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Is Privacy for Everyone (Including Donors) Dead?

Bloomerang

Such was the sentiment in 2010 of tech CEOs such as Facebook’s Mark Zuckerberg, Google’s Eric Schmidt, and Sun Microsystem’s Scott McNealy. As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . So, what changed?

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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.). So how do we justify that system to management (and perhaps our donors)? Or the cost of maintaining current hardware or paying current licensing fees vs. the cost a new system.

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Doing Your Appeal In-house? 5 Tips to Save Time & Money

Get Fully Funded

When you get more than 200 donors, you may be eligible to mail at nonprofit postage rates as low as 19 cents per piece (as of July 2023). That’s why nonprofits outsource to nonprofit mail experts as their donor file grows. This letter puts all donor information on one sheet of paper. The donor can handle one lick!

Money 98
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Nonprofit Leadership Transition: Best Practices

NonProfit Hub

Ambiguity or a lack of transparency can leave teams, donors, and stakeholders nervous. Donors/Funders. A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Logins, Lists, and Licenses. Also, be sure to transfer any licenses tied to you as an individual in the organization.

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33+ Raffle Basket Ideas to Wow the Crowd & Win Support

Bloomerang

You may need to secure a permit or license and follow specific regulations for hosting and handling income made at the raffle. Connect with corporate partners and individual donors to ask if they’d be willing to donate raffle prizes to your fundraiser. Where can you get raffle baskets or prizes? Charcuterie basket. Smart home device.

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Caltech: Founding Values

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Of course: from its founding Caltech has been a testament to the generosity of donors who succeeded in business. It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture.

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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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