As everyone who knows me or subscribes to our blog or Twitter feed knows, last week I was uncharacteristically out of the office, attending the Astia program week in San Francisco. Astia, a global non-profit that connects women-led start-ups with funding and business development services, offers a weeklong program of panels, workshops, speakers, extremely fun [...]
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During the past few months, we’ve been in the (strenuous but enjoyable) process of applying to join the 2011 Astia cohort and we were incredibly delighted and honored last week to be asked to join the Astia Portfolio. We’re really looking forward to the 2011 Silicon Valley Entrepreneurs workshop and meeting up with [...]
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Okay, folks, it’s September. Every day from now until January is a day you should be thinking about how best to maximize your holiday fundraising season. Even though in most places it still feels like full summer (or worse- sorry, Texas), you should already be making serious efforts to get your donation page and process [...]
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All right folks, DonationPay has now successfully moved to our new offices in Berkeley California- we’re thrilled to be a part of the Bay Area business community and we’re looking forward to working with more awesome non-profits in the area. Farewell, Seattle, you will be missed- though, the weather. . . not so much. Because [...]
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Viral videos, as a topic of conversation, can leave a bit of an unpleasant taste in my mouth. It’s not that I’m not an avid watcher of all the hilarious, compellingly brief, time-wasting, occasionally heartwarming little snippets out there (because I definitely am), it’s just that the term ‘viral’ no longer seems appropriate. ’Viral’ implies [...]
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Since last week, I’ve been meaning to write a long post about our experience at Netroots Nation last weekend in Minneapolis. And while it’s been edifying to- instead of writing this long and thoughtful blog post- slog through the backlog of work I left behind to attend the conference, I had trouble deciding how to [...]
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We’ll see you there! We’re so excited to be attending the Netroots Nation Conference in Minneapolis this year! Noah and I are both thrilled at the opportunity to engage with other progressive folks from the non-profit sector and to connect with other businesses who are looking to expand the fundraising opportunities for grassroots organizations, [...]
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A month after the (overdue, to say the least) resignation of Hosni Mubarak, I’m still reeling from the incredible display of profound courage on the part of the Egyptian people; their collective action let their tyrannical government – and the world – know that they would not be denied their freedom. One aspect of [...]
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It’s a new year and a new us! This has been a very exciting week here at DonationPay: as you may have noticed, we have a whole new look! We are thrilled with our new logo and the new look of our site and we can’t thank our brilliant designer friends, Jan Olof Nygren and [...]
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For 2011 (and for my DonationPay New Years Resolution #2), I’ll be getting back to our weekly focus on an organization that we work with or love. The Cannon River Watershed Partnership is an organization dedicated to enlisting people in the ongoing effort to improve the water quality and natural systems of the Cannon River [...]
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