The Boston Business Journal reported that the Boys and Girls Club of Boston finished it’s 100 million five year fund raising campaign 8 million ahead of its goal.  Hats off to the nonprofit for building a great network of 5,500 donors. 

This is a cool article that describes a website started by Microsoft to help NGOs (Non Governmental Organizations, or Non Profits) get connected with resources and other non profits. Click here to read more.

The Bill and Melinda Gates foundation has announced that it plans to spend an additional $150 million on the fight to eradicate Polio.

Photo  by M. Keefe

Technology has made communicating cheap but has your nonprofit caught up?  The use of email dramatically cuts costs for communicating.  The use of the bulk mail permits for a nonprofit reduce the costs of mailings.  The use of post cards is cheaper than a letter.   Each year the number of individuals and businesses that the nonprofit is communicating with should be growing. The network data set should have an ability for the nonprofit staff to add particular information on the individual and business contacts and history of giving by anyone. In order to maximize the effectiveness of data mining of the network, the accuracy of the data set is critical.  The more a nonprofit has the ability to mine the network information the more valuable of an asset the network information becomes.

Nonprofits need to evolve and use the various communication tools utilized by individuals.