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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits

Whole Whale

Their founders cover the overhead cost to keep the Forever Free Pledge going, and as such they’ve been able to share the wealth with the Malala Fund, Girl Scouts, StoryCorps, and March for Our Lives. Founded: 2014 Give Lively builds tech for peak fundraising experiences on both the donor and nonprofit side.

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5 Interesting Facts from the Giving USA 2011 Report

sgEngage

The Giving USA 2011 report is out and the team at The Giving USA Foundation and the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University have given plenty of data and statistics to sift through. Total charitable giving was 2% of Gross Domestic Product in 2010 and this is a decline from the level of 2.3% seen in 2000 and 2005. and Linda H.

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Open content business models

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There was one interesting model was asking for pledges, and if the pledges got up to a certain amount, the content would be produced. The problem of how do you fund the actual writing of content was not really addressed, and I think that is one of the harder nuts to crack.

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Foundation Transparency – Foundation Center’s Surprising Glass Pockets Website

Tech Soup

Chronicle of Philanthropy published a great announcement of the project a few months after its launch in 2010. We recently covered one of the Transparency Talk blog entries: “ What’s The Story, Data? hGrant allows foundations to submit and post grant data electronically through an application programming interface (API).

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Using Salesforce to Cultivate Donor Relationships

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When they understood the data they didn’t trust it. Instead of spending hours comparing files, importing and exporting data from Constant Contact to Eventbrite and back to Excel, and attempting to de-duplicate these various data sources we focused on building relationships. It did not do what theyyou needed it to do.

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Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Just came across a deal-breaking feature-not-yet-implemented in CiviCRM and I’m wondering if it’s easily implemented in Sugar (long-term pledges to a capital campaign). Anyway, SugarCRM is basically “enterprise class&# CRM, and is worth a look. { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Thomas 04.20.08

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Click and Pledge, a company that does SaaS for nonprofits, released a new product, called “Trio&#. Developers who code solutions that integrate with Kintera using their open API platform, Connect , can win $15,000 or $5,000 (not the $25 K their big logo seems to suggest – that’s just the total they will award.)

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