Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Building an organization from the ground up is a challenge, but with the right nonprofit tools, the heavy lifting gets easier. There are SO MANY nonprofit tools out there, all promising to make your work easier as you grow your new nonprofit. Joining TechSoup should be the first technology task for your new nonprofit.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

If you feel like you have too much to do and aren’t getting enough done, you need to increase your nonprofit productivity. With the right tools and processes, you will accomplish more in less time, feel less burned out, and have time and energy to strengthen your nonprofit by planning for the future. How many to-do lists? That’s right.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

Startup nonprofits, nonprofit newbies, umbrella organizations, community foundations, mentors… there are a lot of ways people may think about or refer to fiscal sponsorships, even if they’re unfamiliar with the term “fiscal sponsorship.” Put simply, fiscal sponsorship is an alternative method to obtaining tax-exempt status.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 19, 2023

As a small nonprofit, you know just how critical members are for your success. Member experiences are how people perceive and interact with your nonprofit. Great experiences don’t just keep your members happy, they also boost your nonprofit’s reputation, generate more revenue and increase retention rates.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

As the parent nonprofit organization of the Bookshare online library, a leading provider of accessible books to people with print disabilities in the U.S., You can read more about our position in the Amicus Brief , which we filed jointly with our peer organization, Learning Ally. only files?is in addition to the text?only

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Nonprofits who have a Google Ad Grants account or a paid Google Ad account often appreciate the web traffic they receive from their Google Ads. By improving your Quality Score, your nonprofit will end up ranking higher on the page above other ads – resulting in more traffic. Google has a metric called Quality Score.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2022

Today’s question come from a nonprofit employee who want advice on which year to count gifts that are made on or before December 31, but not received until January: . If I send them a letter in the new year stating their gift was received in 2023 instead of 2022, that may impact their tax filing, especially if it is a larger gift.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

With the upcoming election on everyone’s minds, many nonprofit organizations are becoming concerned about how their fundraising efforts will be affected in this already-challenging environment. For nonprofits, this means higher costs to bring in donors and gifts online. Increase your budget. Dial back your digital spending.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

In today’s world, nonprofits rely on their technology to help bring them closer to their goals. Nonprofits looking to reassess or develop a new technical strategy should consider partnering with a nonprofit technology consulting firm. Your nonprofit is unique, so your solutions and strategies should be too.

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Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

Whether you’re brand new and still waiting for funding or an established nonprofit that needs to cut costs, we understand your budget can be tight. Nonprofit software helps organizations manage their day-to-day functions like administration, fundraising, donor relations, accounting, marketing, and more. Fundraising. Bloomerang.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 25, 2017

If you’ve ever held an executive position at a nonprofit, you have probably heard cliche mantras such as “work smart, not hard” or “do more with less.” One of the most difficult components of starting and maintaining a nonprofit is learning how to take advantage of the resources at your disposal. That’s where we come in.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 17, 2020

This is a common scenario that we’re seeing more of, as more nonprofits gravitate toward ‘best of breed’ systems. Many find they are the best alternative for effectively running and growing their organizations, especially when decked out with all of the best apps for additional functionality. Who’s in charge?

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M+R

DECEMBER 1, 2021

In 2020, nonprofits and campaigns relied on text messaging as a big way to get out the vote—sending more than 13 billion political text messages in the lead up to the election. If you’re one of those nonprofits (or if, like us, you personally received 82,533 of those 13 billion texts), get ready: 2022 is going to look a lot different.

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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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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Recent evidence from the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG) indicates that grantmakers are asking the same questions with slight differences across funders, wasting a significant amount of a nonprofit's time during the application process. Alternative Supports (<1 percent). How Did You Hear of Us (<1 percent).

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Nonprofit organizations look to outside experts for all kinds of reasons. Nonprofit consultants and their services can be serious game-changers for organizations. Here’s what we’ll cover: The Basics of Nonprofit Consulting. What is a nonprofit consulting firm? Why should I hire a nonprofit consulting firm?

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

In this guide, we’ll explore the basics of donor acquisition and some nonprofit digital marketing best practices for finding new donors. Donor acquisition refers to how many new donors your nonprofit can attract within a given timeframe. Nonprofits usually report retention as a percentage. Let’s get started! Learn More!

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Greater Giving

JULY 18, 2023

However, it can be easy to get lost if you don’t know which information is helpful to your nonprofit. Alternatively, you might notice your donor response rates are low, indicating that some of your data is outdated or inaccurate. After the process is complete, their team will send the data file back to you.

