Association Analytics

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The apprehension to adopt a new system or modify a current one is real. While proving ROI on analytics (and other systems, e.g. your AMS) can be difficult, a benefit analysis provides directional ROI on the key areas that you and your association care about. Essentially, analytics supercharges all your existing systems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

My colleagues, Heather McLeod Grant and Adene Sacks, have just published a new workbook called “ Leading Systems Change.” That’s why I’ve keep a good list of meeting facilitation playbooks such as Leading Systems Change handy for inspiration. This section includes templates for meeting processes.

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Association Analytics

JANUARY 8, 2024

In this blog, we’ll outline our top three strategies to elevate your impact this year, along with ways to make small, easy changes that lead to large, impactful results. This is an approach you can take pretty easily with the systems, tools and staff you already have in place. And what types of members want what types of things?

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sgEngage

JANUARY 13, 2023

Then 2020 happened and community needs spiked. The foundation needed to mobilize the funds and turn them into grants that would tangibly change the lives of Headwaters’ communities in real time. The pressure of a demand spike—paired with the urgent desire to support communities in need—can feel insurmountable.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

The first Nonprofit Blog Carnival of 2015 is on the theme is personal productivity. But maintaining productivity, especially online, can be challenging. What is personal productivity? Personal Productivity Mindsets. Attention creates action, produces quality and facilitates productivity.

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

For example, a senior care nonprofit can use unrestricted donations to purchase supplies for activities, cover an increase in transportation costs, or hire a memory care specialist to help them expand their services. The more money that went to services, the better. Changes in your community and demand show up in your numbers.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Revenue growth driven by improved membership numbers, increased product sales and optimized marketing reach and effectiveness. You’ll also move away from those frustrating situations where you’re looking at reports from different systems that are displaying different values for the same metric. Leverage the community.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

In this article, we’ll explore the top platforms you can leverage to get the word out about your business, including: Your Website Social Media Mobile App A well-designed marketing plan can give your business the fuel it needs to bring attention to its services, products, events, campaigns, and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. WordPress was founded in 2003 and since then, a community of thousands of developers has created almost 55,000 plugins to expand its capability.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 29, 2023

Learning Resources for Neon One Clients Looking for ways to learn the ins and outs of your Neon One products? Neon One Academy is a collection of courses, tutorials, simulations, and videos about different Neon One products. Click “Support Center,” then select your product or search across all products. What Is It?

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

The power of data for creating social change Data and analytics have long been used to improve the quality of products and services, optimize efficiency in production and distribution, and fundamentally shape business models. And a lot comes down to the systems. Watch the video clip “How do we work better with nonprofits?

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Even though inflation made dollars not stretch as far, world events and climate disasters increased need across many communities. If a government regulation changed or community preferences shifted, would you have time to react? Tip 1: Carve out 30 minutes to review the dashboards and customized reports in your fund accounting system.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

Now, I could easily write a blog about my kitchen and chrome versus brass faucets, but today we are going to be talking to five leading experts from various organizations to get their top tips about a migration to Salesforce. NPSP has a rich history — it was built by the nonprofit community, for the nonprofit community! .

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. You just signed a multi-year contract for a new student information and learning management system (SIS/LMS) that does everything you want it to do.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Training and education tools: Provide members with an easy-to-use training platform that integrates with relevant systems, like a learning management system. Remember that data collection can also be valuable in integrating your AMS with other systems. Some of these systems don’t fit seamlessly together.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 15, 2021

From their website : “Our process is designed to help leaders and organizations who want to proactively understand and address racism, both in their organization and in the community where the organization is working. From their website : “We work across spheres to develop the practices, policies, and beliefs of professional communities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

In recent years, the international humanitarian community has responded with a number of data protection guidance documents, such as those from USAID , ICRC , OCHA , and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative. Trust is the number one value for Salesforce.org and we are committed to ensuring world-class security across our products and solutions.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Providing the right amount of technology training can have a huge (and positive) impact on employee productivity and satisfaction, which can, in turn, improve staff turnover. Many technology vendors provide training resources that can help your staff learn how to use their products. User communities can be extremely valuable.

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Robert Weiner

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

This could undermine nonprofits’ willingness to use cloud-based (aka Software as a Service or SaaS) databases. But with a cloud-based system, when a vendor ends support or goes out of business the product can simply vanish. That discussion continued on my blog. I expect it will be strengthened by this move.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Your nonprofit can publicly thank these donors using your social media, email, blog posts, and other event marketing materials. Consider also including gift cards to local coffee shops to allow the winner to try new spots in your community. Streaming service package. Pro-bono services package. Local goods basket.

