Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

They’re being created mainly to help mental health patients adhere to a prescription medication regimen. High-Tech Help for Homelessness. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. It also uses Twitter to “find, counsel, and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.”

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 3, 2014

I work as the Donor Relations Coordinator at Lena Pope , an agency that serves children and families through counseling and education. We impact over 10,000 lives each year, and in 2013 we had a donor retention rate of 43% ( compared to 27% ). Over a 5 year period, we’ve gone from retaining 29% of our donors to 43%.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign. The Mobile Giving Foundation already provides help to charities in developing mobile giving capacity.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

Perhaps that voice in 2017 will be to help your nonprofit adopt text messaging as a new way of fundraising. 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. billion by 2019.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

This is similar to the success of projects like Restart Romania in which social activists got help to develop online tools to address corruption in high places, and also a national website for tracking medication shortages in Romania. The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 10, 2020

These changes have significant consequences for how organizations connect with donors, clients, partners, and employees. Email has traditionally served as the primary medium of communication between nonprofits and their clients, volunteers, and donors. SMS & MMS. Cloud Computing. Applications.

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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 4, 2013

NTEN Members share knowledge and experience, help their peers, and give of their time and expertise all year long. 2013 Community Impact Webinar November 6: Nurturing Your Small-Dollar Donors Oh, and did we mention we''re giving away prizes all month long? This week''s webinars include: November 4 (today!):

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

NTEN Members share their knowledge and experience, help their peers, and give of their time and expertise all year long. We will offer a daily prize to a member drawn at random from the database. November is Member Appreciation Month in the NTEN community, and one of our favorite times of year. Or, rather, #NTENThanks.

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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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Achieve

AUGUST 27, 2017

generate new contacts for your donor database. your organization or cause be doing – and not doing — to raise awareness and acquire new donors? 2013 Millennial Impact report. The same is true of most – if not all – donors. But there’s a caveat: awareness campaigns are easy to get wrong. And who needs that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 6, 2014

In this era of overwhelming inundation of data and messages, an organization’s relationships help it achieve results. Connect is about connecting alumni to useful content, each other, the school community, events, and your database. Action is taking any action related to a specific organization goal.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 10, 2014

The focus needs to stay on development with social media as a key strategy—one vehicle of many—for developing donors. Social media plays a huge role in how donors and donor prospects feel about nonprofits, and using the points listed above, social media can make these people feel like they are a part of the nonprofit’s family.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

When nonprofit organizations pay their executives exorbitant salaries, or throw lavish expense-filled parties, it reflects badly on all nonprofits, and increases public and donor scrutiny of nonprofit financial stewardship. Back in 2013, GuideStar, BBB Wise Giving Alliance, and Charity Navigator formed an alliance to combat the overhead myth.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

Corporations operating in your area may have community giving programs, or may offer other help, such as supplies or equipment, in supporting your needs. Your Yellow Pages, board members, volunteers, and staff may also help identify local clubs and organizations that provide funding. Professional and Trade Associations.

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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. And, without doubt, identify and remove the obstacles that thwart efforts to personally cultivate donor relationships!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. SkyDrive has become OneDrive. Gaming for Good.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

FrontStream, the current owner of GiftWorks, sent me the following notice this week: Hey there Robert, As in the past, we are preparing to upgrade FrontStream CRM (previously GiftWorks 2013) users to the newest version of CRM. Push-to-sync online donations: sync donors and donations with CRM in a single click.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Cindy Adams is the president and CEO of GrantStation, one of TechSoup's donor partners, and is an expert on nonprofit grantseeking and fundraising. That tool can help you determine your own organization’s breakdown when it comes to grants (i.e.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 24, 2016

I spend more and more of my time talking to leaders in the sector, helping advance the use of data for action and impact. This database should be critically important for understanding poverty at a detailed level. Have the answers to these questions changed during recent years (2007, 2010, 2013)? family structure?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

I have developed and use a questionnaire in my practice when I assist clients in setting up QuickBooks and you are welcome to use it for your organization if it would be helpful: see [link] or www.nonprofit-connect.com. These posts were updated by Mr. McCallick in February 2013 for our readers. practices in the nonprofit industry.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

We introduced the GuideStar Seals of Transparency in 2013 to address these questions and to provide visible recognition when a nonprofit shares information on GuideStar. Some organizations want to reach new donors and funders or maintain information donors frequently request in a single place. social sector. Foundations.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

Last year you likely had to shake up your events strategy, find new ways to communicate with all types of donors, and might even have found that virtual donor visits can be just as effective as in-person (and perhaps even appreciated when we’re all locked down). If you’re going to try something new, now is the time!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2013

Tech Impact is watching some interesting trends emerge in nonprofit technology in 2013. This helps DC Action for Children strategize about how to have the greatest impact on their constituents. The Blood Center App helps donors find the nearest location where they can donate blood. Here's what we see: Big Data.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

These are events that pair up nonprofits with good ideas and volunteer techies who can help them realize them. An example is Charity Wallet , an online tool that simplifies the online giving process for donors who support more than one organization, which was launched during the event! Mobile Computing in 2012.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

For a refresher, my 2013 piece Non-Technology Trends for the CIO and a 2011 white paper for the Association of Fundraising Professionals on similar topics may be good places to start and worth a read as well.). New relationships will be grown out of current ones, and your best major donor candidates are likely already in your database.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Care2

MARCH 13, 2013

Just 3% of your existing donors who are giving average amounts today can boost your annual revenue by 30%. Join Fraser Green from Good Works as he unveils both quantitative and qualitative donor research that sheds light on HERO donors – and their incredible potential.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2016

According to a recent article in the Chronicle of Philanthropy, the problems were both internal to Kimbia’s hardware and code testing as well as some issues with third-party database host. GiveMN learned the importance of having a crisis plan during a catastrophic technical glitch in 2013. “We Do your technology due diligence.

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