Tag Archives: donations

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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Church Administration & Financial Accountability In The Social Web Era

March 12, 2010 – 7:00 am

How many times have we seen skirmishes between church goers and church administrators over the finances of the church? Sure it’s a common area of conflict across churches and charitable organizations just as it happens in enterprise organizations where stakeholders demand to see how their funds are being utilized and get insights into the working [...]

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Using Donation Videos To Fuel Your Online Fundraising Pages

March 11, 2010 – 7:00 am

If you’re looking for inspiration on how to spruce up your online fundraising pages and add that little extra to connect with donors at the most critical stage of the donation process then these videos are perhaps what you’re looking for. Youtube recently crossed the 1 billion videos watched per day mark according to a [...]

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How Nonprofits Can Harness Volunteer Power Through Web Based Software

January 28, 2010 – 7:48 am

It could be the long commutes to the work place, the insanity of fuel prices or just the sheer convenience of being able to work from the comfort of one’s own home but it’s very evident that more organizations are leaning towards a distributed workforce. While this trend is still picking up among these businesses [...]

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The Value Of Thank You In Effective Donor Management

January 26, 2010 – 8:15 am

Thank You – perhaps of the most important words in anyone’s vocabulary and undoubtedly the most important in the fundraising and donor management realm. It’s gratitude in it’s simplest form and an acknowledgment for a donation or contribution whether in cash or in kind and no matter how big or small that contribution is, the [...]

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Online Fundraising Idea From Charity Navigator

September 2, 2009 – 5:13 pm

I was very impressed when I ran across a very well done pop up ask on the Charity Navigator website. It reads: Did you know? If everyone who paid us a visit over the course of a year voluntarily gave $1, we could comfortably meet our annual budget! Our web site and all of its [...]

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How do I Record a Donation?

September 25, 2008 – 3:56 pm

How do I record a donation? In the top, left corner of the page, search for a donor’s name in the “Find a Donor” box. If you need to create a new donor, click on either the Dashboard or the Donor tab, then click on “New Donor” at the left. Once you’re in the donor’s [...]

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Feature Spotlight: Recording Donations

April 9, 2008 – 10:40 am

One of the things that we wanted to accomplish with Donor Tools was to provide workflows that help you get closer to your donors while still working efficiently. So we’ve made it really easy to enter a lot of donations very quickly while still giving each donor individual attention.  The process goes something like this:  [...]

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