Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. It first works with local community people to see what its children need and then tailors programs that are specific to that locale. I especially like Outlook 2007.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 23, 2012

Note from Beth : This is an ongoing series from the Organizational Effectiveness Program team at the Packard Foundation about developing their program funding strategy in an open way or what has been dubbed “Learning In Public.” The OE program works with grantees around the world to build their capacity in these areas.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

I volunteered to be the “expert&# in residence for the “Program&# track of Office Hours. The description: “ Talk with Michelle about internal software systems – document and knowledge management, CRM, client management databases, intranets, etc.&# So, come join me.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

Going mobile will not be free and for many small nonprofits a costly upgrade, but to successfully communicate your mission and programs and fundraise online in coming years, it is a necessary investment. Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, many mobile fundraising apps have come and gone. 3) Live Reporting During TV Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

For many years, I served as a board member for an NGO, The Sharing Foundation , that manages an orphanage and many other programs in Roteang Village, including an education program. The proceeds of my two books have been used to send two young women to college through the Sharing Foundation’s program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

At the same time, many in the group, the Leap Ambassadors Community , were passionate about meeting the needs of small nonprofits, such as youth development programs, environmental programs, churches, arts programs, and others. At the time, its budget was $300,000 and the organization earned $130,000 from its social enterprise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 1, 2007

To back up my operating system and programs as well as data. It probably means to slow down and not try to do so much at such a frenetic pace. But maybe I can be fast and neater? My horrible computer crash has inspired several resolutions about crash proofing my pc. And for data, to use online back up as much as possible as a second back up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2007

Each funder gave an overview gave an overview of their program. Solicitation on the streets for programs at the k-12 level to train students to use cyber tools for science. Partners in Learning program -- gave stats. Program is world-wide. MacArthur Foundation. Talked about the openness to games and the need for research.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 17, 2020

Justin Chavez is a graduate of the Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management program at Arizona State University. He has been in the nonprofit sector since 2007. C havez is also a former U.S. Marine and holds a bachelor’s degree from ASU's W.P. Carey School of Business.

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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. The profits from the BeadforLife Store go into training and community programs in Uganda and education in North America. The National Retail Federation predicts that holiday sales this year will increase 4.1 percent to $586.1

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is a very full-featured image manipulation program. Just about all of what Photoshop does, it does.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

As founder and chief leadership development officer at the Kansas Leadership Center, respectively, O’Malley and Fabris McBride have led thousands of people through programs to help them engage in the act of leadership. A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2007

Just got a press release this morning announcing the launch of the YouTube Nonprofit Program ! YouTube’s 2007/2008 Clinton Global Initiative commitment enables nonprofit organizations (in the U.S. YouTube’s 2007/2008 Clinton Global Initiative commitment enables nonprofit organizations (in the U.S.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

CVS didn’t just remove tobacco from its stores; it launched several programs to help smokers quit. In 2007, the company accelerated efforts to reduce waste and use fewer chemicals through its first fully sustainable product line, the earthkeeper’s boot, setting sustainable standards that have expanded to Timberland’s entire footwear line.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 4, 2016

The best thing you can do for your sustainer program, hands down, is to subscribe to a credit card updater service. I first learned about credit card updater back in 2007. If you don’t yet have a robust sustainer program, here are several ideas for how to build and grow one. I know what you’re thinking.“Really?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

You don’t have to code to do what should be basic tasks using the tool (for instance, this eliminates a good time tracking program, which at some point I might blog about, but that you have to learn scheme[1] to get customized reports with any complexity. )

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 18, 2020

Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? As a result, many organizations cut back on services, made drastic budget cuts—including to employee benefit programs and staffing—to stay afloat, or outright closed. percent from 2007 to 2008, and by nearly 32 percent from 2008 to 2009.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

In September 2007, the U.S. Department of Education Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP) selected our successful Bookshare library as the provider of accessible materials to every student in the U.S. Benetech is working on a new program that will serve these students who are not qualified under the copyright exemption.

