Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

So, the key to success is to ensure that all of your gift officers and related staff are entering in their contact reports (also known as "actions" in the Raiser’s Edge CRM software) in a consistent manner. Without accurate and consistent data entry, you can't measure accurate results.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Often our best contact lists are now on our phones. Microsoft with its Surface line of tablets that are a hybrid of laptops and tablets, is working hard to transform tablets from personal entertainment devices to business productivity machines.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2014

Blackbaud eTapestry is web-based donor contact management and fundraising software. It has an audit tool that evaluates your letters for ease of reading and effectiveness of communication. A one-year subscription to the Pro Plan has a $186 admin fee with a lower four percent transaction fee. See how charities are using it here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The participants were consultants who worked with nonprofits on organizational strategic planning, financial planning, evaluation, and other organizational capacity areas. Unfortunately, I did not have my laptop accessible in that moment. Last week, I did at workshop for the Kellogg Action Lab College of Consultants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

I'm happy that my new laptop has an extended battery life so I am writing some reflections on the plane en route to Boston. Then, I match this against participant feedback/evaluations. I also didn't focus on some of the techniques I learned from She's So Geeky speaker training - the eye contact and the verb. What worked?

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Qgiv

JANUARY 12, 2022

According to ReCharity’s nonprofit fundraising strategy guide , prospect research is “the process of evaluating a potential donor’s financial capacity and affinity to give to your organization prior to contacting them with a donation ask.”. These may include volunteering, contacting representatives or becoming an online advocate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

One hopes that nonprofits deciding to roll their own social networks, aren't creating their own social silos and have gone into it with a solid strategy, clear objectives and measurable metrics , and can evaluate the ROI. What do you think? Last word from Prof. Now that you've shopped for good, what about for yourself?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

As I’m sure many of you already know, much of this work, whether it’s building up the community, working on engagement, listening, evaluation, or anything else, relies on a strategy continues to come back around to the planning elements and through to evaluation, over and over. Who’s the community? But it happens in a vacuum.

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Neon CRM

MAY 18, 2023

The more data points you have on your donors—from email and street addresses to job titles and company names, giving capacity, philanthropic history, contact preferences, and general interest—the more you will be able to target your asks and create fundraising campaigns that speak directly to them.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 2, 2021

Like is there a video that I can watch so that I can evaluate whether I want to use it or not?” And I know inside a contact record in Bloomerang and even in your dashboard, you’ve got access to a lot of these things. Do you have a laptop that will work for you to do heavy technology tasks? Can you orient me to them?

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

We also have contacts with a lot of nodes in the Twitter network who have really big reach. He set up an infrastructure for people to evaluate submissions by giving it a yes, no, or maybe, with comments. The momentum was almost exclusively Twitter-based. The CMS tabulated how many times each submission was read.

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