In This Issue

Funding Technology

Introducing TrueNorth

Coordinating Fundraising

Avoiding Cyber Scams

Stats of the Month

Question of the Month

Ten Tips for Funding Technology

Technology could help your organization accomplish so much. You know what you need, but how do you pay for it? TechSoup offers these suggestions for funding your IT wish list.

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Introducing TrueNorth: A New Opportunity for Foundations and Corporations

TrueNorth: The GuideStar Membership Guild offers foundations and corporations a new way to support greater access to nonprofit information. Read more.

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Should Nonprofits Coordinate
Fundraising Efforts?

April's Question of the Month asked, "Do you think nonprofit development planners have an ethical responsibilitiy to consider/discuss the projected impact of major or mega-campaigns on other regional nonprofits?" See what Newsletter readers said.

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Don't Become a Cyber Scam Victim

Cyber scams abound; a new one uses the name of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to dupe recipients into parting with their money. Learn how to protect your organization—and yourself—from these increasingly clever con jobs.

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Stats of the Month
(source: GuideStar/Network for Good Survey, 2004)

Proportion of Internet users who have visited a charity Web site:
49 percent
Proportion of those users who then took action:
75 percent

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