Tag Archives: fundraising

HelpAttack and End of the Year Giving

HelpAttack!, a new Austin-based start-up, offers nonprofit organizations the opportunity to collect year-end gifts through Twitter. The online service allows social media users the ability to give to their favorite philanthropic causes, simply by updating their social status online. Online fundraising is the most rapidly growing way for nonprofits to receive funds from individuals. According to Convio, 35-42 percent of ...

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The Salvation Army introduces Mobile Bell Ringers

This looks really good from a tech perspective. Talk about Friend 2 Friend fundraising! Let me know if anyone finds a good video demo on this. What do you think? Interested in using it? The Salvation Army Tidewater Area Command today announced that it will launch a Mobile Bell Ringer campaign. The campaign is the first of its kind, and ...

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Join my Movember Team!

Some of you may remember that last year, a bunch of us Austinites teamed up against some Bostonians to raise awareness and help fight prostate and testicular cancer during the month of November. The end result of our Movember campaign was a 50 person team with over $18,000 in donations. This year, we’re hoping to make it bigger… five times ...

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The Future of Field based Fundraising Staff?

Now I try and remain vendor agnostic but this was a great demo of very cool software from the folks at BlackBaud. Of course how much would an ipad cost for each of your fundraising folks? But would that be worth the investment if it was their full time work machine?

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