onPhilanthropy: Second Life Fundraising: Philanthropy Dips its Toe Into Virtual Worlds: "Second Life Fundraising: Philanthropy Dips its Toe Into Virtual Worlds
By: Tom Watson, 07/26/06
Soaring mountains, shimmering seas, futuristic buildings, strange vehicles flying in the air. And throughout the fantastic landscape, three-dimensional avatars walk and fly and talk - and spend a new and very real form of currency. Welcome to Second Life, a fast-growing virtual reality community where users from around the world gather to live out their fantasies and assume personas they never could in the terrestrial world. The virtual world was created by a real-world company, Linden Labs, in 2003 and now numbers some 200,000 members who spend hundreds of thousands a day in 'Linden dollars,' the game's currency. They buy land and buildings (all virtual of course), clothing and accessories, movies, vehicles, and music.
And more and more, they give money away. Real money to real charities."
Thursday, July 27, 2006
Thursday, July 20, 2006
Building a Web Site
Building a Web Site: "BUILDING A WEB SITE
Start with the basics, take it in stages, work up to the complex
Development of a web site is a logical process, which should work through from such basic questions as who’s in charge/who’s paying/what is the nature of the audience/how do we attract the audience to the site, to complex questions of adding some of the 'tomorrow' elements of technology ... after all the ducks are neatly in their row.
So says Marden Paul, Director of Strategic Computing, Office of the Vice-President and Provost, University of Toronto. And he should know, being in charge of one of the web’s more interesting and complex sites, which recently had a makeover.
Speaking to Fundraising Day of the Greater Toronto Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Paul notes that having got the who-are-we and who-are-we-talking-to questions out of the way, the next step is to develop a set of principles to guide the design and architecture of the site – how its information is to be organized and what information is to be included/excluded."
Start with the basics, take it in stages, work up to the complex
Development of a web site is a logical process, which should work through from such basic questions as who’s in charge/who’s paying/what is the nature of the audience/how do we attract the audience to the site, to complex questions of adding some of the 'tomorrow' elements of technology ... after all the ducks are neatly in their row.
So says Marden Paul, Director of Strategic Computing, Office of the Vice-President and Provost, University of Toronto. And he should know, being in charge of one of the web’s more interesting and complex sites, which recently had a makeover.
Speaking to Fundraising Day of the Greater Toronto Chapter of the Association of Fundraising Professionals, Paul notes that having got the who-are-we and who-are-we-talking-to questions out of the way, the next step is to develop a set of principles to guide the design and architecture of the site – how its information is to be organized and what information is to be included/excluded."
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Monday, July 17, 2006
Today @ PC World - Geeks for a Good Cause
Today @ PC World - Geeks for a Good Cause: "Does helping to create a Wi-Fi antenna from a water bottle, wire mesh and a motorcycle tire valve stem sound like a great way to spend a few months away from work? How about working on a Linux-based PC that runs off a car battery and solar power?
If so, you may be a natural for Geekcorps, a hard-working nonprofit that trains people in the developing world to use technology. Geekcorps volunteers typically spend at least four months in countries like Lebanon, Mali, Ghana and Nigeria, working intensively with local people who want to use technology to accomplish some goal, like creating a network of regional markets to share prices of staples such as potatoes and pawpaw in African nations. Geekcorps pays the volunteers' travel expenses, housing, meals and other incidental expenses in return for their expertise."
If so, you may be a natural for Geekcorps, a hard-working nonprofit that trains people in the developing world to use technology. Geekcorps volunteers typically spend at least four months in countries like Lebanon, Mali, Ghana and Nigeria, working intensively with local people who want to use technology to accomplish some goal, like creating a network of regional markets to share prices of staples such as potatoes and pawpaw in African nations. Geekcorps pays the volunteers' travel expenses, housing, meals and other incidental expenses in return for their expertise."
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Tuesday, July 11, 2006
Convio Unveils Latest Tools for Nonprofit Communications
Convio Unveils Latest Tools for Nonprofit Communications: "Convio Unveils Latest Tools for Nonprofit Communications
By Nicole Smith
July 11th, 2006
Convio, a provider of on-demand software and services for nonprofits, announced new tools that can help schools use the Internet to communicate more effectively with alumni and donors while driving increased giving.
The Austin, TX-based Convio is offering online constituent relationship management solutions to schools and related organizations. Through it, the institutions can use e-mail communications to learn more and better understand their alumni and donors.
