R I Arlington - Internet Fund-Raising Resources

	NetworkForGood.Org  This site has many resources for non-profits. Of particular interest, I think, is their Resources for Non-Profits, both general and technology. Also see in the section below how folks can make donations to you now via this site. (This site is sponsored by the AOL Foundation and was formerly at Helping.Org; a very useful site.)
	Nonprofitmatrix.com This is an online directory and guide to selecting and integrating "dot-coms" (commercial service providers of components such as donation processing, giving portals, affinty shopping and more) into a nonprofit organization's web and internet strategies. This site notes "new arrivals" and "tombstones" (R.I.P. - defunct dot coms). It is a good starting point for finding vendors.
	FundraisingInfo.com  Their Claim: "You might already know us. Collectively, our Charter Partners have worked around the world to help non-profit organizations raise billions of dollars. Our goal is to help you raise more money by providing interactive, up-to-date training, advice and information about fund-raising techniques, products, services and prospects through an internet-based fund-raising consulting service." Their "Charter Partners" include a number of the firms in AAFRC.
	Fund-online.com  Adam Corson-Finnerty and Laura Blanchard at the Penn Library in Philadelphia have set up this site with many on-line links. They are also promoting their book "Fundraising and Friend-Raising on the Web." Buried within their site is a group of what they call "cool links" at http://www.fund-online.com/alabook/links/cool.htm These are links to a lot of good example web sites.
	eGrants.org has prepared an Online Fundraising Handbook which provides some useful insights into using the Web and E-mail "to raise more money."
	Convio.com, one of the ASP vendors on my Vendors page, has developed a guide called eMarketing for Nonprofits: A Practical Guide to Using Email to build Relationships Online.

	Donate Free through the Network for Good Anyone can currently donate to your organization through this free service. They look you up via a search "powered" by Guidestar.Org (which has all organizations which have submitted a Form 990). They can make a contribution via credit card. They can do this NOW. You can receive money NOW. It's not real flexible, but whether you know it or not, you can already receive on-line donations! Network for Good also has links to other gift processing sites - some free and some with fees.
	Contribute.Com - Their Claims: "Contribute.com works quietly and invisibly behind the scenes to enable your donors to make contributions from your web site. We custom build an online payment form to match the look and feel of your existing web site. It looks just like you had created it yourself."
	GivingCapital.Com - Their Claims: "GivingCapital provides a simple and secure way to donate online. We help nonprofit organizations harness the collaborative power of the Internet to acquire new donors and increase contributions. With our patent-pending technology, donors click a banner on your Web site to make their gift. From straight donations to creating a matching or challenge campaign, GivingCapital provides an array of tools to create and monitor your campaign. Use GivingCapital to lower your online fundraising costs and reach new donors with this innovative Internet technology."

Rather than buying a software package, vendors are now allowing you to access their software via the Net. This concept of Application Service Provider or ASP is fairly new, but growing. (Do you have your calendar or contact list on the web? You can. Or you can have your fund-raising package on the web.)
 

	eTapestry  eTapestry is really the first vendor to offer their software via the ASP route. This product is from the folks that offered FundMaster and FundMaster Lite. They even offer their product free for very small nonprofits. Their Claim: "In its simplest form, eTapestry is software for fundraising that you run over the Internet. But don't confuse it with some traditional systems that may give you limited access to your software through a browser. eTapestry is totally new and has been built from the ground up to run on the Internet."  Their product is also available to run in stand-alone form on an organizations intranet.
	PG-Calc GiftCalcs  PG-Calc allows individual calculations to be done via the web (for a small fee per calculation.) If you own their software, you can also put their GiftCalcs module at your organization's own web site to do remote (or local) calculations.
	Visit my Vendors Page for much more information. DonorPerfect Online and others are offering ASP offerings to complement their database systems.

	Network for Good Technology Resources Again this site provides excellent resources for finding info on technology planning, funding, setting up a site, hardware and software issues, etc.
	TechSoup.Com calls itself the "technology place for nonprofits." Many articles, ideas, and references here.
	TechRocks: Their Claim: "TechRocks accelerates social and political progress by building technological capacity for community collaboration and citizen engagement. TechRocks encourages and enables foundations, advocacy groups, and leading activists to use technology to achieve their mission goals, to increase participation from interested constituencies, and achieve change more quickly than by traditional organizing and advocacy methods alone." They are a nonprofit organization themselves that provides consulting and tools. Their key tool is ebaseŽ, a FREE relationship management software package for nonprofits. ebaseŽ can be downloaded from this site.
	Wilson Internet Web Marketing presents a Web Marketing Checklist: 29 Ways to Promote your Website. Everyone should read this!
	Web Pages That Suck - What a title, but this site helps to "learn good design by looking at bad design." As a sage once said, "nobody is good for nothing; you can always serve as a bad example." Enjoy!
	Useit.com: Jakob Nielsen's Website presents the positive side of Web Usability and Design.
	Web Job Roles - by Tim Brown of Myxa Corporation. In developing and maintaining your Web Site, there are many roles that need to be played to do this effectively. Tim has done a great job of defining and documenting these roles. Tim and Myxa have built some excellent sites with significant functionality for some major nonprofit organizations.

Updated April 2003