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10 Things Fundraisers Can Do to Adapt During the COVID-19 Pandemic and Beyond

Connection Cafe

At the same time, very little has happened. What’s true in good times is true in difficult times: the more donors you meet with the more support you will secure for your organization. We have the answer, not just a problem. We shouldn’t just go to our donors with a problem and expect them to fix it with money.

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Linux desktops?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

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 have had varied problems , from issues of software integration, video problems, wireless issues … The list is getting very long.

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How Donate Now, Pay Later is Transforming Millennial & Gen Z Giving for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Those under 45 have faced the changing global dynamics of 9/11, the financial crisis of 2008, and the COVID-19 pandemic–the results of these major events have been felt extremely acutely as these younger Americans entered the workforce, built families, and attempted to build wealth against these headwinds. more on average. It’s that easy.

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Yahoo! Supports OpenSocial; Yahoo!, MySpace and Google to Form Non-Profit OpenSocial Foundation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Just saw a press release from Yahoo, Google, and MySpace about OpenSocial Foundation. For now, here's the basics culled from the press release, official blog posts, and blog commentary. Nick from Social Times adds: My biggest problem with the standard so far has been that it???s s not easy!

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Another problem in theory is fraud, and another problem is that many sites only included last and first names which in a mass of several hundred thousand displaced persons obviously included many duplicates.

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Back to School, Back Online

Amy Sample Ward

It’s back-to-school time for many countries and that means a switch from summer programs, outdoor community events, and many youth campaigns. Read the full press release here or download the Social Media data slides here.) This post originally written September 8, 2009. Posted on Stanford Social Innovation Review’s Opinion blog.

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Being the Media at the Service Nation Summit Sept. 11 & 12

Have Fun - Do Good

I'm sitting in the press area at the Presidential Forum on Service at Columbia University in New York City. The event is part of the September 11-12 Service Nation Summit , a gathering of 600 leaders from a variety of sectors convening to discuss the role that citizen service and volunteering can play in solving the nation's problems.