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Hello all - we are starting a new non-profit charity to help poverty stricken children learn to read and pay tuition for schools (if required--mostly overseas). We are all new to the business, and are looking for practical recommendations on banking, accounting/bookkeeping, donor management, fundraising...
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Dear Mar12186, Here's a discussion of Mac donor databases from 2004 . GiftMaker Pro and MacTRAK are no longer being sold. DonorPerfect Online is still being sold but I'm not sure about the others that I listed back then. In addition, NorthStar DB (created by one of the developers of the now-defunct...
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While I was at the Craiglist Nonprofit Bootcamp in Berkeley this weekend, a woman asked me a similar question about her small nonprofit. I just sent her an email highlighting these resources from various places around TechSoup. Depending upon your needs, volume of donations, whether they come in online...
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Hi Joe, What are your short and long term priorities for the program and its usage? A donor management system is the one piece of software that you should take some time to learn about, and consult with as many stakeholders as possible. Idealware just published a comprehensive report on Low Cost Donor...
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Thanks for the QuickBooks Payroll suggestion, Gro! I'll be sure to pass it along to our program manager who works with Intuit. Can't make any promises since it's really up to our donor partners, but if we tell them there's demand, sometimes that can help! In response to Deron, who is...
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I just recently started working as an Americorps VISTA volunteer for a year of full-time service with a small organization that is going through a data management crisis. I have been assigned the task of collecting, organizing, designing and implementing a data management solution. We have donors, volunteers...
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I'm looking for a CMS for our small nonprofit - for the last 7 years they have used DonorPerfect but it is a real mess. The fields were set up incorrectly and we have received very little help from tech support. Error messages are rampant and I believe the information is incorrect. I started two...
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We are a Domestic Violence program with a very small office of two and a board of directors with 11 members. We need Microsoft Powerpoint on one of the computers to mostly read powerpoints sent to me. The other two office computers have it. In order for us to order on Techsoup we need to purchase 5 seats...
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[quote user="donc"]where I live in this little world of ours is often named by scientists as the ‘global barometer of climate change’.[/quote] It makes me want to watch the Australian weather! [quote user="donc"]I would certainly suggest to any NPO's wishing to engage...
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Hi, Don, Thanks for the excellent resource links. Much food for thought. I became involved with helping small disaster relief organizations improve their donor management as a result of Katrina. As that work has evolved, I've begun to see just what you are saying: i.e. that the way that work was...