Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 19, 2011

The nonprofit was notified of the gift on Jan. The IRS has stated that a charitable gift made by check is complete at the time the check is delivered or mailed, provided the bank eventually honors the check." A gift made by credit card payment is complete when the charge is made." A staff member heard the message on Jan.

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Process Donation Montana United States 271

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Provides robust, flexible support for all forms of fundraising, membership, marketing, and communications. During the NTEN call we discussed Tessitura , the performing arts fundraising and ticketing system as an example of a successful effort. Complex family, social, business, corporate, and financial relationships.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2009

The results come from 2,000 nonprofits using Blackbaud’s online fundraising tools. 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

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Trend Online Giving Summary 100

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

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. no contact or gifts in the last 7 years). Advancement Services Best Practices Donor Databases Fundraising Prospect Research' Not giving?

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2010

She's trying to make the case for investing in Advancement Services at a college that seems to only want to invest in fundraisers. In his blog post on evaluating fundraising programs, Measuring Success The Buffett Way , Jason McNeil asks What measures might Warren Buffett use to evaluate development effectiveness?

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Service Retention Evaluation System 183

Robert Weiner

AUGUST 1, 2014

While there are ways around it, that typically ends your ability to communicate with the donor, invite them to events, re-engage them, steward them, or understand why a subsequent gift or bequest came from them. Advancement Services Best Practices Databases Donor Databases Fundraising' What do you think?

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Donor Database Module Model 112

Robert Weiner

AUGUST 8, 2012

Tale #1: Our front desk received a call from someone who wanted to give a major gift to our college. She transferred this caller to a major gift officer. Here's what my major gifts officer wrote up: The caller’s granddaughters decided to give funds to [the college]. I’ve anonymized the tellers of the tales and the subjects.

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St. Louis Charity Donor New Hampshire 122

Robert Weiner

JULY 25, 2010

to constituents based on factors like past donations, interests, event attendance, recency of gifts, lifetime giving total, etc. How easy is it to do things you'll need to do regularly, like enter gifts, look up donors, change addresses, and run reports. For instance, you might need the ability to target direct mail (and email?)

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Database Donor System Test 180

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

As a fundraising operations geek, I wonder how this works on the back end. If it has to be done later it could cost more than the value of the gifts. Beth Kanter wrote an extensive, thoughtful account of the upcoming Twestival event , which aims to raise $500,000 for the group charity:water.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 11, 2009

Compton Fundraising Consultants. FundRaiser Basic. FundRaiser Software. FundRaiser Professional. FundRaiser Software. FundRaiser Select. FundRaiser Software. MatchMaker FundRaising Software. Qbase Fundraising Manager. Sage Fundraising 100 (aka GT Pro). Micro Solutions! Benefactor.

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Database Donor Kintera Oracle 100

Robert Weiner

JANUARY 5, 2010

I've been thinking about what it takes to run a great Advancement Services operation (aka Development Services, Development Operations, Development Systems, the fundraising infrastructure, the back office). staff, fundraisers, and other colleagues) and externally (fielding inquiries and resolving problems for donors and prospective donors).

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 20, 2009

The study of 24 national nonprofits found that people who make a first-time gift online often don’t make subsequent online gifts to the charity (although some give through other means). I wonder whether other factors might be at work here. read more.

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