Also, the organizations can do this by learning if they are connected to a specific school, program, class year, sport program or research project. They can then use this information to shape future communications that appeal to the targeted affinities."
By Nicole Smith
July 11th, 2006
Convio, a provider of on-demand software and services for nonprofits, announced new tools that can help schools use the Internet to communicate more effectively with alumni and donors while driving increased giving.
The Austin, TX-based Convio is offering online constituent relationship management solutions to schools and related organizations. Through it, the institutions can use e-mail communications to learn more and better understand their alumni and donors.
Also, the organizations can do this by learning if they are connected to a specific school, program, class year, sport program or research project. They can then use this information to shape future communications that appeal to the targeted affinities."
Tuesday, June 27, 2006
Nature Stories Podcast and Audio Downloads - Podcasting of nature stories for audio download - podcast on environment, outdoors, conservation
Nature Stories Podcast and Audio Downloads - Podcasting of nature stories for audio download - podcast on environment, outdoors, conservation: "Nature Stories Podcast
Audio Downloads of Great Stories and Great Places
The Nature Conservancy is proud to present the Nature Stories audio podcast. Each week, Nature Stories will bring you interesting and unexpected tales of people's connections with the natural world in a high-quality audio download."
Audio Downloads of Great Stories and Great Places
The Nature Conservancy is proud to present the Nature Stories audio podcast. Each week, Nature Stories will bring you interesting and unexpected tales of people's connections with the natural world in a high-quality audio download."
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Catholic Charities keeps track of homeless with iSeries
Catholic Charities keeps track of homeless with iSeries: "Catholic Charities keeps track of homeless with iSeries
By Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
27 Jun 2006 | Search400.com
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A five person IT staff with five iSeries [recently renamed System i] boxes help Catholic Charities in St. Paul and Minneapolis serve 1.1 million meals to the hungry each year and provide 1,000 beds per night for the homeless.
Catholic Charities' IT department supports a CommunityCard program, using Lotus running on an iSeries. The program helps identify and keep track of the thousands of homeless that Catholic Charities serves each year. Each time a homeless person steps through its doors, they either show their identification card or, if they haven't been there before, are issued one."
By Mark Fontecchio, News Writer
27 Jun 2006 | Search400.com
SOUND OFF!Post your comments
A five person IT staff with five iSeries [recently renamed System i] boxes help Catholic Charities in St. Paul and Minneapolis serve 1.1 million meals to the hungry each year and provide 1,000 beds per night for the homeless.
Catholic Charities' IT department supports a CommunityCard program, using Lotus running on an iSeries. The program helps identify and keep track of the thousands of homeless that Catholic Charities serves each year. Each time a homeless person steps through its doors, they either show their identification card or, if they haven't been there before, are issued one."
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Friday, June 23, 2006
Scripps Howard News Service-Non-voice way to communicate popular with young people
Scripps Howard News Service: "Text messaging has evolved into a powerful non-voice form of communication for cell phone users, especially younger subscribers who love to trade short notes and updates. The practice has grown in just a few years to the point where more than one-third of cell phone users regularly send and receive text messages, most of them personal.
Now businesses, governments and nonprofit groups are increasingly finding it handy to provide a wide array of services and information.
In the process they are finding out that text messaging can reach an unusually large audience, is easy to use and offers an immediacy not found in voice calls, e-mail or instant messaging."
Now businesses, governments and nonprofit groups are increasingly finding it handy to provide a wide array of services and information.
In the process they are finding out that text messaging can reach an unusually large audience, is easy to use and offers an immediacy not found in voice calls, e-mail or instant messaging."
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United eWay Announces Launch of Mobile Tools @ SYS-CON Media
Press Release
United eWay Announces Launch of Mobile Tools @ SYS-CON Media: "NASHVILLE, Tenn., United eWay Conference, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Taking a leadership role in the move to incorporate mobile technology into the world of philanthropy, United eWay, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Way of America, announced it will launch a new suite of advanced mobile communication and fundraising products to compliment its existing technology offerings. To power its mobile platform, United eWay has partnered with Denver based Mobile Accord, Inc., the premier provider of mobile technology to the non-profit sector.
United eWay is the first major non-profit in the United States to embrace the mobile channel by providing corporate philanthropic initiatives, its parent organization, and third party non-profit clients with innovative ways of interacting with their donors and volunteers through mobile messaging."
