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January 20th, 2011 | by Jarek Wilkiewicz | published in Youtube API
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January 20th, 2011 | by Jarek Wilkiewicz | published in Youtube API
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January 20th, 2011 | by Jarek Wilkiewicz | published in Youtube API
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January 20th, 2011 | by Anil Sabharwal | published in Google Blogger Buzz
A couple of months back we introduced Web Fonts to Blogger in Draft. Today we’re excited to not only launch Web Fonts to ALL Blogger users, but also announce we’ve added an additional 35 fonts to the mix, for a grand total of 77 fonts!Henry Ford o…
January 20th, 2011 | by Tim Bray | published in Google Android
[This post is by Bruno Albuquerque, an engineer who works in Google’s office in Belo Horizonte, Brazil. —Tim Bray]One of the things that I find most interesting and powerful about Android is the concept of broadcasts and their use through the Broa…
January 20th, 2011 | by Ellen Ko | published in Google Open Source
Despite the recent flooding in Brisbane, Australia, linux.conf.au (lca) will proceed from January 24th to 29th, and Googlers from across the company will be there. LCA is a community-run technical conference for free and open source software enthusias…
January 20th, 2011 | by miriam | published in Google Student Blog
For the fourth consecutive year, we’re funding the Computer Science for High School (CS4HS) program. CS4HS is a workshop for high school and middle school computer science teachers that introduces new and exciting concepts in computing and how to bes…
January 20th, 2011 | by aidanchopra | published in Google SketchUp
If I had a nickel for every time someone asks me which renderer they should use with SketchUp, I’d have a fleet of helicopters perched on the turrets of my castle. One look at SketchUp’s Fan Photos page on Facebook is all you need to understand our…
January 20th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
Recent statistics have shown a decline in the number of U.S. students taking computer science AP classes, which also leads to a decline in students declaring computer science as their majors—a concerning trend in the U.S. as we try to remain competit…
January 20th, 2011 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
There are a variety of strategies for increasing online donations, and tapping into corporate gift matching is one that holds a lot of promise but is a little harder to get at since it requires extra work on the part of the donor and involves processes that can be hard to find or difficult to follow.
One Google Grantee, Direct Relief, has started using a new strategy to help their donors easily activate their employers’ gift matching programs at checkout. Basically, when a donor begins the checkout process, they are given the option to search for their employer from the database. If a match is found, that employer’s gift matching program details are shown for the information of the donor.
Once the donor completes the donation, the process for completing the gift match is shown so that they know what to do next in order to activate the matching funds.
The process is far simpler from a donor’s perspective, and Direct Relief has kindly offered to share their experience with you so that you might be able to try this strategy for potentially doubling up each donation that comes through your online doors, too.
Soup to nuts – what was the cost and time investment to get this up and running?
Direct Relief: We purchased this module from a company called HEP Development Services in Leesburg, VA. (www.hepdata.com) The cost was less than $10,000 to purchase the module, and we contracted for multiple years. The time to implement was a few weeks with a little bit of back and forth, as we decided exactly how and where to implement it on our site.
What’s the process for purchasing the module and installing it?
Direct Relief: Once you let HEP know how you want to use the module, they advise on how much it will cost and then produce the necessary code and send you a link. I built a page to host introductory content and the search box, then when a user searches their company, the results populate on a HEP-hosted page. It took some basic coding ability to implement on our site. Also, we integrated it into our online donation form, which makes it really easy and convenient for donors to use.
What process did you use for building out the company donation match database?
Direct Relief: HEP maintains the company match database, and we provided names to them to see how many of our donors have the potential to have their companies match their gift.
How much have you seen donations from company matches go up since you installed it?
Direct Relief: None yet – it takes about three to six months for matching gifts to be disbursed from most companies (installed in November 2010). We think this could increase our matching gifts by about 20%, however.
On a scale of 1-10, how helpful has this tool been for increasing donations compared to other tools you’ve used?
Direct Relief: So far, we’d rank it an 8. Nothing’s confirmed yet, but we’re very hopeful that this will encourage donors to have their gift matched because it’s so easy to use.
Anything you think new users should know about it or consider before getting started?
Direct Relief: Decide how and where you want to use this functionality on your site before you get started so you can communicate exactly what you’re looking for to HEP. That streamlines the process.
If you have strategies for increasing online donations that you’d like to share or just want to talk shop with other Grantees and non-profits, visit our Discussion Forum and start a conversation today.
Posted by Jessica Vaughan, Google Grants Team
January 20th, 2011 | by Google Grants Team Member | published in Google Grants
There are a variety of strategies for increasing online donations, and tapping into corporate gift matching is one that holds a lot of promise but is a little harder to get at since it requires extra work on the part of the donor and involves processes…
January 20th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
When I joined Google in 2001 I never imagined—even in my wildest dreams—that we would get as far, as fast as we have today. Search has quite literally changed people’s lives—increasing the collective sum of the world’s knowledge and revolutio…
January 20th, 2011 | by Patrick Copeland | published in Google Testing
I’ll be speaking very soon about innovation and The Pretotyping Manifesto (note: not prototyping). It’s a concept that works well for any type of engineering, testing, or idea. Here’s a brief preview…The talk starts off by discussing the odds against…
January 20th, 2011 | by A Googler | published in Google Blog
This is the latest in our series of YouTube highlights. Every couple of weeks, we bring you regular updates on new product features, interesting programs to watch and tips you can use to grow your audience on YouTube. Just look for the label “YouTube…
January 20th, 2011 | by Nate Weinstein | published in Youtube
Can’t make it to Park City, Utah to mingle with independent film’s glitterati at the Sundance Film Festival this year? We’ll bring the magic to you.To celebrate the kickoff of one of the world’s most acclaimed independent film festivals, YouTub…
January 20th, 2011 | by Inside AdSense Team | published in Google Adsense
Since our announcement last August that sensitive category blocking had been expanded to more languages, we’re excited to say the language expansion has gone even further!This week, publishers in Thai, Turkish, and Russian-speaking countries can now …