For additional information, please call 877-536-1245 ext 1 or send an e-mail message to jobbank@ephilanthropy.org

This training is specifically designed for those who wish to catapult their online strategy forward by learning and interacting directly with a broad base of highly-rated ePhilanthropy Master Trainers.

No sales pitches are allowed, this is hands on training in advanced/executive ePhilanthropy techniques and strategy. Each participant will have individual computer and Internet access in a computer lab setting for this training. This is not HTML training, this is advanced fundraising, marketing, communications and advocacy skills training.

Register online before August 1 and receive the 20% early bird discount at http://acteva.com/go/Advanced  

Registration is strictly limited to the first 25 participants which is why we are contacting you now with this information. Each participant is required to certify that they either have 2+ years ePhilanthropy experience or have attended the general ePhilanthropy Training tour in the past 3 years.

There's no doubt that nonprofit Web sites have become serious branding and revenue channels. Compared to recent years, most organizations now are seeing double-digit increases in the number of monthly Web visits, some even a rise in donations, new members and membership renewal.

While an increase in Web traffic certainly is a positive indicator, it isn't the most vital metric for an organization looking to generate online revenue or increase online-visitor engagement.

Last year, The Foundation for Self-Sufficiency in Central America (FSSCA) set out to plant 50,000 trees in deforested lands in El Salvador. To fund this project, Assistant Director Sean Hale needed to raise $20,000 in just a few months.

Sean discovered Justgiving, a web-based service that allows individuals to set-up personal web pages to raise funds for any nonprofit.

“What happened next was magical,” Sean said, “Using Justgiving, thousands of dollars were raised by just a handful of supporters.”

Organizations using online personal fundraising realize larger and more gifts.

“Online personal fundraising has allowed us to open up a new area of fundraising,” Sean said.

Learn more about Justgiving online personal fundraising at:

http://www.justgiving.com/pfp/design/1/default.asp?/src=eZine71205

Or for a free 15 minute demo, contact Justgiving at 781-863-6166 or inquiries@justgiving.com

TechSoup Stock can help your nonprofit organization build its technology infrastructure with donated technology products from vendors such as Cisco, Microsoft, and Symantec.

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Language has been restored to the United States’ ‘Junk Fax Prevention Act’ that maintains the "established business relationship" exception that allows associations and companies to send unsolicited faxes to their members and clients. The bill has been passed by the House and Senate and should be signed by the President this week. In addition to restoring the ‚established business relationship‛ exception, the bill stipulates that: 

-- all unsolicited commercial faxes include an opt-out provision on the first page of the fax, providing a cost-free, 24-hour means for the recipient to request to be removed from the fax distribution list; and

-- fax numbers be obtained either directly from the recipient or from a public source to which the recipient gave the number for publication (i.e., a Web site,  advertisement or directory).   

It also "grandfathers" in fax numbers in the possession of the sender at the time of enactment.  Congratulations to ASAE and the other associations and businesses that spent more than two years working to protect our ability to communicate information to members and customers.

Up until recently, most of us tried to organize things by creating folders to group similar items together. It works reasonably well for some files but its cumbersome and slow. Google has created a tool that conquers this problem once and for all, and it's free.