Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. Including links, of course, also helps increase traffic to your website. Like breaking news, cause awareness and giving day tweets have a short news cycle in the here and now that Twitter users respond to.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 13, 2020

Give Lively. Founded: 2014 Give Lively builds tech for peak fundraising experiences on both the donor and nonprofit side. And they give it all aways for free (except standard credit card fees or 3rd party costs like Stripe). MobileCause is a one-stop-shop for online giving. Online Course. Click To Tweet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Nonprofit Technology Link Love July 30, 2008 Here are posts from a small sampling of bloggers I regularly read: Holly Ross shows her geek cred in a great post about DNS. Beth is, of course, THE web 2.0

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Care2

JULY 19, 2010

If your nonprofit has been contemplating entering online fundraising contests, check out the 2009 American Giving Challenge report released by the Case Foundation. Over the course of 30 days, individuals competed for donors donations and matching awards for their favorite charities. The challenge raised $2.1

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 17, 2009

All key metrics declined for the index as a whole for the first quarter of 2009 as compared to the first quarter of 2008. Grizzard says that "when others scale back on their fundraising efforts, it presents an opportunity to cut through the clutter for those that stay the course."

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. She suggests not to panic, and not to change course – keep steady, and keep communicating.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Post-NTC Ramblings March 24, 2008 It was a great week. I want to give huge props to Holly and all of the NTEN crew for putting on a fabulous conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 17, 2008

It may, depending on pricing, even give the open source CiviCRM a bit of competition. Of course, the proof will be in the pudding – we’ll find out over time how this app works, and whether organizations like it. And it means an interesting dance for those in the nonprofit salesforce community.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 25, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What software freedom means to me June 25, 2008 I got some interesting comments on the last post about Linux desktops. So here goes. I got involved in Linux a long time ago.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 13, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Back Channels, Workflow, Data, Twitter, and me March 13, 2007 I read Beth’s recent blog entry on Twitter , and of course, the neo-luddite in me said “waste of time!&# And then there is data.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 4, 2016

She has taught undergraduate and graduate courses on such diverse subjects as Program Evaluation & Information Management, International NGOs, and Philanthropy. I joined ASU in Fall 2008, and it’s been 8 years. Lili Wang, Ph.D., For how long have you worked at ASU? What were you doing before this? What are you working on now?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

You just need to give them a little shove in the right direction sometimes. Then, of course, there are blogs , and podcasts , and video , and. Add your voice to the discussion today! Share Your Story. And by "your", we mean your supporters, because with Social Media, they're the ones extending your brand. Balderdash!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

June 24, 2008 I’m doing a webinar on Linux Desktops next month, and it’s making me think a lot about my own experience using Linux on the desktop, and where I think things are going. I’m giving up. And, of course, there are plenty of peripherals that don’t work with Macs.) And, guess what?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 13, 2020

America has a long and rich history of national service, often turning to it as a powerful lever in times of crisis, as it did after 9/11, Hurricane Katrina and the Great Recession of 2008. It was a mandate to seek out young people whose best qualities might otherwise be overlooked and to give them a chance to do something meaningful.”.

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 20, 2018

Nonprofits follow vastly different missions from one another and the assumption is that employees who choose to work for these organizations have more intrinsic-based motivations than their partners in the other sectors (Riddles & McCandless, 2008). Essential Texts for Nonprofit and Public Leadership and Management). Hoboken: Wiley.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2013

I delivered the keynote there in 2008 and taught a workshop, “ Take Me To The Social Web.” May 16, 2013: ConnectingUp Conference Keynote I will be giving a keynote at the conference. I am excited for a return visit to Australia. I will be talking about several themes including learning from failure.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 14, 2007

And of course, my problem here is that my background is in science, not marketing – so I find it impossible to look at data and not see its weak points. at 1:16 am Hi, I wanted to let you know about the Nonprofit December Giving Carnival. 3 Christopher Scott 12.17.07 Deadline to submit your post is Dec.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger. a11y accessibility blind blindness Bookshare DAISY ebooks education giving India Lavelle Fund for the Blind philanthropy print disabilities'

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

A 2008 study shows that the nonprofit sector employs approximately 13 million people in the United States. [1] In fact, the study found that 75% of senior managers support taking NMI courses and 60% pay all or part of the tuition for their staff. We welcome your comments and feedback. We welcome your input and feedback. ^ [1] Wing, K.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

It was also part of my job to give advice where it was appropriate, but I have come to realize, in my current position of being apart from building things, that I had a bit of myopia, as all builders and vendors do. It was, a while ago, part of my job to build technology solutions for people.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

