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Juneteenth is included in Fíonta’s holiday calendar. Juneteenth is the oldest nationally celebrated commemoration of ending slavery in the United States. From its Galveston, Texas, origin in 1865, the observance of June 19 as the African American Emancipation Day has spread across the United States and beyond. Juneteenth commemorates African-American freedom and emphasizes education and achievement. […]

Background Senior technical architect, David Manuel, recently completed his fourth tour of the AIDS/LifeCycle ride, a 545-mile ride from San Francisco to Los Angeles. Each participant is required to fundraise a minimum of $3,500; in 2022, the organization and riders raised $17,783,163! Over seven days, the cyclists sweat it out together, celebrate their wins, support […]

Hola Asistente is a text-based application (SMS messaging and Twilio) that helps immigrants navigate the immigration process. Working closely with Mobile Pathways, we developed a critical part of this program: the system which tracks and updates an individual’s court date. Immigration court is notorious for changing court dates and times without notification. It is not […]

Migrating from Raiser’s Edge to Salesforce is a multi-step process. Learn how to get started on this long but rewarding process by first preparing your data.

This may be a big ask but tell me about the position you were hired for eight years ago(!) and how it’s evolved over the years. I just dug up my original offer letter and it looks like I was hired as a Junior Designer! We were Confluence (not Fíonta) back then and had a […]

Every day this month, Fíontan Cody Hamilton is sharing biographies, articles, and history in Slack to honor and celebrate the achievements and stories of the LGBTQI+ community. Follow along each day and explore the external links for more information. Please share and amplify these resources with your network! June 30 Lana and Lilly Wachowski, also […]

Another gorgeous day where we are. The trees are blooming, and everything has turned a healthy shade of green. After such a long winter, it’s always surprising that life springs back into action as the weather warms. We took a nice walk this morning down to the river with the dogs, and now it’s back […]

Associations and chapters are finding it difficult to recruit volunteers, especially for leadership roles. This disturbing trend was emerging before the pandemic, but according to VolunteerPro’s 2022 Volunteer Management Progress Report, it’s now worse. The number of active association and nonprofit volunteers dropped from a pre-pandemic average of 100 to 250 per organization to 1 […]

Are you looking for a soup-to-nuts way to manage competitive awards from within Salesforce? We covered Salesforce’s free Outbound Funds Module (OFM) in our first webinar – but OFM is also a building block of the most robust native Salesforce tool currently available for grantmaking organizations, Grants Management (GM). What are the differences between the […]

We often receive inquiries from nonprofit organizations and associations who wonder if a WordPress multisite is the right choice for their organizations’ website needs. They want to manage chapter sites, have several departments that want their “own” websites without managing a complete build, or need a branded website presence for events held annually. Here are […]