Fundraising software underwent a major change today with the announcement of eTapestry. eTapestry.com is a new Internet-based fundraising application designed to increase communication capabilities for charities.
By being integrated into the charity's Web presence, the system can be run over the Internet or on an organisation's own Intranet creating "a total communication system".
A search on "fundraising" at AltaVista today suggested that the keyword "fundraising" has been bought temporarily by Entertainment, the publishers of the coupon books that have raised "over $75 million" for non-profit groups last year. "The world's greatest fund-raiser" and "We wrote the book on fundraising", they declare.
What do you do when you are missing data for your fundraising appeal? Peter Wylie sees missing data as an opportunity and not the drawback that you might think.
UK Fundraising welcomes a new columnist this month. Peter Wylie will be writing a monthly column on fundraising databases. Peter holds a doctorate in industrial psychology from Columbia University, and is an expert on how non-profit organisations can do a far more efficient job of fund raising by carefully mining their donor databases.
Charities know that they need PCs to fundraise. UK Fundraising has started to help fundraisers by listing resources that help you locate unwanted IT equipment. There is only one resource at present, a US site, but more will be added.
American Philanthropy Review has launched a new service for nonprofit staff that lets them use the Internet to share documents and save time in the process. GuestShare(tm) is located on the CharityChannel site.
The Year 2000 might bring technological mayhem to the unprepared, but it is also a once-in-a-lifetime fundraising opportunity. Or is it? UK Fundraising looks at millennium fundraising appeals.
Ebase from Desktop Assistance is a contacts database that is free for nonprofits. Ebase lets you keep all your organisation's data, such as memberships, donations, activist information, in one place, and "provide secure, easy-to-learn access to everyone who needs to use it".
Information technology is an essential component to professional fundraisers' activities. This has been true for many years, but it was brought home in March when two fundraising and charity magazines carried cover-mounted CD-ROMs for the first time. Professional Fundraising carried a CD-ROM with a full working version of Proclaim 97, the donor administration software.
