Thank you to our Strategic and Sponsoring Partners, who help us deliver programs and resources to our members. You should check them out for yourself to see if they can help you and your organization do your work more effectively.

Sponsoring Partners

Big Duck helps organizations communicate more effectively so they can raise more money, increase their visibility, and deepen their impact. We work primarily in five areas: brandraising, online, campaigns, visual storytelling, and support. It’s a noisy world out there—and making sure that you’re heard by the people who make your organization thrive is harder than ever. To be successful, you need clarity of vision, consistency of message, and compelling communications. How are you telling your story now? Are you clear about what makes you special? How do people feel when they visit your website, get your emails, or meet your staff at an event? Big Duck can help you figure it all out, map a course for change, and get you to your new communications destination with limited whiplash. Learn more about what Big Duck does and check out some examples of their work.

Blue State Digital (BSD) is a leader in online fundraising, advocacy, social networking, and constituency development programs for nonprofit organizations, political candidates and causes, and corporations. Their programs rest on the foundation of the BSD Online Tools, a carefully architected technology suite that integrates tools for fundraising, advocacy, social networking, constituency development, and content management through a unified interface.

Convio is the leading provider of constituent relationship management (CRM) software and services that give nonprofit organizations a better way to inspire and mobilize people to support their organization. Convio’s online marketing suite offers integrated software for fundraising, advocacy, events, email marketing and web content management, and its Convio Common Ground™ system helps organizations efficiently track and manage all interactions with supporters.

A top-rated solution in NTEN’s A Consumers' Guide to Low Cost Donor Management Systems, DonorPerfect’s Web or PC-based fundraising software will enable you to raise more money, cultivate donor relationships and save time. Target your fundraising efforts to reach the right people with the right message. Our comprehensive donation processing includes integrated payments for one-time, recurring and online gifts, as well as automated acknowledgements and recordkeeping. DonorPerfect’s powerful reporting and analysis enables you to uncover hidden trends, refine solicitations, analyze your results, and improve your success! Learn more with a personal demonstration and a free trial by visiting www.donorperfect.com.

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PayPal is the faster, safer way for nonprofits to accept donations and other payments online. In 2011, more than 200,000 charities, schools and other nonprofits received $3 billion through PayPal products and partners.  Learn more at www.paypal.com/nonprofit.

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Strategic Partners

GoLightly is a unique online tool for connecting people with email lists, threaded discussions, document libraries, blogs, wikis, and more. Engage your members, volunteers, and community, while giving them tools for effective collaboration.  NTEN uses Golightly for our own online Affinity Groups!

ReadyTalk provides telephone and web conferencing tools, and allows you and your organization to connect, engage, and educate while saving time and costs. NTEN uses ReadyTalk for our Webinars, and you can too: see special rates for NTEN members!

Jossey-Bass/Wiley publishes books, periodicals, and other media to inform and inspire those interested in developing themselves, their organizations, and their communities.  They even published NTEN's book: Managing Technology to Meet Your Mission. NTEN members get a 20% discount on Wiley titles (click here to retrieve your member discount code).

Learning Tree International is a leading worldwide provider of effective professional training to information technology and business professionals. Instructor-led courses featuring intensive hands-on exercises are presented at Learning Tree Education Centers, delivered globally on-site at client facilities, and offered remotely through Learning Tree’s live, online learning platform, Learning Tree AnyWare™. NTEN members get a 10% discount on Learning Tree Courses (click here to learn more and retrieve your member discount code).

Daum Foundation provides resources for the valuable next ("daum," meaning "next" in Korean) generation individuals to promote creative and diverse ways of life by utilizing media and communications. The Foundation believes that the understanding of and the ability to creatively use diverse forms of media as part of everyday life amid the flood of dynamically changing media is important life skills required of the next generation to live in the 21st Century. Accordingly, they encourage initiatives that promote the wiser use of media.