Bloomerang

MAY 3, 2021

Ask them if they’ll write a brief handwritten note on the next appeal you mail (give them a few sample notes). ACTION: Put a system in place to hand sign thank you letters. ACTION: Get your executive director to add notes for all gifts above a certain amount; you add notes for the rest. Only 6 out of 10 ongoing donors renew.

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Action Donor Tips Fundraising 127

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Crystal Dionysopoulou is the founder and Creative Director of Lucid Fox , a dynamic web design and development agency that puts people first. Most content management systems include this functionality by default; ask your web developer if you’re not sure. 2) Assembly | Malala Fund. In practice: 1) Freely in Hope. Get in touch ! .

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Technique Design Websites Brain 325

Blue Fox

DECEMBER 1, 2019

Is your capital position and structure strong enough to withstand the ebbs and flows of our economic system? I think my operations coordinator found a sample on some website. Look, it’s helpful that your nonprofit found a sample policy on the interwebs for free. But that’s all it is – a sample.

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Policy Sample Nonprofit Review 78

Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Dave Domagala, Director of Customer Support . Not only do they generally take you off-grid, but they give you the opportunity to do a little sampling of everything. Adam Carey, Senior Director of Client Services, Salesforce Certified App Builder ? . Banwar, Director of Enterprise Sales? . Fun fact about Andrew.

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Celebrate Fun Associations Product 135

Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

Here is a sample board skills assessment: Board Member Information What is your name? Here is a sample statement to the board of directors: “Dear Board Members, I hope this message finds you well. What is your position on the board? How long have you been a member of the board? What is your professional background?

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Strategy Fundraising Skills Sample 52

Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

Jane Meseck , senior director of global programs at Microsoft Philanthropies. Lisa Pool , founder and executive director of the Technology Affinity Group. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross from NTEN. Catalina Escobar , executive director of MAKAIA in Colombia. Karen Haring , founder and executive director of Libera.

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International Celebrate Technology Colombia 68

Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

He previously served as director of IT consulting at a fundraising event production company focused on nonprofits. Make sure your peer-to-peer fundraising software integrates with your customer relationship management (CRM) system or donor database so you’re using up-to-date and accurate data. Keep your data clean.

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Results email Fundraising Registration 59

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 29, 2010

A conviction in this case would help establish, for the first time, the act of forced disappearance as a crime within the Guatemalan judicial system. The officers have been accused of complicity in the disappearance of Guatemalan student and union leader Edgar Fernando García who vanished while in police custody in 1984.

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Guatemala Statistics National Analysis 145

NTEN

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Designed by Emily Lonigro Boylan, Owner and Creative Director, and Demetrio Cardona-Maguigad, Director of Strategic Design, both of LimeRed Studio , the Idea Accelerator offered the chance for partners who might not have met otherwise to connect on common ideas, and work with coaches to refine the project to meet shared goals.

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Ideas Change Technology San Francisco 99

Qgiv

JUNE 7, 2021

He previously served as director of IT consulting at a fundraising event production company focused on nonprofits. Make sure your peer-to-peer fundraising software integrates with your customer relationship management (CRM) system or donor database so you’re using up-to-date and accurate data. Keep your data clean.

Results 52

Results email Fundraising Registration 52

Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Practical/tactical stuff like processes and systems is easy to fix. Board Meeting Doesn’t Have to Mean “Bored Meeting” A happy Board of Directors is a productive Board of Directors! And it will save your sanity, too, because you can spend your precious meeting time talking about things that matter.

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Fun Product Law Nonprofit 98

Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2021

No matter how urgent the issue, many people and organizations, nonprofits included, still find it challenging and uncomfortable at best and triggering at worst to address systemic and institutional racism and to go so far as to implement JEDI-centered hiring practices as the norm rather than as a box-checking activity. . Broaden your reach.

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Consultant Script Evaluation Nonprofit 111

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. Technical or Systems Challenges. Today, NTEN’s Amy Sample Ward shared this fabulous video on Facebook. Organizational Culture. Finding the time to devote to measurement. Articulating measurable goals. Overwhelmed by data collection process.

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Results Data Charlotte Measure 95

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS.

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Technology Open Source Sample Nonprofit 100

NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

Theresa Williamson , founder and executive director of Rio de Janeiro-based Catalytic Communities, shares updates from that city as it prepares for the World Cup in her op-ed piece for the New York Times, It''s Just the Beginning,; Change Will Come To Brazil. Sign up for the event or learn more here.

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Brain Brazil Websites Data 79

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 28, 2013

Anjali Deshmukh , Associate Director. Organizations reliant on government funding continue to experience a “death by a thousand cuts,” says NFF client Sharon Stapel, Executive Director of the New York City Anti-Violence Project. “In Systems-level collaboration. These are just a sampling of the. Nonprofit Finance Fund.

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Government Research New York Homeless 85

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

"Begin with the end in mind" when implementing a new accounting system. Invite ALL of the following (I know that this may sound like the tea party in Alice in Wonderland but just trust me on this one): Treasurer - Board of Directors. Development Director. Executive Director. Bring samples of these reports.

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Chart Brain Environment Nonprofit 53

Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

Amy Sample Ward — CEO, NTEN. Sam Chenkin — Director of Operations, Tech Impact. Then the key disaster preparedness concern becomes communication, not system and data preservation. Patrick Callihan — Executive Director of Tech Impact. Here's what they said. Have a plan, of course! Image 1: NTEN.

