Archive for Nonprofiteering

2009 Revenue – Looking Back

Nonprofiteering, Our Work on February 1st, 2010 No Comments

This graph is a chart of how much revenue Prelude Interactive brought in last year, by month, and color coded by client.  Just like the contractors chart, there’s not a huge amount that we can learn, but it does tell a semi-accurate picture of the year.    Light Blue is my biggest nonprofit client, and their [...]

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Big Fish Donors (Part II)

Nonprofiteering, SalesForce on December 21st, 2009 No Comments

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 [...]

What about the Big Fish?

Nonprofiteering on December 9th, 2009 2 Comments

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 [...]

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The first cause-based barcamp in Austin!

Austin #npocamp – Intro to Databases

Featured, Nerding, Nonprofiteering, Our Work, SalesForce on November 15th, 2009 1 Comment

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.

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Nonprofit Product Pricing I’d Like to See

Nonprofiteering on November 12th, 2009 No Comments

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, [...]

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