This is a follow up to a previous post asking what cause based orgs were doing to pursue HNW individuals and their bags of tax deductible money. http://www.flickr.com/photos/scatty/ / CC BY-ND 2.0 At DreamForce a few weeks ago, I saw the demos for a few vendors who offer very comprehensive data of the social and [...]
Some things has been gnawing on me since I watched Steve MacLaughlin’s superb presentation on the state of online giving. Two slides, around the 1/4 and 2/5ths mark, caught my attention: They show that according to Blackbaud’s data, which is no doubt legion, 5% (and growing fast) of giving in the US occurs online, while [...]
In November of 2009 we participated in the #npocamp – a fantastic event in the unconference or barcamp tradition. We came prepared to talk about beginning database theory and came away with priceless knowledge and wisdom from all the sessions.
I think it would be pretty cool if the pricing of various nonprofit technology products could be tied to the “good behavior” of the organization, in the sense that doing what is in their best interests in the long term is also in the best interests of the vendor, and should be rewarded. For example, [...]
Social Actions is a great project, bringing together donation and volunteer opportunity data from all around the web into a single API. It has really expanded the reach and accessability of these opportunities. We had such a great time creating the Social Actions Tuner and Social Actions continues to be more than deserving of effort by the nonprofit technology community. Why not make a new project?
