Category Archives: Fundraising

How Assistance Dogs Australia use Leads to work with cold lists #Salesforce

Posted on March 12, 2013 by

Assistance Dogs Australia (ADA) have been growing their donor-base at a rapid rate over the last couple of years. We’ve been lucky enough to work with them for the last year as they were one of the first supporter360 customers … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year and looking forward to an amazing 2013!

Posted on January 9, 2013 by

Happy New Year from everyone at appiChar! Followers of this blog may (hopefully!) have noticed it’s been a bit quiet the last few months…for good reason! We’ve been super-busy putting every ounce of energy into bringing supporter360 up as many … Continue reading →

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Common Grounded…Gone-vio…de-Luminated…I’m sure I could go on :)

Posted on September 5, 2012 by

For anyone interested in the world of fundraising and the Salesforce platform last week was pretty interesting (or if you’ve just invested a stack of money in Common Ground or Luminate, pretty horrifying). Blackbaud took the decision to ‘retire’ Common … Continue reading →

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Fundraising with Salesforce

Posted on April 27, 2012 by

When we first started working with Salesforce one of the biggest problems we had was finding reference sites who were fundraising. Plenty of NFPs were using Salesforce but not many were fundraising it seemed. A lot’s changed since those days … Continue reading →

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Latest supporter360 news..

Posted on March 25, 2012 by

The blog and every other form of communication has been pretty quiet the last couple of months here at appiChar Central. Since we really started to push things along after Christmas the world of supporter360 has moved along massively. Where … Continue reading →

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Journalist targets the Australian population with dumb story

Posted on March 4, 2012 by

Charities target the elderly and dying for bequest dollars. In a shocking turn of events, it was discovered via the undercover reporting of the esteemed Jonathan Marshall that organisations across Australia, many providing some of the most important services to … Continue reading →

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supporter360 Membership, Gift Aid & More This Week

Posted on February 4, 2012 by

The appiChar team has been on a great mission this week completing the roll out of the very first supporter360 customers culminating in 2 customers live and another about to follow. The great thing with the first 3 implementations is … Continue reading →

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Some great news from Salesforce, analytics features now to be free*

Posted on February 1, 2012 by

It was genuinely exciting to hear about the Salesforce Analytics features recently and then not-so-great to hear they were likely to cost $40 per user per month and EVERY user on the system would need a license. This has been … Continue reading →

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Convio being investigated: spanner in the works for #ConBeard merger?

Posted on January 31, 2012 by

Just stumbled across this, looks like there are even more reasons for customers of Blackbaud and Convio to be unsure of what the future holds…hope it doesn’t drag on for too long. http://www.businesswire.com/news/home/20120118006745/en

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Not everyone happy with the Blackbaud & Convio (#ConBeard) marriage…

Posted on January 21, 2012 by

Just catching up with some of the gossip around the purchase by Blackbaud of Convio (let’s call them ConBeard for ease…if you’re not sure where the ‘beard’ comes from the answer’s in here!). Found this great response from Allen Gunn, founder … Continue reading →

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