Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2007

At least in Massachusetts, the majority of nonprofits work with network support people who don’t focus totally on nonprofit organizations (there are some wonderful exceptions, however, of companies that focus on the sector.) Which, of course, is why most people buy Red Hat, instead of installing Fedora or Debian, etc.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 6, 2009

A September 2007 Ode magazine article, Giving Makes Us Happy , describes a 60-year study by Paul Wink of Wellesley College that followed the lives of about 200 people. One of the findings was that many of the people who said they were happy had, "generativity--the ability to give to others." Cross-posted from BlogHer.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

or “collective impact,” this work is characterized by a very different mindset, approach, and set of tools than traditional grant-making or nonprofit work, which has historically focused on supporting programs and organizations, and scaling those up. Are there differences in models by field / industry/ place?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

If your budget is limited, you can distribute the responsibility for using various tools among different staff members, but implementing an effective social media strategy that is dispersed among multiple staff members will require strict organization and disciplined leadership.

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Care2

AUGUST 8, 2007

In order to be successful in the future, a nonprofit must truly look within and figure out what we stands for, what makes each of us different, what value we bring to society and why people should love us. Karen Taggart is a Director of Nonprofit Services at Care2. To create a new comment, use the form below.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2017

Many nonprofits whose missions have a human welfare component are addressing issues that occur as a result of a lack of inclusion and respect for the rights of people who are not part of the dominant culture in America. Clients often feel more comfortable with people who share similarities, as Cecala (2016) notes from her experience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

This article was originally published by Taylor & Francis Online. The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 27, 2013

People who wouldn't dream of investing money without performing the necessary due diligence may blindly give money to organizations that use the majority of donations for executive salaries, fundraising and advertising. When you donate wisely, your gift has the potential to make a real difference in someone's life. Like this article?

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Tech Soup

MAY 28, 2013

If you’re one of the 300 million or so people who used Hotmail free webmail, you probably know by now that Hotmail is no more and that you’ve been switched over to Outlook.com. This one is a bit complicated, so check out Ed Bott ’s ZDnet article: Why I use Outlook.com for my custom email accounts (and how you can too).

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I describe Social Actions as an aggregation of actions people can take on any issue that’s built to be highly distributable across the social web. We pull in donation opportunities, volunteer positions, petitions, event, and other actions from 60+ different sources. That’s today. Originally, adding actions manually. was difficult.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

But what about sites people who do the same kinds of work that you do, or like the same kinds of things that you do? You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? Does it really connect me to people? to Ma.gnolia. Sometimes, but not generally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2009

This morning the Washington Post published an article titled " To Nonprofits Seeking Cash, Facebook App Isn't So Green: Though Popular, 'Causes' Ineffective for Fundraising." When I first saw the article, I thought it was the article from a year ago where they said basically the same thing. Flickr Photo by Vaguely Artistic.

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Care2

JULY 26, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 4, 2011

Consider the following: On the same day in the fall of 2007, two contradictory newspaper headlines accompanied high profile, front-page articles in both the East Valley Tribune and the Arizona Republic. 2] How could two newspapers, drawing from the same data source, interpret research results so differently? Arizona Republic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2007

August 31, 2007 is the third annual Blog Day. I enjoyed Sopheap's recent post about public education about not littering in Cambodia ) After I get back in September, OneWebDay is next community web event on my calendar scheduled for September 22, 2007. For some people, just getting access is an obstacle. For others, it???s

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 19, 2010

I'd often walk into offices and see computers like those above on people's desks. This includes many, many schools, community groups, and grassroots nonprofits that embraced the free service since it opened its doors in 2007 and will now be forced to pay, or relocate their communities, or say farewell. So, if era of free 2.0

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The article features the case study of our client the American Jewish World Service. Instead of simply telling potential donors about the organization’s overseas outreach work, it can show them the people it helps and allow them to hear volunteers and those they help in their own words. But the Internet has changed all that.

