Free Toolkit for Selecting Donor Management Software

NPower Seattle, with the cooperation of a number of Seattle nonprofit organizations and the support of Verizon, has produced a free toolkit to help nonprofit organizations with the task of choosing software for managing donors.

Full-text article by Rebecca Leaman is available via ePhilanthropy, 8.5.08.

Future of Fundraising Technology: Open-Source

Software for fundraising and managing constituents is undergoing a revolution, experts say.

Fueling the revolution is the increasing use by nonprofits of "open-source" software that makes its source code available to users who can modify it, often through collaboration.

Full-text article by Elizabeth Floyd is available via the Philanthropy Journal, 7.22.08.