Software/Technology

Social Solutions Awards 2 Recipients With Matching Grants
November 28, 2018 at 12:38 pm

Social Solutions Global has awarded two nonprofit organizations—Prospera Housing Community Services and SA Youth—matching grants using funding from the Ballmer Group. The matching grants will cover 50 percent of the cost of licenses to Apricot 360...

Malala Fund Teams Up With Tech Company to Form New Donation Widget
November 19, 2018 at 1:05 pm

Inspiration comes in many forms in the nonprofit community. In this case, it comes in the form of a young Pakistani female activist, Noble Prize laureate and founder of Malala Fund, a nonprofit dedicated to girls’ education. Her name is Malala Yousafzai...

The Orr Group: Transforming Fundraising Through Innovation and Technology
November 14, 2018 at 12:13 pm

Metrics provide a way to measure return on investment and to gauge the success of a nonprofit’s fundraising operation. New technology and software is emerging daily to help nonprofits understand, analyze and use metrics to enhance operations, reduce costs and grow fundraising. In this video, Orr Group leaders describe some of the ways software and better…

A New Cloud Solution for Higher Education Unveiled
October 25, 2018 at 12:20 pm

This year’s bbcon was full of surprises; from the Integrated Cloud Initiative to the partnership with Points of Light, Blackbaud had one more thing up its sleeve. The leading nonprofit cloud software company has been offering education management solutions to the K-12 market for a number of years now, which has generated over 200 million logins per year...

How Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Technology Empowers Today’s Donor
October 23, 2018 at 12:44 pm

As society continues to be shaped by technology and communication tools, like social media, peer-to-peer fundraising has emerged as the primary area of growth for large nonprofits. Peer-to-peer giving has unmatched potential to harness a sense of community and empower today’s donor...

Blackbaud, Microsoft Unveil the Integrated Cloud Initiative for Social Good
October 11, 2018 at 12:52 pm

At this year’s bbcon conference, Blackbaud released a huge announcement between Blackbaud and Microsoft. As you may remember from last year’s bbcon, the two companies announced that they were entering an expanded partnership with the goal of digitally transforming the future of social good...

Bots and The Rise of Conversational Marketing
October 4, 2018 at 12:08 pm

Bot. This may likely be your favorite word, or a word that strikes up a lot of fear and uncertainty at this time. What is a bot? Simply put in context of the nonprofit professional, a “bot” is software technology that helps to create one-to-one conversations between your organization and an individual...