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HOW TO: Launch a Group Text Messaging Campaign for Your Nonprofit for Free

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. 2010 Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks Report. It is especially popular with grassroots organizations in the developing world because it is free and does not require an Internet connection.

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Thank You RCI Customers!

Tech Soup

We've hit something of a benchmark in this successful program: we've distributed a little over 50,000 refurbished devices through RCI — including laptops, monitors, servers, and tablets. Gosh, has it been nine years now since I started TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) program?

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NTEN Member Buzz Round-Up

NTEN

M+R Strategic Services released the 2009 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study ( with NTEN ) last week, and Allyson Kapin wrote up some top take-aways. We voted him Most Likely to Show Up at Your Conference With Laptops for All because, well, he came through for the 09NTC. " The online community will then vote on the one to use.

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New Release: FluidSurveys 5.0 at TechSoup! Improving How Questions Get Answered

Tech Soup

Your survey resizes automatically to adjust to desktop, laptop, tablet, or smartphone screen dimensions. An interesting evolution also provides users with the ability to benchmark, allowing you to analyze your data against other collectors, with previous surveys, and through individual questions. Now with 5.0, New Mobile Features.

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How to Develop a Successful Nonprofit Fundraising Strategy

Bloomerang

A fundraising strategy helps keep you on track by offering deadlines and benchmarks to hit throughout the year. That’s because you reach supporters with a tangible message and send a variety of different types of mail, such as branded laptop/water bottle stickers, handwritten letters, bumper stickers, and other small trinkets.

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Once Just Isn???t Enough| How to Keep Constituents Engaged Beyond their First Visit

Connection Cafe

Make sure you have a signup sheet, flyer, tablet, or laptop at the event. The Online Marketing Benchmark Study released by Blackbaud in 2013 found that the median amount raised per email address on file is $13. Request their contact information and, at minimum, their email addresses.

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The Nonprofit Weekly Roundup: Things You Won’t Believe, Trendy Communication, and Keys to Do More Good

Connection Cafe

and I was actually in my cubicle, drooling on my laptop. From big picture goals to hot topics (like Retention), the report offers benchmarks and statistics to help you validate and navigate your nonprofit’s communication in 2014. I had a surge of utter panic when my hibernation holiday break came to a hault.