Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 26, 2020

For example, there’s Games Done Quick , a gaming fundraiser hosted by the speedrunning community — a group of hobbyists who play games as quickly as possible, competing for world records for fastest completion. The first event, held in 2010, raised $10,000 for the humanitarian organization CARE.

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OCTOBER 30, 2023

In place at GoFundMe since 2017, The Tip amount is meant to support the platform itself, covering operational costs and enabling the platform to continue to deliver its services. Think about it: according to the most recent GoFundMe Year in Help , donations through the platform have raised $25 billion since 2010.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2010

I wasn't able to go to the 2010 CES Consumer Electronics Show this year, but I'm assured by TreeHugger , which reviews the show each year, especially the new green tech gadgets, that it was largely nothing much new. The CES show takes place in Las Vegas every year and showcases all the new electronics gizmos.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 18, 2023

From using fundraising web stores to hosting virtual auctions , schools have relied heavily on online fundraising tools in the past three years and received great results from them. For example, you can place a collection box for a shoe drive at a 5K event. In fact, online giving rose by over 20% amidst the pandemic.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And lastly, since I’m hosting, I get to mention my recent post on Twitter and nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And, since I’m the host, I get to add a couple of bonus mistakes.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 8, 2010

This is the second installment of a book discussion about Ray Oldenburg’s book The Great Good Place. As I was reading The Great Good Place I identified with Oldenburg’s description of Main Street USA, small town America, and rural life. How can a local history museum connect with third places in the community?

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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. Otherwise, it’s easy to host it on a generic hosting account, if you don’t need that functionality.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 19, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants November 19, 2007 Today, it’s my turn to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. It was an open call, so there are a wide variety of posts to talk about.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

It also includes applications that you might develop (or have developed) that are hosted outside your network. Huge data centers are being thrown up everywhere, and more and more companies are getting into the business of providing hosting for SaaS developers.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 13, 2007

But in any case, it should work on all generic hosting environments, and it looks easy to install. So here’s another good option for organizations that want powerful blogging software to use on a generic (read: cheap) hosting environment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. The GEO community is united by a common drive to challenge the norm in pursuit of better results. How many other inspirations like this have started at GEO conferences?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2011

Note from Beth: The 3rd annual Minnesota Give to Max Day took place last month. Here is the breakdown of where our unique visits came from: We earned 202 new likes on our Facebook page on November 16, 2011 and increased our fans by 1,263 since Give to the Max Day 2010. The campaign has been profiled on this blog since it started.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 14, 2008

Then, all monthly hosting fees are waved if more than a certain amount of money is transacted using the payment system. The hosting costs, if you don’t qualify for free hosting, are pretty reasonable. Setup of all three has a one time fee.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account. I host sometimes because I have a real-world problem I need feedback on, sometimes because it''s good visibility for my career.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

of nonprofits already use Linux server-side – either in-house, or if not, their web host usually does. A large chunk (the majority?) But can it really be a desktop platform for nonprofit organizations? Linux on the desktop has come quite far, in just a few years.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 12, 2007

So I thought it would be a great subject for the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants hosted here today. Keep track of the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants, no matter which blog is hosting, by subscribing to the Carnival feed. Beth has some advice for dealing with too much data – write it down (er, on a wiki that is.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

Which implies that I want to host it (or delegate the hosting elsewhere), and control access to it. What really matters is an open social network, built using open protocols and documented, published standards. The ability to be able to move my social network around wherever on the Internet I want to go is important.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

Photo by rob_pym ) I’m hosting this week’s Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants ! Sorry it’s a day late. The topic I chose was a tough one, too: I asked people to talk about mistakes they make with clients, and how they deal with them. at 3:04 pm Last minute tidbits » Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology 12.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

strategy that includes a whole host of tools, including Twitter, is a darned good idea. But, the biggest reason that I’m twittering is that as the Coordinator of NOSI , I’m experimenting with Web 2.0 in general, which includes Twitter, Facebook, and others – with the goal of crafting a strategy. 1 trackback } Web 2.0

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

But if your organization decides to blog, and you want to make it easy on yourself, install Wordpress on your hosting account, or go to WordPress.com and set up a free blog. I think this is generally a Bad Idea, since there are so many easy, good CMS tools out there (I’ll be naming a few in this series.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 19, 2007

I switched platforms to wordpress (hosted on my own virtual host). { 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 07.20.07 at 9:24 pm I was going to comment your post — gift economies near and dear to my heart – but I had to pop out of the reader and when I landed to see you new design – WOW!

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2012

The good folks of the Information Technology Disaster Resource Center are hosting a 26-stop Disaster Preparedness Roadshow beginning April 23. In 2010, 62.8 million people volunteered, placing the overall value of volunteer time at $173 billion for the year. Have more news to share? Anything we missed?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

January 29, 2008 I don’t exactly know where the exclamation point came from, but if you want a scarily easy CMS to install, Joomla is a place to start. They have an amazing user community, and there are places to get amazing themes. It installs easily on generic virtual hosts, and has a very sweet, eye-candy full admin interface.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

There are issues that relate to encoding, fonts, and character sets, machine translation, interfaces to facilitate human translation, issues of workflow, volunteer and project management, and a whole host of other issues. It’s also really interesting to see how free and open source fits into all of this. What are the tools like?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 26, 2007

I have two other wikis ( a public and private wiki) that are in Mediawiki, on my web host. I love it because it’s really easy to set up and back up (it’s all files, not in a database,) and it’s has draft autosaves (yay!). And I contribute to varied other wikis, which are on varied other wiki platforms.

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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

JULY 15, 2007

They are going to release an open source version later this year, which is wonderful, but I also would have had to pony up another $149 for a year of a Pro account, and that seemed excessive, since I could just as easily set up a Wordpress blog on the host I’m already paying for.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2011

. Last week public relations and measurement professionals met in Lisbon for a Summit hosted by AMEC (The International Association for Measurement and Evaluation of Communications).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

And Scotland is a logical place for such an event. Plus, the Social Enterprise Alliance is a cosponsor of the event, and we're scheduled to host the third world forum in San Francisco in 2010. One of the fun aspects of social enterprise conferences is to visit the social enterprises.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

In July 2010, Amy Sample Ward wrote a blog post called Monthly Chats About Community Building: Are You With Me? Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account. I host sometimes because I have a real-world problem I need feedback on, sometimes because it''s good visibility for my career.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. { Many standard virtual hosts have “one click install&# or “fantastico&# – which makes it easy to try out some kinds of web applications. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but wonder what might happen if there was a coordinated series of giving days in local communities that all took place under the back drop of Giving Tuesday’s ability to harness national attention or even world wide attention. The combination of bottom up and top down strategies could be powerful.

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Care2

JANUARY 25, 2010

Is building your nonprofits online community a priority for your organization in 2010? Blogs: Building Your Online Community If your organization doesn’t have a blog, you should consider launching one in 2010. What about expanding your outreach? Here are my top seven ideas to consider implementing this coming year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 27, 2006

October 27, 2006 Next week, the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants is hosted here! And sure, I’ll be glad to be interviewed. 4 Beth 11.01.06 at 6:19 pm I think I made it easy to add your voice. Check this out [link] Leave a Comment Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants coming here! I have a sort of good excuse.)

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