^^My mom, Judy, and sister, Ellie, at a fundraising event for The Seasons Performance Hall, where my mother is the volunteer coordinator and Ellie is the director of operations. Well, I meant to post this in time for Mother’s Day, but as with everything this month, I’m running a couple of days behind. Recently, [...]
So often, we’re incredibly impressed and moved by the great work our clients are doing; as Mother’s Day is coming up, I wanted to bring to your attention a great campaign by Every Mother Counts, a hard-working organization dedicated to improving maternal health care. Every Mother Counts has produced a video that calls for action [...]
In my previous post, I covered the two basic types of donation processing available for non-profits. Once you’ve decided how you’d like to process donations, the question is: with who? There are lots of service providers in the market and all services are a little bit different; of course I’d love it if all non-profits [...]
The credit card and payment processing industry can seem needlessly complicated and impossible to navigate, especially to non-profit organizations, who generally have more important stuff on their minds. There are two basic types of payment processing your organization can do on your website and I thought it would be helpful to draw some clear distinctions [...]
I’m not proud of this, but I’m obsessed with the Proust Questionnaire feature on the back page of Vanity Fair. Made famous by the responses from Proust at various ages throughout his life (I prefer age 20 to age 13, for the record), the questionnaire is a smart little treat. It’s a perfect coda to [...]
Being an extremely avid reader, I spend much of my time out of the office with my nose firmly planted in a book. While my recreational reading tastes run toward contemporary fiction (in case you’re curious, this year my favorites were Freedom, Swamplandia!, A Visit From The Goon Squad, The Marriage Plot, The Tiger’s Wife and The [...]
(photo credit: TheMiddleShelf.com) As we’re all headed off for the annual collective pig-out, I thought I’d send you off for the long weekend with 5 quick ways to really make your donors feel appreciated. 1.) Make it Personal No ‘Dear Donor’ or ‘Dear Giver’ or ‘Dear Friend’- use their name, the specific amount and [...]
This week, we’ll take a look at some of our clients who are offering membership options on their DonationPay pages. Enjoy!
A quick look at how some of our clients- the Diabetes Foundation, Cancer Support East Tennessee, the Georgia Conservancy- are using DonationPay to collect payment and registration info for events. Enjoy!
While I was participating in the Astia Program Week this October, I had the pleasure of seeing a presentation about the importance of social media to growing businesses, by the dynamic and crazy-knowledgeable Rachel Masters, co-founder of Red Magnet Media. Red Magnet offers digital strategy, business development, digital marketing and community management for creative brands [...]
