Robert Weiner

MAY 15, 2017

They asked for advice on how to handle their existing recurring donations, and whether it’s possible to migrate those transactions to the new processor. He said: It’s definitely not impossible to migrate recurring donations, but it requires willingness on behalf of both processors in order to exchange the vaulted payment information.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 2, 2010

The city department in question has no board and no staff who know how to solicit donations. Of course, this means they'll be competing with local nonprofits for donations. The panel responded that the department head needs to devote at least 25% of her scarce time to fundraising and convene a board that's willing to help.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 25, 2010

to constituents based on factors like past donations, interests, event attendance, recency of gifts, lifetime giving total, etc. Can your system accept donations online?, show how to send a mass email, or show how to enter a donation that will be split between 3 funds, or between 3 donors).

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Robert Weiner

OCTOBER 31, 2009

The Giving Challenge is not focused on how much money you can raise, but on how successful you are at getting people to donate to your cause. The goal is to get as many unique daily donations as possible (minimum of $10), to your cause each day. The contest runs through November 6, 2009.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

Unlike their earlier guides (to inexpensive donor databases, content management systems, online donation tools, etc.) It's likely to be a useful guide to nonprofits who are planning to purchase (or request donations) of a lot of software in the near future. Idealware recently released its Fundraising, Communications and Outreach.

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Software Guide Communication Fundraising 100

Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 12, 2008

This 45-page guide includes sections on avoiding “the four most common fundraising mistakes,&# answering the four questions required to get a donation ( Why Me? and Who Says? ), optimizing your web site and donation page, building your email list, and writing effective email appeals.

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Guide Fundraising email Web 100

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 11, 2009

Donation Director. Donation Management System. Donation Soultion. Donation Tracker. FileMaker Donations. Synergy Development Systems. DevelopmentLogic. DevelopmentLogic, Inc. DirectToDonor. DonorDirect. Nuverb Systems. Software4Nonprofits. Cascade Data Solutions. K2 Solutions. Cascade Data Solutions. Donor Quest.

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Database Donor Kintera Oracle 100

Robert Weiner

JULY 8, 2009

Arcadia Campaigns' Matt Howes, writing on Care2's Frogloop blog, described the testing process: To use [Google Optimizer], you create a web page and variations of that page that you'd like to test (for example, you might want to test if people respond better to a picture of a polar bear or a happy child on your donation page).

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 12, 2009

percent, the largest drop since the group began tracking donations in 1956. Check out this transcript of an online discussion the Chronicle of Philanthropy held to discuss the report and its implications on nonprofits and other recipients of charitable donations. Taking inflation into account, U.S. giving was down 5.7

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Report Giving PDF Philanthropy 100

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

In the wake of the huge number of donations given to Haiti earthquake relief via text mesage, MobileActive has published Texting for Charitable Dollars: The Definitive Guide. It describes the process of raising funds via SMS from the donors' and the nonprofits' perspectives, including costs and tips for getting started. read more.

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Guide Haiti Raise Fund 100

Robert Weiner

AUGUST 1, 2014

Organizations need to have a policy about what level of donation gets a particular level of stewardship. But don’t delete them. This doesn’t mean a nonprofit should send their glossy annual report or magazine to every $5 donor. You should be able to mark records as inactive after a set time period and stop sending them anything.

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Donor Database Module Model 112

Robert Weiner

APRIL 14, 2009

In a recent study of nonprofit Web sites , usability guru Jakob Nielsen asked participants "what information they want to see on nonprofit Web sites before they decide whether to donate?" " The most heavily requested information was: read more.

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Site Web Studies Tag 100

Robert Weiner

AUGUST 19, 2009

Donation Management System from Cumulus 9. Along the way the identified some that seem to have disappeared and weren't on my earlier list of defunct donor databases. Here are the new entries: Association Management System from Micro Solutions. DonorAccess from DonorAccess. DonorBase from Granite Bear Development.

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Database Donor Kintera Wiki 100

Robert Weiner

MAY 5, 2010

Its findings included: The 151 nonprofits that provided data for both 2008 and 2009 reported that overall donations fell by a median of 9% while online gifts grew by 5%. The Chronicle of Philanthropy's annual assessment of online giving came out in April, based on data from 176 of the largest nonprofits in the U.S. read more.

