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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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The suggestion was made that we put some of our silent auction items up online before the event to help generate interest and additional "shoppers". We're looking for some sort of plug-in that we might be able to use to do this that would be easy, adaptable and hopefully inexpensive. Would...
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Today on the TechSoup Blog , we talked about performing arts organizations using social media to attract new audiences, including the San Francisco Symphony and the Anaheim Ballet. How can nonprofits use new media to reach new audiences? The blog post focused on arts orgs, but let's open the discussion...
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Dear kpfromdc, Welcome to TechSoup. A great resource for learning about inexpensive donor databases is Idealware's " Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems " It's a 2-part report that reviews 30 inexpensive systems, and then goes into great detail about the ones they identified...
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I was wondering if anyone had any experience or advice on social fundraising apps like firstgiving.com, donordrive.com, changingthepresent.com, givezooks.com, activegiving.com, etc. We're considering adopting something along these lines and haven't found any reviews of this category of apps....
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We assure you Causes is no joke. We have processed over $10 million in donations to nonprofits and we have a dedicated staff in Berkeley, CA and Washington DC working to make this platform happen. Occasionally, our password retrieval email gets caught in spam filters so if you have problems signing in...
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Just wanted to chime in here that I just found out NTEN is holding an online chat tmorrow with Joe Green, the founder of Causes. Free for NTEN members and more details here . Looks like this could be very helpful. Best, Megan
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I want to hire someone to build a website that includes, social networking membership, a fundraising database, third-party sponsorship pages with search capabilities beyond just name, and an interface with accounting software like Quickbooks. By third party I mean online pages like you'd see for...
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I was getting ready to post a message about email technology, but now I can't do that, but maybe I can help anyway. I think the letter may be seen as "fake" and the brochure may be easy to ignore. My approach would be to make it personal and make it real. First, get as many people to help...
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We are a small nonprofit animal rescue and sanctuary. We have a mailing list and are going to do a mailing. Like all nonprofits we have to be very careful as to how we spend our limited budget. We are not sure what type of printed material to send out. Heartfelt letter vs brochure? Any informaiton would...