Blackbaud announced, just in time for AFP, their new product, called BlackbaudNow , in partnership with PayPal. People can donate to your organization via Paypal only, and you can track donations in their very simple interface. Of course, people like me, who make our living building websites, and helping facilitate the web presences of organizations, look askance at tools like this, so take what I say with a grain of salt. It is a curious service. It is an extremely low-end, low-cost online website/online donation package from a vendor that spends most of its time on the very high-end

My Facebook friend, Phy, who is a Cambodian attending school in Japan messaged me telling me he really really wanted to donate to the America's Giving Challenge , but the Global Giving online donation tool doesn't support PayPal. he is the 20th person from Southeast Asia has told me that they can't donate and have it count towards to the contest because of the lack of PayPal support. He isn't the first potential donor to tell me that .. And it isn't the just the supporters of the cause from Southeast Asia, I just got an email from Roger Carr who just posted this reminder to his

Blackbaud and PayPal have announced the launch of BlackbaudNow , an affordable solution to help new and growing nonprofits reach their fundraising goals. "More quot;More than 100,000 nonprofits already use PayPal for payment processing, We know that our work with Blackbaud, a trusted partner of nonprofits, will allow us to better serve our nonprofit customers and help them achieve their fundraising goals.” - Glenn Lim, general manager of alliances and non-retail payments, PayPal BlackbaudNow gives smaller nonprofits the tools they need to quickly and easily get their organization online and growing its donations today.

Below is the blog post from him, calling for help.  Every little bit helps…well, you can read that in his words, not mine. need your help. How I need your help? With the help of @lexiphanic Edward Harran is a blogger and nonprofit technologist I have connected with through NetSquared, this blog, and of course Twitter.  He and I have had terrific idea swaps and brainstorms and I can only imagine the conversations he will spark in person at NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology Conference. 

Could that concept be translated to help a local nonprofit? reached out to John Hawbaker, the editor of Chattarati , a local Chattanooga blog, to see if we could adapt Twestival to help Girls Inc. Chattarati had contemplated doing something to help the community, and we worked out a plan for First Friday Five. After hearing about Twestival , I was intrigued. As the director of development of Girls Inc.

To help close the gap, I am raffling off three months of social media coaching - a $750 value. I’ve been able to help small businesses and non-profits achieve significant results with social media. To enter, forward your paypal receipt to john@corporatedollar.org with “ 12for12k.Org Raffle ” in the subject line (type these exact words in the subject line, or I might miss your email). M any of you already know about the buzz around 12for12k.org and how folks have been working their asses off all February for Stop The Silence . For those of you

I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?   Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania.    As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle . managed by chip-in, Paypal enables the back office); Last August, I saw the impact of Twitter's velocity first-hand with a fundraising experiment.  I was able to raise $2,500 in 90 minutes at Gnomedex.  

Amazon S3, Google Checkout, Google Maps, PayPal). So, Now, you can focus on how the solution will help you further your mission. For case studies of organizations that are using cloud computing successfully to help further their mission, please visit [link] and [link] . ...Tags: Rem Hoffmann, Exponent Partners , and Rob Jordan, Idealist Consulting Everyone Everyone has come across the term "cloud computing", but what exactly does it mean?

I started with a story about how Ponzi and Chris helped me demonstrate the networked effect with flickr and twitter for a nonprofit training, then told my story about the Case Foundation and Parade Magazine's America's Giving Challenge , and then I set up a real time fundraising challenge. My first fundraising effort was to send Leng Sopharath to college her first year in November 2006 took 3 weeks to raise $800. In 2007, Chris Brogan and 81 other people helped raise enough money in 24 hours for her college tuition and in a few days were able to raise enough to help

It’s not too late to put together an web application or widget that helps people find and share opportunities to make a difference. [link] Social Actions is grateful to PayPal, Convio, TakePart, and Challenge Your World for sponsoring the Change the Web Challenge. ...Tags: From our friends at Social Action: I’m writing to let you know that the April 3rd deadline for entries in Social Actions’ Change the Web Challenge is fast approaching.