Category Archives: Resources

The US Top 20 Charitable Donations – Who Were The Big Givers In 2009?

March 17, 2010 – 5:48 am

Tracking donors and identifying who your biggest and most valuable donors is is a big part of what we do at DonorTools. It’s an equally important activity for all our customers and every nonprofit out there who need to know who can help them make a significant impact to their fundraising.  In the spirit of [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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Non-Profit Twitter Tools

November 30, 2009 – 12:15 am

I was catching up on my blog list and found this really great list of non-profit Twitter tools on Social Earth and just had to share. 1. Act.ly: Have a petition, retweet or event you want to show the Twitter universe? Act.ly allows just this. 2. TweetProgress: Want bigger, better and more progressive change? Head to TweetProgress to register [...]

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Facebook Causes & America’s Giving Challenge

October 21, 2009 – 9:00 am

Facebook is becoming quite a helpful tool for the non-profit fundraiser, especially since they created Causes this year.  According to this post at Connection Cafe many corporations have realized the benefits of social networking and how it can help grow their businesses. The article suggests that the non-profit side could learn something from the corporate [...]

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Link: How to Use Facebook for Nonprofit Organizations

September 1, 2009 – 12:05 pm

This training video focuses on ways in which nonprofit organizations can use the power of Facebook to create a solid social media presence and to increase the audiences for their missions and ongoing efforts. Available for $39.99 from CharityHowTo.com Tweet

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Upcoming Webinars from NonprofitWebinars.com

August 12, 2009 – 3:10 pm

Donor Tools is a proud sponsor of NonprofitWebinars.com, and we’re thrilled at the lineup of events. Join the mailing list to stay up to date on all the new events and get special offers from us! 8/25 How to use Facebook for your Nonprofit Susan Gordon, Senior Nonprofit Coordinator at Causes Tuesday, August 25, 2009 [...]

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Running IT Without an IT Department

August 12, 2009 – 2:16 pm

We had a great turnout today for my presentation on Running IT Without an IT Department. Thanks to everyone who attended, and thanks for the great feedback! I was pretty nervous, but it went really well. For those of you who couldn’t attend, here are the slides. Also, I mentioned a lot of products and [...]

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Getting Read: The Art of Writing Effective Emails

August 7, 2009 – 8:44 am

A lot of emails tumble into your inbox every day. Many are filtered out as spam. The rest are a muck that you’re left to wade through – some are newsletters, some can be read and discarded, and some need your attention. Few are well-crafted, and even fewer are brief. Some are too brief. How [...]

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Charity Navigator Releases 5th Annual CEO Compensation Study

August 5, 2009 – 9:29 pm

We love Charity Navigator. They did a great job producing the 5th annual CEO Compensation Study. [youtube=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IdiMA5rofc] Here is the conclusion to their study: “While it is true that the paychecks of some nonprofit executives are outrageously high, this study confirms that those receiving excessive pay are in the minority. However, we recognize that many donors [...]

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