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Candid

JANUARY 5, 2023

We also developed a product called Ecosystem Intelligence, which offers macro-level analytics on social impact funding in the U.S., Elizabeth Kane, Managing Director, Core Services, MacArthur Foundation. The post Predictions for the future of social sector data appeared first on Candid Blog. across any geography or issue.

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TechImpact

APRIL 24, 2014

It works by decoupling the two network systems that decides where traffic is sent, and the systems that forward traffic to a defined destination. Essentially with a software-defined data center (SDDC), you are able to pool resources, and allocate them as necessary, automate processes, and all around boost productivity on the internet.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

At Salesforce, our business is guided by stakeholder capitalism , a system in which corporate purpose is based on a fundamental commitment to all stakeholders — customers, employees, partners, communities, the planet, and society — rather than just shareholders. With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The bbcon 2023 agenda is full of great sessions for finance professionals serving nonprofits, schools, foundations, healthcare, and cultural organizations, from creating better systems to extending what you currently do with Blackbaud’s fund accounting software, Financial Edge NXT.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 1, 2012

My disappointment, sadness and anger is over the way too early death of a product that I believed in. It feels good to be blogging again. When I accepted the job at Convio, I negotiated that it would be okay for me to blog. Brilliant, passionate and dedicated to making the best product they could while delighting customers.

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Cloud 4 Good

MARCH 30, 2021

We published a blog last month on how security impacts the nonprofit sector. This means that health care practitioners, health service providers, hospitals, medical facilities, pharmacies, laboratories, and boards of health are all responsible for PHIPA compliance. One of those strides includes the Salesforce Shield product.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

May’s Online Community Meetup featured Randy Paynter, co-founder of Care2. Paynter’s talk, "The Five Steps to Growing an Engaged Online Community," examined how to build and sustain online communities by relating some of the lessons he has learned through managing the Care2 community since its inception.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2016

For anyone who designs, owns or runs a website, the threat of getting hacked is a constant reality whether you’re a mega-corporation dealing with millions of users or just a one-person blog shop promoting products or services. However, a hacker can use trackbacks to cause huge problems through “denial-of-service” attacks (DDoS).

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 2, 2023

In this blog post, we’ll walk you through how to design a volunteer engagement program that fosters a positive experience for both your nonprofit and your volunteers. Are there tasks that can be delegated to volunteers without compromising the quality of your services? What skill sets are required for these tasks?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 2, 2021

Check out what to listen for in donor onboarding from the Agitator-Donor Voice blog. Here are some ideas for useful content that connects your mission to what may be top of mind for your supporters right now: Human services. Health services. How to Fight Racism and Transphobia in the Healthcare System. Environmental.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2015

Innovation in the industry is an absolute constant as we increasingly give over our daily existence to things designed to make our lives easier, more seamless, more fun and more productive. Mobile devices, wearable tech, smart homes and automobiles, GPS sensors galore—these are all part of the network and back-end systems.

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AccelEvents

JULY 21, 2021

A leading virtual meeting platform, Accelevents is more than just a hosting solution; instead, it inspires brands to grow loyal communities and drive sustainable growth. Airmeet is a little different from platforms like Accelevents or Eventcube in that it allows for more integrations to customize how you interact with the product.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. To be a part of a larger nonprofit community/networking. They come to us looking for practical tips and a supportive community.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

By demonstrating a commitment to social responsibility, many companies have also found that they retain more of their employees and have happier and more productive employees. Ultimately, creating an employee giving program comes with a myriad of benefits for your organization and for the communities you interact with and impact.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 11, 2017

It’s amazing to think that, when it was first launched, WordPress was a fairly simple and intuitive content management system designed to help the beginning blogger get their feet wet in the virtual world. It also has sections where you can insert a portfolio, staff biographies and photo galleries for your products and services.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. On one hand, this saves your team the time you’d spend researching products and determining which one is a worthy investment, as well as the money you’d spend making that investment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

Note from Beth: I’m honored to be a member of the Leap Ambassadors Community , a group of people in the nonprofit sector who care deeply about high performance. These nonprofits fill important niches in communities, often maintain close relationships with their beneficiaries, and serve as incubators for innovative ideas.

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