Software/Technology
March 31, 2011
Serial entrepreneur Nate Drouin launched a free, online peer-to-peer fundraising platform that allows anyone, or any organization, to create and manage all online fundraising activity. Fundraise.com puts the industry‘s best tools in the hands of campaign managers and donors, including a free iPhone app, mobile-optimized website, sharing with Facebook and Twitter, widgets and a traditional website. The service returns 92.5 cents per dollar donated to the cause and accepts all major credit cards.
March 30, 2011
A couple of weeks ago, social-game company Zynga announced an ambitious goal of raising $2 million for victims of the earthquake and related disasters in Japan.
Not only has the “FarmVille” maker exceeded its goal, but today it said pop star Lady Gaga would be donating $750,000 to Zynga’s fundraising efforts with Save the Children, bringing the total amount it has raised to more than $3 million.
March 29, 2011
Nonprofit organizations like The Wilma Theater in Philadelphia rely on the generosity of their supporters and patrons to maintain their missions, meet future objectives and fund their daily activities. Facing enormous competition and with limited budgets, marketing and fundraising efforts must be carefully crafted and targeted to provide the greatest potential return on investment. This article describes how The Wilma Theater undertook a geographic gap analysis project, with help from Azavea.
March 22, 2011
Sage North America announced several major enhancements to Sage Fundraising Online, its flexible fundraising and event registration connected service that helps nonprofits increase giving, participation, and overall support online. A nonprofit can use Sage Fundraising Online to create and embed donation, event registration, and personalized fundraising forms anywhere on the web to allow donors and participants to fundraise on their organization’s behalf.
March 21, 2011
Grizzard Communications Group and Convio Inc. announced that they have partnered on a new solution for nonprofit organizations that integrates Convio’s online marketing and fundraising platform and best practices model, known as Convio Go!™, with Grizzard’s direct response strategies and capabilities for implementing integrated campaigns. The new offering, Go! Forward, gives nonprofit professionals access to Convio’s online marketing tools and Grizzard’s direct marketing resources.
March 21, 2011
Sage North America introduced Sage Grant Management, a new Web-based grant receiving product that helps nonprofit and government organizations maximize their funding potential by tracking grants and providing transparency at the organization, program, and grant level. An integrated development and financial management solution, Sage Grant Management helps organizations strengthen collaboration, build pipeline management, and optimize success measures so they can better serve their missions, constituents, and communities.
March 17, 2011
Google wants in on the nonprofit technology front and is offering nonprofits a special way to use Google Apps. The Google blog outlines the program, which includes an application process to weed out those deemed unworthy.
March 10, 2011
Blackbaud announced it has entered into an agreement with O-matic Software to market Import-O-Matic™, an O-matic Software plug-in that greatly expands the data import capabilities of Blackbaud’s The Raiser’s Edge® fundraising software. The advanced importing features of Import-O-Matic help streamline data processing by increasing data entry efficiency and eliminating most of the manual steps required for data entry.
March 9, 2011
Monitor Institute has partnered with the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation to produce the new hands-on Community Information Toolkit: Building Stronger Communities Through Information Exchange. This U.S.-based resource is an easy-to-use set of tools designed to help organizational leaders assess the strengths and weaknesses of the local news and media environment, analyze the findings, and incorporate them in a plan to strengthen communities by improving the local information ecology.
March 2, 2011
The Salesforce.com Foundation, the global leader in integrating philanthropy and business, today announced the success of Playworks in using Salesforce CRM and the Force.com enterprise cloud computing platform to run its national nonprofit organization. Dedicated to support learning by providing safe, healthy and inclusive play and physical activity to schools at recess and throughout the entire school day, Playworks is exemplary of the Salesforce.com Foundation's 1/1/1 Model in action
