Techsoup.org, one of the best non-profit resources online, has suffered an SQL Injection attack. The site was taken down promptly when suspicious activity was identified, but Techsoup account holders and anyone who has visited the site in the past few days are urged to take security precautions immediately. These types of attacks are known to ...

We all know that the Internet is a very public space -- but do we always act that way?  The separate compartments of social networking sites, once isolated in their own little boxes, have created an illusion of privacy where none may exist -- and now those boxes are opening wide. Consider this: Rapleaf alone has created over 50 million ...

A new online search portal just launched by The NonProfit Times, in partnership with internet search company NOZA,  gives nonprofit fundraisers free access to more than 4,300 searchable records of major corporate gifts to U.S. charities valued at $1 million or more. NPTGrantSearch allows users to search by name or by cause, view, and ...

April 27 - May 3, 2008 is National Volunteer Week in both Canada and the United States. The heightened awareness of volunteerism that goes along with such a campaign offers a golden opportunity to celebrate your existing volunteers — and to recruit new volunteers to your organization. Here are a few ideas of how your nonprofit might use the ...

Do you find that the wealth of information online is a mixed blessing? True, almost anything a nonprofit organization might need to know can be discovered on the internet... eventually. On the other hand, information overload can be simply overwhelming. If you work for a nonprofit that's just beginning to investigate taking your show on the ...

As many of you know, November is National Homeless Youth Awareness Month. On November 13, Standup for Kids in LA held a candle light vigil for the 10,000 children who are homeless in the LA area - 79% of them unsheltered, 13 die each day due to physical assault, illness, or suicide. But this was no ordinary candle light vigil. It was the ...

I want to recommend to you a book I just finished reading. The Blogging Church by Brian Bailey and Terry Storch. There was also an interesting interview with Read/Write Web's Sean Ammirati that's worth listening to. After reading the book, I picked up some good tips that I could apply to our blog and some other parts that kinda ...

Laura Quinn from Idealware has two good articles that are worth reading. Behind Closed Web Sites: A Look at Three Nonprofit Intranets - focuses on three nonprofit administrative intranets providing case studies of ONE/ Northwest's wiki intranet, PETA's form-centric intranet, and the sophisticated intranet created by the American Lung ...

        Jason King is a freelance web designer and ICT Trainer who works exclusively with non-profit organizations. He is also the author of the Nonprofit Web Design Blog, providing tips on planning, commissioning, designing and editing charity websites.    In the following interview, we talked ...

Fundraising technology strategist Robert Weiner has put together an excellent article about 10 common mistakes  that can prevent you from selecting the right database and managing it effectively. Even though this article has been written a while back, I thought it would be a good idea to post it again as a reminder and ...