''As a donor to charity, what do we nonprofits do that irritates you? What’s caused you to stop giving to a charity?'' Marc Pitman asked the tough questions on LinkedIn, a social-networking site with a business/professional focus where the demographic is likely to be a close match for many nonprofits’ donors.  And the answers are very ...

When your nonprofit sends out its next fundraising direct mail appeal, how many potential donors will be heading to the Internet before they decide if they want to donate? The number of people checking out your organization online may be higher than you think! According to a new study by The NonProfit Times, the number of potential donors ...

How easy do you think it should be to make a charitable donation?  Getting a charity to accept your money might not be quite as easy as you'd think — if the charity's website is designed to meet its own needs, that is, rather than the needs of the people who visit and use the site. Here's an example: When an acquaintance passed away ...

This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Taylor Robinson from TicketPrinting.com 4a. Wiki Pages A “wiki” is a website that can be easily edited by its users.  The most popular wiki today is Wikipedia which is an online encyclopedia where people from all over the word update and add information.  However, wiki pages can be ...

It's crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to take advantage of the holiday giving season. If you don't have a plan in place yet, no worries. This guide from Care2's Eric Rardin and Heather Holdridge, along with Mark Rovner and Sarah Haug of Sea Change Strategies, ''A Procrastinator's Guide to Year-End Fundraising'' will give you a crash ...

Network for Good released a new report called The Wired Fundraiser: How technology is making fundraising 'good to go'. The report written by Katya Andresen and Stacie Mann covers what happens when people with a cause take it to cyberspace; why marketers and fundraisers like us should care; and what we should do about the phenomenon. The full ...

  Tim Fullerton is the Online Communications Lead for Oxfam America, an organization committed to creating lasting solutions to poverty, hunger and injustice. In the following interview, Tim and I talk about the use of social networking sites MySpace to reach out to people, build a community and recruit new activists and donors. ...

In this Mini-Case Study, we interview Priscilla Christian and highlight La Habra High School Alumni Association as a very special project.   Priscilla Christian, Vice Chairwoman and Webmaster La Habra High School Alumni Association   Priscilla serves as Vice Chairwoman and Webmaster. Over the last 20 years she has ...

Non-profits organizations using Facebook can now launch a social-networking-based fundraising drive for their cause, promote it to their friends and network, and raise money. That in a nutshell is what a new mini-application within Facebook called Causes is all about. Launched by Project Agape, this new service extends the “group” features and ...

  A couple of weeks ago, I attended a Flickr session at the Non-Profit Technology Conference. A common question asked was “How can we use Flickr to reach new audiences?”   A lot of nonprofits have started using Flickr to increase their visibility online. Flickr has become a popular social media tool because it allows ...