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Capacity Building Competition Winner - UnitingCare Casino Transport Team

We have been astonished by the level of interest and high standard of submissions from our most recent Capacity Building Competition. All of the amazing case studies we have received from nonprofit service delivery organisations highlight the need for great infrastructure to provide great services. We truly are the fortunate ones in that we get to facilitate the DonorTec Program that helps to strengthen capacities and build communities. 

Needless to say deciding on a winner was not easy but we have made a decision and are very pleased to announce the winner of DonorTec’s Capacity Building Competition is the UnitingCare Casino Transport Team. Their submission has been published in today’s newsletter and they will also receive a choice of 2 wireless mouse and keyboard sets OR 2 wireless headsets.

Our Runners Up will each receive a wireless mouse and keyboard set OR a wireless headset and have been listed below:

Congratulations to all organisations who have participated in this competition and we look forward to continuing our mutually beneficial relationship.

DonorTec is Giving Away Free Delegate Passes to Communities in Control Conference 2009

If your organisation is interested in the challenges and opportunities faced by community organisations today then you may wish to register your interest for a free 2 day pass for this year’s Communities in Control Conference 15-16 June, themed CRISIS, CATASTROPHE, COMMUNITY: REBUILD, RENEW, RECHARGE.

The Communities in Control Conference is the leading Community Conference in Australia: speakers Include: 2009 Australian of Year Professor Mick Dodson, Wendy Harmer, Eddie McGuire, Prof Len Syme, Major David Eldgridge, Richard Watson, The Hon Joan Kirner AM, Clare Martin and more...

For more details on this event please see 2009 Conference Program - PDF 1.5mb

DonorTec has 8 two day delegate passes to give away. All you have to do is tell us in 150 words or less how donated software you have received via DonorTec has either:

  • automated a process or processes within your organsiation that used to be manual, OR
  • allowed you to perform tasks or services that may otherwise not have been possible.

Please enter the draw for this giveaway if you are available to attend Moonee Valley Racing Club 15-16 June 2009. All submissions must be sent to giveaway@donortec.com.au by Thursday 4 June

All winners will be notified by phone Friday 5 June

DonorTec Donor Additions – Mailshell, Giftworks and very soon Sophos

Mailshell

DonorTec has recently introduced Mailshell to its growing list of donor partners. If you are interested in an anti-spam solution then Mailshell may provide a solution for your organisation.

With an administration fee of $2.00 Mailshell Anti-Spam Desktop is an excellent desktop-based spam-filtering solution for Windows users that intercepts incoming email messages before they reach the user's inbox.

Mailshell's four spam-identification engines perform more than one million filter checks to identify spam with a high accuracy rate and a near-zero false-positive rate. Users can choose their filter strength and decide if they want spam put in its own folder, deleted, bounced, or simply marked so they will know to avoid it.

For more information about the Mailshell Australia Program, please see Mailshell Program FAQ’s and Program Eligibility Criteria

To view Mailshell’s offer through DonorTec please see Mailshell product page.

Giftworks

If you are a small to medium-sized nonprofit looking to streamline your fundraising efforts you may be pleased to know DonorTec now offers a possible solution in the form of GiftWorks .

GiftWorks is fundraising software designed for nonprofit organisations. Just some of its uses include the ability to track donors and donations; build targeted lists of donors, supporters, and prospects; send mailings; and create standard and customisable reports.

In fact according to Mission Research, www.missionresearch.com “GiftWorks is a very friendly, polished system that offers impressive functionality for its low price. It provides useful gift tracking and donor management functionality, with a nice “dashboard” of all your interactions with a donor.”

For information on how well GiftWorks compares to other donor management systems have a look at the following guide: A Consumers Guide to Low Cost Consumer Management Systems recently published by NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network at http://nten.org/blog/2009/04/26/hot-presses-consumers-guide-low-cost-donor-management-systems

For more information about DonorTec’s GiftWorks Program, please see GiftWorks Donated Programme FAQs and Program Eligibility Criteria

To view the range of products GiftWorks offers via DonorTec please see Giftworks Donated Product Page

Sophos

DonorTec will shortly be announcing the launch of Sophos as a discount partner http://www.sophos.com.au/  with the intention of keeping your networks secure. Please keep this in mind if your organisation is currently looking to protect itself against today’s blended threats.

Winning Capacity Building Submission

The UnitingCare Casino Transport Team (UCCTT) serves the community by providing a means of transport for a variety of needed care services such as medical related appointments; keeping the family unit intact by taking the spouse or family remaining at home to visit the person in the health or Aged Care institution; working with other groups to provide an opportunity for shopping, when the client attending the medical appointment lives in a rural region and providing a caring and listening Volunteer to give this assistance.

UCCTT

Public transport in our region is spasmodic and unfriendly for sick, aged and frail people. A vast majority of residents no longer drive; the family has moved away for work reasons, thus leaving frail aged people socially isolated.

What products have we received via Donor Tec?

