The holiday season is a time of fluffy white snow, hot cocoa, fresh-baked cookies, bright and shiny Christmas lights and… All-consuming, havoc-wreaking, nightmare-causing STRESS. It seems counter-intuitive, doesn’t it? Such a beautiful season is wrought with so much anxiety, especially when you’re involved in fundraising. Well, believe it or not, it is possible….. Read more »
Have you ever noticed that when you enter a new constituent address into ResultsPlus, the city, state, and county automatically appear when you enter a ZIP code? If not, we’ve got some great news for you. The option to ‘Default city, state, county from zip code’ is found in the User Settings area of the….. Read more »
If you’ve been using your donor management software primarily as a mailing list, where you also happen to archive donors’ giving history, perhaps it’s time to take it to the next level. Maybe you aren’t particularly math-oriented, and the idea of interpreting all that data is overwhelming and intimidating. Perhaps you’ve been doing the same….. Read more »
By Jack Karako, Founding Principal and Strategist at IMPACTism Even though donor retention seems to be the hot topic of discussion in the nonprofit world, donor acquisition still deserves proper thought and attention. How can you retain donors if you don’t acquire any? While donor acquisition isn’t a quick process and should definitely be approached….. Read more »
One of the biggest giving days of the year is approaching fast: Giving Tuesday. Giving Tuesday, which takes place on the first Tuesday following Thanksgiving, was founded in 2012 by the 92nd Street Y and the United Nations Foundation as a response to the massive amount of consumerism that takes place on Cyber Monday and….. Read more »
Microsoft has been promoting upgrades to their new Windows 10 in a big way. They are offering it as a limited-time free upgrade to qualified Windows 7 and Windows 8.1 users, and this may be getting people to consider it sooner than they might otherwise. New computers are coming with Windows 10 installed, though some….. Read more »
We are very excited to be attending the LeadingAge Annual Meeting and Expo in Boston on November 1-4 as first-time exhibitors! We believe in the importance of providing quality donor management software to nonprofit aging services organizations in order to help them increase their fundraising success so they can continue to provide quality care to….. Read more »
Don’t you just love “buy one, get one free” sales? You can go into a store, pick out a pair of shoes you like, and walk out with two pairs of brand new kicks. Matching gift programs are exactly like those sales. You put in the work to get a contribution from a donor,….. Read more »
Anyone currently using EventsPlus should know by now that support for this legacy special event management application will soon be ending. That may be unsettling for those who prefer things to stay as they are, but with most change also comes new opportunity. In this case, the new Projects area of ResultsPlus is the new….. Read more »
We talk a lot about utilizing your nonprofit CRM/donor management software to its full potential and making sure you’re taking advantage of all the features available to you, but we also understand that many of our readers may not have transitioned to using donor management software to track donor data yet. If you’re still using….. Read more »