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Disaster Hurricane Images Offline 36

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available. We really can’t draw any conclusions from this – the sample size was small, and, as I mentioned, not representative of the sector.

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Open Source Open People Survey 100

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 7, 2013

A small sample of the positive words they have shared include: empowered, humbled, motivated, grateful, awed, helpful, effective, connected, valuable, and inspired. She has also worked as the Director of Volunteer Services for health systems in Iowa, Ohio, and Illinois and as a Special Projects Manager for Points of Light/HandsOn Network.

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Volunteer Iowa Change Illinois 74

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Here is a partial list of what we’ve completed as part of this review: Program evaluation based on a sample of 169 OE grants closed in 2007-2009, conducted by TCC Group (2011). We have set up a Web site, [link] , to share information and conversation about the ongoing review.

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Effective Program Work Review 96

Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2013

She was the founder and executive director of FORGE, a nonprofit that provided education and resources to refugees in Africa. As she says: "We under-invested in systems infrastructure, we under-invested in fund development, and we under-invested in human resources. Get the word out via your social media channels.

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Pledge Charity FAQ Africa 70

Bloomerang

JULY 5, 2021

Don’t say “I’ll call you” unless you mean it and have built a system to make sure you don’t fail. Of course, you’ll need to prepare the caller for how to handle the conversation; sometimes it may mean closing the talk with this request: “May I have our executive director give you a call to continue this dialogue?”.

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Donor Strategy Retention Relationship 141

Achieve

JULY 28, 2021

With all of your waivers collected in a secure digital database, you can search for specific participants, make notes on participant records, integrate with a reservation or member management system, and transfer contact information to email marketing platforms. . . Daryl McCarl is the Director of Business Development at.

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Nonprofit Language Volunteer Contact 76

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2015

There are also some great practical tips , sample mentor/mentee agreement , and plan. Talent Development is all about guiding those rock star staff members who are able to contribute to the organization’s impact and success. This may be a foreign concept in our sector. Is it worth it?

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Develop People Change Mentoring 50

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

I’ve now seen two posts (one from David Gielhufe , and one from Lobo of CiviCRM ) suggesting that I dismissed the extremely positive results for the open source CRM tools (particularly CiviCRM) because the sample wasn’t large, or representative of the sector. It wasn’t scientific, and the sample was about.05%

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2011

We all make up systems as we go along, we all look for inspiration at non-parallel models, we all incorporate game-theory into our work, and we enjoy thinking about how to bring incentives into the act of participating in our communities. Moss ) is a must-read for any leader or staff member who has ambitions of being a leader at a nonprofit.

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Review Second Life Nonprofit Model 66

ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

Basic financial training for executive director. Many for-profit corporations have experienced significant cost increases based upon documentation of processes, improved financial security systems – and the higher fees for external review. Dual leadership (defined as the position of board chair and CEO held by different persons).

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Policy Public Adopt University 71

Whole Whale

APRIL 14, 2022

Email system like Mailchimp or Emma to message a larger audience and collect attendee information. Set up tasting tables with glasses and laminated A/B/C cards (they will get wet) for people to try to match the samples to the bottle. Way to accept donations or money from the event. List of nonprofit donation platforms.

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Ideas Fundraising Movie National 98

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

The results are undeniable: the gardens do change lives,” said Nick Henry, director of the Community Food Resource Center at the food bank. The program evaluations to date, however, largely seem to skip this aspect, usually because the number of students required for statistical significance are insufficient in the controlled samples.

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Tucson Student Arizona Evaluation 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

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. What do you think? Everyone (including them) gets better data. Time will tell. {

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API Open Source Kintera Benchmark 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 15, 2007

It seems like it will start out with a local query system, then will be opened up to allow third party development of data analysis tools. A couple of annoyances: the documentation for the APIs aren’t up yet, and the sample code they are going to publish is in C# and Java! That part looks very interesting.

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Kintera Open Source API Platform 100

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

See [link] for a sample implementation questionnaire that you can use for this purpose. It will also provide you with a sample chart of accounts of my design and one called the "Unified Chart of Accounts," which was created by a number of major nonprofit support organizations. SUGGESTED METHOD #2.

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Chart Sample Method Classes 45

NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared. People login to our system from any place on Earth within cell reception, and constructively use small windows of spare time for science, medicine, nonprofits, government, and more. Tags: amy sample ward mobile devices netsquared Newsletter NPTech NTEN. At clinics that serve about 1.2

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Mobile Malawi Netsquared San Jose 36

Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2012

A few weeks ago, the MAH Director of Community Programs, Stacey Garcia, came to me with an idea. What we do know is that this is a vastly improved feedback system. About fifty people participated in the booth out of a crowd of 320--a pretty good sample size. It accomplished several things at once: It drew people in.

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Activities Active Activism Participatory 50

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 4, 2016

They were able to save the family farm—not only that, but the Executive Director was asked to pose for the Men of Nonprofit calendar because his stress melted away and he regained his youthful, radiant complexion!”. These things can’t simply be retrofitted into the current fundraising system.

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Community Giving Work Strategy 20

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

One way to create a major donor program or donor perks system is to replicate one from another organization. Access to password-protected content like checklists for camping with kids or sample lesson plans for outdoor educators. Private briefings with the executive director or lobbyist or frontline worker. Touch the work.

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Donor Sponsor Accessibility Music 343