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Five Best Fundraising Events
- Monday, 27 July 2015
- Tech Tips
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
Many organization use special fundraising events to boost their donations. Since every nonprofit has different needs and different donor bases, there is no one event that is guaranteed to work every time, for every organization.
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Databank Essentials-Solutions for Smaller Nonprofits
- Monday, 29 June 2015
- Tech Tips
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
Is your organizations just starting out? Or maybe it is a small grassroots organization. You know you need a good database system, but you can’t really afford one.
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npVault: Backup Your Data
- Monday, 15 June 2015
- Tech Tips
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
Are you backing up your organization’s data files? Having an easily accessible reliable backup is critical in the event your organization suffers a data catastrophe. To keep your data the safest, you should store it offsite in an easily accessible location, that way the data is accessible no matter what the situation is at your office.
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Gramming for Good
- Monday, 01 June 2015
- Tech Tips
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
Instagram, a site dedicated to photographs, is a great opportunity for you to tell your organization's story visually, but first you have to have pictures to put on the account.
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The Changing Landscape of Donor Communication
- Monday, 25 May 2015
- Tech Tips
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
One size does not fit all, and nowhere is that more apparent then in the nonprofit world. Yes, your donors have something in common; belief in your mission, but that may be all that they have in common.
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Gravity for Nonprofits
- Tuesday, 19 May 2015
- Tech Tips
- Written by Danielle Loughnane
When it comes to managing your financing, there's only one product that comes to mind, QuickBooks. Many organizations both small and large in size use QuickBooks to manage their accounts because their friends use Quickbooks, because the company downstairs uses QuickBooks, because their competition uses QuickBooks. If Gravity software had any say in the matter, they would want you to use their product for all your accounting needs.
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Hatch for Good
- Monday, 04 May 2015
- Tech Tips
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
One of your organization’s best assets is its stories. If you want to draw in donors and engage them all you have to do is share your stories, share the story of how your organization changed one person’s life or how your organization will change the world.
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EveryAction Fundraising Platform
- Friday, 17 April 2015
- Tech Tips
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
EveryAction is a full-feature fundraising platform that lets your organization build a site, manage donors and empower supporters. You can use EveryAction to build your organization’s website. EveryAction has custom templates built on Drupal (an open sources CMS) platform and it offers an accelerator platform that puts your organization on the fast track to a powerful website.
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Canvas:Turn Forms into Apps
- Friday, 03 April 2015
- Tech Tips
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
Want to save paper and time? Use Canvas, Canvas is a cloud-based software service that lets you turn your paper forms into apps for use on both smartphones and tablets. With the Canvas platform, you create an edit your own mobile forms.
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Moving Your Donor Data to the Cloud
- Friday, 27 February 2015
- Tech Tips
- Written by Jennifer Flaten
If your organization is considering migrating your donor information to the cloud, you are probably concerned about the safety of your data. The recent attack on Anthem that resulted in the largest data breach in history might lead you to believe that hackers only target big companies and organizations. The truth is hackers actually tend to pick smaller companies and nonprofits figuring, rightly so, that they have lower levels of security.
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