Yearly Archives: 2010

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Buckle up! Study Reveals that 22% of Online Giving Occurs in the Last 2 Days of the Year

Posted on December 28, 2010 by jitender

The question is not whether your Nonprofit should be set up to receive online donations but how do you make the most of online donations. How do you increase donations and create loyal donors from an online donation event?

Posted in Nonprofit Fundraising, nonprofit technology, Nonprofit Web Design, online fundraising | 2 Comments

WordPress Event Registration Plugin – Updated!

Posted on December 22, 2010 by Timothy Spell

NonprofitCMS utilizes a robust WordPress Event Registration plugin.  The plugin, which is quite awesome in our opinion, does just about anything related to setting up and managing events.  This plugin can turn your WordPress website into a fully powered event …

Posted in WordPress | Tagged event registration, wordpress plugin | 5 Comments

WordPress Map Plugin

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Timothy Spell

NonprofitCMS has released a WordPress Map plugin perfect for global nonprofit organizations wishing to display their word wide presence in a custom designed way. This map plugin integrates smoothly with the WordPress CMS using short codes and lets you manage …

Posted in WordPress | Tagged WordPress, wordpress plugin | 3 Comments

WordPress Donate Plugin

Posted on December 20, 2010 by Timothy Spell

The NonprofitCMS WordPress Donate Plugin allows you to create unlimited donation campaigns, capture donor information in WordPress, export information to excel and gives a donation thermometer for each campaign! The Donate Plugin integrates smoothly with WordPress and uses PayPal IPN …

Posted in WordPress | Tagged donate, paypal, WordPress, wordpress plugin | 38 Comments

Creating Satisfied Donors is NOT Enough

Posted on December 13, 2010 by jitender

Executive Director Jane received a large donation that gives her organization a real boost.  She met the donor, did the dog-and-pony-show, and put the donor on the mailing list.  And yet, a few years later she read that her donor …

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Getting Your Nonprofit Website in Shape

Posted on December 3, 2010 by jitender

…your fancy new website is just like the fancy new workout equipment that you got for Christmas last year. Almost a year later, your recumbent bicycle now serves nicely as a catch-all for dirty clothes, magazines, and mail.

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WordPress Membership Module for Non-Profits

Posted on November 29, 2010 by Timothy Spell

NonprofitCMS uses and develops off of a membership module for organizations wishing to collect member dues online and restrict access to their website. Below are some of the features included in the module: Manage Members Create unlimited membership plans like …

Posted in WordPress | Tagged membership | 2 Comments

1 page web design for non-profit

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Timothy Spell

Coastal States recently approached us to create a simple 1 page website. While there is no real ‘simple’ project in web design, we knew we had the opportunity to over deliver and exceed expectations on this project…since expectations were for …

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Joomla and MailChimp API Integration for Non-Profit

Posted on November 24, 2010 by Timothy Spell

PIIPA.org approached NonprofitCMS with a variety of tasks last month.  Most of these were ‘simple’ and required text/content based updates in the Joomla CMS…a system that we are experts in. PIIPA also approached us with a variety of new challenges …

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How Nonprofits Can Do More With Less (Without Working the Staff to Death)

Posted on November 19, 2010 by jitender

Many Nonprofit organizations that fight against exploitation of workers and various injustices here and abroad are running their offices like Third World sweatshops.

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PUT-THE-COFFEE-DOWN!! Coffee is for Fundraisers.

Posted on November 12, 2010 by jitender

Who is responsible for fundraising in your organization? Is it the Executive Director? Is it the Development Director and her staff? If you said everyone, move to the front of the class. If not, you definitely need to put the coffee down.

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For Nonprofits a Little Strategic Planning Can Go a Long Way

Posted on November 10, 2010 by jitender

It’s hard to find the time to sit down and evaluate the big picture. That goes for both the small Nonprofit operating on a shoestring budget and the larger, well-established organization headquartered in Washington, DC. But as the saying goes, …

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Your Nonprofit May be Guilty of Violating the Law and You Don’t Even Know It.

Posted on November 4, 2010 by jitender

The Law of Gravity that is. And it’s costing you big time. The Law of Gravity is the fundamental principle that describes a natural force that binds the universe together.  You can work with it and accept it or ignore …

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3 Rules of Cyber Real Estate for Your Non-Profit: Location, Location, Location

Posted on November 1, 2010 by jitender

Picture this. A donor who likes to shift her funding every few years is looking to find information on “charities benefiting the homeless”. You have a terrific organization that specializes in that very mission. Unfortunately, your website is on page …

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NonprofitCMS mass updates the WordPress Toolkit

Posted on September 28, 2010 by Timothy Spell

Part of our job here at NonprofitCMS is to educate our clients on how to best manage their websites. For organizations with a relatively small IT staff and no large system integrations required, we normally suggest using WordPress to manage …

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