Robert Weiner

JUNE 12, 2009

percent, the largest drop since the group began tracking donations in 1956. While giving to groups classified as Religious or Public-Society Benefit increased by approximately 1.5 percent each (adjusted for inflation), most groups saw decreases of between three and 22 percent (again, adjusted for inflation). giving was down 5.7

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 7, 2009

Not all organizations, or types of groups, experience the same changes in giving, even in recession years. Foundation giving, a mainstay for many groups, will likely suffer in the several years to come as a direct result of portfolio losses. The impact of long recessions on giving varies by donor types.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 11, 2009

Margaret King, President of the InfoRich Group, has published an article on how prospect research yielded $1 million in foundation funding for one of her clients. She discusses the strategy behind the research, the tools she used, how the list was narrowed to a group of top prospects, and the general approach to cultivating the foundations.

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 15, 2011

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 11, 2009

I'm a member of several LinkedIn discussion groups, but my participation is lukewarm at best. As a result, one of the groups I belong to includes the following off-topic messages: Vacancy advertising on the UK's leading job boards from only £99. One of the biggest problems is spam--the noise is drowning out the signal.

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Robert Weiner

OCTOBER 9, 2009

What: Another in The Chronicle of Philanthropy 's series of online discussions: How to Use Facebook Causes to Promote Your Nonprofit Group. When: Tuesday, October 13, at 12 noon, Eastern time. Where: [link]. How Much: Free. Description: read more.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 11, 2009

Batsch Group. Iris Group. Lieberman Consulting Group. Ansin Technology Group. Tackle Marketing Group. But I will post additions as I come across them. Feel free to let me know what I missed, which systems no longer exist, and which aren’t really donor databases. ActiveGiving. The Active Network, Inc.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

They've gathered a group of nonprofit social media experts to help you devise a solid organizational strategy and learn the secrets of a variety of social media tools. What: NTEN is holding an online workshop on social media using a Choose Your Own Expert format.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 19, 2012

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 1, 2014

But an animal welfare group never archives records because the elderly women with 15 cats who gave $20 ten years ago may leave them her entire estate. After talking with some clients, it seems opinions vary wildly regarding this subject. I just wanted to see if you had any insight you could offer regarding this subject.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 13, 2009

Robin Broitman of the Interactive Insights Group has created an extensive list of tools for searching the social Web. She calls it a "comprehensive guide to a wide range of resources, Web sites, services, and advice that will help you find, filter, and monitor the information you need more effectively."

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 15, 2015

Many, many years ago, an administrator here apparently made a similar decision to delete an entire group of records from the database. I agree with colleagues who''ve advised not to delete records, and I have a cautionary tale to reinforce that.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 30, 2009

In early January, Convio asked a group of nonprofit technology bloggers to suggest New Year’s resolutions for nonprofits ( TechSoup Blog was one of the participants ). In addition, they asked people to post resolutions on Convio’s Connection Café blog.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 9, 2009

The results will be compiled and analyzed as a group of data and no individual answers will be attributed to any individual respondents. He describes it as follows: This short survey is designed to gather information about the impact of the economic crisis on charitable giving. Please answer as completely as you can. read more.

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 8, 2009

Beth Kanter wrote an extensive, thoughtful account of the upcoming Twestival event , which aims to raise $500,000 for the group charity:water. 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?

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 28, 2009

Anyone interested in the vitality and influence of groups of human beings–from knitting circles, to political movements, to multinational corporations–needs to read this book." " read more.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 17, 2009

" Chip Grizzard of Grizzard Communications Group makes this point in a recent article on AFP's website. But to paraphrase Rahm Emanuel (who was apparently paraphrasing Stanford economist Paul Romer ), "You never want a serious crisis to go to waste."

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 10, 2009

I’ve already mentioned Beth Kanter’s extensive discussion of Twestival , an attempt to raise $500,000 for the group charity:water using Twitter. Beth titled her post Are Fundraising Groundswells A Massive Opportunity or Distraction for Nonprofit Organizations? and didn’t reach a conclusion either way.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

participation in online discussion groups. Figure out how you will market your work. Options include. writing articles. publishing a newsletter. public speaking. business cards. volunteer work. networking at conferences and workshops. being a conference sponsor or exhibitor. online and print advertising. the dreaded cold calls.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 20, 2013

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Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 9, 2015

Many of the latter group thought they had made a one-time purchase and would only need to pay (optional) annual maintenance fees if they didn''t need additional modules. Attendees will have the opportunity to ask questions during these sessions as well as better understand the upgrade process.

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Robert Weiner

MARCH 20, 2009

But, says the study, higher acquisition rates and larger gifts from online givers may be masking the difficulties many nonprofit groups have had in retaining these donors. One-time Internet givers to the 12 organizations who reported their fundraising data in January gave a median of $27 more than those who made single gifts by mail.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

I attend user group meetings, especially where applications of software I use is demo’d. I also use many national nptech lists, most of which this community will know about (Riders, NPO-Techies, various NPO Groups lists, Techsoup’s “by the cup&# , etc.). Sometimes vendors provide free demos. I watch a lot of demos.

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