Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

But first steps first… 11 New Year’s resolutions for nonprofit social media managers: 1) Create a “Thank You” video(s) for your 2012 fundraising campaigns. In 2011 I had gotten in the very bad habit of listening to (mostly) CNN in the background while working… all day long. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

The Year That Was and the New Year Ahead Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, Benetech's VP and General Manager of the Literacy Program 2012 was a year of titanic shifts in the fields of consumer technology, education, and publishing, along with the requisite challenges brought about by such rapid change. We’ve added over 1800 books since then.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2012

In no particular order, here they are, 12 in 2012: books that nonprofit/marketing/fundraising nerds like us should give a gander. ” By Chip Bell, Summit 2011 keynote speaker. Level Best : Better understand evaluation and measurement tools for valuable, practical results. Read our own Seth Merritt's book review now.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2012

As soon as you learn and become comfortable with a tool set, it’s replaced with a new one. The ability for fans to translate your Page’s Status Updates into their native language appears to have been launched in October 2011, though I didn’t notice it until very recently.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2012

Salesforce had acquired collaboration tool company Stypi in May 2012, as well as social media monitoring platform Radian6 in March 2011." They are not exclusive – you can mix and match. I will define the terms below and discuss mixing and matching below." The full report is here.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 15, 2012

The survey also reports that event planners still rely heavily on email marketing, online event marketing tools, websites, and print advertising to promote their events, indicating that traditional forms of event marketing still play an essential role in promoting an event." As of November 2011, 89.6 Are You Ready?

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 24, 2012

I've heard Jamie Notter (and others) decry this staple of association board meetings as a tool whose time has come and gone, but it wasn't until I read the treatment of it in Humanize that I really understood what he was talking about. " Is email going out with 2011? And it's convinced me of one undisputable fact.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 7, 2013

And use anti-malware tools that will warn you about suspicious web sites. Subject: Executive Team (also 2012-10-21-New York Conference - Registration). messages included attachments Invoices-14-2012.htm, htm, Invoices-13-2012.htm htm , Invoices-12-2012.htm, Bottom line: think before you click.

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NTEN

JANUARY 23, 2012

You may recall that the NTEN community recently helped us raise over $15,000 to host more local events throughout 2012. Although we used online tools that didn't have a lot of hard costs, we're busy mulling over how much staff time went into the campaign and how to account for that. Besides average gift amount, what might we expect?

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Care2

MAY 24, 2013

Last month we reported that online fundraising response rates declined 27% between 2011-2012, according to the eNonprofit Benchmark study. “While this value is contrary to prior years it would be incorrect to strictly compare 2011 to 2012, as different organizations were part of different studies.

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Robert Weiner

AUGUST 15, 2012

Text: Dear Customer, The following is your Credit Card settlement report for Tuesday, August 14, 2012. Transaction Volume Statistics for Settlement Batch dated 14-Aug-2012. Business Day: 14-Aug-2012. Business Day: 14-Aug-2012. Please check Your Payment History in the payment tool. 10 MAY 2012.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

This kind of phenomenon can be seen in a 2011 joint report from Social Finance, Inc. and the Rockefeller Foundation, titled: " A New Tool for Scaling Impact: How Social Impact Bonds Can Mobilize Private Capital to Advance Social Good." Patsy Kraeger received her doctorate from the ASU School of Public Affairs in May of 2011.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011). Through the E-Mediat program, Essmaani participants also gained tools on how to recruit volunteers on line and how to promote their activities using social media. Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll

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NTEN

MAY 20, 2013

You can download the complete report here , and don''t forget the companion online benchmarking tool , where you can compare some of your organization''s data against your peers in our research. Last month we released our seventh annual report on nonprofit investment and practices regarding technology.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Are you attending Convio's 2011 Summit? This information will be shared in the 2011 Summit guide but I wanted to give you a peek at what everyone involved with your Convio Client Care team is preparing specifically for this year's attendees: Monday, Oct. Come find out what's going on now and what's coming up in 2012.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Beth’s Blog, September 2011. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Are there methods and tools in the nonprofit and philanthropic sector for using it effectively? There is not much value in the raw data unless you have the tools and skills to synthesize it. Not Data Driven.”

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2012

on October 1, 2012. The deadline for nominations is August 31, 2012. Winners will be announced at the Blackbaud Conference for Nonprofits in Washington D.C. Best Integrated/Multi-Channel Campaign. Best Online Campaign. Best Peer-to-Peer/Special Events. Best Use of New Media (Social/Mobile). Best CRM Visionary.

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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. Thankfully, a recent survey conducted by BoardSource in 2012 shows signs of increased governance among nonprofits 2. Example board self-assessment tools: Board member self-assessment. 3 October 2012. Document retention.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2012

As soon as you learn and become comfortable with a tool set, it’s replaced with a new one. The ability for fans to translate your Page’s Status Updates into their native language appears to have been launched in October 2011, though I didn’t notice it until very recently.

