Friday, April 11, 2014

Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO

Get Social Covered: 13 Lesser Known Social Media Sites for Your NPO: You’ve got social media covered. Facebook? Please—you were an early adopter. And Twitter? You could do 140 characters or less in your sleep. But you’re just scratching the surface with those two mainstream social media sites.

At the 2014 AFP International Conference on Fundraising in San Antonio, Lisa Chmiola and David Tinker helped us through some of the lesser known social media sites that can help your nonprofit with efficiency and productivity.

Minnesota's Give to the Max Day gets new technology partner | Star Tribune

Minnesota's Give to the Max Day gets new technology partner | Star Tribune: Minnesota charities stung by a peak-time website crash during “Give to the Max Day” last year will have a new technology firm handling its annual day of mega-giving in 2014.

Thursday, April 10, 2014

Calling all techies: Donate your skills

Calling all techies: Donate your skills: But this year, Technically Philly co-founder Brian James Kirk is focusing on something beyond his usual promotion of entrepreneurship and networking. At 8 a.m. Thursday at Temple University's 1810 Conference Suite, his website-and-event company will unveil its new initiative, the "Commit Pledge of Service." The idea: push the technologically skilled to donate help to nonprofits that desperately need it.

'Technology can offer charities more than just online donations'

'Technology can offer charities more than just online donations': Charities are focusing too much on using digital tools for fundraising instead of how technology can be used to improve services for stakeholders, a digital expert has warned.

Mike Thompson, who is a digital consultant at mySociety the charity behind the MP monitoring service They Work For You, told delegates at this year’s CFG IT conference that there are four main areas where technology can be of use to charities: fundraising, campaigns, data and delivering services.

We Need Your Feedback: The Crowdfunder Bill of Rights | Kimbia

We Need Your Feedback: The Crowdfunder Bill of Rights | Kimbia: ne of the outcomes of our talks has been to work on a crowdfunding bill of rights for donors: a set of standard expectations that legitimate crowdfunding and peer-to-peer campaigns should adhere to in order to ensure a well-managed, transparent, and effective experience. *

We are going to focus our discussion mainly on the nonprofit side of things: so donors are giving to causes (not someone’s invention) and in theory, giving to one of the million plus legitimate charities.

Wednesday, April 09, 2014

Online Charitable Donations Increased 14% in 2013

Online Charitable Donations Increased 14% in 2013: The study breaks down exactly how leading U.S. non-profits performed online in the past year. In 2013, Internet users donated more than ever before — online giving increased 14% since 2012, with more than 5.5 million total gifts and nearly $325 million raised.

The average one-time donation increased as well, from $60 to $68 ($57 via email only), and overall non-profit website traffic grew 16%. Organizations' annual social growth is also booming, with the average number of Facebook fans increasing 37% and Twitter followers increasing 46%.

Tuesday, April 08, 2014

United Way suffers from competition for donation dollars

United Way suffers from competition for donation dollars: Increased competition for charity dollars, a decrease in corporate donations and an increasing trend toward online giving to specific causes have resulted in a drop in donations to the United Way of the Lower Mainland, says the organization’s CEO and president Michael McKnight.

Association Startups: Build Your Own Road: Associations Now

Association Startups: Build Your Own Road: Associations Now: One associations pro’s efforts to build her own startup in the AMS space. Also: why efficiency is an easier hurdle than innovation—and why that shouldn’t st

Stoked nonprofit wanted to better document outcomes, so it's building a mobile app � Technically Brooklyn

Stoked nonprofit wanted to better document outcomes, so it's building a mobile app � Technically Brooklyn:The organization knew there was a better way. They decided to get Lean about it. They started with a minimum viable product, just a private Tumblr blog where program leaders would write recaps of events and use tags to track the kids who were at them. This made it easy to see a quick history of what one kid had done over the course of a year.

Now, they are working on a more robust mobile app, backed up in the cloud. One you could open up, put in the name of your event, check off attendance for your kids and then, throughout the event, while you used your device to take photos throughout the activity, they would all automatically be logged as part of that

Auburn charity shifts operations online | New Hampshire Hooksett Banner

Auburn charity shifts operations online | New Hampshire Hooksett Banner: Last year, Scholarship America, the Minnesota-based charity which was founded as Dollars for Scholars in 1958, mandated that all current charities and nonprofit affiliates under its umbrella move operations online.

Since that time, Auburn Dollars for Scholars President Mary Hrubiec and two other volunteers have dedicated countless hours to the transition.

Monday, April 07, 2014

The Top 7 Myths for Small Nonprofits and Google Grants

The Top 7 Myths for Small Nonprofits and Google Grants: he limiting factor in this equation is the number of people who search for your keywords in the geographic area you have defined. For example, if 500 people see your ads and decide to click on them you will have used $1,000 (assuming it costs the full $2/click you are allowed).

For small non-profits who have a regional, not national, presence it is hard to use the full $10,000. Don’t be disappointed if you don’t use the full amount each month. Instead, focus on your goals and monitor the results.

Reaching Donors in Real Time – Wherever They Are | Third Sector Today

Reaching Donors in Real Time – Wherever They Are | Third Sector Today: While the number of nonprofits ready and eager to change the world is growing steadily, only a few can rely on direct donations and large, active donors every day. The vast majority of organized do-gooders are tucked away in the back pages of the internet, trying their best to make a difference in the world (even if only a handful of people know and share their passion.) Exit the nonprofit realm and enter the world of technology and business… everyone is screaming MOBILE