Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 12, 2009

This mind-shift is crucial: creating social media spaces is the only way for organizations to connect their work online, connect their communities online, and the next step forward in actively collaborating within with community. For the full post, visit the SSIR blog here.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

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Haiti Trend Online Giving 82

Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2009

The benchmark data is derived from the activity of over 2 million supporters from 50 campaigning organisations in the UK, Canada, and several other countries. As I announced recently , Advocacy Online and Fairsay have jointly produced a benchmark report to examine key e-campaigning performance measures.

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Review Benchmark Advocacy Database 120

NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

The September 2009 issue of NTEN Connect had a review of trends in online giving. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. The average online gift in December 2009 was $244.17.

Haiti 68

Haiti Trend Online Giving 68

TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 11, 2014

Here are some statistics that might just make you shift your online fundraising efforts away from the younger generations and more toward the baby boomers: In the United States alone, one-third of all Internet users in the United States are adults over the age of 50, and represent the largest constituency of active Internet users.(Jupiter

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Internet United States Generation Statistics 177

See3

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

This year, See3 is playing an active role in Tweetsgiving 2009 , a global celebration that seeks to change the world through the power of gratitude. Last year, Tweetsgiving raised $10,000 to build a classroom in Tanzania.

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Celebrate Tanzania Classroom YouTube 45

NTEN

DECEMBER 18, 2009

The Rhode Island Foundation has a Facebook page with updates about the tech club and other activities. And I'd like to end this round-up, which will be my last round-up for the 2009 year, with: The Nicest Thing Ever : Thanks, Michelle Hines , for this list. I think you made Holly cry. You're one of our heroes, too, don't you know!

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Rhode Island NTEN Georgia Austin 59

NetWits

JUNE 7, 2012

Download the complete 2011 Online Giving Report to learn more about the 13% YoY growth, double-digit growth since 2009 and the top reasons your nonprofit should invest in its online fundraising program. Download the report now! . Promotion is ke y - Donors will not know about new happenings without advertisement and promotion.

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Online Fundraising Benchmark Report 221

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 15, 2008

Lucy Bernholz has been sharing her predictions for philanthropy and buzzwords for 2009. Peter Kim asked a group of social media experts in business for their predictions about social media for 2009. I just have to quote him because he says it sooooo well: "Many of us are going to wake up in 2009 wondering what did we eat?

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Social Media Media Remix Social 50

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 29, 2021

In 2009, Rue Mapp started a blog to share her experience participating in outdoor recreation activities as a Black woman in America. The first post I wrote in 2009 was about a perspective-shifting trip I had taken with a local bike group of people who mostly looked like me.

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History Community Conservancy Leadership 116

VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

In fact, while 36% of individuals participated in volunteer activities in the past year, according to Points of Light’s report , 73% now believe that volunteering will be more important than ever after the Coronavirus. They did after 9/11, during the financial crisis in 2009, after local disasters, and they are doing so again.

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Organization Volunteer Virtual Articulate 98

Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

Except for a short test in 2009 , your nonprofit’s Facebook Fans have never seen all your posts and as most of us have by now have realized, the percentage that do has gotten significantly smaller over time. Personally, I am not surprised or annoyed much by the changes.

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Facebook Feeds Meme News 274

Candid

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Clay Shirky, the author of Here Comes Everyone , wrote in 2009 , “Digital tools don't get socially interesting until they get technologically boring.” As a result, smart tech is becoming available and affordable to everyday people and organizations. We have been here before. Smart tech is about to become boring. .

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Tech Work Nonprofit Minnesota 125

sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

nonprofits, coupled with the 10 major activity areas of charitable organizations to diagram the relative flow of money from each source to each activity area. Nonprofit Economy NPQ’s Illustrated Nonprofit Economy explores the financing of the nonprofit sector.

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Blackbaud Benchmark Nonprofit Chart 87

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Many organizations provide trainings, courses, and varied sorts of learning activities to their constituents. If your organization does this at all, and you are interested in investigating how to enhance or deliver those learning activities through the web, an LMS is for you. Well, that depends of course, on the organization.

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Platform Blackboard Learning Open Source 100

NTEN

OCTOBER 17, 2008

NTEN Staff It's October, which means early renewal for 2009 memberships here at NTEN. It made me think back on 2008 and how much NTEN has grown -- in community and activity -- over the past year. Last week, I sent an email to our current members, thanking them for being part of NTEN in 2008 and reminding them about early renewal.

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Personal NTEN Fun Discussion 36

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Read reviews from real volunteers and share your activities with your friends and family. Updated: May 6, 2009. Get the latest news about the ICRC’s activities around the world plus a selection of photos, videos and publications on current humanitarian concerns. Released: November 16, 2009. Released: March 17, 2010.

Free 229

Free Hunger Mobile Nonprofit 229

Robert Weiner

FEBRUARY 1, 2011

Idealware is updating its 2009 report on low-cost donor databases.

