Automating Your Volunteer Management

Automating Your Volunteer Management

Artwork designed by freepik.com Many conservation organizations mobilize volunteers for events, but find few of those volunteers become long-time supporters. This seems counterintuitive – these are people who make the effort to show up, learn about the organization, and probably share a commitment to its mission. But on average fewer than half volunteer again (according […]

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Keeping Your Email Out of Spam Folders in 2024

Keeping Your Email Out of Spam Folders in 2024

Setting Up and Testing SPF and DKIM Authentication for Automated Email Systems For years … decades, actually … hackers have been able to “spoof” email addresses and send out spam as if it came from other peoples’ email accounts. Internet service providers have finally settled on authentication standards to ensure that emails actually originate from […]

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Recommended Workaround: Google Chrome 108 Breaks Some WordPress Donation Pages

Recommended Workaround: Google Chrome 108 Breaks Some WordPress Donation Pages

​UPDATE: As of 12/8/2022 Click and Pledge has patched its WordPress plugin to avoid the problem. Visitors using Chrome 108 on Click and Pledge donation pages will see the picklists, which look slightly different – they’re truncated, and visitors will have to scroll to the desired value. But they work. Google is also rolling out […]

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What Did COVID Teach Your Volunteer Programs?

What Did COVID Teach Your Volunteer Programs?

COVID served as a sort of stress test for many volunteer programs. Could they survive without in-person activities? Could you adapt them to the new circumstances?   Most important – Were there changes you made that you’re adopting permanently? At WaterGrass we convened a discussion on the topic.  (WaterGrass is an organizational database that among other […]

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