August 2010 Newsletter
Nonprofit Neighborhood
Meet thedatabank in Denver and Madison Next Month
Clients and prospective clients in Denver, CO and Madison, WI will have the opportunity to meet with Databank staff next month when we travel to your cities. Please consider attending one of our events in your area: Madison prospects or Madison clients on 9/24. Denver prospects or Denver clients on 9/30.
Free Fundraising Webinar Featuring Kim Klein
thedatabank is offering a FREE webinar on September 16, 2010 featuring grassroots fundraising expert, Kim Klein. Follow the Money: Fundraising Strategies that Guarantee Financial Stability. Don't miss this rare opportunity to learn from a world class trainer for free.
Reserve your spot today, space is limited!
Fundraising Course for Databank Clients Starts 1/17
Dynamic Fundraising(TM): An Integrated Approach is a 6 month fundraising course, exclusively for Databank clients starting January 17th. Learn from fundraising experts and your peers on how to raise more money for your organization
Learn more and reserve your spot
Virtual User Group for Fundraising Staff
Join Karen Graham of thedatabank on Wednesday, September 15th for a virtual user group meeting. Meet other fundraising professionals who use The Databank, share successes, challenges, and more.
Learn more and sign up.
Clients: Join us for dinner in Duluth, MN on 10/7
Are you attending this year's MN Council of Nonprofits conference? We'd love for you to be our guest for dinner on Thursday, October 7th at the Fitger's Brewhouse in Duluth. Meet Databank staff and network with other Databank users.
Please RSVP by Oct. 6th
New Clients
Organizing Apprenticeship Project - The Organizing Apprenticeship Project works to advance racial, cultural, social and economic justice in Minnesota through organizer and leadership training, policy research and strategic convening work.
Civitas Schools - Civitas Schools works diligently to create learning communities characterized by rigorous instruction, relevant curricular design and strong relationships. Our academic programming and teacher professional development are rooted in the three core principles of focus, accountability and collaboration.
Conservation Voters of South Carolina- Conservation Voters has been turning conservation values into state priorities since 2002. Our unique strategy combines education, accountability and electoral action to create a bipartisan majority of elected leaders committed to a safe, clean and healthy South Carolina
Featured Resource
The Importance of Grassroots Engagement
Back in May, thedatabank held a user conference in MN, which was a huge success. One of the breakout sessions was lead by Dana Montgomery from Grassroots Solutions on engaging your activists year round. Click here to watch a recording of this session.
Click here to watch a recording of this session
Karen's Blog
Time to stand up for net neutrality
I just returned from a four day family vacation, at a cabin in northern Minnesota. And I took a vacation from the TV, newspaper, radio, facebook, and email too.
I plugged back in, and one of the first things to catch my eye was the Google-Verizon net neutrality proposal, which is actually for the opposite of net neutrality, because it doesn't apply to wireless (are you kidding me?) and gives them enough other loopholes to do whatever they want.
Come on, people, this is the public internet! Okay, before you send the hate mail, let me state that everybody is entitled to their opinion, including my coworkers at thedatabank whose views may not be represented here. I happen to have a strong opinion about this.
Net neutrality is a big deal for nonprofits, especially nonprofits who use web-based software, which is all of our clients. If you don't know what net neutrality is, you'd better find out before it's gone forever. And then you might want to do something about it. (Wish these folks were using our software...)