Category Archives: Nonprofit Technology

3 Social Media Tools to Spice Up Your Online Presence

Social media is a whole different animal than it used to be. It seems as if now, if you don’t have an active social media presence, you’re often forgotten about. Nonprofits already have a hard enough time gaining traction; we

5 Free Ways to Amp Up Your Online Fundraising for #GivingTuesday

Sponsored by Give Lively #GivingTuesday is approaching fast and we want nonprofits to be prepared. We know that many organizations are unable to take full advantage of the digital movement due to the high cost of online fundraising tech. Last year’s

Clearing the Air: 4 Myths That Shouldn’t Keep You From Moving Your HR to the Cloud

Sponsored by HRdirect Smart Apps As a nonprofit professional, you may want (or need) to spend more time and resources on fundraising, outreach and other programs. What if there was a way to free up more time in your day to

Free and Low-Cost Nonprofit Accounting Tools

When your nonprofit stays on the ball about adapting to new tools, it can work to achieve its mission. Part of this comes from good customer relationship management tools, but it can also include day-to-day operational things, like accounting and

Purchasing Nonprofit Software: A Fundraiser’s Guide

Your nonprofit has plenty to keep track of. From organizing donor profiles to implementing fundraising strategies to attending conferences, your mind must be scrambling to remember everything! Don’t bear the whole load yourself. Use software to help you out! Whether

7 Online Donation Tools to Delight Your Donors [Updated]

Online fundraising garners millions in charitable giving for the nonprofit industry every year, but with so many options, it can be difficult to find the right online donation tools for your organization. To make the buying process a little less

Going Viral: Good, Bad or Somewhere In-Between?

Ever since the Internet became widely available, there has been an obsession with “going viral,” or producing content so interesting, or funny or cute that millions upon millions of people view it. It could be (and often has been) videos

Guide to the Best Free Nonprofit Webinars

If you’re involved in the nonprofit world and haven’t been to any good webinars, you’re missing out—big. The webinar format embraces many of the things that make the internet such a great forum for education: Webinars are a low-cost, high-impact

Text-to-Give Fundraising: Making the Most Out of Mobile

Mobile giving is on the rise, and there’s no platform more prevalent than text-to-give. As you can probably infer from its name, text-to-give software enables donors to make contributions by texting your nonprofit. How these platforms work varies by vendor,

Database Tracking 101: No Train, No Gain

Database lesson learned. The first nonprofit I worked for was a business reference library. The primary service was to provide to patrons a set of databases for business research. I knew the most basic information about these databases – namely,