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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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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Each completed application automatically creates a volunteer profile stored in the CRM or constituent relationship management within Givefffect. When determining how to communicate, use a variety of communication channels to build strong relationships with your volunteers. The information is stored securely and is easily accessible.

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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Docs live in a designated place within your group and are therefore not as subject to the news feed, which is more timely. Docs are great for posting information that you plan to come back to again and again.

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

Get Fully Funded

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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Nonprofit Leadership Transition: Best Practices

NonProfit Hub

Instead, invest in fostering a positive relationship with the organization you’re leaving and set it up for success. A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Leadership positions usually don’t follow the custom of providing only two weeks notice. Best of all?

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Keep Better Contact Records with the Personal Email to Notes Feature

The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

Development teams need to know how the relationship with each donor has evolved over the years. It is impossible to track the nuances of all of those relationships without a little extra help from your CRM. A clean and complete contact record saves time and provides fundraisers with the full picture.

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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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