Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 19, 2024

Use these top tips to upgrade your visual design and create a beautiful website that will engage and inspire visitors: Incorporate your visual branding Follow accessibility best practices Prioritize simplicity To make revamping your website a breeze, leverage a content management system (CMS) designed with nonprofits in mind.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

A content management system (CMS). It’s important to have a centralized system for various fundraising, engagement, and stewardship efforts, which an integrated tech stack can provide. . With traditional fundraising events on a pause, virtual alternatives have proven to be successful alternatives for many organizations.

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

Unlike the board of directors, which has oversight of the organization, advisory committees don’t have any oversight of the organization. Alternately, you might be thinking about building an advisory committee around advocacy.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Since meeting in person with students for scholarship interviews is off the table in most places, some institutions have begun offering alternative options to meet with students via zoom or by phone. It’s no secret the COVID-19 pandemic has changed the face of scholarship management this year.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Your major giving efforts may be supported by these team members: Executive director. Your executive director leads your nonprofit from the highest level, ensuring all of your fundraising efforts are aligned with your mission and values. Development director. Generally, it’s best to limit the number of attendees.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Practical/tactical stuff like processes and systems is easy to fix. But a Board member’s home can often be a lovely alternative, while still offering a private space for conversations. Board Meeting Doesn’t Have to Mean “Bored Meeting” A happy Board of Directors is a productive Board of Directors!

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Neon CRM

JUNE 22, 2023

With a good constituent relationship management system (CRM), you can personalize your volunteer outreach, show your appreciation, and understand what it takes to engage someone with your organization. They spend a lot of time transferring that data between systems, which means they’re only able to collect the bare minimum.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2024

You see, I am a female in my late 20’s-early 30’s, living in an urban area, vegetarian, eco-conscious, middle class, and have been actively seeking plant based alternatives to milk that taste good and are kinder to animals and the planet. Let’s imagine you are the Director of Development for an animal welfare nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Jason Samuels is the director of innovation and technology at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis. That's a huge relief as a system administrator and a huge win for the organization." Jason told me that he had to do orientations on using the new system early and often, for instance at staff meetings.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Many nonprofits also don’t have a system of steps they can use to get to the point of regularly submitting grants. This leaves them again without a system to scale their grantseeking efforts. Nonprofits who see the most success with grants are able to achieve their results because they develop a system.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Many nonprofits also don’t have a system of steps they can use to get to the point of regularly submitting grants. This leaves them again without a system to scale their grantseeking efforts. Nonprofits who see the most success with grants are able to achieve their results because they develop a system.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

Sam Chenkin — Director of Operations, Tech Impact. Having an agreement with another organization in an alternate location to provide services from there. Then the key disaster preparedness concern becomes communication, not system and data preservation. Patrick Callihan — Executive Director of Tech Impact.

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NTEN

MARCH 2, 2011

Peter Campbell, IT Director, Earthjustice As an IT Director, co-workers, peers, and consultants frequently ask me, "Do you use Microsoft Project ?" Worthy alternatives (and superior, because they're multi-user): Sharepoint or Open Atrium. The answer to that question is a resounding denial. Excel (or any spreadsheet).

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Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Email system like Mailchimp or Emma to message a larger audience and collect attendee information. We love the New York Public Library’s Anti-Proms , which provide an alternative, safe space regardless of sexuality, gender identity, and any other reason for NYC teens. Way to accept donations or money from the event.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

Matt Sharp , Director of Operations and Technology, Packard Foundation Last week, when I started as Scholar in Residence at the Packard Foundation, I sat down to use the computer in my office to write a blog post. Which was a great metaphor for explaining why there is standardization in the system and administrative controls.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2014

Jason Samuels is the director of innovation and technology at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis. That's a huge relief as a system administrator and a huge win for the organization." Jason told me that he had to do orientations on using the new system early and often, for instance at staff meetings.

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Forj

JULY 5, 2017

I hope the summary below will help you navigate AAMSE and if you’re interested in exploring further, check out the additional resources provided to see where your learning management system may be able to step in and help. MACRA and the QPP. We are paying close attention to the Medicare Access and CHIP Reauthorization Act (MACRA).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

NTEN Communications Director Brett Meyer will represent NTEN on the board, and says of the partnership, "We're excited about the potential that the IMAB brings to the nonprofit sector and we're equally excited to lend our experience and knowledge to help the board deliver on its vision."