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Care2

JANUARY 10, 2012

Advocacy Rising In 2012: What this Means for your Organization? Whether your organization is local or national, with the right tools and techniques, you can tap into the rising tide of advocacy and make your voice heard. When: February 7-9, 2012. Click Here to Register. When: February 18-19. Click Here to Register.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

on the Future of Fundraising back in 2011. — a number that grew by 10 percent between 2010 and 2011. A session at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference, recounted on the TechSoup blog, offers advice on using storytelling for fundraising. 2011 Online Giving Grows 13 Percent — Are You Prepared to Get Your Share?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

This new free online data visualization and mapping tool demonstrates the value of applying technology to philanthropy, in this case, creating a place to find out how and where foundations are supporting U.S. As a result, the dataset is only complete through 2012. Foundation Center's new Foundation Funding for U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

Some of the tools needed to do this work are obvious: a camera, microphone, headphones, tripod, laptop, and maybe a light. As an independent producer, I can tell you that these are merely a fraction of the tools that one needs in order to properly document and later tell a story. Now, fast forward to 2012.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 7, 2012

This past fall GrantStation and PhilanTech conducted the third semi-annual informal survey of nonprofits, The State of Grantseeking Fall 2011. Between mid-August and early October 2011, 928 nonprofits of various sizes, in different geographies, representing diverse issue areas completed the survey online.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2012

states In the fall of 2011. The survey also found that once nonprofits begin using one cloud software solution, they are likely to adopt other cloud tools. I did an internal survey of TechSoup Global’s use of cloud tools and we literally use dozens of cloud tools now. NTEN surveyed 780 nonprofits across nine U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 5, 2014

Data published last year in the Chronicle of Philanthropy shows this trend clearly: online donations to nonprofits increased 14% in 2012 relative to 2011, while overall donations increased by only 1.5% Testing, ultimately, might be the most useful tool in the online fundraiser’s toolbox. in the same period. The result?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2012

7 Social Media experiments we tried with the 99% Power Coalition | NetSquared, an initiative of TechSoupGlobal.org – Joe Solomon does a great job sharing the tools, tactics, and mini-campaigns used in the recent 99% Power Campaign. It's also one that is increasingly being asked by potential donors big and small. What do you think?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

of survey participants cited in the State of Grantseeking 2011 (published in November 2011 by GrantStation and PhilanTech). According to the State of Grantseeking 2011 responses, community improvement and capacity building -focused organizations (CICB) receive more awards from private foundations than from any other grant source.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

All of these donated software tools can be requested at the same time. The latest version of QuickBooks, Intuit QuickBooks 2011 , is in stock at TechSoup. Available in one- and three-user versions for Windows, QuickBooks 2011 Premier assists in paying bills and tracking expenses. Growing Your Organization.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 23, 2013

Blackbaud’s just-released Online Marketing Benchmark Study for Nonprofits found nonprofit website traffic was down 14 percent in 2012 compared to 2011. Below, we can see there was a large traffic spike in late August 2011 (orange line) that didn’t occur in 2012 (blue line). Referral Traffic.

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NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

[Editor's note: The following is from the December 2012 issue of NTEN:Change , NTEN's quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders. The Center wanted to expand its reach, connections, and impact using social media and received grant funding in 2011 for social media planning and implementation through 2012.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 5, 2019

When I became the first employee of She’s the First in 2012, I faced the daunting task of figuring out how to be a CEO and also fundraise. My first year on staff, I nearly quadrupled our growth, going from $64,000 in annual revenue in 2011 to $244,000 in 2012. I didn’t follow a traditional path into a nonprofit career.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 13, 2011

If your organization needs convincing that its time to adopt HTML5, just share the following tidbit from Wikipedia with the powers that be: “According to a report released on 30 September 2011, 34 of the world's top 100 Web sites were using HTML5.” Oh, and what will happen come January when you close the 2011 walk and open 2012?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

As 2011 came to a close, our board members wanted to know what we were “doing” about social media. What’s Next: 2012 Social Media Week DC. What tools or experiments will you use to advance? December: Breaking Through to Stakeholders. At the annual meeting we presented our year-in-review of our.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. Furthermore, the legality of digital fair use continues to be challenged.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 1, 2012

Nonprofits Challenged with Integrating Email, Growing, and Retaining Email Marketing Contact Lists, According to Sage Survey : Quarterly Survey Looked at North American Nonprofits’ Email Marketing Goals and Objectives AUSTIN, TX (March 1, 2012)—Sage North America today announced the results of its Sage Nonprofit Insights, Q4 2011, survey of U.S.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

This tool can be invaluable when trying to determine if it was strategy, implementation, economies of scale, or donor behavior that drove results. for the 3 months ending April 2013 as compared to the same period in 2012. for the 3 months ending April 2013 as compared to the same period in 2012.

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