Solutions for Non-Profits
Convio, Inc. (NASDAQ: CNVO) announced the release of its third annual ranking of Most Generous Online Cities. Alexandria, VA, Cambridge, MA and Arlington, VA, topped the list for the second year in a row as the nation’s most generous large cities based on online giving in 2010. The biggest movers in the top 10 are San Francisco, moving up 5 places to number seven; Minneapolis, falling five places to number 10; and Seattle, moving up two places to number four.
Blackbaud, Inc. (Nasdaq: BLKB) has announced that it has hired Richard Becker as president of Target Analytics, a Blackbaud company offering solutions for donor acquisition, prospect research, benchmarking, custom modeling, and data enrichment to more than 6,000 nonprofits. Target Analytics is the only company that provides a comprehensive solution which helps nonprofits replenish their donor pool, identify best prospects, provide peer-to-peer comparisons, and ensure a nonprofit’s information is as accurate as possible.
Sage North America has announced that a student edition for its Sage Fund Accounting nonprofit financial management software is shipping with a new textbook, titled Government and Not-For-Profit Accounting Concepts and Practices (5th Edition). Published by John Wiley & Sons, Inc., the textbook is currently being used or evaluated by dozens of U.S. colleges and universities, including Regis University in Denver, Colo.; the University of Houston in Houston, Texas; the University of Maryland in College Park, Md.; and The University of Texas at Austin (Texas).
With over 500 million users, Facebook is the undisputed king of social media. Many users are now turning to Facebook first to learn about businesses and organizations. So, how can a non-profit make the most of Facebook?
According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy a new survey shows that most people learned how to help Haiti via the television.
The Phoenix Business Journal is reporting that mGive Foundation is working with the GetLisa Information Service to bring mobile giving to subscribers.
The way we communicate has changed radically in the past couple of decades. The advent of the answering machine alone was revolutionary. The fax was the next big thing, allowing us to transmit written information practically instantaneously. Then came email. Again, this mode of communication was nothing less than revolutionary! Things are still changing, of course, with text messaging becoming increasingly useful, and “Facebook” being used as a verb.
The mGive Foundation (www.mgive.org), the leading 501(c)(3) public charity supporting U.S. mobile donation campaigns, today announced it has partnered with GetLisa Information Services to provide regional-area wireless subscribers with the capability to participate in mobile giving campaigns – a first in the regional wireless industry.
The potential of mobile giving, which helped raise more than $41 million for Haiti disaster relief, will be examined with a new study by the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, along with The mGive Foundation and the Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project.
According to the Seattle Post Intelligencer employees of Microsoft US donated over $96 million dollars to charity.