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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools

Bloomerang

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. If your organization falls in this range, you may be interested in free, discounted, or affordable software solutions to help carry out your strategies while staying within budget.

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Vendor Relationship Management: Why Nonprofits Should Care

Tech Soup

TechSoup's Senior Online Community Manager, Lewis Haidt, introduced me to Vendor Relationship Management (more commonly shortened to VRM), which is sort of the converse to Customer Relationship Management. Vendor Relationship Management is meant to serve as the customer-side counterpart of CRM. Doc Searls on VRM.

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

Get Fully Funded

Some tools are free, at least to start. With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets.

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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

And they give it all aways for free (except standard credit card fees or 3rd party costs like Stripe). Their founders cover the overhead cost to keep the Forever Free Pledge going, and as such they’ve been able to share the wealth with the Malala Fund, Girl Scouts, StoryCorps, and March for Our Lives. For Basics.

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Nonprofit Leadership Transition: Best Practices

NonProfit Hub

If you’re part of the organization being left, use these as a guide to help the exiting person leave well and feel free to download our sample transition checklist here. . Instead, invest in fostering a positive relationship with the organization you’re leaving and set it up for success. Don’t Run for the Exit. Probably not.

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Grab This Fundraising Plan Template for New Nonprofits

Get Fully Funded

But these should only be a small part of your overall fundraising strategy, and here’s why: These “transactional” fundraisers do nothing to build a relationship with your donors. Patience, Grasshopper Good fundraising is built on relationships. Relationships are built on trust. And that takes time to develop.

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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications

NTEN

Key takeaways from the Email Marketing workshop that took place on Day 1: Fundraising is dependent on relationship building : Nonprofits should work year-round to cultivate and maintain relationships with donors, so that the ask is not a cold call at the end of the year. Channels such as social media can really help with this.