sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

This post features advice from IT and grants management experts on how to streamline your tech solutions, create clear processes, and drive more external and internal impact. The Foundation uses the Blackbaud Grantmaking system, and to expedite the timing, grants managers completed applications on behalf of island employees. “I

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fusionSpan

SEPTEMBER 26, 2013

Have you considered hiring a consultant to help you identify the ideal system for your association and help with the data conversion? Assess the consultant’s knowledge by speaking with at least three clients/references to find out which system they chose and why. They can also expedite service and support.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 12, 2018

Having the right CRM system in place means improved communication and enhanced relationships, streamlined daily operations, your team being able to collaborate and work more efficiently, and management being able to have a clear view of your alumni, donors, and constituents. Identify any phase 2 or 3 items. Change is hard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 23, 2011

Overall, when we went into the first phase of the campaign, we had two goals: to secure at least three Blue Key Champions , and to get 6,000 keys ordered between May 9 and June 20 (World Refugee Day). Any advice about setting up systems to track Twitter. Click Image to see larger version. What tool did you use?

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NTEN

APRIL 1, 2015

While it’s still not a perfect system (yet), we hope this new site will be a big improvement in terms of usability. One final note on the upcoming redesign is that this is only the first phase of the project. This will enable readers with an infinite scrolling functionality and a clean, minimalistic reading experience.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

The book goes on to layout a method for designing a system, developing a theory of change, and talks about some of the culture issues required to work this way. While the book is geared for start ups, the advice is certainly applicable to nonprofits. Thus, performance management was a way to drive activities, not results.

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CauseVox

JUNE 22, 2021

Why you should attend: You’ll get hands-on advice about how to get the grant and how to use it most effectively for big results. What if we told you that there are easy systems and processes that can help you launch or expand an individual giving program for effective and easy income? Kelly McLaughlin will share it all with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2009

With social media, listening needs to incorporated into the research phase at the beginning but must also be used as the social media strategy unfolds (real time monitoring) and as ongoing evaluation. I need to revise the scoring system so it encourages the best social media strategic thinking.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

These days, investing in fundraising tools with CRM integrations is more of a necessity than general fundraising advice. No matter how extensive your software features are, the most important thing is that all of these metrics are stored in your centralized CRM system. Measure all fundraising metrics. After the Donation.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 2, 2012

constituent engagement), implementing and optimizing CRM (a constituent relationship management system), is the easy part if you work at an organization whose culture isn't constituent centric. Consultants like myself are full of helpful advice on just how to do that. Start with digestible bites.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

We are still in innovator phase here, not even early adopters have signed on. at 10:59 pm this is such great advice. Thanks for the great advice. It is made up of people who are techically-oriented, largely affluent, and largely spend inordinate amounts of time in contact with electronic devices. 5 Erin 04.30.08

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2010

By initiating a phased welcome series you are able to nurture the relationship with that new constituent and this can help lead to a longer lasting relationship – one in which your supporter feels important and like they really are a part of what you do. But, why not take it a step further and roll out your welcome mat?

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Getting all of your old donor data cleaned and ready so that you can move it into the new system? Without a good plan in place, you’re going to spend your first month (or two) in the new system dealing with improperly formatted records that leave your nonprofit at a standstill. Not so much. Now for the goods news: We’re to help!

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Whole Whale

JUNE 1, 2023

For the relationship level, AI chatbot provides greetings and routes teens to human counselors who then provide advice. For a relationship level, AI chatbot can discuss basic relationship issues and provide general empathy/support but lacks breadth of understanding needed for nuanced advice. Close monitoring is required.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 31, 2011

Working as a professional fundraiser, I knew that I was giving and my friends were giving but our common donor tracking systems weren’t capturing how the diversity of our interests and frequent smaller donations added up to a sizeable amount over the course of a year. I like to think of some of them as “nonprofit mutual funds.”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 21, 2011

After all, any great idea needs a vote of confidence, great advice and an infusion of cash to have a large-scale impact! You can imagine how difficult it was back in 1982, when I founded Calera Recognition Systems (originally named the Palantir Corporation). But, Robert wasn’t just about giving me advice.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Rachel Sacks, MPH will help demystify all five phases of the grants lifecycle: identifying well-aligned prospects, cultivating funder relationships, preparing compelling submissions, maintaining grants through stewarding and reporting, and submitting renewals. My team thinks of the grants lifecycle as having five phases.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 17, 2022

Since moving its systems to Salesforce, the team has been able to stay lean by cutting out hours of what used to be manual data entry and management of disparate spreadsheets and applications. the goal of Polaris Project is to systemically disrupt the human trafficking networks that rob human beings of their lives and their freedom.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 28, 2014

Advice from Alan Royal about what you can expect to get out of a training event is ringing in my ears as I sit down to write about my four days at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, in Washington DC , March 13-15, 2014.As It’s this advice I’m thinking about now. Just what did I learn from #14ntc?

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 30, 2022

And if you’re interested in that, maybe you’re shopping for a new system this year, check us out. Am I going to be that scattered fundraising spray fire system or am I going to be a funder magnet?” So I understand why you think this because all of the old-school fundraising gurus talk about this crazy long relationship-building phase.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 14, 2022

And if you’re interested in that, maybe you’re shopping for a new system this year, check us out. Am I going to be that scattered fundraising spray fire system or am I going to be a funder magnet?” That’s what Bloomerang is, that’s what we do. Visit our website. You can choose Sandy. One of them is Sandy.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Or maybe you’re really looking for larger scale, a change, right, systems-level policy advocacy change. If you were revising an existing strategic plan rather than creating a new one, what’s different about this advice, if anything, Julie? Good advice to always go back to those things, right? Steven: I love it.

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Bloomerang

JULY 17, 2021

Are you using systems that require lots of personalization that could be automated? The number of people who have come to me for spot coaching, so, you know, Steven, I’ve done some one-off, two-off sessions where folks who needed advice or they needed to make a career move. What’s your best advice for managing up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

My favorite piece of advice is: “Occupy Yourself” What if there were an Occupy-style movement directed at you? Those capable of channeling the power of the crowd must turn their energies to something more fundamental: redesigning society’s systems and structures to meaningfully include and empower more people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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