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The Ultimate Nonprofit RFP Guide

Whole Whale

We recommend creating an excel doc to track the bids and give grades across desired criteria for each vendor. Try our RFP Generator RFP Resources Submit your RFP to the best nonprofit RFP databases Want to move things along quickly? Technical Requirements : Integrations with existing databases, systems, and CRMs. Hosting needs.

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Getting Started With Planned Giving

Get Fully Funded

Don’t worry about providing legal language or sample docs because your donors already have their own attorney who will take care of all the verbiage and paperwork. Find a way to tag people in your database or make a list somewhere – just find a way to track them so you can be sure to give them a stellar experience.

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New Book: How To Implement Multichannel Online Campaigns

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Colleagues Allyson Kapin who founded a web agency called Rad Campaign (they designed my blog) and Amy Sample Ward, who the NTEN Membership Director (and I’ve known since 2007 ) have published a new how to book called “ Social Change Any Time Every Where.” Database Manager. Encourage brainstorming. Internet Director.

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Platforms break open!

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

At first blush, although Kintera officially got out the door first, announcing Connect weeks ago, and delivering the APIs and docs on Friday, their play is a good start, but Convio, announcing Open tomorrow, appears to be ahead in terms of providing real openness. Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions.

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Tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

This is what I think: Convio should partner with neutral players to underwrite benchmarking studies that get data from a much wider sample of organizations than just their clients. And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad. What do you think? Everyone (including them) gets better data. Time will tell. {

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

But if you never heard of Bloomerang besides the webinars, we are also a provider of donor database software. That’s what we are, Bloomerang’s a donor database. Here’s something on Alex’s Lemonade Stand where they share sample language that donors can share with their attorney. There are new services now.

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[VIDEO] Demystifying the Grants Lifecycle: Grant Seeking Lessons and Pro-tips from the Field

Bloomerang

You can even do grant tracking in the database, which is germane to this presentation. Maybe you use a structured process and a grants database. I’m glad to see that more than half of you are using a structured process and a grants database. You’ll then ideally use a database to search these terms.

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