United eWay Announces Launch of Mobile Tools @ SYS-CON Media: "NASHVILLE, Tenn., United eWay Conference, June 22 /PRNewswire/ -- Taking a leadership role in the move to incorporate mobile technology into the world of philanthropy, United eWay, a wholly owned subsidiary of United Way of America, announced it will launch a new suite of advanced mobile communication and fundraising products to compliment its existing technology offerings. To power its mobile platform, United eWay has partnered with Denver based Mobile Accord, Inc., the premier provider of mobile technology to the non-profit sector.
United eWay is the first major non-profit in the United States to embrace the mobile channel by providing corporate philanthropic initiatives, its parent organization, and third party non-profit clients with innovative ways of interacting with their donors and volunteers through mobile messaging."
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Friday, June 16, 2006
The Chronicle, 6/15/2006: Charities Make Faster Connections
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The Chronicle, 6/15/2006: Charities Make Faster Connections: "Charities Make Faster Connections
Fund raising for disaster relief helped lift online totals in 2005
By Nicole Wallace
Online giving to the nation's largest charities continued its steep climb in 2005, according to The Chronicle's seventh annual survey of online fund raising.
Electronic gifts to the 167 organizations that provided data for this year's survey topped $911.9- million in 2005.
Donations to the 162 groups that provided figures for 2004 and 2005 were up 148.1 percent, from $366.1-million to $908.4-million last year. Online gifts more than doubled at 55 of these charities, and 90 groups achieved increases of more than 50 percent"
The Chronicle, 6/15/2006: Charities Make Faster Connections: "Charities Make Faster Connections
Fund raising for disaster relief helped lift online totals in 2005
By Nicole Wallace
Online giving to the nation's largest charities continued its steep climb in 2005, according to The Chronicle's seventh annual survey of online fund raising.
Electronic gifts to the 167 organizations that provided data for this year's survey topped $911.9- million in 2005.
Donations to the 162 groups that provided figures for 2004 and 2005 were up 148.1 percent, from $366.1-million to $908.4-million last year. Online gifts more than doubled at 55 of these charities, and 90 groups achieved increases of more than 50 percent"
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Thursday, June 08, 2006
Idealware: Creating the Relationship-Centric Organization: Nonprofit CRM
Idealware: Creating the Relationship-Centric Organization: Nonprofit CRM: "Creating the Relationship-Centric Organization: Nonprofit CRM
By Paul Hagen
Are you having problems managing information about your organization’s donors, supporters, members, volunteers, and other constituents?
If so, you’re not alone. Many organizations struggle with the volume of information they’d like to track and the number of methods they use to track it. In a soon-to-be published survey by dotOrganize, over half the small- to medium-sized nonprofits who responded said they store information about contacts in more than four different places. In fact, 20% said they store it in more than ten places! Many of them use solutions that make it hard for the whole staff to access it – 58% used Excel, 52% used a personal contact manager like Outlook, and an alarming 55% reported using slips of paper."
By Paul Hagen
Are you having problems managing information about your organization’s donors, supporters, members, volunteers, and other constituents?
If so, you’re not alone. Many organizations struggle with the volume of information they’d like to track and the number of methods they use to track it. In a soon-to-be published survey by dotOrganize, over half the small- to medium-sized nonprofits who responded said they store information about contacts in more than four different places. In fact, 20% said they store it in more than ten places! Many of them use solutions that make it hard for the whole staff to access it – 58% used Excel, 52% used a personal contact manager like Outlook, and an alarming 55% reported using slips of paper."
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Wednesday, June 07, 2006
Q&A: A (charitable) foundation support
Q&A: A (charitable) foundation support: "&A: A (charitable) foundation support
June 06, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Historically, only the Rockefellers and Carnegies of the world launched charitable foundations. That's partly because you needed a lot of money to pay a staff to run a foundation and provide the necessary back-office support to collect and monitor charitable donations.
But Daniel M. Schley saw the Internet as an opportunity to help families and other organizations with more moderate means to establish charitable funds. In 2000, Schley helped launch Foundation Source , a Fairfield, Conn.-based provider of support services for private foundations, including back-office systems and online assistance.
Computerworld's Thomas Hoffman spoke with Schley about Foundation Source's charter and current market conditions."
June 06, 2006 (Computerworld) -- Historically, only the Rockefellers and Carnegies of the world launched charitable foundations. That's partly because you needed a lot of money to pay a staff to run a foundation and provide the necessary back-office support to collect and monitor charitable donations.
But Daniel M. Schley saw the Internet as an opportunity to help families and other organizations with more moderate means to establish charitable funds. In 2000, Schley helped launch Foundation Source , a Fairfield, Conn.-based provider of support services for private foundations, including back-office systems and online assistance.
