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I read today that eTapestry was purchased by Blackbaud.
Blackbaud is the industry standard for fundraising data management. The purchased their only previous real competitor in the late nineties, Fundmaster, another company started by Jay Love, founder of eTapestry.
This is just business.
But the consequences of a publicly shared company especially having so much control over the fundraising and service delivery models of so many companies are dire.
There are issues core to a civil and democratic society here.
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I think being a good media student requires watching live T.V. of the demographics you hope to reach.
Web and cable, especially in the land of Tivo, are very different depending on which demographic you are in.
The truths we find self evident may not be so simply by lack of exposure.
There is a certain innocence, as well, to commercial network television - like the radio shows of old.
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Collaborative Management
We take a more indepth interest
with our clients' planning needs. Specifically designed to avoid what
we call the binderization of strategic planning, our approach includes
delivering actionable steps to our clients and implementing scalable solutions for managing that information.
New Jersey Foundation for Open Government
Project: Develop and facilitate first board strategic planning retreat.
• Worked with planning committee to develop a customized strategic planning workshop.
• Created simple planning document.
St. Martin's Episcopal Church, Providence, Rhode Island
Project: Develop and facilitate strategic planning retreat. Implement collaborative management tool.
• Worked with clergy and vestry to develop prioritized strategic plan.
• Implemented Basecamp as collaborative management tool.
• Established baseline Meyer's Briggs indicators and change reaction measures.
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Integrated Marketing and Fundraising |
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Integrated Marketing
Having a successful integrated
organization requires planning and design. These processes often take
expertise and resources that need to be scaled according to the needs
of the client at the time. We work with a variety of groups to ensure
they can function effectively without having to add huge staffing
loads, or fumbling on their own.
Gamaliel Foundation
Project: Turnkey fundraising, communications and data management system and support
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In first year of program implementation, grew database from 0 records
to 65,000, and quadrupled individual fundraising from $60,000 to over
$240,000.
• Implemented entire data and transaction entry support system for nearly two-dozen local affiliates using eTapestry .
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Conducted first ever direct mail campaign coordinated among a dozen
affiliates for cost savings. Delivered customized quarterly
enewsletters.
• Created a sustainer program for iterative donations.
• Coordinated monthly skill building sessions for program participants.
• Developed a user and admin manual.
• Wrote several templated technology grant proposals for national and affiliate organization.
Children's Foundation of Mid-America
Project: Develop and manage online fundraising and communications plan.
• Created plan for statewide children's services agency to expand online giving
• Manage email communications, appeals and advocacy and web site updates.
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In trying to explain why we're different in the way we choose projects and work with our clients, we're movement building with a corporation as the mechanism, rather than the end. Profitability as a means to provide more value, rather than an end.
We are trying to build a global community of like minded individuals, with the shared central belief that there is enough to go around. That we don't need to be fighting all the time.
One of the key ways that tribes throughout the ages, individual primates even, had of interacting was through the trade of goods and services.
Controlling the mechanism by which that trade was recognized or mutually agreed to has been the problem. The invisible hand of the marketplace has never been invisible, and it generally comes wielding a club or a sword or a gun.
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Since
the childhood computers were for him much more, than simply
entertainment. Studying in usual high school, he began to understand,
that knowledge he received on computer science was insufficient and
consequently found out that in his city there was computer lyceum
"Professional". He left usual school for studying last two
school years in lyceum.
After
graduating from lyceum, there was a question on continuation of the
development and education in favorite field. After short searches for
the further study, he passed exams in Kharkov Polytechnical
University to Automated System Software department in Ukraine. Upon
graduation from the university in 2005 with the red diploma and
degree of the master, he left it with big set of knowledge and
skills. The aspiration to search for something new and to penetrate
into all details, whenever possible improving them, did not left him
and in the further work.
Graduating
from the university, he had already started to check the knowledge
when got a job in a civil engineering firm as a engineer-programmer.
Penetrating into all details of working process, he tried to improve
it to make more effective. After a while, work in a civil engineering
firm had ceased to be interesting to him, and has turned to usual
everyday operations with the same information. With time he started
thinking about new challenges.
The
meeting with his university friend Sergey has led him to Left Brain.
It was a new coil of his development.
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