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Text to Donate Campaigns for Social Change

NTEN

It’s not surprising that after the widely publicized success of the 2010 Red Cross "Text-to-Give" campaign for Haitian earthquake relief, social change organizations wanted to hop on the text-to-donate bandwagon. That’s when it occurred to me that we could figure out a way to change the situation. By Debra Brown, COO, MobilizeUs.com.

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Four Social Media Fundraising Tools

NTEN

Has anything really changed? The most successful campaigns are reactions to real world events or sparks that move quickly through established networks of human relationships. * HelpAttack allows donors to pledge an amount for each social media message. For example, you can choose to pledge 10 cents a tweet, or $0.25

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Getting Beyond the Slacktivism Debate

NTEN

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] Campaigners are right to learn from testing, measuring and message appeals from direct marketing, and the use of petitions, pledges and letters from centuries of campaigning practice. What is the theory of change?

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Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It also gets kudos from NTEN’s satisfaction survey (it came in third, after CiviCRM and Salesforce.) Just came across a deal-breaking feature-not-yet-implemented in CiviCRM and I’m wondering if it’s easily implemented in Sugar (long-term pledges to a capital campaign). 2 admin 04.20.08

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Member Round Up: Working Together!

NTEN

Many of you know Annaliese as a great resource for any questions regarding all aspects of NTEN’s resources and nonprofit technology in general. Last year she changed her focus at NTEN to became our Research and Publications Director, and she’s already receiving huge honors for her work.

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Open content business models

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

There was one interesting model was asking for pledges, and if the pledges got up to a certain amount, the content would be produced. The problem of how do you fund the actual writing of content was not really addressed, and I think that is one of the harder nuts to crack.

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5 Questions: Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Nonprofits

NTEN

Session: Microsoft Dynamics CRM for Nonprofits: Customized and Affordable Donor/Pledge/Member/Event and Case Management for Nonprofits! I gain inspiration from hearing how organizations take small steps, and use more common tools to do extraordinary things with technology that lead to big changes.