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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For an organization like Habitat for Humanity, an application may reveal that one volunteer is a licensed electrician and another volunteer enjoys carpentry as a hobby. Shockingly, according to a Software Advice research report, 52 percent of nonprofits are still using Excel and Google Docs to run their development operations.

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Integration of CRM and CMS

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

And because of this, it makes sense that integration of these two is something that is a need to be filled. First, the what – what to integrate? There are four strategies that can be used for this integration: Manual. The old fashioned form of integration. This is integration of a sort. Integration.

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ROI for a donor database

Robert Weiner

The current software does not interface with our current/new technical environment (MS-Exchange and Office, or Google g-mail, calendar, docs, etc.). Time spent manually entering or importing or synchronizing or deduping data that could be collected through integrated systems. This is an area of new or expanded emphasis for us.

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Case Study: Moving to Google Apps

NTEN

At this point, the servers were aging and needed to be replaced, and we needed new software and user licenses (MS Exchange Server), as well. Most of the staff were used to Gmail and familiar with email, calendar, and docs services. In 2009, we finalized a technology plan. HandsOn Bay Area has now been using Google Apps for over a year.

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"Google Was Our First Office": Managing a Worldwide Staff

NTEN

They used Google docs to help share documents with the volunteers worldwide as they worked on the magazine. PT started using Salesforce.com in 2008, taking advantage of its free licenses for nonprofits. They integrate the information received from Wuffo into Salesforce, and the Wuffo form is embedded in PT's website. .

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