Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 24, 2010

“A survey of 200 charity and foundation professionals revealed that nonprofits are finding it difficult to determine how valuable social media tools are for their organizations. Make sure you are tracking your “unique visitors&# to your organization’s website from month-to-month. Online giving in 2008 was up 44% from 2007.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 21, 2022

She’ll also share ideas for getting your donors AND other members of your community to feel connected to your work. Farra has led dozens of organizations through major brand overhauls, fundraising campaigns, and much more since joining Big Duck in 2007. To reduce the year-end stress, it starts with a year-round engagement plan.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

This content has been driven by requests from the SEs themselves, looking for help in developing their leadership style and their organizations. Many of the SEs are senior, having been leading their organizations for longer than a decade, and many longer than that. Matthew Bishop of the Economist Magazine made some interesting points.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 28, 2017

As organizations serving public interests, nonprofits answer to the voices of multiple stakeholders. The complex accountability relationships facing nonprofit organizations include responsibilities to donors, clients, community partners, staff members and volunteers.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Benefactor Group is currently working with arts, culture, and educational institutions; human service organizations; the faith community; and others working to improve the quality of life. During her tenure she also served as a senior development officer in the University’s $1.2 billion capital campaign. Share This Post!

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Care2

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

Join us for our latest Care2 Expert Webinar with Dane Grams (formerly of nonprofit GLSEN) and Emily Logan (Senior Campaign Manager at Care2) as they reveal findings about what really works when it comes to welcome series messaging, so you can start your new online relationships with a bang. Which images will make the biggest impact.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 3, 2007

Their real challenges, not the ones they talk about when they are selling their organization! The first was to discuss some issues in small groups we had set the topics for (I was in the group talking about a bigger vision for the movement beyond our individual organizations). The second was all about story-telling.

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Allegiance Group

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

Chariot is working to move more money from DAFs into nonprofits’ hands and do so in a way that enables fundraisers to build relationships with the donors. What Are DAFs, and How Do They Work? A DAF is a fund where an individual puts money or assets to be donated to a charitable organization. Let’s dig in.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 26, 2011

We spend a lot of time and energy focusing on the impact of individual organizations, but how does that translate to the bigger picture? To do this, it looks at the organization's impact on a number of stakeholder groups, such as employees, volunteers, customers/clients, society-at-large, and the environment.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It offers proven, actionable approaches for any company, organization, or community to navigate through that entity’s most pressing challenges. It can be unfamiliar and uncomfortable, but in a culture where everyone leads, organizations start to make progress on their most difficult problems,” explain the authors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Tell the Packard Foundation’s Organizational Effectiveness Program How You Think We Should Do Our Work! One core belief has driven the Organizational Effectiveness program for nearly 30 years: Organizations are more effective at meeting their goals when they have thoughtful strategy, strong leadership, and sound management.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2020

Therefore, if you lead a team at work or within an organization, one of the best ways to work with each of your team players is to tailor your motivation techniques for each individual, and then be prepared to tweak those techniques if necessary as each person grows. And, I totally agree.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

Meet a few of the people who make this volunteer network work. He tirelessly organizes volunteers for Netsquared events all across the world. He likes to work with volunteers because they're passionate about the work, just like him. Here's how Eli got his start as a NetSquared organizer, in his own words.

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Cloud 4 Good

JULY 12, 2022

Salesforce believes that by uniting its suite of marketing products under the Marketing Cloud umbrella, it may be easier for organizations to choose the right marketing tool, based on how the tool shines best. Have there been any changes to how the product works? Pardot’s name has been changed to Marketing Cloud Account Engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

A recent work product from this community includes “ Small, But Mighty ,” created by a small group led by Debra Natenshon and Karen Walker, the guest post authors. Often, we think of “high performance” as something only for large organizations, but smaller nonprofits can apply the ideas too.