UCCTT has received the Microsoft Office  2007 package in 2008; and previously received the Windows XP; and Microsoft Office package in 2004.

From the not-for-profit aspect;  the programs  given to  us by DonorTec, allow UCCTT the opportunity to create sound auditing and record keeping practices; essential for tracking the success and need for the service within the community. Negotiating with philanthropic agencies and sponsors has become fluent because of the DonorTec & Partners approach to assistance for groups such as ours. Ours is strictly a Volunteer organisation and we are reliant on donations and small grants from philanthropic individuals and the local community.

Thanks to DonorTec & Partners we have implemented a modern office system within our service; enabling us to attract the assistance of  semi-retired Administration personnel who now contribute their expertise to our record keeping and responses to requests from the community. Responses which relied on three diaries and various bits of paper are now electronically tracked effectively thanks to the software.

To read Uniting Care Casino Transport Team’s complete submission please click here

Your Questions Answered

Why can’t I access the Volume Licence Keys for the software donated to me through DonorTec?

If you have followed the sequential instructions to retrieve your Microsoft Volume Licence Keys from your Microsoft e-Open Licensing Confirmation Email but the key you need is not displayed on your Product Keys Page, please see step by step pdf guide.

If the volume licence keys are still not displayed for all of your ordered products and you know they require a licence key please call the Microsoft Activation Centre on 1800 642 008 ensuring you have your authorisation and licence numbers from the licensing email sent to you from Microsoft.

To see if these products require a licence key please see click here.

If the Client Access Licenses (CALs) are not listed on volume license page on your eopen account you will need to call the Microsoft Activation Centre on 1800 642 008 and ready to quote your licence and authorisation numbers.

I have placed 2 Microsoft orders over the past two years. When can I order again?

Once your organisation passes the 2 year anniversary date of its initial order your account is automatically reset so that you can again order up to 6 titles and 50 licenses per title for the ensuing 2 year period. This will happen every 2 years to allow your organisation to use the latest technology offerings from Microsoft.

11 Take Home Tips from NTC09 on How to Increase Traffic to Your Website

Some of the staff here at Connecting Up Australia have recently returned from a trip to San Francisco where they attended an annual Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by Nonprofit Technology Network (NTEN) http://www.nten.org/ntc Apart from receiving some of the greatest hospitality the US had to offer, our staff were afforded the opportunity to hear great minds illuminate some very real technology issues facing the world.

We heard Clay Shirky http://www.shirky.com/ a futurist, talk about the power of social media and the impact it will have on how we communicate in the coming years, and Eben Moglen http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eben_Moglen a computer programming language designer come crusader for free software, talk about the issues arising from free as opposed to proprietary software usage.

Not only did these speakers inspire great debate on such issues, there were many other motivating speakers in the breakout sessions. These speakers provided not just philosophical viewpoints and discussion topics, but excellent ideas and practices for nonprofits to employ on return to their day jobs.

Click here to read more..

International Keynote Speaker from CU09 Recognises One of Australia’s Battling Nonprofits

Last week Connecting Up Australia hosted Jody Mahoney http://www.anitaborg.org/about/who-we-are/jody-mahoney Vice President of Business Development at the Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology at its annual Connecting Up Conference (CU09) in Sydney http://www.connectingup.org/conference. Those lucky enough to hear Jody talk would have been inspired by her grounded and logical strategies on business development.

As a professional businesswoman responsible for developing sponsors and discovering new partners many may have been enlightened and perhaps surprised by her obvious passion and respect for the small players that make up a substantial section of the nonprofit sector. Jody’s latest blog post describes how her meeting with a DonorTec recipient at last week’s CU09 Conference has touched her.

Please click here to read more

Would You Like to Boost Your Organisation’s Performance?

Associations Forum National Conference in Melbourne, 29-30 July 2009

Association Forum

With 30 technical sessions and three international keynote speakers this is your opportunity to discover and develop new strategies and resources to boost your organisations value to members. Tap into and meet the needs of your key stakeholders more powerfully and more immediately than ever before.

The Associations Forum National Conference gives you a unique opportunity to hear from some of the world's brightest minds on how to maximise engagement to boost performance. The Associations Forum National Conference is also the perfect forum for those seeking new ways to pursue excellence, and to connect with other association executives.

The conference program has been expanded this year to include five streams of education sessions, including practical workshops where you'll be given valuable techniques and tools that you can use straight away at your Association or Charity!

For more information and a registration form please click here

Associations Forum Pty Ltd is a commercial entity where not-for-profit organisations are members. The managers who run not-for-profits will benefit from their organisation’s involvement, however we focus on the advancement, best practice and better performance of the not-for-profit organisation.

Benefits of Associations Forum membership for management, staff, boards and committees of not-for-profits can be seen  here and include

  1. Member Meetings and Special Interest Groups
  2. Workshops, Seminars & Conferences
  3. Newsletters (Printed newsletter and E-newsletter) & Website
  4. Surveys & Benchmarking
  5. Member Support

For more information please visit our website, www.associations.net.au  or call 02 9904 8200

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