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See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

The article features the case study of our client the American Jewish World Service. Instead of simply telling potential donors about the organization’s overseas outreach work, it can show them the people it helps and allow them to hear volunteers and those they help in their own words. But the Internet has changed all that.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

60) Search « The Long, Long Tail of Facebook Causes | Main | Innovative Uses of SMS: SMS for Lunch Campaign » Tuesday Jul 24 2007 Is It Worth It? An ROI Calculator for Social Network Campaigns Tuesday, July 24, 2007 at 09:10AM | by Justin Perkins Wonder if you should spend your time campaigning in social networks?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 8, 2009

I felt like I could make a difference; like we all could. So, for inspiration I encourage you to listen to an interview I did with Van in April 2007 for the Big Vision Podcast online, or on iTunes. That day was a key stepping stone on my journey to figure out how I could have fun and do good.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2007

Bill O'Hanlon is offering a few Have Fun * Do Good readers scholarship spaces in his upcoming How to Write a Book and Get Published seminar in Santa Fe, NM September 21-23, 2007. He will select up to three people to attend the workshop for free ($500 value for each registration). He has written over 50 articles or book chapters.

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Care2

AUGUST 7, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? The developers hope to revolutionize the way people give money, using the principles of group fundraising and social networking. The Data What kind of results are people seeing to date? " or "Fight Hate."

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Care2

JULY 24, 2007

60) Search « Live From New York: 2007 DMA Nonprofit Federation Conference | Main | Is It Worth It? The developers hope to revolutionize the way people give money, using the principles of group fundraising and social networking. The Data What kind of results are people seeing to date? " or "Fight Hate."

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in November 2011. IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

This is an update of a TechSoup article we posted online in September 2009. IT and telecom research firm Gartner Dataquest found that the secondary PC market is growing rapidly: 55 million PCs worldwide in 2004; and 86 million 2007. From 2007 to 2008, the Community MAR program had a 57 percent volume increase worldwide.

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See3

OCTOBER 18, 2007

The main difference between Causes and the Facebook application powered by Convio is that with Convio your application on Facebook will have all of your content delivered directly from your Convio database and CMS. So if you have different initiatives going on, you can’t create different applications for each using this tool.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

People who are already your fan will not see this page by default, but it will be visible and accessible as an extra tab on your regular page. Mashable’s article has great, step-by-step instructions for how to set up this application and finish setting up the landing page. This article was originally published at: [link].

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Care2

MARCH 26, 2009

“Its reassuring that despite the economic downturn most of the metrics they looked at, including average gift size, were flat or up compared to 2007,” said Robert Weiner, who provides technology consulting to nonprofit organizations. “People are still giving. Charities shouldnt be afraid to keep asking.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2009

The audience was a group of 90 or so people from Canadian non-profits. Not just important or famous people, either. Are you connected to lots of different kinds of people who can complete different tasks? What do people say about your expertise? What people are up to now. This is incredibly important.

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Care2

JULY 19, 2007

Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine » Tuesday Jul 17 2007 The Great Debate: DM vs. Online Acquisition Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 04:10PM | by Karen Taggart As a former direct mail diva, I have a constant debate in my head about which type of donor/member acquisition is "best" – online or direct mail?

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Care2

JULY 17, 2007

Fine Interview:Social Media Author Allison Fine » Tuesday Jul 17 2007 The Great Debate: DM vs. Online Acquisition Tuesday, July 17, 2007 at 04:10PM | by Karen Taggart As a former direct mail diva, I have a constant debate in my head about which type of donor/member acquisition is "best" – online or direct mail?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

WSJ article " Will Social Features Make Email Sexy Again? The article describes some mock ups and feature under consideration at Yahoo. Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki. I wholeheartedly agree !

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

Dual leadership (defined as the position of board chair and CEO held by different persons). Accounting Horizons, 2007, 20(1). Like this article? Audit partner rotation after 5-7 years. Separation of audit and non-audit services. Audit committee of board. Executive sessions held by board. Independent board members. Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 26, 2009

. #3 Remember to Hyperlink If you write about an article or another blogger’s post link to it ! When you link to someone else’s post it’s good practice to mention their name, link their name to their blog, and then link to the post you’re referring to (it’s also a good way of getting people to visit your site).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 10, 2011

Yesterday, they published the list of organizations that have lost their exemption from paying income tax due to failure to file required reports in 2007, 2008, and 2009. Thats a delicious mystery, but Ill let the Arkansas people, or the organizations donors, worry about it. I really liked this article. This is great news.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2007

He has set up campaigns on seven different personal fundraising platforms: ChipIn - FirstGiving - GiveMeaning - SixDegrees - Fundable - Change.org - JustGive.org Britt Bravo points us to " Socially Responsible Idol " a write up about the NetSquared Innovation Award nomination and voting process by Jessica Guynn on SFGate.

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