A good read: The Soft(ware) Side of Fundraising Effectiveness

Read Tim Mills-Groninger's special report on "The Soft(ware) Side of Fundraising Effectiveness" that was published in The NonProfit Times. Tim writes about AFP's pilot Fundraising Effectiveness Program (FEP) that is aiming at establishing organizational, geographic, and sector benchmarks for development programs. He goes on to discuss the "simple measures of effectiveness" including the importance of data and fundraising databases as well as the role of software in fundraising.

Insuring Donors' Goodwill

Going beyond the data back-up

Marla E. Nobles from The NonProfit Times writes about the importance of backing up data. Ms. Nobles also explores the importance of insurance coverage that deals with security breaches, to which non-profits are, unfortunately, not immune.

Read this 1.01.08 article by Marla E. Nobles from The NonProfit Times.

Nonprofits' Data Breached Yet Again In Software Attack

Here is an article regarding a data breach at Salesforce.com. Salesforce.com is the second software vendor to nonprofits this week to announce a data breach.

Read this 11.08.07 article from The NonProfit Times.