Happy Birthday to Us!

This past Friday was Idealware’s 2nd birthday - the anniversary of both our incorporation and the release of our Online Donation report. How time flies, huh? This year has been a big year for us, with a bunch of exciting milestones… (roll that montage music)...

• We published 23 different articles about nonprofit software
• 93 different people have contributed their expertise to Idealware resources
• More than 250 people have registered for one of our seminars
• Almost 4500 people have signed up to hear about new articles and events
• Our website traffic has grown to about 1000 visits a day
• We received our 501(c)3 status
• We’re hard at work planning our very first live event – Managing Nonprofit Technology Projects - in partnership with Aspiration
• We’re working on our first large commission, a report on grants management systems for foundations
• I’ve gone from working about one-third time with Idealware in November of last year, to now working for Idealware full time
• We received our first grant - more on that soon.
• Our annual income has grown from about $12,000 in 2006 to a projected $65,000 in 2007.

I can’t tell you how exciting it is to feel Idealware growing into a viable and sustainable organization. I continue to be humbled by how many of you are willing to contribute – whether financially, through your time, or via your expertise – to help provide great content to allow nonprofits to choose software effectively. And as great as this year has been, I really think that next year will be an even better one for us, as our momentum continues.

It’s fitting that our anniversary is so close to Thanksgiving, as there’s so many people to be thankful for. Thanks so much to our fabulous board and advisors, our core content contributors, and the dozens of dozens of other people that have provided their expertise. Thanks to the partner organizations that have nurtured us and helped me personally – Aspiration, TechSoup, NTEN, and more. Thanks to our donors, our subscribers, and our readers. I’m privileged to get to work with you every day.