This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Colt Lapham from TicketPrinting.com Overview Every nonprofit knows that fundraisers are critical to their existence.  Without donations, no resources are available to support the primary cause or purpose of the organization.  While most traditional media channels have been ...

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 ...

This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Taylor Robinson from TicketPrinting.com Overview Every nonprofit knows that fundraisers are critical to their existence.  Without donations, no resources are available to support the primary cause or purpose of the organization.  While most traditional media channels have been ...

Michele Martin's post asking readers ''What advice do you have for new bloggers?'' couldn't have come at a better time. Lately, I've been pondering the idea of writing a post about blogging basics for nonprofits but with all the sizable amounts of information available about blogging and advice for new bloggers, I wasn't sure where ...

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 ...

This post has been contributed by Lance Trebesch and Taylor Robinson from TicketPrinting.com 2.  Online Auctions One of the most effective online fundraising tools you can use today is the online auction.  Nonprofits know that auctions are time consuming and difficult to manage, but also very lucrative.  In 2006 alone, more than ...

 Michael Sola is the Director of Information Technology of the Chesapeake Bay Foundation (CBF), a nonprofit dedicated to restoring and protecting the Chesapeake Bay and its tributary rivers. For the past 6 months, Michael Sola has been blogging as part of the organization's larger communications strategy. We caught up with ...

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 ...

Britt Bravo of Have Fun * Do Good has an excellent post about using the social web for social change. In the nonprofit sector, online activism has become much more than sending an email to Congress or making a donation. Organizations today are engaging their constituents to upload pictures, text and videos and share their ...