Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Download the full white paper or share it using this link: [link] Below are notes from my remarks. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 21, 2015

Despite increasing buzz surrounding technology funding, the vast majority of charities aren't able to fund their technology sufficiently. Nonprofits and funders are stuck in an unhealthy cycle in which they acknowledge that more tech funding is needed; yet the investments never quite occur. Download the Report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2017

Within two days, they had the funds needed to cover treatment. With our daily communications, the transparency helps our donors know where we spend money,” according to Ahmed Morabeih, emergency reporting officer for SOS in Syria. That encourages them to send additional donations to help people here.”.

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NTEN

APRIL 27, 2012

The results of the survey are compiled in a new report which highlights fundraising and constituent engagement as the biggest hurdle for the nonprofit sector. Funding Mobile Strategies for Social Impact is ZeroDivide’s newest white paper, a great look into nonprofits' uses of mobile technologies.

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Activities Active Activism NTEN 61

Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

Access to quality research provides nonprofits and libraries the ability to improve services, strengthen funding proposals, and share knowledge within the field. Finding Funding with the Foundation Center. Join our free webinar on Friday, January 18 at 11 a.m. Register today as space is limited! View the following archived webinars!

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Research Case Study Library Knowledge 47

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 21, 2018

Donors often contribute toward disaster relief when the news of the disaster is fresh, but months or even years later, the recovery is still in progress and a variety of needs still require funding. Report: Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy 2018 with Data Dashboard. Webinar: Disaster Relief: Are You Prepared?

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Disaster Philanthropy Podcast Practice 23

Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

Download the new white paper “ Moving Upstream: Hospitals’ Strategic Shifts to Advance Community Health” Hospitals have recently made significant moves to address upstream issues and meet the needs of patients—and community members—outside the four walls of their institutions. Strategic Grantmaking Allows Hospitals To….

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Community Grant Foundation Homeless 35

Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

The survey showed the following distributions of percent young (18-29yrs old) crypto holders category: Asian: 23% Hispanic: 21% Black: 18% White: 13%. DAOs also make it incredibly easy to pool money from a group of people that can then vote in a measurable way to designate funds. Crypto Donors are 2X more likely to be male. population.

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Donor Difference Ukraine Podcast 52

Double the Donation

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Community Funded. Plus, they offer unique and impactful tools to help universities juggle prospect management, gift processing, reporting and analytics, constituent relations, donor bio/demographics, and more. Stay on top of fundraising best practices through their white papers, solution sheets, and more. UC Innovation.

Platform 52

Platform Gift Fundraising Integration 52

Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2011

Here are just a few things that Kathryn Willson is involved with: The Environmental Defense Fund's Climate Corps program. The white paper The Central Role of Cloud Computing in Making Cities Energy Smart. Partnering with Dell in the Reconnect Recycling Program on recycling Xboxes and other Microsoft hardware.

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Profile Green Conservancy Interview 50

Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2014

Let’s pretend you wire transferred the funds to him but he shows no acknowledgement of receiving them. He has a new fund he wants you to consider for investment. You are so infuriated you withdraw your funds and start looking for another advisor. Imagine investing your hard earned cash with an investment advisor.

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Donor Life Dallas Gift 40

Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2016

A 2015 Charitable Giving Report produced by Blackbaud noted that of the nonprofits surveyed, 17% of their contributions were received in December. The Association of Certified Fraud Examiners 2016 Global Fraud Study , Report to the Nations on Occupied Fraud and Abuse, analyzed 2,410 occupational fraud cases.

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Giving Charity Minnesota United States 35

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2019

Since 2008, SEFCU’s Community Support Program has helped more than seven million people within its branch footprint – which includes upstate New York’s Capital Region, Binghamton, Syracuse and Buffalo areas – through funding vital nonprofit organizations. Return = is this the best use of our funds given all opportunities in front of us?

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 31, 2021

Imagine what your organization could accomplish in 2022 if you began each initiative with streamlined donor records, an arsenal of canned reports to track key metrics, and a solid plan to prioritize each donor segment individually. Remember, each passing year is another chance to improve. Giving Tuesday.