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Twenty Hats

MAY 3, 2021

I discovered this shortly after beginning my position, as I tried to find my footing as a new Volunteer Manager in an existing program. Lisa Marie is the Volunteer Manager for the NMNH Volunteer Program. They seek plainly defined roles and rules; and they especially need the consistency of having those rules enforced.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Raiser’s Edge, eTapestry and iMIS are going to have to get themselves into a special tutoring program, if they have a hope of making it. There is a large group of packages, like Salesforce, ODB, Giftworks, that will probably make it, but they might have to settle for second tier schools.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

I do agree, fundamentally, with the four freedoms laid out by the Free Software Foundation : The freedom to run the program, for any purpose (freedom 0). The freedom to study how the program works, and adapt it to your needs (freedom 1). Access to the source code is a precondition for this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

They have a partner program, which is like a lot of partner programs – you have to be vetted, yadda yadda. Having looked at it, it’s a fine license, but it would help them if they used one that is known already, like the GPL, or LGPL, etc.) They also have, at this point, no community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

They are starting with a “charter&# program – a few nonprofit organizations, to iron out all of the varied issues, both technical and logistical, I imagine. And make it reasonably priced. This ups the ante major league for Blackbaud, for sure, as well as other long time desktop donor database providers.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 18, 2017

It is no secret that nonprofits struggle to make ends meet when it comes to costs that cannot be directly attributed to a specific program. In their 2007 Action Guide, Grantmakers for Effective Organizations (GEO) writes, “Inadequate infrastructure leads to inadequate organizational performance. As Sharon King, president of the F.B.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs). I’ll be using it long after I graduate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 29, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Goodbye Microsoft… March 29, 2007 Just today, I received in the mail some Sony Vaio Picturebook laptops, courtesy of Gavin’s regular potlatch program.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. My second blog post in this series will describe how we are growing our Spanish-language program.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

Fine Blog – "The Case Foundation has just released an evaluation of their innovative “Make It Your Own&# program. The Make It Your Own program was a grant program in 2007 created by the Case Foundation to promote “citizen centered&# approaches to local community building. ."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

My last visit to Cambodia was in 2007 and I remember how frustratingly slow the wifi felt compared to high speed access I enjoyed in the US. The restaurant offers some of the best food in Phnom Penh and eating at the restaurant supports the program. I met Sopharath in 2007 and recorded this interview.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2023

Qgiv has been making it possible for nonprofit organizations to accept online payments since its founding in 2007. Nonprofits can choose which donation amount options to offer donors and can even designate specific programs for donors to choose from. Donors can give with their major credit and debit cards or via their PayPal accounts.

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Care2

OCTOBER 18, 2007

Haji celebrated the accomplishments of the past year, which he said were: Bringing two great companies together Making Convio more “client-focused” than it’s ever been Launching Convio’s new partners program Opening up Convio’s product to make it more innovative; and Filing for the IPO.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Soon, we’ll be updating the primer , releasing a report on our survey, starting a training and consulting program, doing a webinar series … phew! As you’ve probably seen, we’ve been pretty busy lately. Lots happening!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 17, 2006

These are Application Programming Interfaces, and they are a relatively new part of the way that Web 2.0 Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 Part Va:APIs October 17, 2006 One of the best parts of Web 2.0 for geeks is APIs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

I have a mirror program – did I use nooooo. It would be easier if we didn’t care! 2 Beth Kanter 02.29.08 at 12:19 pm I should have eaten my own dogfood. My windows just crashed and I had to reformat. I did have everything backed up. love this post! 3 Mackenzie 03.01.08 at 4:22 am Is it a very recent version of X? 4 admin 03.01.08

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

As founder and chief leadership development officer at the Kansas Leadership Center, respectively, O’Malley and Fabris McBride have led thousands of people through programs to help them engage in the act of leadership. A movement that inspires more people to practice leadership where they can and when they can.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I know this first hand because my family and I have been honored to support the college education of two young Cambodia women through the Sharing Foundation ‘s education program. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Following that, Women for Women International moved on WordPress, Facebook, YouTube and Twitter throughout 2008-2010.

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