Robert Weiner

JUNE 3, 2010

Yesterday I spoke on a fundraising panel at Compasspoint's Silicon Valley/Peninsula Nonprofit Forum and mentioned a variety of resources. Idealware's "Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems" [link]. Here they are, with links: Donor Retention. AFP's Fundraising Effectiveness Project: [link]. Attracting New Donors.

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Resource eBook Social Media ROI 138

Robert Weiner

APRIL 23, 2010

The website for the new book, The Nonprofit Guide to Going Green describes it as "a comprehensive learning tool to guide nonprofits and NGOs towards becoming greener. The definitive, practical, go-to resource guide on helping all charities become more green.". read more.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 30, 2009

Hewlett Packard has published a free guide to greening your IT. The guide, produced independently by research and analysis firm Freeform Dynamics, provides guidance for where to start in greening an organization and maps out a pragmatic, yet comprehensive course of action ranked according to expense and difficulty of implementation.

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Robert Weiner

APRIL 13, 2009

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." Robin Broitman of the Interactive Insights Group has created an extensive list of tools for searching the social Web.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Idealware’s Consumer’s Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems reviewed 30 systems, the majority of which don’t come from Convio or Blackbaud. They don’t want to choose a product that won’t get the full resources of the merged company, or could even be killed off.

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Robert Weiner

JULY 17, 2009

develop templates for proposals and contracts (Nolo Press is a great resource for contracts). The Small Business Administration also has lots of resources ( www.sba.gov ). This will guide your business planning. Deal with legal and administrative stuff, such as: get a business license. publish your business name in the paper.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 7, 2009

I’ve previously posted resources for nonprofits coping with the economic downturn ( Coping with a Troubled Economy , Fundraising Survival Guide , Economic Effects on Philanthropy ).

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