Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2019

For example, letting supporters know that their donation will help feed a family of four or send a child to school for a year is more powerful than simply asking for a specified amount of money. Ask, clearly. Many of your supporters will be happy to participate and help you raise funds — but you have to ask !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008? As we move into 2008, one last reflection, what are you lessons learned about Nonprofits and Social Media ? Let's take a look.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

World Giving Index Charities Aid Foundation looked at three different types of charitable behavior – giving money, giving time and helping a stranger and used the results to produce the “World Giving Index.&# Especially when they help reveal a lot of information in a visual format. Here are five good nonprofit infographics worth looking at.

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Neon CRM

APRIL 27, 2023

Mark founded Cathexis Partners in 2008, providing technical and consultative services to nonprofits of all sizes and types. When you thank them, be specific about how much money your organization has raised due to their support, and let them know what your organization will do with the funds raised.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Pledge money to purchase online game tokens, which you can send to anybody. The New York Times has a cool visualization of how people around the world spend their money. You know, back when people were still spending money. Play2Cures , from the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society. The mini-golf game nearly derailed this newsletter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. At that time she made and raised $2,000 using Chipin, using the case study I had documented where I raised money to send a young Cambodian women to college.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Open source is becoming mainstream, and people (that is, people with money) are starting to throw big bucks in the direction of open source projects, and companies that provide services for open source projects. A company that provides services for Ruby on Rails got a bunch of funding.

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Crowdrise is an innovative, crowd-sourcing community of volunteers and fundraisers that are answering the call to service, raising money for charity, and having the most fun in the world while doing it.&#. The big differentiator for Crowdrise is the built in community that encourages people to raise money and awareness while earning points.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 24, 2014

Which audience will help you raise the most money? Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time. Not much has changed since 2008. Beth Kanter, the nonprofit social media guru, pointed out in 2008 that social media takes time. Not much has changed since 2008.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

NTEN's own Holly Ross suggests a simple formula: (Time & Money Saved + Money Earned) - (Time & Money In) = ROI. Money earned is easy, but how do you figure if you're saving time and money? Determine the ROI of Social Media. That sounds about right.

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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. Given that they were the children of the financial crisis of 2008-2009, they didn’t have the income to support significant giving. Qgiv has been fortunate to make wonderful friends over the years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. So, if you’re searching for great data entry services for outsourcing, make your money work twice as hard like we do. We go way back with her firm. Samasource connected us with Daproim in Nairobi to proofread books for our Bookshare project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 19, 2007

They had realized that if they did that, the client organizations could begin to raise money themselves, instead of depending so heavily on this certain nonprofit. I was, of course, surprised (that’s mild, I was frankly horrified – wasn’t it the mission of this certain nonprofit to help the client nonprofits raise money?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

August 11, 2008 You’ve likely heard a lot about “ cloud computing “ And what’s true is that the sales-talk about computing in the cloud certainly makes the conceptual issues behind it, honestly, well, cloudy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 2, 2008

December 2, 2008 In general, although I am sometimes asked, I tend to avoid assisting clients with choosing a donor database package. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How’s that donor database of yours? of use in very large organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 21, 2007

The third book is in a bit of a different category – not about landing more business, per se, but making more money. To explain a bit – he does big money consulting with huge Fortune 500 companies, and does projects for hundreds of thousands of dollars that result in the companies saving, or making, millions.

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Robert Weiner

NOVEMBER 14, 2009

The survey is based on responses from about 200 mid-sized nonprofits (defined as having revenues between $1 and $5 million annually) between July 2008 and March 2009. More than 70 percent of respondents indicated that they had raised less than $100 or did not know whether they had raised any money. read more.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. They don’t have the money, time, or culture for that kind of thing. So “keeping up&# means so much more than it ever did before.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. But a few more people will have a lot more money in their bank accounts. It doesn’t really change anything. Nonprofits still have decisions to make about what software to use.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

And, it’s still clear that CRM/Fundraising software is where the money and resources are going in nonprofit software development. But a few more people will have a lot more money in their bank accounts. It doesn’t really change anything. Nonprofits still have decisions to make about what software to use.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 3, 2017

On October 3, to raise money for the war, the U.S. I tell my students that the deduction is a “tool of government”: the federal government gives us financial incentives to spend our money in certain productive ways. Hager joined the faculty at ASU in 2008. The United States was drawn into the war in the spring of 1917.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 22, 2006

I understand how important fundraising is (especially now as the coordinator of an organization that needs money,) but why aren’t there 5 big companies jockeying for space to provide nonprofits with reasonably priced, say, client management packages?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

They are really putting their money where their mouth is, in terms of working toward more openness. Their new version, MT4, looks pretty good, and it’s a great thing that it’s now open source (released under the GPL v2, interestingly enough.) I’m liking Six Apart more and more these days.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

If a social mashup starts making money from ads, how would that be split up between the host site, the app developer, and all the other applications or social networks from which that mashup pulls data? O’Reilly doesn’t really have an answer for that one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

A friend loves his, but I’m not ready to plunk the money down yet as most of the books I want to read just aren’t available digitally yet (like say, textbooks…) 2 admin 11.26.07 Kindle is a bust for me. { 3 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Elwing 11.26.07 at 1:28 pm Look at the iRex Iliad. at 1:52 pm Thanks!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits February 14, 2008 These are tidbits of things I’ve gotten recently from vendors, or gotten via feeds or twitter. Kintera opens a Developers Challenge. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 18, 2007

Microsoft is a powerful company, with a lot of money in the bank, and a near ubiquitous market penetration in some quarters. Just threatening to sue, threatening to get license fees (which, for some open source projects would be a major problem) is enough to make people doubt the future of open source. It’s all about fear, really.

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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. Of the 53% of nonprofits that spend money on social advertising, only 17% invest in Twitter Ads compared to 97% who spend on Facebook Ads and 47% on Instagram Ads, according to the Open Data Project.

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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.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Frustrations March 9, 2008 As some of you who follow me on Twitter know, I ran into frustrations a few days ago with WPA. This does, for sure, hobble the usability of Linux on the desktop. This is my dilemma.

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Care2

MAY 3, 2011

This was true for Obama’s 2008 campaign for President, and remains true for most, if not all, nonprofits raising money online. Yes, you need a secure, functioning website where you can send people so they can donate money online. Email remains the primary driver of online donations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It’s commercial, but it’s just $5 per month, so I don’t regret the money I send. Now I know. 2 Sterry 10.12.07 at 3:45 am I don’t like the way Basecamp is set up. I use Wrike; it’s built differently and seems to work better for me. Check it out [link]. It gives me much more. 3 Dustin J. Mitchell 10.25.07

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NetWits

DECEMBER 13, 2010

Find out how they raised their money and what additional help your organization could have provided. Larger teams mean more people raising more money. Include money raised, number of participants, milestones reached, and plans for next year. Consider inviting several of your top fundraisers to your next planning meeting.

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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. it is particularly sad because its still virtually impossible to spend grant money on GNU/Linux support, people like to fund shiny hologram boxes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

And, maybe they’ll even figure out that open will likely make them more money than closed. A few years down the road, when successive updates of the iPhone get hacked, they will give up, and open it up. But for all of Steve Jobs smarts, sometimes he can be pretty dumb. So what am I going to replace my current phone with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2008

Last August, 2008, 250 wired geeks at Gnomdex used Twitter to raise college tuition for a young Cambodian woman in 90 minutes ! It wasn't the last time either. In October, 2007, using Twitter - and with Chris Brogan's help (and 81 other people) we sent a young Cambodian woman to college in 24 hours.

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