Computerworld's Thomas Hoffman spoke with Schley about Foundation Source's charter and current market conditions."
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Tuesday, June 06, 2006
DDN Articles - Exploring the World of Wikis
DDN Articles - Exploring the World of Wikis: "Exploring the World of Wikis
Author: Brian Satterfield, Tech Soup | June 6th, 2006
Communities: Cool Tools
From http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articles/webbuilding/page4563.cfm?rss=1
Never Again International, a nonprofit network dedicated to promoting peace and preventing genocide, has members throughout the world, with chapters in Rwanda, Burundi, America, Canada, the United Kingdom, and China. With so many people dispersed around the globe, the organization needed a way to communicate, centralize information, and ease collaboration.
'Because we are scattered,' said Never Again's Communications Coordinator Clare-Marie White, 'it is very difficult to know what [members] don't know, so we really need ways of sharing knowledge when people travel.'"
Author: Brian Satterfield, Tech Soup | June 6th, 2006
Communities: Cool Tools
From http://www.techsoup.org/howto/articles/webbuilding/page4563.cfm?rss=1
Never Again International, a nonprofit network dedicated to promoting peace and preventing genocide, has members throughout the world, with chapters in Rwanda, Burundi, America, Canada, the United Kingdom, and China. With so many people dispersed around the globe, the organization needed a way to communicate, centralize information, and ease collaboration.
'Because we are scattered,' said Never Again's Communications Coordinator Clare-Marie White, 'it is very difficult to know what [members] don't know, so we really need ways of sharing knowledge when people travel.'"
Monday, June 05, 2006
Expanding Online Communities Internationally | ConsultantCommons.org (beta)
Expanding Online Communities Internationally | ConsultantCommons.org (beta): "Expanding Online Communities Internationally
Submitted by smokinggoat on Fri, 2006-06-02 16:54. Online Communities | Org Development
A dump of notes from the Online Community Camp. (Along with the text version of this file).
What are basic dos and dont's of expanding community website internationally?
"
Submitted by smokinggoat on Fri, 2006-06-02 16:54. Online Communities | Org Development
A dump of notes from the Online Community Camp. (Along with the text version of this file).
What are basic dos and dont's of expanding community website internationally?
"
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Brentmark Software Inc. — The Kugler Estate Analyzer — Financial Planning Practice (The CPA Technology Advisor)
Brentmark Software Inc. — The Kugler Estate Analyzer — Financial Planning Practice (The CPA Technology Advisor): "Brentmark Software Inc. — The Kugler Estate Analyzer
800-879-6665
www.brentmark.com
Register here!
From the June/July 2006 Review of Estate Planning Systems
For smaller offices, or those with a limited estate planning practice, the Kugler Estate Analyzer provides the essentials in an easy-to-use product that gets the job done with a minimum of fuss. The latest version features a nice library of planning techniques that utilize a building block approach so that estate planning techniques can be stacked on top of each other to show the incremental effect of each technique."
800-879-6665
www.brentmark.com
Register here!
From the June/July 2006 Review of Estate Planning Systems
For smaller offices, or those with a limited estate planning practice, the Kugler Estate Analyzer provides the essentials in an easy-to-use product that gets the job done with a minimum of fuss. The latest version features a nice library of planning techniques that utilize a building block approach so that estate planning techniques can be stacked on top of each other to show the incremental effect of each technique."
Monday, May 22, 2006
CMPnetAsia.com-Grab and hoard
CMPnetAsia.com: "Chase Phillips used to spend up to 100 hours a week writing code for the Firefox browser. Bruce Momjian, a former teacher, manages the e-mail list for contributors to the PostgreSQL database. Brian McCallister spends evenings and weekends working on projects for the Apache Software Foundation. Swedish engineer Peter Lundblad labors over Subversion, a change management system for distributed development, at night 'when the children are sleeping and my wife watches TV.'
This spirit of volunteerism is alive and well in the world of open source software. Thousands of people donate their time and expertise to the benefit of all. But not everyone is giving as much as they're getting. Large companies, those with the greatest wherewithal to help, are surprisingly minor players in the roll-up-your-sleeves work of open source development. "
This spirit of volunteerism is alive and well in the world of open source software. Thousands of people donate their time and expertise to the benefit of all. But not everyone is giving as much as they're getting. Large companies, those with the greatest wherewithal to help, are surprisingly minor players in the roll-up-your-sleeves work of open source development. "
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