Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Organization: Women for Women International. Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Title: Multimedia/Online Coordinator.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

The vast of majority of nonprofits love Facebook too. Yet recently, I sense some frustration with Facebook from nonprofits. I think the time has come for nonprofits to examine Facebook a little deeper. Nonprofits throughout the world have sent millions upon millions of e-mails, Tweets, bulletins, updates, etc.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

posted by MacKenzie LeBeau Graduate Alumna, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. In the face of increased accountability pressures, nonprofits are searching for ways to demonstrate their effectiveness (Liket and Maas, 2015). This means an increased demand for more and better evaluation (Renz and Murray, 2010) is needed.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

It's left some nonprofit professionals wondering whether these types of contests are a good idea." " 3 Powerful Social Good Trends in 2010 – Ben Rattray, the founder and CEO of Change.org, has a great piece on Mashable showcasing the three trends he sees coming in 2010 for the social change sector.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

However, according to research by Points of Light , post-pandemic Gen Z (those born 1997-2010) are more likely to volunteer. Although many nonprofit leaders feel the need to encourage older volunteers to return, engaging the young is certainly an opportunity not to overlook. Knowledge spillover”. Program Stability. Volunteer Diversity.

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NTEN

JULY 30, 2010

Even on vacation, Beth Kanter manages help nonprofits become. and geo-locating tools and their potential for nonprofit application, so we. Amy Sample Ward is great at aggregating news and notes about nonprofits. s 2010 Top Small Workplaces. specialized focus on serving nonprofits: "Beyond Nines gets my Point of.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 31, 2010

Last week in my post, Keeping Your Balance While Helping Haiti , I suggested that you research organizations working in Haiti that you would like to support by donating, volunteering, or helping in some other way throughout 2010. CARE is a humanitarian nonprofit that works in poor communities. They focus on women and children.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar or practitioner to highlight current nonprofit research reports or studies and discuss how they can inform and improve day-to-day practice. In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 16, 2011

2008 SXSW Panel: Pimp Your Nonprofit Cause photo by Ed Schipul. The process has opened – so you can browse and vote for the nonprofit panels you think are worthy of being on the program until September 2, 2011. There are over 3,000 panels available for voting and 149 in the nonprofit section. Devon Smith. Amy Sample Ward, NTEN.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

Dunham and Company released an Online Fundraising Scorecard that looked at 151 nonprofits online fundraising activities. The report either gave a big "F" or a mediocre rating to most of the nonprofits in the report. Out of 151 nonprofits, only 24 of them scored 76% or above. How welcoming! Create Killer Landing Pages.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

ForumOne 's Chris Wolz wrote a good piece about crowdsourcing for foundations and nonprofits. Deborah Elizabeth Finn reflects on her key takeaways from two "Networked Nonprofit" book events and expands on the statement "Everything you feared has already happened" when it comes to nonprofits and the social web.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

The true test of any nonprofit is to demonstrate impact. Every nonprofit aims to have impact, but few have the systems in place to calculate little more than outputs. Much of 2010 was focused on Project Cultivar, which worked in the Dominican Republic sugarcane plantations and its company towns, bateyes.

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NTEN

JULY 9, 2010

She addresses the "time suck" argument and fear for nonprofits investing in social media. your organization's online engagement. over 40 organizations have and are doing in Haiti. organizations sharing their data are many NTEN members, including. selected a juicy topic: how do you create a juicy nonprofit blog?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 17, 2010

HOW TO: Turn Slacktivists into Activists with Social Media – "Throughout the non-profit world, organizations struggle with social media’s impact on the volunteer and donor cycle. The Wikimedia Foundation, which finances and oversees the nonprofit site, received a $1.2 But what does younger mean?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

Blogger Vu Lee, who wrote the forward to The Happy Healthy Nonprofit , offers up 9 tips for self-care , including downloading a chrome plugin that replaces 45 with photos of kittens. Animal welfare organizations and zoos went wild. What some of the best examples of nonprofits using social media that make you smile or laugh outloud?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 19, 2017

Capacity building is whatever is needed to bring a nonprofit to the next level of operational, programmatic, financial, or organizational maturity, so it may more effectively and efficiently advance its mission into the future. For many organizations, capacity building would fall into the “overhead” category.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 6, 2010

If you're in the San Francisco Bay Area, check out these two upcoming events for nonprofits (including grassroots organizations and start-up nonprofits). The first is Craigslist Foundation's 7th Annual Nonprofit Boot Camp on Saturday, August 14 at UC Berkeley. Tags: Event Running Your Organization. Register today

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends. Then share them with your organization’s leadership.

