Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. Their iCloud online storage was targeted, and hackers stole personal data and photos from their mobile phones and iPads.

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CauseVox

JULY 18, 2023

Sample fundraising calendar Be sure to update your quarterly and monthly totals for the year, comparing them to your original goals. This can include external factors out of your control such as changes in policy, economic downturns, or shifts in donor priorities. Are you on track to meet your goals? Have you encountered new obstacles?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2009

calendar, call, sms, facebook, twitter, address book = level of closeness of social data. treasure trove of data in your phone (emails, cal, etc.). get your privacy and permission policies and proceses aligned with an open strategy. friend management. pick your friends once - social networking fatigue. find your tust agents.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

The social media specialist who helps you set up your social channels and content calendar then trains your staff on posting engaging content is an inkind donor, and a high-value one at that! Create an inkind gift acceptance policy to make it easy to decline items offered to your organization that you do not need.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 15, 2021

If you’re starting today, mark six months from now on your calendar and set a goal of making sure you have the fundraising strategies in place to keep bringing the money in over the next six-month period and beyond. Is the nonprofit paying for at least a portion of your bills for cell phone and internet service?

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Outside of the actual tech, you will also need to pay closer attention to policies. As the line between personal and professional use of technology tools like Facebook blurs, your organization needs to know how it will respond and set clear guidelines and policies for staff. It's not a phone anymore, it's a little computer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

We started with key results and worked backwards to technical assistance goals: Kids get health care coverage Policies are adopted More attention from policymakers. More and better partners, more and better relationships with reporters and more or better policy maker relationships. and storify. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2009

I learned from Matt more about how IT department's policies and challenges. Mary Watson, IT Manager Mary Watson, IT Manager, gave me my orientation to the different IT, phone, and security systems at Packard. She offered me a helpful list of tips and Outlook 2007 cheat sheets, the Foundation's email/calendar or productivity system.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 9, 2014

List any special rules, like an early closing time or photo policy. Or a QR code with your address, so they can use their smart phone to easily navigate to you. Include your most frequently asked questions, like dress code or photo policy. Include dress code for black-tie only events.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

And our members also rely on technology to take part, booking reminders in online calendars or using GPS-enabled cell phones to get to events. But ECPA was enacted in 1986, when Ronald Reagan was President, cell phones were as big as your head, and the Web did not even exist. Safeguard Location Information.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

And when you are kicking off your fiscal year or your calendar year, set those expectations high so people know what they can do to be helpful. So could each of our board members over the course of the year thank 25 people, make five phone calls, write five thank you notes, write five emails. Here’s our event calendar.

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Care2

OCTOBER 2, 2013

on the map) inside their name badge; n o need to keep pulling a big map out of their bag or looking up a web app (especially if there might be a spotty cell phone signal in the building). A policy and procedure manual will be a big help in this. Give them a mini-agenda and map of the conference (show restrooms, etc.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 4, 2017

Outdated or invalid addresses, deceased supporters, missing phone numbers, and more can cost your organization time and money by sending out appeals for donations to people who can't receive them. Focus on human stories, not policies. Specifically, bad addresses alone cost nonprofits more than $21 million per year. Authenticity.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Like the phone companies, the gas companies, even the internet companies. How are we committed to anti-racist policies? We need to be calling on our legislators and saying, we need to legislate. We need to have some regulations. The platforms need to be regulated. They are literally utilities and they are not regulated at all.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 5, 2011

Lobby visits, town hall meetings, phone calls, handwritten letters, grass-tops meetings, tweets, and yes, even emails to Representatives and Senators are all important pieces of grassroots activity that can help to make change. DO go local. 2011 holds many opportunities for advocates in what is sure to be an exciting Congressional session.

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Care2

JUNE 21, 2007

When collecting information, separate users home phone numbers and cell phone numbers. Google Calendars is an easy way to get your nonprofits events directly to the people. Lots of people use Google Calendars as their personal calendar, and are more likely to see your nonprofits event here rather than on other services.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 29, 2024

Top membership management software for nonprofits To help narrow down your search for the right membership software for your organization, we’ve compiled a list of top solutions to consider. transaction fee. API access is also available. Pricing Pricing starts at $4,500 per year.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

I stay in touch and connected through integration with Microsoft Exchange and Google’s email and calendar. That said, my experience is that tablets often fall under a BYOD (Bring Your Own Device) policy in most organizations, and tends to be highly personalized to each user. For me, the iPad is a great business tablet.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Swag or merch: calendars, printables, planners, notebooks. Personal phone call from the founder, chair, ED. Phone call to the donor from a person impacted by the nonprofit. New technology called “voicemail drop” allows an organization to place a voicemail in your voicemail box without ringing their phone. Welcome packet.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 29, 2005

In the last year we've been asked to integrate with the two types of products I just mentioned, as well as a couple of mail-room systems, a retail point-of-sale system in an organization's bookstore, and a data feed from a call-center that handles an organization's member service phone line after hours.

