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May 2013
Your nonprofit has constituents, and just like every other nonprofit, you want to track data about them. From donors to clients to volunteers to advocates to alumni, and many other types, your organization would love to find a magic system that lets you track everything you want to know about each type of constituent, including every interaction and every conversation they’ve ever had with your staff—plus the ability to spit out exactly the right information whenever you need it.
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April 2013
How do you choose software for your nonprofit? With so many different types of software on the market, it’s difficult to even know what’s available, let alone what’s best for your organization’s particular needs. That’s why we created the Idealware Field Guide to Software for Nonprofits, a handy reference that covers all the different types of software that might be useful to you—and we just updated it for 2013.
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April 2013
As we strive to measure our work more closely and track a number of metrics about the health of our organizations and programs, we're up to our eyeballs in data. How can we make sense of it all?
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April 2013
Wouldn’t it be nice if there was a single project you could fund that would have a positive impact throughout all your grantees’ programs and services?
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April 2013
There’s an app for everything, they say—but what about fundraising? With mobile devices reaching near-ubiquity, donors want to use their smartphones or tablets to give to their favorite charities. Some nonprofits are optimizing their websites to make it easier for mobile users to donate, others are experimenting with text-to-give programs.
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March 2013
Idealware is proud to announce the release of our latest report, Data at a Foundation's Fingertips: Creating and Building Dashboards.
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March 2013
A strong web presence is paramount to maintaining a strong organization, and having a mobile-friendly web presence is increasingly an important element. Currently, 85 percent of Americans own cell phones -- and more than half of those use them to access the Internet. Industry analysts expect browsing the web on mobile devices to become more common than browsing on traditional desktops and laptops as soon as next year.
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February 2013
NTEN has published a new resource: Getting Started With Data-Driven Decision Making: A Workbook.
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January 2013
Even as synagogues look to better understand the many ways technology can help them interact with and manage their congregations, the marketplace is changing. New software options are available all the time.
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December 2012
The Michigan-based HIV/AIDS Resource Center (HARC) waded into the shallow end of social media a few years by experimenting with a Facebook group and Twitter account. Today, the organization thrives across multiple social media channels, with an organized team of staff members generating content and guided by a formalized written policy. The story behind that evolution provides a closer look at the issues small nonprofits face and serves as an example for other organizations to follow when looking to create and maintain a strong, clear policy for social media use.