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Report Product Donor Database 122

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

I have been tracking this giving day since its first Giving Day back in 2009 and every year do a debrief post or interview. The basics of it include strong media relations efforts, a media trade program, strategic communications through our own robust channels and active outreach to organizations.

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Minnesota Donation Giving Adwords 131

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

In order to insure email deliverability on blasts, you’ll need to have it hosted somewhere where they are actively dealing with whitelists, etc. Drupal integration is better, but there is a lot of active development going into improving the Joomla integration.

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Open Source Open Tools Free 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

I had hoped to more actively use it once the new version came out. They have had an active user community, many of which, I imagine, are going elsewhere. It’s designed as a basecamp clone. It has some things missing, for sure, but it has been useful to me. However, that won’t happen. activeCollab is going commercial.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

There are times when I couldn’t tell you the last time I sent a tweet, and there are other days when I tweet quite actively. I’m in an active phase right now (hence, the comment)! When I’m making my best efforts to try to keep up, I do it in waves, like so many other things I do. Hmm, I feel a blog post coming on.

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Open Source RSS Journal Tech 124

NetWits

OCTOBER 2, 2009

Friday, October 2, 2009, is LIVE STRONG Day. As part of the LIVESTRONG Action campaign the LIVE STRONG day is focused on unifying people from all around the world through local events and activities that celebrate cancer survivorship. It’s also designed to generate awareness and foster support so the world can be freed from cancer.

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Local Cancer Impact Web 102

NTEN

APRIL 3, 2009

Ethan Zuckerman's " Cute Cat Theory of Digital Activism ": "Web 1.0 (If you have an iPhone, you can get an app that takes it one step further , with links to nearby farmers markets.). Geek poetry. Holly posted a video of the Nonprofit ROI Poetry slam at SXSW. How awesome is it?

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Reddit Digg New York Map 40

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Nptech Unconference Open Source Model 100

Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 26, 2010

Traffic has definitely sloooowed, but the site still has 57 million monthly visitors in the United States ( as of December 2009 ). Syncing your accounts keeps your MySpace profile active and current. The majority have moved on to Facebook and Twitter. That said, MySpace is not dead.

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Myspace Twitter Avatar United States 187

Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Teenager #2 has her dad’s hand-me-down iPhone 4 and my hand-me-down 2009 MacBook. I want to be able to monitor their activities and behavior, not toggle them. I am the one who is accountable for their behavior and activities online and off, and I take that responsibility seriously. Husband has an iPad 3 and iPhone 5.

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Time Ipod Phone Calendar 164

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Select details for more grant detail.

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Map Fund Data Tools 76

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2007

April 12, 2007 Beth Kanter, as always, has a great, informative summary of the Penguin Day activities last Saturday in DC. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Feminism? of women in FLOSS?

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Open Source Open Summary DC 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

But I still haven’t seen much activity on the sourceforge page, nor does it seem that the code for these new projects is available. But, anyway, I’m not putting the silly badge in the sidebar, sorry. MPower has started to generate some community-driven development. These look like pretty interesting, and useful applications.

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Open Source Hype Badge RSS 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

OpenSocial is a set of APIs that handle three different kinds of user data: profiles, social graph (who your friends are) and activities (the stuff of the Facebook news feeds.) But the path to truly portable (with adequate privacy controls) profile, social graph and activity data is still not entirely clear.

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Ning API Open Source Social Network 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Look at ohloh.net – they have great info on most projects – how many developers, lines of code, how active development activity is. Rule of thumb: projects that haven’t had minor releases in a year or more are definitely in danger of becoming projects that are no longer under development.

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Open Source Software Open Free 100

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Last week, from my home office in Montreal, Canada, I wrote up 9 ambitious goals for 2009. My team is actively pursuing foundation grants, event sponsorships, individual monthly donations and consulting services. Our efforts in these income-generating areas should start to prove themselves by February or March of 2009.

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South Africa Widget Africa Canada 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 13, 2007

Social Ads are sponsored advertisements that are linked to users profile data, social graph, and activities. Also, if a friend agrees, their activities around a particular product (like, say, a movie rental) will show up on their news feeds. Ads can be targeted by profile data.

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Platform Facebook Open Source Movie 100

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Have an active user and developer community I know I can get my questions answered from the community are good enough so that you can get real work done using the tool (in fact, under most circumstances, you could do mission-critical work with it, if your mission called for it.)

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Open Source Open Tools Free 100

NTEN

JULY 24, 2009

This is where I give props to announcements and activities about NTEN members. Flickr: Cambodia4Kidsorg: Can you idnetify the NTEN superstars? If you're an NTEN member and have nptech news, don't forget to tag your posts "NTEN member" or "nptech" -- and give me a heads-up! S ee their latest press here.

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NTEN Louisiana Nptech Org 36

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

This is a really interesting professional development activity, I think. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Michele Martin 07.11.08 at 6:06 am Michelle, I love this! What made you decide to write a theory of practice? 2 admin 07.11.08 at 10:26 am Thanks, Michele.

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