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Foundation Tips Strategy Fundraising 52

Connection Cafe

MARCH 15, 2019

Learn more about the benefits of financial transparency in Blackbaud’s new white paper: Compliance Risk Management for the Empowered Nonprofit . My favorite metric on the balance sheet is months of cash on hand , which shows how many months your organization could operate if no additional funding came in.

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Metrics Nonprofit Empowerment Picture 37

Care2

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

In her recent white paper, "Rapid Donor Cultivation: Getting the First Online Gift Faster," Jenny Miller shares the experiences Common Knowledge clients have seen after implementing this email fundraising program. You can download it here (free registration required).

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Knowledge Conversation Program ROI 28

sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2023

Changing funding levels from long-time donors, increased demand for services, challenges in finding and retaining top talent, combating the employee burnout crisis, and continuing to provide essential program services is akin to juggling a dozen balls without dropping a single one.

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Challenge Organization Interview Roles 72

sgEngage

JANUARY 24, 2024

From these dashboards, you can drill in to get more detail, such as why three application reviews are overdue or how your funding totals have changed year-over-year for a specific category. Learn more about dashboards and reporting in Blackbaud Grantmaking with our white paper, 3 Ways Dashboards Help Grantmakers Make Sense of Their Data.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Inclusion in the annual report along with a list of other donors. Shout out to Get Fully Funded ! Snap a photo of the donor while at your facility or event and frame it and send it to them (also from Get Fully Funded ). You will help our democracy when you…” or “these funds will raise the sophistication of our entire sector.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

a lot, so it is really helpful to have a peek the annual series of Horizon Reports that have also flowed out of NMC's Emerging Technologies initiative. The Symposium has several brief white papers about future techologies and education to jump start the discussion: It's Easy To Fall in Love with Technology by Danah Boyd.

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Virtual Brain Nonprofit Global 84

Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 10, 2022

Building a donor base or subscriber base by collecting contact information from those subscribing to newsletters, white papers, and other resources that you make available. Another tool that can be useful is Google Data Studio which can be used to sort through data and create reports.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

eBook/checklist/white paper/report. eBook/checklist/white paper. The post 9 questions to help you align your mission, fundraising and marketing to attract donors more effectively appeared first on Get Fully Funded. Digital resources come in many formats, including: Quiz. Infographic. Audio files or Videos.

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Question Effective Donor eBook 69

NTEN

MAY 6, 2015

Idealware ’s new report, A Consumers Guide to Case Management Systems , can help you choose the right system for your organization’s needs and budget. Check out the event video , event highlights , and white paper. Our friends at Whole Whale are offering 30% off their new course on the Google Adwords Grant for NTEN Members.

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NTEN North Carolina Oregon Portland 36

Connection Cafe

JUNE 20, 2017

Some sectors like healthcare, arts & culture and higher education, report average planned gifts 3 to 4 times that amount. Bequest Expectancy or Planned Gift Expectancy: This is a term commonly used within planned giving programs to unofficially report the value or approximate value of gifts to be received in the future.

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Conversation Giving Gift Charity 20

Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2021

The 99%, i.e. the rest of us ordinary mortals, have traditionally been the largest source of funding for American nonprofit organizations, the reliable backbone of philanthropy ever since the pilgrims landed on Plymouth Rock, and probably before. So how do we make sure that our funding base is balanced to represent the 99% as well as the 1%?

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Donor Build Gift Philanthropy 98

Connection Cafe

JANUARY 27, 2014

For a refresher, my 2013 piece Non-Technology Trends for the CIO and a 2011 white paper for the Association of Fundraising Professionals on similar topics may be good places to start and worth a read as well.). Many businesses are getting tighter and more selective in their corporate donations.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 10, 2022

Similarly, Instacart grocery-delivery workers don’t report to a single store as their “boss,” and are free to work the hours they wish and take on the deliveries and delivery payments they wish, using their platform app—and shoppers can order from home. 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3 11 According to a 2017 report, 57.3

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Stable Technology: The content is technically solid, has a lot of funding and easy to navigate. The cons are that Ghost has less users and funding which means there may be less opportunity to create community and expand reach. Versatility: Substack is a good option for blogging, but it can be used for more.

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