Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. These folks do astonishing work. And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2011

It usually doesn’t work out so well. Said another way – what works offline also works online. Examples and practical tips to live by. MailerMailer’s 2010 Email Marketing Metrics Report, MarketingSherpa “Email Marketing Benchmark Guide” 2008. Ever buy something that’s “one size fits all?”

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Achieve leverages technology in everything it does to cost-effectively help the nonprofit organizations it works with. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

My interview with Bob Lynn, the technology manager at the Omaha, Nebraska branch of Habitat for Humanity, is a lesson in the advantages of remote work tools. Habitat for Humanity has been working to serve the nearly 100 million homeless and 2 billion people living in slum housing around the world since 1976.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 28, 2022

Mark Becker, Founding Partner at Cathexis Partners – Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

For example, review funds raised based on your top fundraisers’ connection to your organization. For example, create email audiences based on past participation and past team membership. For example, at the beginning of the week, issue a challenge via your website, social media, and email. Send out a call for videos.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

Create an “About Us” page in the catalog that gives examples of how you’ll use the auction funding to further your mission. Many auction items come as a bundle—for example, a concert experience might include two front-row seats, merchandise, and a photo opportunity with the artist. List everything the winner will receive.

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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. For example, donations to food banks in 40 cities increased by 2.2 This decline is not anecdotal.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Kevin Gilnack workes for the Providers Council. This is an example of how you can use social media to crowdsource your professional development and learning. Especially in workforce development, as it's very possible that those with questionable profiles could benefit from your work. Thank you Kevin!

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OCTOBER 7, 2008

From the article : "For example, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency) partnered with Care2 ,an activist social network of over 8 million Americans, to promoteawareness of the deterioration of coral reefs. The idea was that thefederal agency would work with Care2 to build support for the International Year of the Reef 2008.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Pencils of Promise (PoP) was founded in October 2008 to help build safe and healthy learning environments for young children worldwide. For example, Pencils of Promise will be hosting, for the first time in two years, its PoP Gala on October 20 at the Museum of the Moving Image in New York City.

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Qgiv

MAY 14, 2021

Mark Becker founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions. Target your coaching and fundraising emails too. Automate your targeted communications.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 1:15 pm links for 2008-07-28 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog 07.28.08

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Care2

OCTOBER 3, 2008

From the article : "For example, NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency) partnered with Care2 , an activist social network of over 8 million Americans, to promote awareness of the deterioration of coral reefs. The idea was that the federal agency would work with Care2 to build support for the International Year of the Reef 2008.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. Around the time of the Nonprofit Technology Network ’s 2008 NTC conference, an even brighter light bulb went on. It’s a difficult concept to explain, but hopefully this makes sense.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

From planting trees to cleaning parks, eating less meat and reusing plastics, my kids are real examples of living a values-based existence day to day so we can all do better for each other and the world. We’ve worked tirelessly to grow the movement, and support new groups as they’ve formed. The science is frightening.

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Qgiv

JUNE 7, 2021

Mark Becker founded Cathexis Partners in 2008 to help nonprofit organizations get the most from their existing technology tools, implement new technology to address gaps, and find the best overall approach to using technology to support their missions. Target your coaching and fundraising emails too. Automate your targeted communications.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 11, 2021

For example, growth is a priority for many founders. Question: Do you believe someone is more likely to be a successful entrepreneur if they previously worked in a non-entrepreneur business? Question: Do you believe someone is more likely to be a successful entrepreneur if they previously worked in a non-entrepreneur business?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

February 29, 2008 OK, so we all know that I have been eating my own dogfood (that is, using Linux on the desktop) for a while now. I spent 3 hours struggling with the Nvidia drivers (that’s the on-board video that my motherboard has) and my xorg configurations still don’t work. (X No happiness for me. 6 Brian 03.01.08

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 17, 2009

Voting will: Sharpen your understanding of what works and what doesn’t communications-wise. Give you the chance to register for the free 2009 Nonprofit Tagline Report, with 2,500 tagline examples. Vote here for the 2009 Getting Attention Nonprofit Tagline Awards. Inform and inspire your foundation’s messaging.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

