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Hello Elliot: How do you treat donors....respect them as people and respect what their hearts are telling them to support. That means communicating with them principly about issues and causes for which they've already expressed interest. For me, the issue of balance goes to the issue of balancing the possibility of creating donor fatigue against
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Hello: For a quick look at Google Docs usage, I found Laura S. Quinn's 9/11/07 blog useful. [Laura is the Director of Idealware.] You can see her posting titled Article Collaboration via Google Docs at: http://www.idealware.org/blog/ Hope you find it helpful.
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Robert Weiner is right on the mark to suggest your follow-up to the RFP be a structure demo from the finalist candidates. But here's an additional perspective. Now you've reduced the pool to the ones who seem best able to meet your needs. One of the things I've learned is that our (the fundraiser's) perception of what we want can all
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Thanks Sasha: Great point about knowing what to expect of it. I think relatively unsophisticated users of technology get really caught up in the notion that "this" is the answer to all my dilemmas. This stems from their inexperience (or, more self-fulfilling, their unwillingness) to examine or learn about the technology. And that points to a prime tech
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One of the TS Moderators (thanks, Sasha) suggested that I post on this Forum. As some of you may know, we recently opened a New website: Sustainable Nonprofit [www.sustainablenonprofit.org]. It is designed to help npos understand the myriad issues that effect nonprofit's ability to sustain their mission, from wage equity and health care to start
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Hello Folks: It was suggested I introduce Sustainable Nonprofit here. So here you go: If you are interested in issues faced in sustaining nonprofits, consider visiting the new Sustainable Nonprofit site at http://www.sustainablenonprofit.org. Formerly, when people discussed nonprofit sustainability, it meant diversifying funding streams and engaging
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Thanks Sasha: Your point is well taken. I'll pop over to Town Hall for an annoucement and then Tech Planning to join that venue. Thanks for your interest and support of Sustainable Nonprofit.
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Helo Sasha: As you suggested, I should speak to the concept of sustainability as it relates to TS and technologies. Here's my initial take on it: Technology is wonderful...for the nonprofit who can use it. By the use of "can" I make two observations. First, just because technology is available doesn't mean that it will be rightly adopted, adapted
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Hello Megan: Thanks for the welcome. I lurked on TechSoup for years as a professional fundraiser. Now I am delighted to be part of Sustainable Nonprofit and want to share it. When we created this site for the nonprofit community, we made a decision not to try to duplicate the work so ably handled by TS , NTEN and other great technology-focused sites
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Hello Sasha: Thanks for the good idea. Formerly, when most people think about sustainability in nonprofits, they focused on having diverse funding streams and a strong core of committed supporters. Certainly valid concerns. This new site wants to focus on the other myriad considerations of nonprofit sustainability: Wage equity, ethics, best practices