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Qgiv

APRIL 23, 2021

For more generalized appeals, make sure to use the banner section to reiterate your nonprofits’ story. You should also run images through an image optimizer to reduce their file size. Alternatively, you can look up “image optimizer” for a few other sites. Let’s look at some examples: Boys and Girls Club of Dorchester.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2017

Nonprofit, church, library, and foundation offices are vulnerable to this malware, which can lock up your IT system until a ransom is paid. The malware then locks up and encrypts the files in the IT system and holds them for ransom until a payment is made, usually demanded in Bitcoin. How to Protect Your IT System.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 24, 2012

[Editor's note: The following is from the September 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. What are costs of alternatives? Next, consider the costs of alternative solutions including competing providers or different approaches. Once you have completed your evaluation, don't just file it away.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 24, 2010

This was first introduced (to my knowledge) in the Stakeholder's Platform discussions, which were the quickly ginned-up alternative option created in response to the original introduction at WIPO of the Treaty for the Visually Impaired ("TVI") by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay (and now co-sponsored by Mexico). The concept of TIs uses U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 7, 2011

It reads and writes all MS Office formats (except for Access files.) The days when many a nonprofit were run by Access databases is coming to a close as things move more and more to the cloud. I know that the fact that nonprofits can get MS Office for $30 or so makes a change unlikely, and I’ve carped about that one for years.

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Allegiance Group

JANUARY 23, 2023

All nonprofits experience various amounts of donor attrition, making it essential to re-engage with lapsed donors. Following up on any direct mail appeal with an email reinforces the need and offers an alternate way to give. Write about your success stories to show how your nonprofit organization uses donations.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2014

This internet-based storage and filing system is similar to Dropbox, but with enterprise-level control and functionality, making it more effective for organisations with more than a handful of people to use. It’s a great alternative to a full time HR person – a luxury most of us can’t afford.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

As a nonprofit professional, you know how important hosting fundraising events is to both expanding your donor base and retaining existing donors. By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events.

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Everyaction

MAY 9, 2018

One of today’s biggest areas of growth for nonprofit fundraising is Planned Giving. Most nonprofit fundraising databases are able to mark a gift as a bequest, but this only captures a fraction of the entire Planned Giving process. During this time, the nonprofit is able to invest the money and grow income through it.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2014

Email is a critical business tool for nonprofits. Unfortunately, nonprofits face the same threats to their email security that other businesses and organizations face. For instance, by converting a Word file to PDF, any potentially harmful scripts can be removed. Stop Spam & Phishing Emails. Check Internal Emails.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

Given the In difficult times, nonprofits provide life-changing support to people affected by financial hardship. substantial impact of nonprofit activity, many companies and people want to give back to their organization but don’t have the means to do so. The big question is, how much can your nonprofit spend on fundraising?

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Bloomerang

MAY 29, 2021

FINANCE: If your nonprofit prepares its financial statements in accordance with Generally Accepted Accounting Principles (GAAP), then in-kind donations are considered “non-financial gifts” and should be entered in both the expense and revenue sides of the ledger. Recording may differ for the finance and development departments.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. The First Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Technology Projects.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

But wait—should you really be starting a nonprofit? An L3C, though, is a hybrid of an LLC and nonprofit business model, which is where an organization operates to benefit the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. So you want to start an organization that benefits a specific cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2012

If your Feedburner feed is not working anymore, you’re not alone and you basically have two choices – switch to your blog platform’s atom feed for free (no analytics), or switch to the best alternative, Feedblitz for a small fee. Thank you so much Phil! Thank you so much Phil! Read more on this topic here: [link]. 6) Quit FeedBurner!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

If you currently use SurveyMonkey and have been looking for an alternative survey software program for building online surveys, polls, and forms, FluidSurveys may be just what you need. Click Request Download and save the zip file to your desktop. Lastly, you will be asked to browse for a file to upload to. FluidSurveys.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 15, 2010

However, these two alternative structures of human organization can interact in a variety of ways, both mutually beneficial and destructive. However, these issues don’t apply in the same way to nonprofits who have an organizational presence on Facebook. Below is a typology of how networks affect hierarchies in the digital world.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. Eligible Sweepstakes posts must made by Nonprofit Technology Conference ("17 NTC") attendees in Washington, DC. Stop By and Visit Us — Booth 217. VOID WHERE PROHIBITED.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Google Ad Grants are a terrific fundraising and marketing tool that Google makes available to nonprofits and charities. A Google Grant provides $10,000 each month to nonprofits to spend on Google Search ads. Google Grants can be a great fundraising option for almost all nonprofits. So what are Google Ad Grants ? Absolutely.

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