Hosted Apps Lift Online Charitable Donations - Computerworld

Hosted Apps Lift Online Charitable Donations - Computerworld: "Many charitable organizations and nonprofit groups credit new Web-hosted fundraising management applications for improving their communications capabilities and increasing online donations.

For example, the Rainforest Action Network has turned to a hosted application delivered by Berkeley, Calif.-based Get-Active Software Inc., and its online donations in December 2005 were three times higher than they were in December 2004, said Japhet Els, the nonprofit group's online organizer.

Els said the GetActive offering includes powerful tools for keeping in touch with the San Francisco-based environmental group's 34,000 donors and activists and helping them organize events and campaigns."

onPhilanthropy - Planning for the Next Generation of Nonprofit Technology

onPhilanthropy - Planning for the Next Generation of Nonprofit Technology: "Planning for the Next Generation of Nonprofit Technology
By: Robert Moss, 01/13/06

Technology is improving everyday, so how do nonprofits keep up with the changing times? They have a technology plan.

You might have heard of some of today's hottest technical buzzwords and acronyms floating around your IT department, but do you know what RSS, XML, BizTalk, SOA, and MSMQ really mean -- and more importantly, how they can impact your organization? With the proper technology plan, nonprofits can work towards getting a single view of their constituents by using secure, open, integrated systems with easily accessible data. Unfortunately, most nonprofits want this view, but are not sure where to begin.