Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2012

Here at TechSoup, we’re big on empowering nonprofits and libraries to make smart do-it-yourself technology choices since we know time, staff, and money are all limited resources. In 2008 she decided to integrate blogging into her organization’s overall communications plan.

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CauseVox

MARCH 31, 2021

Speaker : Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008. Mark previously served as director of IT consulting at a fundraising event production company focused on nonprofits. For more than 17 years, Mark has supported hundreds of nonprofit online fundraising efforts.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 27, 2025

Its no secret that effective fundraising fuels your nonprofits workbut not all of the donations that may be useful to your nonprofit are necessarily monetary. Knowing this amount is important for accurately tracking your nonprofits donation revenue in your financial records. Your nonprofits network. Lets dive in!

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 8, 2024

We have not done any funding-related layoffs since the 2008 crash. Instead, we reserve our unrestricted and individual giving funds to cover the essential costs of running programs that grants don’t fully cover — so we can stay out of the “starvation cycle” that many grants can put nonprofits into. Your Voice Matters!

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GrantNews

AUGUST 29, 2024

Walking became the State Exercise of Maryland on October 1, 2008. thefactsite.com, “ Facts About Maryland “) Community and Economic Development Grants for the State of Maryland Grants to eligible Maryland nonprofits and government agencies for program-support/emergency-assistance. It weighed a whopping 305.18

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Penelope Burk

AUGUST 3, 2021

Looking at annual results over that forty-year period, giving was up in thirty-seven of those years, declining only three times [2] , and none of those declines can be blamed on fundraisers (1987 stock market crash, 2008 sub-prime mortgage debacle and associated crash into a recession; 2009 continuing recession.)

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

At TechSoup, we’re always interested in how nonprofits cleverly solve IT problems. We decided to upgrade the Childnet Results Manager from a local area network based system using Microsoft Access to a web-based system using Microsoft SharePoint 2010, backed with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 on Windows Server 2008.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. The organization got started when a group of Kenyan bloggers led by Erik Hersman began doing online mapping of violence reports after the 2008 Kenyan election. New Ushahidi Services for Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2014

Americans of all ages donate their time to schools, churches, hospitals, and other local nonprofits in an effort to improve their. There has been an increase in volunteering over the last decade, which may be driven by an increased demand for volunteers from nonprofit organizations. While many of these new nonprofits may be.

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Double the Donation

JUNE 10, 2021

Peer-to-peer campaigns are a key part of many nonprofits’ fundraising strategies. He previously served as director of IT consulting at a fundraising event production company focused on nonprofits. Cathexis Partners helps nonprofits use technology to raise funds and engage supporters more effectively.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

The presidential election is set for November 5, and the good news for fundraisers and nonprofit marketers is that elections don’t tend to hurt charitable giving. In fact, charitable giving increased in nine of the past 10 election years — the only exception being the Great Recession year of 2008.

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Selfish Giving

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Single handedly the pinup has raised hundreds of thousands of dollars for my nonprofit! To read about the development of our Halloween Town pinup program the past few years, check out: Countdown to Halloween Town: The Power of Pinups (2008 Program). And we’re convinced it’s not something unique to our nonprofit.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2009

Convio has released a new online fundraising benchmark report that is based on data from 600 of Convio's nonprofit clients from January 1, 2008 to December 31, 2008. in 2007 and 2008. The study reports: Positive year-over-year growth in all of the key areas of online success.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 12, 2009

The first from Philanthropy Action , has the depressing title, " Social Networking and Mid-Size Nonprofits: What's the Use? " The survey is based on responses from about 200 mid-sized nonprofits (defined as having revenues between $1 and $5 million annually) between July 2008 and March 2009.

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Selfish Giving

AUGUST 1, 2017

How Velvet's support for Pelotonia has grown since they got involved in 2008. Velvet's decision to release a new package featuring the Pelotonia logo and to donate 25 cents from the sale of every carton to the nonprofit. The individuals and companies that power Pelotonia. How consumers and employees have responded to the promotion.

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The Fundraising Coach

JUNE 16, 2020

When we entered the pandemic lockdown here in the United States, nonprofits were rightly concerned about potentially plummeting donations. I've fundraised through a number of downturns (the dot com bust in the late 90s, the downturn following 9/11, and the 2008 housing bust) and through a number of disasters (hurricanes, flooding, etc.).

