Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Organization: Pancreatic Cancer Action Network. Organization Size: Medium. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Which tool has been surprisingly useful in getting out the word about your organization and its programs? Name: Allison Nassour. Title: Social Media Manager.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

Past winners have had a hand in creating and funding the biggest organizations in our space, built nonprofit technology communities large and small, and are exploring and sharing some of the most interesting and innovative technology models. 2009: Daniel Ben Horin , TechSoup. The 2013 Lifetime Achievement Award Winner.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

The original edition (published in 2009) of The Manager’s Guide to HR provided readers with a plain-English introduction to the regulations, rights, and responsibilities related to hiring and firing, benefits, compensation, documentation, performance evaluations, training, and more. But much has changed since then.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 16, 2009

All over the world, people who care about the future of the Web are joining together to organize events and activities in their towns, growing the OWD network from the grassroots up. In 2008, OneWebDay organizers documented volunteer-driven events in 34 different cities across the world. What’s OneWebDay.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

So I’m going to try and lay out the details of what cloud computing is, and how it’s useful for nonprofit organizations. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) at 5:17 am TechSoup Blog 09.16.09

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Orchestras and Social Media Survey View more documents from Marc van Bree. How much are nonprofit organizations spending on social media? Managers find social media important and organizations are generally enthusiastic. Managers find social media important and organizations are generally enthusiastic. What are the.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization. The Central Asia Institute is only one nonprofit organization that has fallen from grace due to poor nonprofit governance. Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 4, 2013

The original edition (published in 2009) of The Manager’s Guide to HR provided readers with a plain-English introduction to the regulations, rights, and responsibilities related to hiring and firing, benefits, compensation, documentation, performance evaluations, training, and more. But much has changed since then.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

See if they have good documentation. Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Check out the website. How busy is it?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The result is an impressive document that can be used by many non-profit organizations, NGOs, International Organizations and even government ministries and agencies to address similar problems in their own organization. "Hujambo from Tanzania! " Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The result is an impressive document that can be used by many non-profit organizations, NGOs, International Organizations and even government ministries and agencies to address similar problems in their own organization. "Hujambo from Tanzania! " Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 13, 2018

As public-facing and serving organizations, nonprofits are held to higher ethical standards than their business counterparts are. Organizational transparency, the disclosure of operational, financial, and decision-making information, remains a significant factor in the formation of the public’s trust in an organization’s mission and intent.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 24, 2017

It has long been believed that the health of the philanthropic sector is directly linked to the passion people have for organizations and their missions. These things have forced our awareness, not only of the external factors at play but the value of retaining an organization’s best donors. And this means we have strategic problems.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

The client is quite knowledgeable about their organization, mission, and goals for a project, but often not knowledgeable about technology. The role I play most often currently is providing a clear and understandable avenue between the client and a technology vendor (such as web or database development shop).

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sgEngage

JUNE 22, 2011

Total charitable giving has increased in current dollars in every year since tracking began in 1954 with the exception of three: 1987, 2008, and 2009. There are 1,280,739 registered 501(c)(3) organizations with the Internal Revenue Service. seen in 2000 and 2005. and Linda H. Kaufman to the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) A large chunk (the majority?)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based. It appears, from perusing the documentation, that someone in Kintera saw the light, and included PHP code. The API is SOAP. apps out there.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

For the last four years, OneWebDay has attracted a global network of partner organizations and individual activists committed to broadening the public’s awareness of Internet and Web issues while deepening a culture of participation in building a Web that works for everyone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 20, 2006

First off, a tip o’ the hat to NTEN for organizing this, the participants of the panel for an interesting conversation, and Mark Bolgiano from the Council on Foundations for awesome moderation. Also, basically, what made an API "open" was that it was free to use, and well documented. In fact, they are the future.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2009

With this post, I want to provide information that will explain steps we've recently taken to focus service efforts on our highest priority: qualifying nonprofit organizations and public libraries so they can take advantage of the technology offerings available through the discount and donation programs TechSoup has available.

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sgEngage

APRIL 15, 2024

MicroEdge was established back in 1985 and released their Grants Management Software “GIFTS Online” in 2009. As a trail blazer in the social impact space, Blackbaud had already been serving a wide array of nonprofit and public sector organizations.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 18, 2007

And it’s amazing how much it can do, and how much an organization can do with it. There are plenty of very small organizations (and not so small) that run on Excel. The ED wants file sharing or VNC but won’t even try to use MediaWiki to maintain basic documents.

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NTEN

AUGUST 23, 2010

She asked for some help in identifying interactive e-book resources that she could then use to create an annual report, referencing the 2009 annual report from VolunteerMatch as an example of what she was looking for. Calibre : Calibre is an e-book management tool that also converts documents into a number of e-book formats.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

For many nonprofit organizations, the rise of crypto philanthropy has been a shock that seems to have appeared virtually overnight. The truth is that Bitcoin, the leading cryptocurrency by market capitalization, began in 2009 and so too did the genesis crypto culture. Now, in 2022 Pew Research surveys show that 87% of U.S.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

Most of us now host all of our applications and our data and our email systems documents/spreadsheets, etc. In addition to running a youth organization or a job training program or an environmental advocacy campaign, you are also running an information and technology system on which you do your work. on our own servers or desktops.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2011

When faced with a severe technical crisis -- think mail server down, fried DB server, website hacked -- it's important to approach the situation methodically and in an organized manner. When the "fire alarm" sounds, be the calm leader in your organization. Debrief the team post-crisis, documenting how the situation began.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

View more documents from Noah Flower. has used the Internet to disseminate its model, empowering local communities to self-organize and build their own playgrounds using free resources on its website. is one of the first non-profit organizations to take this approach online. Case Study View more documents from Noah Flower.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

It's a popular and new trend that helps many nonprofits raise more money -- and build much more awareness of their own brand, mission, and organization by teaming up with marketing-savvy, do-gooder corporations. In 2009, about $1.6 View more documents from Care2.com com and frogloop.com (blog).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi As outreach coordinator for Martus , Benetech’s secure software application, I travel to many countries where human rights defenders need tools to gather, organize and back up information about human rights violations. My most recent visit to Nigeria confirmed this trend.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

” I was lucky enough to meet and interview Patton in 2009. Patton who is often referred to as the “Grandfather of Developmental Evaluation” and any starting point for understanding the methods begins with his book, “ Developmental Evaluation.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

The first part of the problem is that India still has low literacy rates - the 2009 Annual Status of Education Report shows that between classes 1 to 8 only around 40% of children can read a class 2 level text in their own language and an even lower 23% of children can ready easy sentences in English - sentences of the kind "What is your name?"

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2006

These days, most browsers have a nice bookmark bar – that really helps organize sites you visit regularly. You could google for them, but wouldn’t it be great to see other people’s links – things they found organically? Thanks for giving us a look, and again for the comments. 8 Todd Sieling 11.06.06

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Judi is currently Vice President of Operations of Fight Colorectal Cancer , an organization she helped start in 2005. Our organization, Fight Colorectal Cancer , started using Salesforce as our primary database in 2006, when we were barely a year old. Document everything. Never fear. It’s not about features.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

We connect with members using e-mail and social networking, carry out research on search engines and Web sites, and use online services to purchase supplies and produce and store documents. Google just released data that it received over 3,500 demands from law enforcement involving criminal investigations in the last six months of 2009.

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