Monthly Archives: December 2008

Year-End Reporting with Donor Tools

December 31, 2008 – 5:50 pm

Now that you’ve got all your donors and donations safely in Donor Tools, how do you get your year-end reports out? Happily, there are several ways to provide year-end reports to your donors. 
Donor Self-Service ™
The easiest way to provide year-end reports is with Donor Self Service. With Donor Self Service, you can invite your donors to download their [...]

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More on Innovation

December 29, 2008 – 8:10 am

…companies [and organizations] simply can’t anticipate that today’s competitive advantage to last for more than a few years. 
From an article by Scott Anthony on Harvard Business Publishing.

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One Million Dollars

December 18, 2008 – 1:23 pm

We just passed the one million mark! That means that over $1,000,000 in donations has been recorded or processed through Donor Tools. 
Congratulations to everyone who has been using Donor Tools to streamline their donation and donor management!

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Can Hard Times Drive Innovation for Non-Profits?

December 15, 2008 – 1:51 pm

Have you felt the pinch yet?
I’ve gotten a number of urgent appeals from some of my favorite organizations, asking for my continued and additional support during the current economic crisis. The urgency of these appeals always sets off two questions in my head:

Didn’t we see this coming?
What are we doing to innovate?

Innovation. But innovation is for [...]

By Ryan | Posted in Best Practices, Fundraising | Comments

Audit History: New Feature

December 10, 2008 – 11:01 am

Accountability is really important to non-profit organizations; especially small organizations that may not have the personnel or policies in place to protect themselves from liability. How can Donor Tools help? Enter Audit History. 

Audit History is basically a permanent record of everything that happens in your Donor Tools account. Every time you add a donation, update [...]

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Status update from this morning

December 10, 2008 – 10:00 am

If you signed in to Donor Tools this morning (Wednesday) between 7:30 – 9:00 (US Central time), you might have been greeted with one of two things: a new feature (yay!), or a blue maintenance screen. 
What happened? We discovered a bug in the new Audits feature that was causing some audits to be recorded incorrectly. [...]

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Dorothy Robinson

December 2, 2008 – 7:10 am

I had searched for aps like DonorTools before, and found nothing we could really use; then I recently searched again using other words–words given to me by a company that charges for this work but understood we at St. Placid Priory, a small Benedictine women’s monastery, couldn’t pay big bucks. Thanks for DonorTools, Ryan!

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