Tag Archives: Fundraising

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 Mashable [...]

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Strengthening The Donor Nonprofit Social Connection With The Social Web

March 2, 2010 – 9:03 am

A lot has changed since the social web has become mainstream in personal and professional interaction and like any change, it goes through varying stages of acceptance among users. I have a friend or two who have accounts on Facebook and Twitter but wish them using social networking instead of picking up the phone and [...]

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How to Integrate Social Media in Donor Prospect Research

February 26, 2010 – 3:25 pm

Did you know that you can use social media like Facebook, Twitter, Linkedin and other social web platforms to conduct research about donor prospects, cultivate major gifts and build stronger and long term relationships with constituents?
Historically donor management software has told you about things about your donors that have already happened. While your donors’ history [...]

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Twitter – Where Nonprofits And Donors Connect

February 18, 2010 – 9:59 am

Twitter has emerged as a social media channel for people to connect that simply can’t be ignored. As a recent Socitm report put it while doing a study on the use of social media for local government services “Failure to engage with the [social media] trend is tantamount to ignoring the telephone at the end [...]

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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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Breast Cancer Awareness Campaign Through Facebook – A Stroke Of Genius

February 3, 2010 – 7:05 am

We often talk about the way social networking and the web can be used to the advantage of non-profit organizations and just when you think ‘we’ve seen it all now…’ something out the blue happens to knock your socks off and remind you just how powerful the web can be in critical non-profit activities such [...]

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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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$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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The Small Things

September 9, 2009 – 2:44 pm

Our customers are always commenting on how easy Donor Tools is to use – we love that! Especially because we’ve gone to great lengths to keep Donor Tools easy.
But we’re never satisfied – we want Donor Tools to be the easiest and most powerful donor management and fundraising software around. And yes, we think we [...]

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