by Maureen Wallbeoff | Aug 19, 2019 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Fundraising, Technology
Unless you’ve been in a social media blackout, you’ve heard about the phenomenon that is Facebook Fundraising. Lots of nonprofit organizations have been using this channel to raise a ton of support for their missions. Doing this right takes time, and...
by Maureen Wallbeoff | Aug 18, 2019 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Fundraising, Salesforce, Technology
Annie is the marketing manager for an arts and culture nonprofit organization. She spent months looking at different options for a new database that could manage their fundraising, ticket sales, special events, and gift shop sales. But once she’d looked at three...
by Christine Cadalzo | Aug 18, 2019 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Fundraising, Salesforce, Technology
Salesforce Nonprofit Success Pack, or SF NPSP, has taken the nonprofit world by storm. Everywhere I go IRL and online, nonprofit leaders are doing the “should we or shouldn’t we” dance about this CRM (constituent relationship management system)....
by Maureen Wallbeoff | Nov 28, 2018 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Case Study, Fundraising, Technology
If you’re like me, you probably belong to several nonprofit-oriented social media groups, discussion forums, and listservs. These communities provide a much-needed space for conversations and advice about the many things that pop up on the regular in the life of a...
by Maureen Wallbeoff | Nov 15, 2018 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Fundraising
It’s enough to make any development manager crawl right back into bed. “I want you to run an end-of-year campaign,” my colleague James’ boss had just told him. “We also need to do something on Giving Tuesday.” You know… Giving Tuesday? The big nonprofit fundraising...
by Maureen Wallbeoff | Aug 8, 2018 | Accidental Techie, Blog Post, Fundraising, Technology
This blog post from a few weeks ago hit a nerve in the nonprofit space – I’ve received lots of follow up questions and comments about whether (or not) you should tell your supporters that you’re moving to a new system. One of the follow up chats was...
