Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times. Seeing a problem—like the February earthquake in Turkey and Syria —many will act to mitigate it. But climate change has been a disaster experienced slowly, and now all at once.

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 1, 2022

From lockdowns to mask-wearing to vaccination, COVID-19 has been one of the most polarizing issues of our time. However, according to research by Points of Light , post-pandemic Gen Z (those born 1997-2010) are more likely to volunteer. of those surveyed ) that working across generations can help American better solve its problems.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2010

In January 2010, I was quoted by Association & Nonprofit BizNow for saying: “[Heather] envisions a mobile app with a GuideStar database of nonprofits that would make it possible for people to donate to any organization at any time. Released: March 3, 2010. Give it time. Updated: February 5, 2010.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Last week, the Sacramento Bee newspaper published an account of a very prominent electronics recycler, Electronics Recyclers International (ERI), that has been a leader in advocating for responsible environmental practices, while at the same time dumping lots of electronic junk overseas.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2009

It's that time again. Voting ends this Friday, October 16, so time is short. This session will be the culmination of a webinar series leading up to the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference. Once again, your organization faces a short deadline and needs to come up with an application or campaign in record time.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

All Form 990s had been released as TIFF image files making it both time-consuming and expensive to extract useful data from them. Though Candid does try to use the data you submit to the IRS via the 990-PF, the reality is that due to the limitations of the form and the processing time, it’s not always that helpful. and Marion L.

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Communication Oregon Grant Portland 89

NTEN

JUNE 28, 2010

The problem may have to do with a lack of feedback. No, angry responses to your opinions don't count, but if computers beeped every time somebody used ALL CAPS or TMEM (Too Many Exclamation Marks!!!!) Yes, they can ! A land line phone plays back your own voice at low levels. The feedback keeps you from shouting.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Leading up to your event you probably stay awake at night trying to solve this problem. Susan G Komen Chicago made a great effort to renew the Survivor Parade associated with its Race for the Cure in 2010. In 2010, the first year of the new Survivors program, one participant said “ there was not a dry eye in the place ”.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

Each year, we celebrate Pro Bono Week: a time to recognize professionals around the world who volunteer their skills for causes they care about. These professionals give their time, talent, and passion to help close the gap between the social impact created by the community today, and the potential for impact in the future.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 29, 2010

Given the multiplicity of nonprofit-related examples -- including the past 2 issues of NTEN Connect -- crowdsourcing may very well be (part of) the future of nonprofit problem solving. Social Media ROI: " If you're spending more time counting than you are doing, has your ROI focus run amok? And the future of Old Spice Man?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2012

It’s nearly time for spring cleaning, so. Particularly important for smaller nonprofits and libraries, troubleshooting problems, maintaining your technology, learning new tech skills, and increasing the effectiveness of every day applications can help keep you ahead of the curve and help avoid problems down the road.

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Cloud 4 Good

FEBRUARY 23, 2022

Cloud for Good has successfully completed over 2,500 Salesforce implementations since our inception in 2010. The VP doesn’t have time to log in and run that report, they just want to see it for the meeting. Salesforce is an infinitely configurable and scalable system for managing data, no matter your industry or field of business.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

But what I realized was that the whole WPA thing with my laptop added to the pile of “little problems I haven’t solved yet.&# After spending close to five hours on the X windows/driver problem I vented about last week. The problems I “solved&# by offloading the functions onto the web. I gave up.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I don’t implement much for them (although in a pinch, I’ll set something up, or fix a specific problem.) I myself wrote a custom CMS a long time ago that would be considered crap now, so I don’t blame them for that, but the charges???)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2009

A group of nonprofit techies share their time and expertise with nonprofits from the local community. I've had the pleasure of being involved, along with long time colleague Cheryl Hanback , since almost the beginning. . Maybe this is will solve the problem? One thing does seem to stay constant.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 9, 2007

I figured it was time to give my final assessment. Here are the good things: Even macs get weird sometimes, especially if they’ve been on for a long time. The only time I shut down this laptop is when I’m taking it somewhere, which is relatively rarely. I love apt-get/aptitude.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

To enter, just submit a short essay (300 words or less) explaining an idea for how your non-profit can (or already does) use media and technology to solve a social problem. Entries need to be submitted by 11:59 PM (Central Time) on Sunday, October 31. Check out a few of Blackbaud’s Interviews at SXSW 2010.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

There are multiple threads on multiple sites about problems with the iPhone 3G – clearly, some software fixes need to happen, and the faster they happen, the happier I’ll be. But driving down the highway, listening to my favorite Pandora stations is the best thing since sliced bread. comes out.