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Qgiv

APRIL 18, 2022

While not a CRM, your fundraising platform does capture data about your donors that you can put to work for your nonprofit by establishing an integration between your fundraising platform and a CRM. Qgiv offers a variety of tools that help make fundraising easier for nonprofit organizations. Get to know the Qgiv fundraising platform.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

About the expert: Amanda Ross is the owner of BrashBerry – creative web design and growth agency for Social Good and Nonprofit organizations that builds stuff their audience will love and inspires them to take action. How to make your “Donate” button stand out on your website. Lead generation. New fundraising ideas. billion capital campaign.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

An organization's dashboard is an internal report and the data not shared publicly (although NTEN shared its Dashboard spreadsheet template recently). . What if the default was to share your organization's dashboard openly with everyone? I remember blogging about it when I first noticed it in November, 2007.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

Once you have looked out for the safety and well being of your employees by implementing work from home, social distancing, and community hygiene, it is critical that you turn your attention to your organization’s future fiscal health. Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

He has some good ideas and suggestions about how to be transparent as an organization through the website. I do think the biggest mistake an organization can make in the re/creation of its website is to go with the vendor with the lowest bid. Check This List 07.28.08 Check This List 07.28.08

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

These are the best numbers we’ve seen since the beginning of the Great Recession in late December 2007. BFAS runs the largest no-kill animal sanctuary in the United States and works nationwide to create a time of No More Homeless Pets. Best Friends Animal Society Store. Field Museum Online Store. Paul Getty Museum Store.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

Advisers contribute their skills and expertise to provide training and mentoring to help amplify the work of anti-trafficking organizations in Cambodia. If you know my work, you know I have a strong connection to Cambodia because I adopted two beautiful children from the country who are now teenagers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too. at 4:17 pm We are finding that to stand out there has to be something that provides and opportunity for the organization to be remembered. Recently, in working with a number of our domestic violence organizations we came up with a logo for the message.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

That the old metrics aren't working. If you use web site metrics to evaluate the success of your blog, they don't work for a lot of reasons. There was some push back from someone in the audience "How can we measure virtual worlds when we really haven't yet figured out what works and what doesn't. Two years ago.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Through speaking, training, and consulting, she shows social purpose organizations how to use social media and storytelling to build communities, showcase impact, and advance their causes. She has spent almost thirty years working in the nonprofit world helping organizations communicate more effectively internally and externally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2009

Note from Beth: Last May, Mark Pescue published a provocative essay called the "Tower and the Clouds" which talked about the tension between working in traditional, hierarchical nonprofits and the "cloud" like behavior of working with social media. Should they establish a nonprofit for their work to support growth?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. Cloud computing just doesn’t make any sense, or work in any reasonable way without it (have you ever tried to use Gmail on dial up?) at 2:23 pm Hi, thanks for the mention of Gliffy in your writeup.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 29, 2010

Earlier this week, an announcement on the Causes Application blog broke the news that over $20 Million has been donated since May 2007 via donors using the social networking application. How many fans does your organization’s Fan Page have, or how many members are in your facebook Group? 25 median donation amount.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

Purpose is an organization’s aspirational reason for being, beyond profits alone. It’s why an organization matters to people. Despite this, less than half of employees know what their organization stands for and what makes it different. So, how do organizations pursue purpose successfully? What’s next?

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Double the Donation

JULY 15, 2021

This innovative integration now identifies high-value donors from within the 360MatchPro portal, providing actionable donor wealth data designed to drive revenue for your organization. 360MatchPro works with DonorSearch to help your organization identify the best donor outreach opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 1, 2007

Here's how it works: NTC conference participants and local DC area volunteers team up, pick an organization to share their skills and expertise with and spend a few hours on-site. I got to work with a colleague, Dirk Slater, and watch him work with clients! The partners include NTEN, NPower Greater DC, and DC-Cares.

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Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

From an outsider’s eye, volunteer management may look easy: just be friendly when volunteers come in and thank them when they leave; be thankful you even have volunteers coming in to do the mission-oriented work. If only our work was that simple. I was with my organization long before I became the volunteer manager.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

Dataportability.org – the organization, has gotten a lot of press in the tech industry lately because some very big players recently joined. I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0 I think as nonprofit organizations begin to work more and more using Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

I’ve been doing this work for more than 10 years now, full time for about seven of those years. I got to be a geek, and feel like I was really making a difference in the workings of organizations, and, hopefully, in people’s lives. And, I think I did that. at 5:25 pm Good luck, Michelle. 2 Michelle Murrain 03.19.07

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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.) But I think more is needed. Most of the time, for clients, this doesn’t matter.

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