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Selfish Giving

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

And for that I think we all owe a debt of thanks to the blogging platform Posterous , which launched in July 2008. I liked Posterous so much I used it as the platform to launch the blog for my nonprofit and have continued to be impressed. Check out my nonprofit’s blog as I’ve been experimenting with different media.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

Here goes … My experience in the nonprofit sector started a little differently than most. In the early part of 2000, I was working for a large engineering company, SAIC , when I was approached by two coworkers about setting up a technology nonprofit. We had distributed more than 25,000 computers to 1,000+ nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2017

digital inclusion, is certainly one of the leading nonprofit PC refurbishers. PCs for People is a large nonprofit refurbishment program headquartered in Saint Paul, Minnesota. In 2008, volunteer Casey Sorensen became PCs for People's first executive director. PCs for People, as a leader in U.S. Here is its story.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 28, 2022

Mark Becker, Founding Partner at Cathexis Partners – Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions. Create impactful messaging.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2010

Convio released their 2010 Online Nonprofit Benchmark Study in March, based on results from nearly 500 clients. 69% of the organizations they looked at raised more online in 2009 than in 2008, while 31% raised less. More than half of the nonprofits that reported the size of their average online gifts saw decreases in gift size.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

The nonprofit e-Stewards standard and certification is widely regarded as the most rigorous program for electronics recyclers in the world. The documents show that as recently as 2008 ERI was quietly selling large volumes of e-waste to a Los Angeles exporter who shipped it to Hong Kong. Much of it was labeled as reusable electronics.

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Selfish Giving

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Check out this post I wrote in 2008 that hightlights the reasons not to be afraid of Halloween cause marketing. Also, if your nonprofit or business is hosting a Halloween fundraiser this year I’d love to hear about it! Here’s the summary: Consumer Holidays + Retailers = Great Cause Marketing.

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The Fundraising Coach

APRIL 8, 2025

In times like these – well, we’ve never seen one person evaporate $10 trillion in wealth – but from our experience fundraising in the past recessions – the dot com bust of the late ’90s, the fallout of the 2008, even the lockdowns – donors like to donate. Except this one nonprofit leader.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2009

Well, time to get out your most awesomely-designed (yes, I did type MOST awesomely-designed) campaign materials and enter the 2009 Adobe Show Your Impact Nonprofit Design Contest ! And we'll be hosting a free webinar with Evergreen — a 2008 runner-up for their materials promoting woop (worm poop!) Check it out! read more.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

In our quest to build a solid foundation for nonprofits and libraries to understand how cloud computing is likely to affect us, we have now completed our GreenTech Initiative Green Side of Cloud Computing campaign. Our final offering of the campaign is an article entitled Cloud Basics for Nonprofits and Libraries.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Ya see, TechSoup is a nonprofit. I've spent my whole adult career working for nonprofits that I believe do pretty darn good jobs of serving the needs of their communities, providing valuable services, advocating and educating on behalf of important policy decisions, and do all around good work for the world. And I'll explain why.

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Grant Professionals Association

MAY 15, 2024

Since establishing her consultancy in 2008, she has raised over $76 million in grant funding for social change organizations dedicated to racial and economic justice. With an MBA from San Francisco State University, Christine actively contributes to GPA’s Finance Committee and is a proud member of the People’s Nonprofit Accelerator.

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Tech Soup

JULY 5, 2012

After foundation endowments and many corporations were battered by the 2008 recession, the buzz moved away from grantseeking as a viable long-term income source. Susan is an accomplished writer who specializes in helping nonprofits succinctly tell their stories.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2012

New to TechSoup — the Adobe Foundation's Nonprofit Training Program provides a series of donated online training courses for Dreamweaver, InDesign, or Photoshop to nonprofit staff. Evergreen and International Rivers were runners-up in the 2008 Show Your Impact contest. Online Training Products.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2009

While it appears to be aimed at businesses (the tracks are called Business to Business and Business to Consumer), the topics look relevant to nonprofits, in my opinion. The keynote presentation by David Plouffe, Barack Obama's 2008 Presidential Campaign Manager, is titled The Art of the Possible: Online Branding Strategies and Tactics.

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Selfish Giving

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

That’s almost 40% more than 2008. Are you planning a cause marketing program for your nonprofit? Moreover, these results put them on track to raise one million dollars for the hospital in just six years. Ocean State’s tag line is The Home of Adventure Shopping.

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 6, 2010

During the years my nonprofit had large teams in the Boston Marathon we recruited sponsors for marathon cheering sections based on our access to the course and the halo we enjoyed as a charity. Check out these two posts I wrote in 2007 and 2008. A determined nonprofit and a sponsor like New Balance could definitely make it happen.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 6, 2010

The environmental nonprofit, Greenpeace International , made a big splash in the green IT world this week by launching a new policy campaign to measure the energy efficiency of the data centers that power cloud computing differently than in the past. Their new campaign coincides with the launch of the new cloud device, the Apple iPad.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Achieve leverages technology in everything it does to cost-effectively help the nonprofit organizations it works with. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 25, 2013

" He was initiated into the world of GrantStation through that endeavor and joined the team in July of 2008. Connecting a nonprofit with funding has become a real point of enjoyment for him as he updates and develops new looks and features for the website.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

For instance, 2006 saw a surge in corporate giving , while the recession year of 2008 had a gloomy giving outlook. Since 2008 corporate philanthropy has either been flat with no increase in giving or modestly increased, almost exactly corresponding to the growth patterns of the U.S. percent in 2012. How To Get Corporate Philanthropy.

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