What can you do to continue to address the work that needs to be done to achieve your organization’s mission? These types of trainings are often free to customers and provide a fast and convenient way for your staff to learn how to use your organization’s software to get their work done.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

While driving to work recently I heard an NPR report about philanthropic giving in the US; but it was not the numbers I had just read in Giving USA 2012 published by the Giving USA Foundation and compiled by the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University. Giving USA’s number for individual giving in 2008 is $214 billion.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2013

I just spent two amazing days at the Social Innovation Summit 2013 , a cross disciplinary crowd of people who work on social good in the areas of technology, investment, philanthropy, international development, and business. As a premier provider of digital services , they deliver a steady flow of work to people around the world.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

My role has been to gather up the use cases (specific examples of translation processes). That’s been a very interesting process, and we have been generating some good examples that will be really helpful in the process of figuring out what tools are present that can do what’s needed, and what gaps exist.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 3, 2020

“In the next ten to fifteen years, rapid change in a post-pandemic world and emerging technology will revolutionize nearly every job, eliminate some, and create new forms of work that we have yet to imagine,” says Deanna Mulligan , author of the new book, Hire Purpose: How Smart Companies Can Close The Skills Gap. The future of work is now!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 9, 2007

So, here is a real life example of someone with a measly 195 records in her contacts database. So my next task is to really try out evolution, and see how it works for me. Its the client I use at work, but I have even fewer contacts than you do. I rail against vendors who promote lock-in. Actually there is a fourth option.

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JUNE 23, 2023

For example, a chocolate-themed basket will grab more supporters’ attention if it’s called something like “The Chocolate Connoisseur” or “A Celebration of Chocolate.” For example, many businesses are willing to sponsor nonprofit auctions by providing prizes as in-kind donations or at a reduced rate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology SaaS vs. Open Source September 24, 2008 I just finished writing a post for the Idealware blog about choosing SaaS vs. Open source. But the real story is much more complicated. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

On the theme of this week in the US – Thanksgiving day, Elisa, of Nonprofit Congress, is thankful for her work. She’s thankful for both the practical, and more abstract ways her work sustains her. Nancy Schwartz of Getting Attention has some great examples (that I’ll be using really soon!)

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OCTOBER 17, 2006

One of the best examples of the use of APIs are Google Map mashups. Other examples include desktop applications that allow uploading photos to flickr. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Web 2.0 for geeks is APIs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Once they saw how meaningful that work was, they kept coming back. We did a survey of hundreds of professionals during the 2008 and 2009 downturn, and found that often wasn’t the case. For example, you have your HR team who focuses on employee engagement, and a philanthropy team focused on giving back.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

79% of LinkedIn’s users, for example, are 35 or older and have high paying jobs. Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time. Not much has changed since 2008. 1) Not All Social Media Channels Are Created Equal. Each social media channel (i.e.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

Is success of the Ice Bucket Challenge a happy accident for ALS and the people who suffer from the disease or is the first example of the power of crowd charity? Can other nonprofits reproduce it? I chronicled some of these back in 2008. Ice Bucket Challenge in winter time would not have worked. (6)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 18, 2007

From both a business point of view and from the point of view of how our sector should work to heighten transparency in society at large, there’s no reason to limit the ability of coders to learn about and discuss the API at hand. And the big guys have already done this work, check out the way Google and Amazon distribute their API s.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 7, 2011

Though it doesn’t exist yet, it is hard to fathom that mobile-optimized petitions are not in the works at petition sites like Change.org or Care2 , or that an unknown, yet-to-be-launched new service solely dedicated to m-advocacy and the Mobile Web is coming soon. 2) Mobile-optimized petitions “signed&# through smartphone apps.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

They do a good job of using examples for each of these things (like why Southwest Airlines is so successful, and why the Kidney Heist urban legend sticks so well, among other stories. It uses examples and such, but it is not anywhere near as engaging and readable as “Made to Stick.&# He thinks that time-based billing is bad.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology WeAreMedia Project August 13, 2008 Yet another great NTEN project is happening, spearheaded by Beth Kanter, to develop a Social Media toolkit for Nonprofits. I think I can write something up.

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