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Stats Online Giving Convio 131

Robert Weiner

MARCH 4, 2010

Private donations will be made in your name from our esteemed Voluntary Donors in your region and other parts of the world and you'll be allowed to deduct 10 percent (10%) of the total amount on these donations.

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Haiti Fundraising gMail Spam 122

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 26, 2009

Google has been offering free donation processing to nonprofits for the past couple of years through Google Checkout. That free service will end on March 1 except for U.S.-based based nonprofits that receive Google Grants. Other nonprofits will pay 2% + $0.20

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Google Free Nonprofit Grant 100

Robert Weiner

JULY 3, 2009

Last month we mentioned GivingUSA's annual assessment of individual giving which showed that donations from individuals had dropped 5.7% overall in 2008. Things were even worse on the corporate side. million compared to $33.19 million in 2007).

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Giving PDF Philanthropy Survey 100

Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

I hope the PR firm is doing this pro bono -- otherwise, all the donations could wind up paying them. What's special about a charity raising money for families in need at the holidays? Why would any media outlet pick this up? Finally, the goals seem pathetically low.

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Charity Spam Press Raise 100

Robert Weiner

MAY 19, 2009

He found that 47% of the sites studied had problems relating to page and site design; users couldn’t find where to make a donation on 17% of the sites; and 53% of the sites suffered from unclear or missing information and confusing terms. A few weeks ago I wrote about Jakob Nielsen’s study of nonprofit Web site usability.

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Site Web Studies Measure 100

Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Topics include getting creative in tough times, the job market for fundraisers, and experimenting with new ways to ensure that donations flow over the holidays. Some of the articles are free and some require a subscription (in most cases, you can tell because the URL contains the either the word “free&# or “premium&# ).

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Statistics Philanthropy Charity Free 100

Robert Weiner

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Thus, in a well functioning data ecosystem, tools are connected so that the information gathered from online donations, for example, is easily commingled with the information gathered from an event which is commingled with the information collected about other supporters. read more.

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Data NTEN Survey Software 100

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

I hope it’s done automatically when the donation is made. As a fundraising operations geek, I wonder how this works on the back end. Will the Twestival organizers send tax receipts to the donors, or will that fall to charity:water? If it has to be done later it could cost more than the value of the gifts.

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Raise Twitter Contact Gift 100

Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 5, 2008

The Hunger Site started out as a pure click-to-give site (for every click a corporate sponsor makes a set donation), but diversified its fundraising techniques after the last economic downturn. I’m skeptical about whether a pure click-to-give site can succeed, especially in this economy.

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San Francisco Hunger Literacy Cancer 100

Robert Weiner

APRIL 28, 2009

Some of the solutions they reviewed are available discounted our donated for nonprofits and public libraries via TechSoup Stock including: eTapestry , Telosa products, and GiftWorks. The guide is available for free here.

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System Guide Comparison Donor 100

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

In addition, the vendor or consultant needs to understand nonprofit best practices, workflows, reporting needs, fund accounting, and unique requirements like giving societies, membership benefits, fair market donation values and tax benefits, soft credits, gifts that are split between funds or sources, auction gifts and purchases, and how to provide (..)

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Blackbaud Convio Open Source Product 222

Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

I'm not sure whether you're considering whether or not to buy NetCommunity, but if so, you should also consider the benefits it provides other than social networking: online donations, event registrations, mass emails, self-service for data updates, etc. There are other ways of providing most of those, of course.).

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Social Media Community Online Media 112

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

There are many benefits to upgrading, such as: Free FirstGiving account including a customizable donation button and virtual terminal. Push-to-sync online donations: sync donors and donations with CRM in a single click. Process recurring donations based on donors'' schedule of giving.

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Change Database Module Hosting 100

Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

If you want to donate time to people (or work for pay), make it clearly outside the arrangement of the contract with the client (unless of course the client agrees specifically to pay for this). Otherwise, people will learn they can ask you for ‘favors,’ which may end up eating up a good deal of otherwise billable time.

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