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Fundraising Online

Keys to Unlock Fundraising Online: Common problems faced by nonprofits when they seek to get online donations up and running.

The Online Donation Process: When you consider a donation engine software provider, avoid being abandoned by your donor by choosing a provider that is sensitive to the donor's experience.

Online Donation Providers: There is a wide variety of options when it comes to obtaining donations online. Mixed with genuine confusion about what the best approach might be are the sales pitches of different companies all competing for a market share. It can be hard to unravel the various options.

Online Donation Providers Comparison: Compare the fees and services offered by the different Aapplication Service Providers (ASPs) of online donation processing software.

Raise Capital Funds Online: The only professional eBook to focus exclusively on using the Internet to raise Capital Funds.

Virtual Community: Online fundraising success happens when the focus is on Community. Virtual Community is more. It's a way of looking at how the different elements of your online presence interact to support relationships.

Websites: Best Practices

Market Planned Giving Online Effectively: A fundraiser's guide with links to examples of best practices, and detailed suggestions.

RFPs Save Web Site Costs: Detailed directions on how to assemble a Request For Proposal for web site design or redesign that will help hold down costs.

Search Engine Ranking Essentials: Having a web site doesn't mean that anyone can find it. These do-it-yourself techniques are essential first steps to getting found on the search engines.

Web Site Mistakes: Don't make these common mistakes on your web site if you want your visitors to stick around and make a donation.

Web Site Makeover Essentials: Here are 12 website upgrades that we believe most small to medium sized nonprofits should install.

Software

990 Tax Returns: Charitable organizations that are required to file annual tax returns will find the task easier if they use software that will gather information and print out forms. Check out these principle alternatives.

The Fundraising Profession

Professional Ethics: Fundraising professionals work by the rules. Affinity Resources LLC subscribes to the code of ethics of the Association of Fundraising Professionals.

Resources for Finding & Posting Nonprofit Jobs: There are many web sites that have a special focus on jobs in the nonprofit sector. Here are some that emphasize development and fundraising positions.

Hiring A Consultant - Tips : The choice of a fundraising consultant appropriate for your organization can be a challenge, especially if you've no prior experience in working with one.

Why Use A Consultant: Involving professional fundraising counsel in your campaign will always seem at first to be an expensive proposition. Keep this important decision in perspective by focusing on outcomes.