NonProfit PRO

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Vanguard Charitable launched Grant Payments with PayPal, enabling charities to receive funds from grantmakers faster and more easily. The initiative addresses the long-standing use of physical checks in charitable grantmaking, a method hampered by mail delays and administrative burdens for receiving charities.

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Blackbaud

MARCH 3, 2025

In the nonprofit sector, both time and money are always limited so you have to strike the right balance between mission-oriented activities and backend operations. Some nonprofits had to drive printed checks around town collecting signatures, while others had already transitioned most of their vendors to electronic and automatic payments.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2025

Many nonprofits seem to focus too much on meeting their revenue goals, which of course is important. These cards can be generated electronically, if its not feasible to write them. Remember this Building relationships is just as important as raising money. Thanking donors is something you can do at any time of the year.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 9, 2024

Keeping things simple is important for your nonprofit organization, too. Use short paragraphs, especially for electronic communication, and include lots of white space. Make it easier for your nonprofit and your donors by keeping things simple. Also, it’s not good for your brain to multitask. Fundraising numbers are down.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

OCTOBER 19, 2023

Most nonprofits rely on year-end for the bulk of their fundraising. Send your donors a Happy Thanksgiving message, preferably by mail, but an electronic message is fine. Week of December 4 Start making reminder calls, along with sending electronic messages. Others will see your email message but prefer to send a check.

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GrantNews

APRIL 21, 2025

Grants for Nonprofit Growth aren’t just a talking point, they’re your next strategic move. Think of GrantWatch as your 2025 Grant Game Book , packed with the plays you need to secure flexible, high-impact nonprofit funding. Environmental and Social Initiatives Grants to nonprofits for environmental and social initiatives.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Environmental media star Annie Leonard and the Story of Stuff Project have impressed us here at TechSoup as one of the most creative and effective nonprofit environmental education projects that we've ever seen, and to our delight they are coming out with a new free online video called the Story of Electronics.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2024

How does your nonprofit organization compete with all this? You can see how easy it is for your electronic messages to get lost in the shuffle. While you’ll likely use electronic communication pretty regularly, don’t discount direct mail. We get far less postal mail than electronic communication. It’s a lot!

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JANUARY 27, 2025

In this post, Ill tell you why monthly giving is important for your nonprofit, how to start or grow your program, and how to nurture it going forward. Many nonprofits start out communicating regularly with their monthly donors and then disappear after a couple of months. In short, you need to go all in on monthly giving.

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GrantNews

MARCH 24, 2025

Power Up Your Nonprofit with foundation grants! With fewer restrictions, they provide nonprofits with greater flexibility in how funds are allocated. Additionally, foundation grants are available for nonprofits, businesses, and individuals at both national and international levels.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

AUGUST 23, 2023

Your nonprofit organization needs to share stories using all these forms. Good visuals will enhance both your print and electronic communication. You can tell a story with words, pictures, and videos. I prefer written stories, but others are drawn to videos. Sharing stories will help you connect with your donors.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 3, 2015

Wouldn't it be nice if you could donate some of those used electronic devices cluttering up your home or office and know exactly what they are worth for your tax deduction? At launch, the Sage BlueBook has 30 categories of electronics and 11 million items in its database. How Sage Knows What Your Electronics Are Worth.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 23, 2024

The remedy I like to recommend is the 5 C’s of good nonprofit communication. Nonprofit organizations like to pack a lot of information into their monthly/quarterly newsletters and impact reports, but many donors won’t read something if it looks like it will be too long. Are you having trouble with your donor engagement? Is it Clear?

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DoJiggy

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Data privacy is a critical issue for businesses and organizations of all sizes, including nonprofits. Donors trust nonprofits with their personal and financial information, and it is the responsibility of these organizations to protect that trust. Emails : Digital addresses used for electronic communication and newsletters.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Last week, the Sacramento Bee newspaper published an account of a very prominent electronics recycler, Electronics Recyclers International (ERI), that has been a leader in advocating for responsible environmental practices, while at the same time dumping lots of electronic junk overseas. read more.

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DoJiggy

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

Nonprofit organizations are constantly seeking innovative ways to engage with donors and streamline the fundraising process. In this article, we will define digital wallets , how they work, and why they are crucial for nonprofit fundraising. Digital wallets enable users to make electronic transactions, often as a one-touch payment.

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GrantNews

JANUARY 21, 2025

Verified business grant s are available for industries like agriculture, electronic manufacturing, mental wellness, green building initiatives, environmental services, and more. By navigating a nonprofits 990 reports grant-seekers can quickly determine if a grant is suited for their project. So why not explore grants today?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 19, 2011

GreenTech has covered the annual Consumer Electronics Show in the past since many nonprofits (especially smaller ones) often buy consumer-grade products rather than enterprise- or business-grade. Around the time of the show, the Consumer Electronics Association (CEA) released its CEA 2010 Sustainability Report.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

MAY 20, 2024

We don’t use postal mail as much anymore and many nonprofits are a part of that group. Direct mail is more personal and your donors are more likely to see something they receive in the mail, as opposed to any type of electronic message you send. Electronic communication is good, but communicating by mail is better.

