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One easy step to help your development staff succeed

By John Fuller On August 5, 2011

Today your development staff will:

Update event details on your website Arrange for trash pick up at a breakfast meeting for teams Talk with your mail house about whether they should send a 4×6 or a 5×7 postcard Try to identify a donor database an fundraising platform that works with your antiquated accounting system. Pour over [...]

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Logo4Good – Winner Announced

By John Fuller On August 1, 2011

Update – Habitat Young Professionals of Charlotte were selected to get the free logo by your votes.

We are offering a free logo to one of the follwoing non-profit organizations, and you’re going to help us decide. Read a bit about the non-profit organizations below, and vote for your favorite. The organization with the most [...]

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Google+: Importing users from Facebook or Twitter – No Thank You

By John Fuller On July 14, 2011

I started off the day today downloading all of my data from Facebook with the thought that I would import all my users into Google+ and be ahead of the game. Fortunately the process was slow and cumbersome enough that I had time to think it through and decide for us it wasn’t [...]

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Logo4Good – Get a free logo design for your Nonprofit

By John Fuller On July 6, 2011

Back by popular demand, we are happy to announce our 2011 Logo4Good Campaign is here!  At Phoenixfire Solutions, we believe that good design shouldn’t be relegated to for-profit companies only.  Some times all a nonprofit needs is a little help for their idea to come to life.  With this notion [...]

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Grilled Cheese as Community Action

By John Fuller On May 4, 2011

 

Recipe for change:

1 Part Converted School Bus
1 Part Locally Sourced Ingredients
1 Part Youth Job Training

 

What you end up with is a food truck dream, gourmet grilled cheese and social change.

The Grilled Cheese Bus is a Triangle Area [...]

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Nonprofit Events – Untapped Marketing for Small Biz

By christinemjohn On May 9, 2010

Had lunch with a new small business client this week, and it sparked a great conversation regarding how small businesses can and should be using nonprofit events as marketing opportunities.  During my career in nonprofit, I’ve seen some businesses make outstanding connections through this type of marketing, but I’ve also seen many small business who [...]

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Brand for sale – 8.5 million dollars

By John Fuller On May 6, 2010

 

Buckets for the Cure, the new Susan G. Komen/ KFC partnership has 50 cents of every bucket of the Colonel’s best going to the breast cancer organization. To date the program has raised 2.35 million dollars for Cancer research. However the fact that Komen would partner with a fast [...]

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Join our latest class – A nonprofits guide to Facebook, Causes, and the Social Graph

By John Fuller On February 16, 2010

March 3rd – Raleigh, NC 1804 Hillsborough St
Raleigh, NC 27605

This course offers a conversational approach to moving your nonprofit organization into Facebook and Causes.  We will be covering an array of Facebook/Causes topics specifically for non-profits including:

Why Facebook? Why Now? Learn just how big Facebook has become and how it can be [...]

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Job Search In Non-profit Requires Elbow Grease

By christinemjohn On January 30, 2010

Earlier this week, a friend of mine asked me to give some job search pointers to a young woman who had recently been laid off from her non-profit position.  I get similar requests from folks on a regular basis due to my position as a non-profit executive, but also because of my early roots in [...]

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What inspires you as a designer?

By John Fuller On December 16, 2009

As a designer I see things everyday that inspire me in some way or another.  Sometimes it just clever use of whitespace.  It seems though more than anything I tend to be inspired by music. Different types for different projects obviously. For instance today its Punk/Ska, to help me push through some monotonous page edits. What inspires you?

If music inspires you [...]

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