You also ignore my argument about the 2008 security audits of Drupal that resulted in numerous vulnerability reports, but more on that later. It’s simply not enough to say “Plone feels more secure&# without giving something concrete. at 1:55 pm { 7 comments… read them below or add one } 1 David Strauss 04.03.09

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

A long time ago (in web years) I was working with a certain CEO of a certain chapter of a certain very-big-nonprofit (whose role in life is to fund other nonprofits – this kinda gives it away, but it’s necessary for the story.) So, guess what? No web development help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

Lela talked about how and why sound founded this enterprise in 2008 and their programs that are disrupting poverty. He said in the future there will sensors on livestock that will give us data about them. ” And, of course, someone set up a spoof Twitter account. He was talking about the issue of food waste.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

"I believe Moosejaw is relatively successful because we made it fun, in the same way we're making giving back fun with Crowdrise. Show notes My Juicy Blogging e-course starts tomorrow, February 2nd. If you have suggestions for people I should interview, please email me at britt AT brittbravo DOT com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Nonprofit insiders are watching and debating how ALS will use the money and the donor retention strategy. And, of course the valid concern of wasting water in a drought. I chronicled some of these back in 2008. Kevin Conroy who works for Global Giving created a quiz about ALS to help everyone learn more about.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Of course, life is rarely that simple. In 2008, NTEN began asking the community to tell us what they thought of the tools they use. First, we hope it gives you a resource for helping you make better software selection decisions. The reality is that most nonprofits use a variety of software to meet their many needs. We wanted to.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

I use furl to keep pages that have content that I absolutely want to keep, in case the site goes away (furl could go away, of course, so maybe I should save that stuff to my hard drive – they have a cool export feature.) Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments. Bookmarking saves me time, for sure.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2009

All key metrics declined for the index as a whole for the first quarter of 2009 as compared to the first quarter of 2008. Grizzard says that "when others scale back on their fundraising efforts, it presents an opportunity to cut through the clutter for those that stay the course."

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

I have always believed that if “outsiders” could learn of our charity, they would want to help, as we give such great reporting and photographs of the kids helped, and because our overhead is so low. And of course each individual donor who contributed during the challenge allowed even more precious funds to come in for the kids.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 24, 2010

I want to share some lessons this celebration of gratitude and giving and the program's approach that I think are relevant to organizing social nonprofit campaigns. Simplicity played a big role in the success of the first TweetsGiving in 2008. Simplicity Rules. Online Fundraising Social Networking Web 2.0

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

I have always believed that if “outsiders” could learn of our charity, they would want to help, as we give such great reporting and photographs of the kids helped, and because our overhead is so low. And of course each individual donor who contributed during the challenge allowed even more precious funds to come in for the kids.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

The down side is the potential for technology glitches and, of course, not being in the room to catch the audience vibe. We got around those challenges quite well. Sometimes it has worked swimmingly like this one with Amy Sample Ward in 2008, other times not. Avoiding Technology and Presentation Fail. Talk about multi-tasking.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

Since the first American L3C was started only in 2008, this concept is relatively new to the business and legal world. This allows for private foundations to meet the tax obligation that requires them to give at least five percent of their assets every year to charitable causes. Should I start an L3C? All in all….

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Care2

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

» Friday Nov 09 2007 A Procrastinators Guide to Year-End Fundraising Friday, November 9, 2007 at 02:38PM | by James OMalley Its November, crunch time for nonprofit fundraisers looking to cash in on some of the Yuletide cheer of the giving season. Sarah Sheard sheard at 3MilSys.com November 17, 2008 | Sarah Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

How does giving resources to nonprofits to help them understand how to use web stats to do internal assessment of web strategy inconsistent with choosing not to publish raw web stats? I don’t quite understand why you won’t give the same advice to Holly. For one thing, feeding people is not what NTEN does. 6 Katrin 09.19.07

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

60) Search « Convio Online Marketing Nonprofit Benchmarks Released | Main | LOLseals: Flickr API Contest Gets HSUS Over 3,000 Entries » Tuesday Mar 25 2008 Whats an Email Address Worth? Tuesday, March 25, 2008 at 12:36PM | by Eric Rardin How to Measure the Value of an Online Supporter Over here at Care2 we get this question a lot.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 19, 2016

An integrated telemarketing campaign converted the donors who didn’t give online and turned them into campaign-long sustainers. Of course, this is where I insert a plug for my former employers, GetActive and Convio, who each powered parts of Dean’s online campaign and went on to bring these tools deeply into the nonprofit space.

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