Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

It’s important to note that the time requirements for each tool are fluid and are always changing from week to week, but the estimates do provide a framework that will help you draft a realistic social media manager job description and decide what social media tools your nonprofit can utilize based on your capacity.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 8, 2020

Since the turn of the century, we have faced many societal and financial challenges to raising money for our organizations: September 11, 2001, the recession that began in 2007, and annual natural disasters that challenge the worldwide environment. Prospect research and screening tools. Wealth, affluence and capacity indicators.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 10, 2008

I know that people are doing fantastic work around the ways in which social networks can be powerful tools. And there are also some organizations for whom this makes sense, and who have the resources, and are ready to take good advantage of all of these tools, including twitter. And there are, for sure, some interesting case studies.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. By using cloud-based tools, these disbursed teams were working remotely and together on one shared system. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. By using cloud-based tools, these disbursed teams were working remotely and together on one shared system. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It’s doesn’t have nearly the user base, or the amount of available tools as the others, but InterBase is a pretty interesting product, with some good features (like a small footprint, server performance tuning, and a great rollback and recovery system.) Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

It’s doesn’t have nearly the user base, or the amount of available tools as the others, but InterBase is a pretty interesting product, with some good features (like a small footprint, server performance tuning, and a great rollback and recovery system.) Firebird – this is a newer kid on the block, sort of.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Selected in 2009 as one of Puget Sound Business Journal’s Women of Influence and nominated in 2015 as one of Metro Vancouver’s YWCA Women of Distinction in the category of arts, culture, and design . Leads World Central Kitchen’s emergency and disaster relief efforts and long-term impact projects . Kelly Tweeddale. Executive Director.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. Ushahidi has developed multiple software tools now that are in use in well over 100 countries and dozens of local languages.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Here are some of the other data points and trends that research and system performance revealed in 2009: More than 111 million consumers planned to donate online to charity in the last quarter of 2009.1. 63% of online consumers planned to use the Internet to donate to charity in the last quarter of 2009, up from 51% in 2008.1.

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2010

35% of users have accessed the Internet via their phone, according to a December 2009 report by Pew. So in times of natural disasters like the catastrophic earthquake that hit Haiti and affected more then two million people, can a mobile strategy help raise money in times of crisis? 83% of adults have cell phones or smartphones.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2010

We combined that research with insights gained from more than 300 industry leaders that participated in our Real-Time Web Summit in October 2009. Disaster response work that used to take days now takes minutes, using a combination of Sharepoint, mobile devices and airplane surveillance. I was surprised to learn how broad this field is.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 17, 2018

Communities of practice often include practitioners from the public, private and nonprofit sectors – all actively developing shared resources, best practices, and tools to solve some of society’s toughest challenges. These groups bring together cross-sector leaders to develop talent, improve performance, and deepen community impact.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 7, 2016

In 2014, the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation —the largest private foundation in the world—launched standard, streamlined procedures for its grant processing that included new tools to focus documentation and analysis on the key topics supported by its philanthropy. Why the Environment Changed: Federal Grant News. “It

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

In 2009, 350, working in tandem with communities around the world and partner organizations aligned on the shared goal of creating a global movement to solve the climate crisis, ignited the largest collective action that has ever been taken around the world with their 10/10/10 Day of Action. Have people heard of 350.org org before?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda. It was organized by Ed Schipul.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2009. Why Causecast is a Fundraising Game Changer: Workplace giving platforms like Causecast are one-stop portals where employees can donate, request matching gifts, quickly respond to disasters and tragedies and launch crowdfunding and social media campaigns. Co-Disruptor: Ink to the People.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 7, 2012

There are free tools you can use like Google Alerts that send you an alert within minutes of people making negative comments. See Carie Lewis’s guest post on the NTEN blog for more tools and tips.). (Even if you are a small nonprofit with limited resources you are immune.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

Under the right circumstances (disaster fundraising for example) there is money to be made, and the technologies are evolving, but for most organizations they still constitute a very small percentage of the revenue mix and are mainly a constituent engagement tool for now.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2011

This was an increase of over 34% from 2009. It is also worth noting that online giving spikes during disasters or extraordinary circumstances. Online fundraising during a disaster can be 3x to 4x normal trends and the vast majority of giving happens in just a few days. How is online giving trending right now?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

Wendy Harman, Red Cross Wendy will share a story about how they used metrics to refine their social media strategy for their Online Disaster News Room Presentation Key Points. increase transparency about disaster response. disclose “process” of responding to disasters. general disaster-interested public. . picked tools.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2011

Six self-selected nonprofit organizations agreed to contribute their fundraising performance data from 2007 through 2009, including: Alzheimer’s Association, Arthritis Foundation, Autism Speaks, LIVESTRONG, March of Dimes, and the National Multiple Sclerosis Society.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

On January 21, 2009, the White House issued the Transparency and Open Government Memorandum. On December 8, 2009, OMB released the Open Government Directive (OGD), which provided specific guidance on fulfilling the vision set forth in the January memorandum. Disaster Response. International Disaster Community of Practice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

My co-author, Allison Fine and I found many great examples of successful activism using these tools as part of multi-channel campaigns in our book The Networked Nonprofit. The Tools Don’t Create Strong or Weak Ties, Stories and People Do. I am reminded of the PDF 2009 keynote from Mark Pesce about the Tower VS Cloud.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

Facebook’s grant will encourage users of the social network to learn more about service opportunities through ServiceNation’s Facebook Page and connect with MyNation, a new, online social-networking community on ServiceNation.org being launched in preparation for the first National Day of Service on September 11, 2009.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

We have certainly seen some examples of maps or charts that the user can interact with, but with the over saturation of static infographic images, 2014 and the plethora of tools emerging that make these options really easy, we will see more organizations using data for storytelling that users can watch, click on, and really explore."

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. Aneesh, ‘Global Labour: Algocratic Modes of Organisation’, Sociological Theory 27(4), 2009.

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