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AccuFund’s Latest Upgrade of its Accounting Suite Features New Capabilities and Significant Enhancements to Existing Modules
AccuFund, Inc., provider of financial reporting and accounting software for non-profit, municipal and government organizations, has announced the availability of Version 3.09 of the AccuFund Accounting Suite. This latest release features enhancements to many of the system’s core modules, adding General Ledger Allocations and email capabilities to the Financial and Standard Report Writers. The Client Accounting module has been extended to include Client Invoicing. The enhancements and new capabilities in Version 3.09 add dramatic savings in time, costs and paper usage.
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Free Web Seminar on Raising More Money from Independent Fundraising Events
What: Blackbaud, in partnership with Event 360, is offering a free web seminar next week on “Raising More Money Online from Independent Fundraising Events.” The web seminar will provide an overview of a recently released study from Blackbaud and Event 360 that took a deep dive into several nonprofits’ independent fundraising programs and will provide best practices for taking a programmatic approach to independent fundraising. The study analyzed the ROI of investing in certain businesses processes, technical infrastructure, and relationship management of this revenue segment.
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Tides Releases New Shared Services Guide to Help Nonprofits Increase Organizational Efficiencies
As nonprofits continue to face an increasingly challenging economic climate, Tides (www.tides.org), one of the country’s leading nonprofit infrastructure providers, has released Shared Services: A Guide to Creating Collaborative Solutions for Nonprofits – a new guide that helps nonprofits increase their operational efficiencies by establishing and operating shared services programs.
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ZoomInfo and DonorTrends Announce TrueGivers™ Fundraising Tool
Answering the call of struggling nonprofits, ZoomInfo and DonorTrends has announced TrueGivers™ Profile Screening, a new tool to improve nonprofit fundraising through enhanced donor intelligence, database improvement and prioritized prospecting. TrueGivers™ Profile Screening combines the best ROI screening and analysis techniques for today's fast-changing fundraising market with the world’s most comprehensive source of business information on people and companies.
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Congress Approves Accelerated Tax Deduction For Haiti Earthquake Relief
Taxpayers making monetary contributions in early 2010 to help Haiti after the devastating January 12 earthquake will be able to claim a deduction on their 2009 federal tax returns. The House of Representatives unanimously passed H.R. 4462 on January 20 to allow taxpayers to claim a charitable deduction on their 2009 returns for qualified Haiti disaster relief contributions made after January 11, 2010 and before March 1, 2010. The Senate approved the measure on January 21, and President Obama is expected to sign it when it reaches the White House. (from CCH Tax Briefing: tax.cchgroup.com/Legislation/HaitiEarthquakeRelief.pdf)
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BiddingForGood is One of the 8 Companies in Massachusetts Selected by AlwaysOn
BiddingForGood, the leading cause related e-commerce platform solely for organizations engaged in auction fundraising for nonprofit causes, today announced that it has been chosen by AlwaysOn as one of the OnMedia 100 winners. Inclusion in the OnMedia 100 signifies major developments in the creation of marketing tools, services, venues, and advertising, branding, and public relation campaigns. BiddingForGood was selected by the AlwaysOn editorial team and other industry experts across the globe, based on a set of five criteria: innovation, market potential, commercialization, stakeholder value, and media buzz.
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Independent Fundraising Events Bring Big Returns for Nonprofits
Online registrations, donations and fundraising per participant increasing in Blackbaud and Event 360 analysis of 30,000 donors and 4,000 individual fundraisers In a time when overall fundraising is on the decline, independent fundraising events are raising more money and growing in participation and donors, according to a recent Blackbaud, Inc., (Nasdaq: BLKB) and Event 360, Inc. study. Independent fundraising events (IFE) are activities designed and run by volunteers to raise money on behalf of a specific nonprofit organization.
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Arthritis Foundation Uses Social Networking to Achieve Jingle Bell Walk/Run Event Fundraising Goals
Blackbaud, Inc., (Nasdaq: BLKB) announced today that the Arthritis Foundation San Diego, the first nonprofit to use its Friends Asking Friends® technology when it launched nine years ago, held its 17th annual Jingle Bell Run/Walk on Saturday,and achieved unprecedented success by integrating social media channels with the solution.
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The Salvation Army's First of its Kind Game Moves Kettle Further Into the 21st Century
The Salvation Army of Metro Detroit is giving its 118-year-old Red Kettle Campaign a 21st Century facelift with the introduction of Coin Catch, an interactive, online game that will help raise money for metro Detroiters in need. The game is the first Salvation Army fundraiser of its kind in the country.
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Online Holiday Giving to Exceed $4 Billion; Despite Economy More Consumers Plan to Give Online in ‘09 than ‘08
Convio, Inc estimates that US online giving to nonprofit organization will be more than $4 billion during the holiday season of 2009 as more than 111 million online consumers say they plan to give via the Internet this year. An omnibus survey conducted by Forrester Research for Convio, reveals that in the US more than 63% of online consumers plan to use the Internet to donate to charities of their choice during the upcoming holiday season, up from 51% in 2008.
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