Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2009

An average online gift of $152.12, although organizations focused on event-based and peer-to-peer online fundraising had lower average gift amounts. The average online gift for the organizations studied increased to $248.82 in December.

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Robert Weiner

OCTOBER 17, 2009

NTEN describes it as follows: The nonprofit ecosystem is a way of thinking about how data is shared by and flows across the different departments and activities in your organization. Your first question is probably "what is a data ecosystem?" read more.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2009

My friend and fellow consultant John Kenyon is fond of saying that, after people, data is an organization’s most important asset. An organization’s databases store its history: contact records; people served; donors, funders, and prospects; VIPs, volunteers, and vendors; event attendees, and more.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

There are tons of choices out there for small and mid-sized organizations. Support advocacy, volunteer management, complex events, electronic communications, content management, online payments, and merchandise sales. But that product started out with development and support from a major organization (the Metropolitan Opera).

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

The original question: My organization is working on a data retention policy and wondering if others have insights to share. Is it a criteria which is temporary – “they’ve not given to us ever” doesn’t mean they may not wish they had, and upon decease urge gifts “in their memory” to your organization. Not wanting mail?

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

The responses came primarily from academic institutions, but also included significant numbers from healthcare, religious, and social service organizations. SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2009 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts --their fourth such survey.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2009

The responses came primarily from post-secondary schools, but also included elementary schools, healthcare, museums, gardens, performing arts, and service organizations. SupportingAdvancement.com has published the results of their 2008 survey on how nonprofits are handling corporate matching gifts. 63% raised over $50,000.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 5, 2010

I've also had some odd experiences with the sync -- some events have looked fine in Outlook but have refused to show up in my Google calendar, which means they don't show up on the Pre, either. I had to delete those events and recreate them. Plus, it was the most expensive option. I haven't figured out why this happened.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

There are key components of advancement support missing in the current software (one of the two areas above, or Events management, or Volunteer management, or on-line fundraising, or Campaign Reporting, or…). This is an area of new or expanded emphasis for us. But a big part of the analysis has to be “who’s the project sponsor?”

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2010

These are the people who need to determine whether a contribution can be counted as a gift, which fund it should go to, who is the legal donor, whether it's tax deductible and who gets tax credit, whether accepting it violates any federal, state,or organization rules, who should be notified of the gift's arrival, etc.

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