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Pamela Grow

JUNE 6, 2024

After all, donors are unlikely to feel valued if they receive the same AI-created email from every nonprofit they support. Thank-you emails are a staple of most nonprofits’ appreciation strategies, and you can elevate yours with eCards. Send eCards. When supporters give, send an eCard to thank them for their gift. Anniversaries.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Thanking your donors should be a priority for your nonprofit organization. Your donors have the option to give to countless nonprofit organizations, but they chose yours. Electronic thank yous aren’t good enough. Yet, many nonprofits are skittish about spending too much on mailing costs. Is that the case?

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GrantNews

MARCH 6, 2025

Whether you’re an academic institution, nonprofit, business, or individual innovator, GrantWatch makes it easy to access the latest grants to support your work. Eligible engineering majors include aerospace, computer, electrical, and electronics engineering. “Engineering is essential for advancing technology.

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The NonProfit Times

JANUARY 7, 2025

Television advertising executives have launched AdGood, a Thousand Oaks, California, nonprofit intended to provide low-cost ads to charities via connected TV (CTV). The idea is to get unused ad space from CTV publishers to nonprofits. The announcement came during the Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

OCTOBER 23, 2024

Most nonprofits rely on year-end for the bulk of their fundraising. Fundraising experts are mixed on whether elections affect nonprofit donations. Send your donors a Happy Thanksgiving message, preferably by mail, but an electronic message is fine. You could also include a text to give option and send reminders by text.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

OCTOBER 4, 2023

Make your donor’s day with a handwritten thank you note I love it when a nonprofit sends a handwritten thank you note. Remember, even though your online donors will get an electronic acknowledgment, they should still get thanked by mail or phone. If that’s too hard, don’t wait much longer than a week.

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NonProfit PRO

MAY 7, 2024

The Internal Revenue Service encouraged tax-exempt organizations to file their taxes electronically by May 15.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 29, 2022

PayPal announced Grant Payments, a new product that enables donor-advised fund (DAF) sponsors, community foundations, and other grantmakers to deliver grants to charities quickly and electronically via PayPal.

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Center for Major Gifts

NOVEMBER 14, 2024

More and more nonprofits are monthly giving societies, clubs, and programs. By focusing on automatic electronic funds transfers (ETFs), your donors will provide you with a reliable income stream to help bolster your general operating fund. by nonprofit organizations, it’s important to do whatever you can to retain existing donors.

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NonProfit PRO

OCTOBER 10, 2021

I hear too many speeches, sit in too many meetings and receive too many communications (written and electronic) where the author starts off by building the case and then finally gets to the reason for building it. This tactic will confuse your major donor.

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Ann Green's Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2024

It may be quieter at your nonprofit, but you don’t want to be too quiet and ignore your donors. Make your donor’s day with a handwritten thank you card Nonprofit organizations don’t thank their donors enough. Communicating by mail is more effective than electronic communication. It’s summer! Just do it and do it often.

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Wild Apricot

DECEMBER 21, 2008

Last year, social bookmarking site Reddit partnered up to raise over $3,000 for the Electronic Frontier Foundation (EFF.org), a non-profit selected by the website’s users to benefit from the fund-raising drive. This year, they’re trying something different — raising volunteers instead of cash.

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Planned Giving

JANUARY 25, 2024

2023 was another tough year in the nonprofit industry. Nonprofits are still struggling to recover from 2022’s 10.5 Only about 1 percent of all nonprofits utilize a planned giving program. Add it all up, and it paints a grim picture for many nonprofits’ futures—except for that 1 percent. percent drop in donations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2015

InterConnection is TechSoup's nonprofit refurbishment partner for our Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) , providing reliable, warrantied computers and tablets to U.S. nonprofits, churches, and libraries at the lowest possible cost. Murray, who declared April 11 to be Seattle Electronics Reuse Day.

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

Read up on "ingestible" electronic pills, cloud storage price wars, how the Star Trek Tricorder has come to life, and more. Electronic Pills: Coming Soon to a Stomach Near You. The ingestible sends an electronic signal to a band aid-like patch on the patient’s skin recording that the patient took the pill.

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Selfish Giving

DECEMBER 6, 2011

Radio Shack reminds me of a lot of the local, scrappy nonprofits I work with. Such success from a company who’s CEO once admitted that he had no idea how the electronics store chain stayed in business. Now Radio Shack really sounds like a lot of the nonprofits I work with! But how can this be?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

This year the award went to Nancy Jo Craig who runs the nonprofit Capital Area Corporate Recycling Council (CACRC) in Baton Rouge, Louisiana. A short time after she took over a small troubled computer refurbishment nonprofit - hurricane Katrina hit. It was not an easy road for Nancy. To be sure, Nancy Jo Craig is an accomplished woman.

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Blackbaud

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Many nonprofits struggle to maximize their data usage. In fact, when surveyed, 97% of nonprofit professionals expressed an interest in learning how to use their data more effectively, and only 5% reported using data in every decision they make. Understand individual patient health within the context of population health trends.

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