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NTEN

APRIL 13, 2013

Each year, we honor an individual who has been instrumental in shaping the field of nonprofit technology, and paved the way for the rest of us. She has served on the editorial board of the Alliance for Community Media''s Community Media Review and produced a policy handbook. 2010: Ed Happ , International Red Cross.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. Yesterday I had the pleasure of participating in the final #zoogood Twitter chat of 2010. Are Qwerty Monsters the Nonprofit Donors Via Mobile Phones of the Future? But many smaller organizations don’t.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Today we are highlighting the work of Thom Reilly , Director of the Morrison Institute for Public Policy at Arizona State University. The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded.

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

While many nonprofits have a social media presence these days, senior leadership is still struggling to figure out how to best integrate it into their communications plans. During our panel we boiled down our discussion down into five tips nonprofits can use to better leverage social media. Engaging Content is King.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 20, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Health launches … and it’s not HIPAA compliant May 20, 2008 Yesterday, the big news is that Google Health launched. Before you sign up, read the privacy policy carefully.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 10, 2017

Impact evaluation in the arts, and its broader use for leaders of any nonprofit, can drive results. Qualitative yet empirically-based impact evaluation bridges the gap left by other evaluative methods providing the context of mission fulfillment for a nonprofit organization. Telling the wrong story. Evaluation can be painful.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

posted by Stacey Romanotto Graduate Student, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management. The art aspect refers to how well an inspired writer describes a project and the grant-seeking organization. It is not always enough for an organization to write an amazing grant proposal. Poorly developed evaluation plans.

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NTEN

MARCH 5, 2010

The March 501 Tech Club in NYC will be a panel on " Texting for Good: Trends, Tools, and Tips for Nonprofits " with Katrin Verclas (MobileActive) , Jed Alpert (MobileCommons) , and George Weiner (DoSomething.org). aggregate questions and answers regarding nonprofit management. Full details and RSVP here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

Please join me on June 21st from 1-2 PM PST for the virtual launch of The Networked Nonprofit. These are my notes for webinar about Nonprofits and Slideshare , a social site where community members share presentations, documents and pdfs. Networked nonprofits are simple and transparent organizations. 6) Training.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

One of the best ways to gauge whether open source would work for your organization is to look at some actual examples. To read about how open-source software might benefit your nonprofit or public library, check out part one of this series. The first event Art for Impact planned using CiviCRM yielded $2,000 in one night.

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NTEN

APRIL 5, 2013

Jacobwith Flickr: jenny8lee When it comes to building community and increasing brand awareness, some organizations hire communications, marketing, and engagement staff to handle these activities. And that makes sense -- someone needs to be charged with keeping a close eye on the organization’s community growth. and on and on.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 28, 2011

As part of a continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to highlight a research report or study and discuss how it can inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice. Nonprofit boards have a wide array of functions and responsibilities, which begs the question, which are the most important?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 9, 2016

How can advocacy make a measurable difference for your organization? Leslie Crutchfield and Heather McLeod Grant suggest that “[a]n organization… has to walk a tightrope of building the skills necessary to engage in advocacy, while continuing to provide services (or vice versa).”[1] ” The answer is a resounding YES. New advocates.

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NTEN

APRIL 28, 2010

Highlights from recent media coverage of privacy-related incidents and trends shows increased risk for the nonprofit sector related to privacy. Many nonprofit leaders aren't prepared to deal with this issue and that could mean dire consequences should the proper safeguards not be in place and a breach or theft occur.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2016

The good news is that there are also real benefits for nonprofits. Most of the information processing happens in a large datacenter outside our organization. Many companies offer donated or deeply discounted options to nonprofits. Also, in the long run, cloud-based software tends to save organizations money.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2011

At TechSoup, we’re always interested in how nonprofits cleverly solve IT problems. Getting a case management databases in use by several people and across different offices and even across different organizations is a particularly thorny problem. Our new SharePoint web-based version how many organizations we can serve.

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See3

MARCH 3, 2008

Today they got this letter: YouTube Broadcast Yourself™ Thank you for taking the time to submit your application to the YouTube Nonprofit program. Today they got this letter: YouTube Broadcast Yourself™ Thank you for taking the time to submit your application to the YouTube Nonprofit program.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 17, 2018

posted by Kristin Harvey ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership & Management student. Nonprofits rely heavily on giving from private citizens to have the funds necessary to carry out their mission and strengthen their communities. The tax law and jobs act (TCJA) presents many changes for nonprofits to consider in 2018.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. The Empire State Building and London Eye are among a number of landmarks that will be lit up bright pink to mark the occasion. The photo above is Leng Sopharath.

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