We’re Almost ½ Way to Making the HiVE Accessible

Our favourite meetup hosts at the Hive need our help! There are 30 giant stairs standing in the way of making our events accessible to the whole community. Give them a  lift – literally! – by helping them buy a platform lift elevator.

We’ve already raised $11,715 and once we get to $12,500 we’ll open up opportunities for matching donations from other major donors.

Please give today and share this with other amazing people like you! We just need $785 more to show major funders how serious we are about making the HiVE accessible.

Why donate? Because accessibility looks good on everyone. And because the HiVE has been donating their venue to Net2van for the last four years – which has allowed us to bring free events to you every month!

P.S. We’re so excited about this campaign that the Net2van co-organizers have committed to matching your donations up to $2,000.

Give today! https://goo.gl/XaiPZr

Help Make the HiVE Accessible to Everyone

Our favourite meetup hosts at the Hive need our help! There are 30 giant stairs standing in the way of making our events accessible to the whole community. Give them a  lift – literally! – by helping them buy a platform lift elevator.

Please give today and share this with other amazing people like you!

Why donate? Because accessibility looks good on everyone. And because the HiVE has been donating their venue to Net2van for the last four years – which has allowed us to bring free events to you every month!

P.S. We’re so excited about this campaign that the Net2van co-organizers have committed to matching your donations up to $2,000.

Give today! https://goo.gl/XaiPZr

NetSquared Camp 2013

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When: Saturday, June 1. 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
Where: HiVE Vancouver, 210 – 128 W Hastings St.

What is NetSquared Camp?

NetSquared Camp is a daylong unconference put on by the friendly folks that host the monthly Net Tuesday meetups in Vancouver.  Net Tuesday brings together web innovators with social change makers and nonprofits to swap stories, mix ideas, and build new relationships. We aim to empower non-profits with emerging tools, trends, and best practices, enabling them to fulfill their mission statements in new and innovative ways.

This is the third annual conference. The first two NetSquared Camps sold out quickly, so be sure to register early.

Who should come?

  • Non-profit people: learn more about utilizing technology to further your cause.
  • Web designers and developers: share your best practices and find organizations that need your help.
  • Marketing people: assist non-profits in building strategic connections between their causes and their audiences.

Topics

This is an unconference, so you decide what want you want to discuss, share, explore, and learn.  Topics that Net Tuesday has covered over the last year include:

  • Digital storytelling
  • Tablets, smartphones, iPads, iPhones: gadgets for good?
  • Visualizing data using maps and other tools
  • A/B testing
  • Crowdfunding
  • IT project management
  • The science of Facebook pages

When, Where, and How Much?

NetSquared Camp 2013 will be held at The HiVE in downtown Vancouver, on Saturday, June 1, 2013.  Early bird tickets cost $25; regular tickets are $30.  Register now on Eventbrite!

 

Sponsor

HiVE logoHome to artists, designers, small social enterprises, mid-size NGOs, green businesses, IT experts, self employed, start ups, independent contractors… the HiVE is a shared workspace with a dynamic cafe-like studio culture. They facilitate creativity, collaboration and social innovation!

NetSquared Camp 2012

What is NetSquared Camp?

NetSquared Camp is a daylong unconference put on by the friendly folks that host the monthly Net Tuesday meetups in Vancouver.  Net Tuesday brings together social media users and web innovators with social change makers and nonprofits to swap stories, mix ideas, and build new relationships.  The aim is to empower non-profits with emerging tools, trends, and best-practices, allowing them to fulfill their mission statements in new and innovative ways.

The first NetSquared Camp had over 160 people in attendance.  The space at this event is limited to 80, so register early.

Who should come?

  • Non-profit people: learn more about utilizing technology to further your cause.
  • Web developers and social media people: share your best practices and find organizations that need your help.
  • Marketing people: assist non-profits in building strategic connections between their causes and their audiences.

Topics

This is an unconference, so you decide what want you want to discuss, share, explore, and learn.  Topics that Net Tuesday has covered over the last year include:

  • Should your nonprofit be selling merchandise?
  • Applications of location-based technology services
  • Managing volunteers with software and soft skills
  • How nonprofits win with word-of-mouth marketing
  • Redesigning your website: what you need to know
  • Flexing Facebook’s civic muscles
  • Delivering services through e-Learning
  • Google Analytics
  • Network organizations create better online campaigns

When, Where, and How Much?

NetSquared Camp 2012 will be held at The HiVE in downtown Vancouver, on Saturday, April 28 2012.  Early bird tickets cost $20; regular tickets are $25.  Register now on Eventbrite!

A video taste of the 2010 NetSquared Camp

Vancouver Salesforce Nonprofit User Group: Processing credit cards with IATS Brickwork

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When: Wednesday, November 16. 5:30 – 7:30 pm

Where: The HiVE. 210 – 128 W Hastings St

Processing donations and payments is a pain.

First you need to enter the credit card into into a Point Of Sale machine (if  you have even have one), then you need to record that payment on the individual or organization’s record (if you’ve got a database). There’s a lot of hardware, paper and potential for error.

IATS Brickwork might be a solution for you. It removes the hardware and automatically adds donations to your Salesforce Contacts because you enter the credit card info directly into Salesforce. Come check out the demo. Make them hard questions!

What is IATS?

A credit card processing company that specialized in serving nonprofits. They have a website.

What is Brickwork?

Check it out on the Salesforce App Exchange.

Here’s what IATS says:

Process both one-time and recurring credit card or ACH transactions from within any Salesforce CRM edition. All credit card types are accepted for both US and Canadian transactions. Let BRICKWORK by IATS Payments help your organization today!

Integrates seamlessly into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM Editions.

Give your donors the choice of making single or recurring gift donations with their Visa, MasterCard, American Express and Discover cards in US or Canadian dollars.

Create seamless, online donation pages with the integrated IATS product, AURA.

BRICKWORK is a FREE native Salesforce Application that brings the power of IATS Payments processing directly to your Salesforce environment. Whether donations come over the phone or through your website, BRICKWORK enables your organization to process credit card payments and maximize revenue.

Integrated into the Nonprofit Starter Pack and all Salesforce CRM editions, BRICKWORK eliminates the hassle of manual data entry by automating the payment information and record creation. Real-time processing allows for greater workload efficiency and instantaneous results. With the ability to create donation pages directly from the AURA custom tab, taking your fundraising efforts online has never been easier.

As a Level 1 Payment Card Industry (PCI) certified company, IATS ensures all transactions are handled with absolute security and confidentiality.

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P.S. We’ll supply snacks!

New Meetup: Vancouver Salesforce nonprofit user group

Please join me at the first gathering of the Vancouver Nonprofit Salesforce User Group.

RSVP http://salesforcevancouver.eventbrite.com

This group is for anyone at any level using Salesforce in the nonprofit, education or social entrepreneur sectors.
Or even for those are aren’t using it yet, but are merely curious. We’ll be talking about CRM (customer relationship management) issues in general too.

This is your meetup, so the first meeting will be an informal discussion that will allow us to figure out the needs of the nonprofit community and determine what you want from a Salesforce meetup.

And while you’re waiting for the meetup to start why not apply for the Salesforce Foundation software grant?

We encourage neophytes to seasoned developers to share information with the larger community.
What’s working for you? What’s a struggle? What would you want to get out of a Salesforce meetup?

P.S. We’ll supply snacks courtesy of the Salesforce Foundation. (yay!)

RSVP http://salesforcevancouver.eventbrite.com/

DATE AND TIME:
Thursday, September 29, 2011 from 5:30 PM to 7:30 PM

LOCATION:
The HiVE
210 – 128 W Hastings St