Bay Area Giving and Volunteering Guide
I'm thrilled to announce that Bay Area nonprofits who have 3 or more reviews will be considered for inclusion in our first ever Bay Area Giving and Volunteering Guide. Similar to Zagats' Guide, this print publication will include reviews of nonprofits along with short descriptions. Our marketing managers are working hard to get the message out to all Bay Area nonprofits. David Weir, on our advisory board, former managing editor of Mother Jones and Salon, has been helping us conceive of the content. The editorial design firm Exbrook, has taken the lead in helping us bring this to life. Look for it this Oct/Nov to be distributed through local newspapers.
Best,
Perla
Website Improvements
Hey all,
Thank you for all your suggestions for improving our website. We were able to get a lot of your ideas implemented in this new release. Marcel, our intrepid developer completed the release this morning.
You'll see:
*Sort by “most recently reviewed” under Find Reviews
*On the “reviews” page is a prominent call to action for nonprofits to solicit reviews – “Add more reviews – ask volunteers, clients…” This links to the email form.
*Location search for “Find Nonprofits” – you can choose the city from a drop-down.
*For the individual advanced profile, we eliminated the fields: “marital status”, “gender”, “Blog or website”
*“Also Known As” field for nonprofits to add past names or other names they are known as.
*There is a Success message for photo upload
*Nonprofits no longer need to choose a “thumbnail” for the search results display page or the homepage. We are now converting their logos to resize. (It’s not perfect, but it’s pretty good).
*For the nonprofit Advanced Profile: fields that are not completed are hidden instead of showing “not yet provided by the nonprofit”.
*The default search option has changed to "and" instead of exact phrase.
Thank you all for all of your helpful suggestions and inquiries. Please keep the good ideas coming. Drop me a line perlani(at)greatnonprofits.org
Best,
Perla