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Jason Samuels is the director of innovation and technology at the National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis. That's a huge relief as a system administrator and a huge win for the organization." Jason told me that he had to do orientations on using the new system early and often, for instance at staff meetings.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

An alternative is to find an established organization you can partner with or who will serve as your fiscal sponsor. Select and set up software systems: Choose the right tools to help you get the job done right and as efficiently as possible. This can be an interim solution while you test your program to see if it takes off.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 18, 2007

I wrote a case study about it in the NOSI primer – it can allow for really great flexibility in building phone systems. It seems cool, and a great alternative to freconference.com. Asterisk is the open source PBX application that works by using VOIP. Committee Caller seems like an amazing tool. And it’s free, too.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

The research on how compensation systems affect employee motivation is both fascinating and surprising. 1 This will happen regardless of the compensation system, but performance-based pay raise systems, by nature, create unequal, variable pay, which compounds the problem. We welcome your comments and feedback.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2008

I look forward to the growth of this community, and the ongoing development of the MPower solution as an open source alternative CRM for nonprofit organizations. The customer only hits a down side if Mpower does a poor job as a vendor and there is no alternative vendor to switch too since the ecology is small. 2 admin 07.07.08

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I love alternative history novels. I was thinking I’d do a few alternative histories of museums for the first post of the last month of the decade. I tried to picture an alternative with AleiaBrown and Adrianne Russell ’s # MuseumsRespondtoFerguson and LaTonya S. But I couldn’t get there. And, yet, there is so much to do.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2012

Lessons Learned About Resilient Networks from Super Storm Sandy by Pat Brandes, Executive Director, the Barr Foundation. But when that system failed too, I realized I had not bothered to get the street address of where they would be. And in the face of a storm like Sandy, our system is actually too big not to fail.

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Executive Director Andrea Buchanan said “Our Duradash fundraisers are really loving the CauseVox platform! For people who weren’t local, any park was a great alternative. When Lisa set up her fundraising page, she wrote from her perspective as the Executive Director. Relying on the people already in your network goes a long way.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

Nor will you get to see the cool articles on alternate reality gaming, crowd-sourcing, convergent mobile media, and video game modding that are also in this issue. Even if you read an early draft of my article in essay form , you’ll probably never get to read the cleaned up version. That’s super depressing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

Although this appears at first glance to be beyond reach in a virtual setting, consider breaking down each aspect one by one to consider online alternatives. Alternatively, you might combine a silent auction with a shop by allowing buyers to either purchase an item at a buy-it-now or have the item awarded to the highest bidder.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2016

Nina Simon, the executive director of the museum, is an expert in participatory design and fantastic facilitator. I like this alternative to sticky dot voting! It was great to watch her in action facilitating the creative, interactive, and fun program. .” Here’s a quick video.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) Time will tell. {

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 21, 2017

Make time for a quick hello from some staff members, your executive director and other volunteers before they hit the ground running. Providing alternate opportunities is also a great option—it includes your volunteers that have tight schedules but still want to give their time. Be considerate and accommodating of their schedules.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

I had the opportunity to chat with executive director Lisa Hoitsma and marketing and development manager Carly McCoy about their recent website redesign. Gateway spent some time researching various CMSes and decided that Joomla was the best alternative for them. In 2008, Gateway to the Arts was in need of a major overhaul.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

To get a better sense of Year Up's involvement with TechHire, I spoke with Jeff Artis, TechHire's national director of corporate engagement. Year Up isn't a replacement or cure-all for this issue, but it is an alternative source of talent. Year Up's Partnership with TechHire. " Changing Corporate Culture.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2018

I arrived as the freshly-minted director of prospect research. My job, as the director of research, was to use the modeling results for prospecting—but also to sell them to the directors of development in the schools and colleges. Take those lists to the director of development in each department.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. The report isn’t about security, it’s a very, very broad comparison of the systems, with security as a very small component. More on that in a bit.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 6, 2007

» Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 08.09.07 Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 15, 2006

When you look at systems administrators, or coders, or net-heads … the women kinda vanish. why Ruby on Rails rocks (or doesn’t), what’s a good alternative port to run SSH, when we’re going to implement IPv6 or … there’s a whole lot of testosterone, and not a lot of estrogen hanging about.

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