How many years has your nonprofit run on its in-house computing system? Chances are a pretty long time. With cloud computing becoming more viable every day, it is important to take a step back and evaluate from time to time whether making the upgrade to a cloud system is right for your nonprofit. ...

“Set it, and forget it!” said infomercial personality Ron Popeil about the Showtime Rotisserie cooker. Heralded as one of the most iconic infomercial taglines of all time, this tagline influences infomercials to this day. What the tagline should not be describing is the way your nonprofit handles ...

Volunteers give expecting nothing in return. It’s in their DNA. And it is quite literally what defines them as a volunteer. However, getting the most out of your volunteer force can be difficult, and finding ways to help them achieve more can be even more taxing. Traditional corporate approaches to ...

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Challenge “We had always accepted hand-me-down technology.” Habitat for Humanity of Charlotte faced challenges of both efficiency and effectiveness when it came to volunteer management. For years, the organization manually entered data on individual volunteers and organizations that had signed up ...

Challenge Carolina Raptor Center relies on a large volunteer base to further its two missions: rehabilitation of injured raptors for release back into the wild and education of the public about the role these birds play in the ecosystem. Volunteers do a variety of jobs, including working in the ...

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