Reports: Fundraising

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Reports: Fundraising

  • The 2013 Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits
    April 2013
      How do you choose software for your nonprofit? With so many different types of software on the market, it’s difficult to even know what’s available, let alone what’s best for your organization’s particular needs. That’s why we created the Idealware Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits, a handy reference that covers all the different types of software that might be useful to you—and we just updated it for 2013.

  • A Funders Guide to Supporting Nonprofit Technology: 10 Ways to Build Your Grantees' Technical Savvy
    April 2013
    Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a single project you could fund that would have a positive impact throughout all your grantees’ programs and services?

  • What Every Nonprofit Should Know About Mobile: Lessons from Global Development Nonprofits
    October 2012
    Everybody is talking about mobile these days, and increasingly, people are spending much of their online time accessing the internet through mobile devices. What do small nonprofits need to know about mobile to make sure they're not missing out? To find out, we looked at what big global development organizations were doing successfully with mobile and translated that knowledge to a scale that small- to medium-sized organizations could replicate.

  • The New World of Donor Management Apps for Nonprofits
    October 2012
     

  • The Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide

    October 2011
      UPDATED in October 2011! With more than 750 million people signed up for Facebook alone, there’s little doubt that social media can be a powerful part of most organizations’ communications mix. But what can it be used for—outreach and engagement? Event management? Advocacy? How about fundraising? For many nonprofits, it’s far more obvious that such tools can be useful than how to use them.

  • A Consumers Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems
    June 2011
    Written in partnership with NTEN, this detailed, impartial report walks through the features that might be useful, summarizes and compares 29 different donor management systems that cost $4,000 or less in the first year, and provides detailed reviews of 10

  • Do You Need a New Donor Management System? A Step-by-Step Decision Making Workbook
    March 2011
      Without an effective system to track donors and other constituents, you can spend too much time just trying to figure out who to contact and miss out on many fundraising opportunities. But switching to a new system can be time consuming and sometimes costly. So how do you know if you should switch, or stick with what you have?

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