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Raffle – Tips and Best Practices

Greater Giving

Electronic Tickets For a streamlined approach, rely on technology: Create a spreadsheet to compile all raffle tickets sold—one ticket per line. Use a random number generator website (such as org ) to choose the number of the winning ticket. Have a “celebrity” at your event reach in and grab a random ticket to choose the lucky winner!

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. It’s in our org charts. But digital technologies have transformed these techniques in amazing ways. 2019 marks 20 years since online giving first began in any significant way.

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Who's Knocking at My Firewall Door? Simple Security for the Nonprofit IT Professional

NTEN

Other platforms like Java and Flash could end up being (once again?) But there is an even more basic, fundamental problem that information technology has only recently begun to tackle: passwords. Is it the wave or my surfboard that is muy mal ? Malvertising and toxic web search results will be on the rise. the culprits.

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The search for good web conferencing

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology The search for good web conferencing August 17, 2007 I decided, perhaps rashly, that one way of exposing people to, and training people on, open source software, was by doing web conferencing.

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What we know so far: NFTs, Twitch, and Tiltify

M+R

Admittedly, NFTs could just be a flash in the pan. Engaging on Twitch opens your nonprofit up to a huge new audience , especially younger audiences (there is no age requirement to view Twitch, although you have to be 12+ to stream)—and many orgs have already beat you to it! NFTs: The new fundraising frontier? .

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Screencast: Using Widgets to Build Community on Blogs Featured on NTEN Blog

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Original photo remixed from flickr photo by Stinky Peter Screencast in conjunction with NTEN View the screencast as higher quality flash file -takes longer to download here. Web Widgets often but not always use Adobe Flash or JavaScript programming languages. because, to be honest, some did not hold promise for a nonprofit org blog.

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Podcamp Session on Social Media Metrics: Thank You Jeremiah

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I'm slightly out of my comfort zone here because I've only been following this topic closely for a short time, although I have co-authored a guide for nonprofits on technology evaluation and ROI. ROI for Development Orgs Froggy Loop Social media ROI Calculator. I also don't want to get too deep into geeky measurement crap.

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