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We'll be raffling off an Apple iPad, solar cell phone chargers, a t-shirt that lights up when it detects a wi-fi signal (how convenient!) On your hard drive, right now, you have a program plan, a policy, a template, a resource guide or tool that one of your colleagues is looking for. Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes?

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NTEN

MARCH 19, 2010

We'll be raffling off an Apple iPad, solar cell phone chargers, a t-shirt that lights up when it detects a wi-fi signal (how convenient!) On your hard drive, right now, you have a program plan, a policy, a template, a resource guide or tool that one of your colleagues is looking for. Oh, and did we mention there will be prizes?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 19, 2023

What else is on the community calendar? Check on community calendars: Is another nonprofit holding an event the same weekend you’re considering? What are their cancellation and rescheduling policies? Should you follow those invitations with a phone call? Is it available on the date we’ve chosen? Do they require deposits?

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See3

SEPTEMBER 19, 2007

Here’s the amazing thing… a lot more money came in phone calls! They often get personal meetings, phone calls, special events, etc. Urgency can also come from the calendar in other ways. All Rights Reserved Sitemap • Privacy Policy • Newsletter Sign-Up • Contact • About Us

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And just some real gifts that I received when I was working in the trenches is a $10,000 gift from someone who named us the beneficiary of their life-insurance policy after their spouse died and they didn’t need it anymore. You want to make a note of this in your file, on your calendar, some kind of system that you have.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 7, 2021

A spreadsheet that tracks the board’s agreed upon give and get policy. A board calendar with all board meetings, trainings, conferences, fundraising events , and program volunteer opportunities. This is easily accomplished using cell phone video. . This will denote that attendance and fundraising are important.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2007

But I’m here to tell you that mastering interactive calendars or sending photos on cell phones isn’t rocket science. All Care2 terms of service and privacy policies apply. It’s not our ignorance of tools, but our fear of the unknown that hold most of us back. We reward winners, not team players.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

And I’m not talking about specific donor, I’m talking about in terms of your work calendar. You need to have a gift acceptance policy. Should I call you on the phone periodically? Will you make a phone call? So this could be cultivation, this could be asking, this could be thanking. Are you an email person?

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Bloomerang

JUNE 25, 2021

It’s a donor management software policies and procedures template that Bloomerang and I kind of co-created and worked on together. And appeals can be very specific things like your fall appeal, your calendar year-end appeal. I don’t remember seeing if it includes a section on policies and procedures. Hey, grants.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 9, 2021

if you have a give policy in place and they have not given, does not mean that they don’t consider themselves family. Although my fiscal year was in October, the calendar year worked and I would do it in January. Those board members agree to pick up the phone and call and say, “Thank you.”

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. So you just want a very well documented asset management policy, if, as a nonprofit you’re working to hold cryptocurrency.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

So first you can expand your toolkit by making sure that you have strong gift acceptance policies that are already in place, particularly related to appreciated asset-giving, wealth transfers and bequests. So you just want a very well documented asset management policy, if, as a nonprofit you’re working to hold cryptocurrency.

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Robert Weiner

JUNE 21, 2009

4) Learn the basic business skills that are essential to success and sanity: - communication (timely, clear, complete, appropriate method: sometimes a phone call, sometimes an email, sometimes a memo, sometimes a meeting. My policy is, I say hello to people, and might chat for a minute or so. Be ahead of the curve. (4) do it ASAP.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 16, 2021

For instance, when somebody makes a gift, they might get a phone call from a board member thanking them for the gift. Or maybe even policy makers who have influence over government, you know, budgets, you know, for the CDC or things like that. Who could you engage with? Well, that’s sort of the outer tier.

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Everyaction

AUGUST 20, 2018

Of course nobody's perfect, and no one person is going to catch all of the news, but they'll at least know if they get a news alert on their phone that there is something worth engaging on. is worth your time, however, to have a comment policy. What do you think about the importance of having an editorial content calendar?

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 18, 2019

Regular content updates especially to events calendars. You only need one conversion a month to stay within Google’s policy demands, but, ideally, you’ll get as many as possible. Phone calls. Fast loading time. Easy, clear navigation. Calls-to-action. Detailed information about your projects. Substantial site content.

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