Category Archives: Donor Tools News

Twitter, Facebook & LinkedIn Integration with your Donor Database

February 15, 2010 – 6:11 pm

We’re very happy today to announce our first step into social media integration with your nonprofit donor database. Now you can start connecting with donors on Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and have a quick way to find videos, photos, blogs and web sites about your contacts.
This is the first step for our nonprofit software into this [...]

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A Minor Change to QuickBooks Export

February 5, 2010 – 2:06 pm

If you use Donor Tools’ Quickbooks Export feature, and you receive donations via PayPal, you’ll want to take note of this minor change.
We’ve changed the way that transaction fees are reflected in the IIF file generated by Donor Tools. PayPal transactions are still recorded into Undeposited Funds, just as before. Previously, PayPal fees were recorded [...]

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New: Import your Whole Donor Database

February 3, 2010 – 2:54 pm

For a long time it’s been possible to import your donor list into Donor Tools. But up until now there hasn’t been an easy way to import donations as well. So many people have asked for this feature, and we’ve heard you! Introducing the new, improved Donor Tools data import feature. Now you can import your [...]

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Great Nonprofit Training Coming Up

January 15, 2010 – 12:15 pm

As a side project we help run nonprofitwebinars.com. Here is a list of webinars that we encourage you to be part of as our guest:
Registration is $25 but we have a couple of coupon codes for each that will make it free. Use coupon code FriendDT
All Webinars are at 10am Pacific Standard Time / 1pm [...]

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Karma Update and Results

January 4, 2010 – 1:36 pm

Wow, things are moving fast around here! On top of all the holidays I have been a little sick so sorry for being a couple day’s late with this post.
After much debate we finally picked two winners for our Karma Idea. We will officially be helping Z Space and Nanka and Bob Castulik with whatever [...]

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Cheque this out!

December 9, 2009 – 8:18 pm

DonorTools is excited to partner with Aqubanc, and their solutions. DonorTools needed a Check 21 solution and chose Aqubanc’s Cheque 21; which will help our clients to better steward their resources.

Haven’t heard of a Check 21 system before? Here’s a short little description from their site.

NonProfit organizations are challenged by their donors to properly steward [...]

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$100,000 in 48 Hours

December 4, 2009 – 3:09 pm

Seth Godin just raised $100,000 in 48 hours with Donor Tools.
Seth Godin’s two-day fundraising event earned over $100,000 for Acumen Fund. Acumen “exists to help end poverty by changing how the world addresses it”1.
Donors received an advance copy of Seth Godin’s upcoming book Linchpin, which goes on sale January 26.
We’re thrilled to have been [...]

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Crowdsourcing Our Karma

November 24, 2009 – 9:00 am

We have GOT to get out of the office.

Lately it feels like all we do is email, write code and talk on the phone. Knowing we needed a break to stay sane, we started thinking of hobby projects that we could do to keep things fresh. Then it hit us: every single day we meet [...]

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Nominate Us For the Crunchies!

November 23, 2009 – 10:00 am

Did you know that Donor Tools is a bootstrapped company? We’re pretty proud of that actually.
Now you can nominate us for the Best Bootstrapped Startup for the 2009 Crunchies! (The Crunchies are like the Oscars, but for the Internet.)
We could really use your help here. If you love us, please nominate Donor Tools for the [...]

By Ryan | Also posted in Technology | Tagged | Comments

We’re Here to Help

October 20, 2009 – 1:00 pm

As I was reading my non-profit blog roll the other day I came across this funny sign on Business Pundit.

As funny as this may be, we take our customer service approach very seriously. We really do love hearing from you, especially since we can’t fix what we don’t know about.
We promise to never view your [...]

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