The best nonprofit membership software depends on what your nonprofit does (a soup kitchen vs an alumni group vs a museum). There are a wide variety of options out there. Some have focused in on the religious space and others on donor management. You probably already know what data you…
Why are nonprofit organizations important?
The key to this question is to understand the difference in underlying motivations. For-profit companies look for opportunities where they can get a financial return on their investment. So they make gadget X for half what they sell it to customer Y. This is great, and most of the world…
What list of industries or markets (ie. specific businesses and business models) can you start up non profits in?
Nonprofits can be in any industry. There are a lot of revenue funded nonprofits (as apposed to donor/grant funded). How you make your money is not really the metric by which an entity is called a nonprofit. If we take a step back and look at for-profit corporations there is…
How do I help my nonprofit to redesign our website and make people more aware of our services?
The higher-ups have a foggy idea of what they want and how to go about it, and they’re not ready to go to a digital agency yet (if ever). How would I go about the same process as a digital agency in gathering requirements and then proposing a few designs…
In the US it is it legal to provide volunteers with their own corporate email address? Can volunteers have titles, such a manager, coordinator?
Volunteers at a nonprofit in the US can be given an email address, and they can be given a title. This is a pretty common practice in many small to mid-sized nonprofits. It has a nice upside of valuing your best volunteers, increasing their buy-in to the nonprofit, and can…