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Wild Apricot

FEBRUARY 2, 2010

Wild Apricot software news for February 2010 The first half of January was slow as most of our developers were taking some well-earned time off. (We We did have to deal with a small bump — a number of clients experienced problems with the link tracking function, so we were hunting down the cause.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 11, 2010

This is a significant problem for the social enterprise movement." <br /> <br /> Our goal with this site is to help nonprofits and other volunteer organizations grow and thrive by giving them easy access to the<br /> resources they need to better manage their time and volunteers. <br

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Not because I don’t want my blog to be better, it’s just that I don’t have the time right now. I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. But my role in that context is much more around helping to solve specific problems, or educate in specific ways about technology options. {

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. Another problem in theory is fraud, and another problem is that many sites only included last and first names which in a mass of several hundred thousand displaced persons obviously included many duplicates.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 29, 2008

At this point, I still have to futz with the configs every time I start up, and it still isn’t right. I’m also trying to eat my own dog food and model good behavior for my 2 yo all the time. I think, actually, the problem is more about the nvidia drivers, but xrandr is very good to know about. And it’s hard.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 24, 2007

It’s the standard “if I have a hammer, every problem looks like a nail.&# I wanted to figure out how to make my product solve every problem that my clients had – or, if I couldn’t, I wanted to figure out how to build/install/integrate something that could. . But, I was myopic anyway. you the picture.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

In many ways, we are focused on solving technology problems , or completing projects. In the last few months, I was involved in helping three organizations choose vendors for varied technology projects, and in the course of that time, I talked with almost a dozen technology vendors of one type or another.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

You are dependent on your internet connection – which could be a problem for mission-critical applications. What you should do Make an assessment – will using this online tool really save money or time, or facilitate collaboration in ways that is not possible with local apps?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 21, 2007

And, for all of that time, the Macintosh has been my primary desktop. I’ve tried making Linux my primary desktop many times (5 at last count.) More recently (last time I tried this was back in 2004) it was not being able to sync with the palm treo I had at the time. This is the 6th, and last time I will do this.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Other times it is more important to have an open API or an app that is properly designed for plug-ins or extensions. SQL is a bit fiddly at the best of times, and if we move past SaaS to DaaS (Data as a Service) it frees up a *lot* more time to share ideas on the functionality front. 3 Jon Biedermann 09.25.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

I haven’t spend enough time with Plone to really get a feel for it. It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website. It will probably take you less time than a generic HTML site will. { I’ll mention the other FOSS CMS systems in other posts.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2010

More precisely, you have to give 5 times more good than bad. We, as nonprofit leaders, have problems to solve. Big problems. Data becomes useful only when it's applied to problem solving. What problems do you need to solve at your organization? Is it difficult to get your first time donors to give again?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2011

Long time readers of this blog will remember Leng Sopharath who I sponsored for college with early experiments in fundraising on Twitter and creating case studies of social fundraising. Through the Sharing Foundation’s college sponsorship program and our support, Leng was able to go the University to study accounting.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

In June, Becky attended PdF 2010 in New York and covered it here. If you register with the code "TSG," you can get a €50 discount off the registration fee. It will be exciting to see the big ideas and themes that emerge at PdF Europe.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010. Ushahidi's David Kobia was named Humanitarian of the Year in 2010 by the MIT Technology Review. Ushahidi would then compile and display the information in real time online on a map. How It Works: Crowdsourcing.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Mobile Learning enables you to present smaller sized, interactive online learning to your employees without restricting them to a particular time or a place. Employees with busy schedules or the ones who are always on-move have the luxury to access training resources at any time, from any place. According to a survey by eMarketer, 59.3

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 15, 2010

Traditionally (which is to say for the last 60+ years or so), charities focused on the magnitude of the problems they were addressing and the efforts they were making to help. The problem was that no one knew for sure, not even the charities themselves.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

We thought it'd be a good time check in with the new CEO of the project, Brian Vahaly, to see how it's going. The Relevancy of the Internet Problem. Though the "digital divide" has been declared to be cured from time-to-time, perhaps most famously in a 2002 U.S. What Is Connect2Compete ?

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ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 8, 2017

Social capital is defined as the “shared values, ideas, norms, and culture [that] shape the kind of political and administrative efficacy that enhances collective action, democracy, and effectiveness in public service delivery” (Kalu, 2010). Existing research identifies gaps in the ways in which community engagement is measured. & Cmty.

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