Heritage Designs’ free online tool helps nonprofits draft and implement effective fundraising plans
www.matchmakerfrs.com/fundraising-plan
PHOENIX (Oct. 31, 2011) – Crafting a fundraising plan got a little easier for nonprofits with the help of a Phoenix-based software company’s newest tool. The Fundraising Plan from Heritage Designs is a free tool designed to enable nonprofits to easily create a fundraising plan that will serve as a guide for an organization’s fundraising activities.
Corporate matching gifts occur when an individual makes a charitable contribution and the individual’s employer matches the employee’s gift by sending a contribution to the same nonprofit organization. Corporations will in some cases match an employee’s volunteer hours with a matching gift.
Welcome to MatchTips! MatchTips, a newsletter from MatchMaker FundRaising Software, provides fundraising tips and technology information to nonprofit organizations.
In this issue of MatchTips we discuss creating strategies from social media and fundraising to donor management policies and procedures. In addition, we provide tips for selecting donor database and board management.
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Two nonprofits similar in mission and staff size are using donor management software to track donations and fundraising activities. The first organization has a database full of bad data. Donors are not getting receipts; deceased donors are getting appeal letters. Staff members have not been trained and there is no support. They complain that the software does not work and that they hate the system. The organization is handcuffed when planning their fundraising strategies or tracking their effectiveness. The second organization loves its donor management software. The data is clean, their donors receive accurate mailings, the organization is successfully managing their fundraising activities, and staff love the reports. New personnel are trained on the software before they ever log in and support is available to resolve any problems and questions that come up.
Here’s the kicker: Both nonprofits are using the same software package.
Donor management consists of the policies and procedures a nonprofit develops to manage information regarding its constituents. The constituents may be donors or they may be other groups such as prospective donors or volunteers.
I am on a number of LinkedIn groups that are primarily concerned with nonprofits and fundraising. Recently on one of the groups there was a lot of discussion about the selection of a fundraising/donor management software package. To be honest, I was amazed by the outpouring.
Buzz words come and go for various reasons. I guess that is why they call them “buzz” words. Popular one minute and gone the next. One buzz word I wish would fly off into the great unknown is the word sustainability as it relates to nonprofits. The rough definition of sustainability is the capacity to endure (thank you Wikipedia). Why are nonprofits content to just build capacity to endure? Continue reading
I have become a Criminal Minds and CSI junkie. Some of the stories are horrific and emotionally brutal. For me, it is all about the puzzle – putting the pieces together. I love watching the story unfold and the solution come together; even though some of the stuff portrayed is pretty gruesome. I also love who-done-it novels for the same reason; solving the puzzle.
I just had an interesting conversation with a co-worker in my office. We market MatchMaker FundRaising Software to a wide-range of nonprofit organizations. The result is that we work with a very diverse group of end-users.
Welcome to MatchTips! MatchTips, a newsletter from MatchMaker FundRaising Software, provides fundraising tips and technology information to nonprofit organizations.
In this issue of MatchTips we discuss recent studies conducted on women in philanthropy and technology use in nonprofit organizations. In addition, we provide tips for fundraising, board management and e-mail campaigns.
