Five Tips to Make the Most of Your Next Nonprofit Software Demo
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...
Are Big Changes on the Way for Nonprofits Using Salesforce ?!?
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)....
Oscar’s Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Software Selection Process
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...
A (Very) Last-Minute Plan for #GivingTuesday!
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...
