The Community Project Manager contractor is charged with successfully managing two cohorts in the Communities of Impact program in 2013.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Recently we announced the launch of our 2013 Communities of Impact program. Tools are licensed as open source, available for anyone to use and improve.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

Based on the her book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit, winner of the 2013 Terry McAdam Award, Beth Kanter will share frameworks, strategies and practical tips for engaging with your network in ways that lead to measurable results. But many nonprofits are not properly measuring whether their engagement efforts are worth the time and cost.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2015

The last version of InfoPath to be released is the 2013 version. InfoPath 2013 is still available as a donation through TechSoup, and that version is included with Office Professional Plus 2016. All Office suites now include OneNote, and the Office suites for Windows include Skype for Business. Get Office.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

Get hands-on help at a social media surgery, or learn about databases at a meetup or discover the top tech trends of 2014 at one of our panel discussions. NPTech News: 2013 Year in Review from TechSoup’s Jim Lynch. Net2Local organizers hold regular events connecting the nonprofit and technology communities. January Events.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 21, 2013

I just returned from BBCon 2013 where one of the most frequent questions I was asked by my clients was about CRM (Constituent Relationship Management) systems. They wanted to understand how CRM is different from a traditional donor database and how nonprofits can benefit from investing in CRM. By: Rachel L. It’s not – read on!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

QuickBooks is a relational database, and as such it offers a few ways to flag (or relate) transactions such as invoices, cash receipts, bills, cash disbursements, and journal entries to Customer/Jobs (funding sources) and Classes (programs). They are related to one another, but they are separate records in the database.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2013

1: QuickBooks Premier 2013, 1 user (desktop). 1: Additional Quickbooks Premier 2013; networked (no server). Finances Fundraising Grant Management Databases Running Your Organization Tech Planning cloud QuickBooks cloud computing Accounting intuit QuickBooks Online' Start-Up Nonprofit. Of course, funds are limited. #1:

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

The core responsibilities for this position are accounting entry including A/R, A/P and GL, financial statement preparation and review, database support, some office support and special projects. The Community Project Manager contractor is charged with successfully managing two cohorts in the Communities of Impact program in 2013.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

Volunteer techies had set up an online people finder database, and relief agencies desperately needed computers so refugees in shelters could search for their loved ones. Thousands of people were pouring into Baton Rouge. The city ballooned to twice its original size in a matter of days. The electricity was out for week.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2013

AFP’s president and CEO, Andrew Watt, is on the 2013 NonProfit Times list of the 50 most influential people in the charitable sector. Three of his current hot topics are: integrating donor databases with mobile, mastering online grant applications, and crowdfunding.

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Achieve

AUGUST 27, 2017

generate new contacts for your donor database. 2013 Millennial Impact report. In almost every instance, they should: target people who share your organization’s beliefs and values; educate those people about your issue or cause; and. A well-executed awareness campaign can be very successful in accomplishing all three of those goals.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

Back in 2013, GuideStar, BBB Wise Giving Alliance, and Charity Navigator formed an alliance to combat the overhead myth. Perhaps most importantly, all of the funders in our searchable database — over 8,000 of them — are grantmakers who are actively accepting unsolicited grant requests in the coming year.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 6, 2014

In 2013, Chuck Longfield was on a mission to shed light on the importance of donor retention in the nonprofit industry. Adrian Sargeant says “a 10% increase in donor retention can increase the lifetime value of your donor database by 200%.”. And they regularly maintain and update their database. There are no silos. Chew ‘em up.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

We impact over 10,000 lives each year, and in 2013 we had a donor retention rate of 43% ( compared to 27% ). Our database is healthy . My first task was understanding how to appropriately enter data in our fundraising database so that I could create easy and efficient reports.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

launched in August 2013 when they became available to app developers for $1,500 – by invitation only. The data flows into a database with an interface useful to doctors. He is lead evangelist at database company, Embarcadero Technologies. Google Glass was launched 18 months ago. Of Cybernetics and Singularity.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 22, 2013

At the beginning of the calendar year – perhaps in response to a screening project – you segmented your database and identified your top major and planned giving prospects for personal cultivation and solicitation. If you have not recently screened your database to identify planned gift prospects, plan to do so in the near future.

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