Brian Barela has a great post up called 3 Words to Consider When Fundraising Online. Have you tried to move some of your fundraising online? Or have you seen it done well or poorly? Share your experiences and resources in the comments.
Finally, the project that has consumed my free time can be revealed: Karani, a cloud-based CRM (constituent relationship management) tool for fundraisers. It’s a web app, and it will look great on your computer, phone, or tablet. The word Karani is Swahili, and it means “bookkeeper”, “clerk”, or “steward.” Karani is a tool primed to… Read more
OK, it’s not quite ready to launch today, but the project I’ve been promising will be ready for alpha testing signup by this Thursday. If you’ve never heard of alpha testing, it’s just like beta testing but the product is in an even earlier state. Think Google Wave (flaky but the basics are there), not… Read more
June, the month many ministries end their financial year, just finished, and that might have left many of you making fundraising phone calls more than ever before. If so, this video is a little late, but at least the memory of those calls is fresh in your mind. Fundraising coach Marc Pitman of fundraisingcoach.com has… Read more
The chapter I came on staff with didn’t have much of a history or culture of students giving money to support the ministry or each other. I doubt that that’s really that abnormal; campus ministers are like missionaries in that our financial support doesn’t come from the people we serve, but from others who are… Read more
There are many ways to manage our donor and alumni communications, but few encompass the entirety of our interactions. Contact management software like Outlook and Apple Mail can manage their contact information, our national organizations often manage donation history, and sometimes advanced spreadsheets can allow us to manually manage more detailed information… but many staff… Read more
(Part 1 of a 5-part series: What I Learned From the Industry Experts on Using Facebook Well: An Interview with Michelle Widman of Brandglue) A few weeks ago Michelle Widman, the Project/Community Manager at Brandglue.com, agreed to sit for a phone interview with me. Brandglue is a social media firm that call themselves the “News Feed… Read more
Need a way to keep track of your personal interactions with 100+ ministry supporters? Highrise is a web-based contact management solution that simplifies the administrative aspect of maintaining relationships with donors, alumni, and other partners. Highrise has dozens of flexible features designed for small businesses. For an overview of some of these features, take a… Read more
Are you using MailChimp for your mass email communication? How many times have you had to write down someone’s email address on a scrap of paper just so you can log into MailChimp and add it to your list later? MailChimp offers apps for iPhone and iPad to help you sign-up new subscribers on the… Read more
It can take a lot of planning and organization to do fund-raising and fund development well. None of the myriad solutions available perfectly fit the bill for anyone, and the proverbial wheel ends up being reinvented often. The Fundraising category of Staffhacker aims to help you manage your fundraising/fund development contacts, donations, next actions, finances,… Read more
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