Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The forecast for 2013 is for giving to slow down. Use services like Charity Navigator and Guidestar. They are looking for a handful of charities like Boys & Girls Clubs of America that can make a big impact. In developing a prospect list of potential corporate donors start locally. Images 1 and 2: Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. The images are called pins and collections are called. NPTech Online Fundraising Trends.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 10, 2013

Social media may seem like the way to reach the next generation of donors. hjc, Blackbaud, Edge Research, and Sea Change Strategies recently studied the giving habits and communication preferences of four generations of Canadian donors and published findings in a report called The Next Generation of Canadian Giving 2013.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

In 2013, in only its second year, 10,000 groups in 40 countries participated. Some of the ways she mentioned are: Cities and counties raising funds for several local charities. For last year's #GivingTuesday, the Red Cross emphasized thanking donors. Image 1 : Giving Tuesday / Some rights reserved.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

For those new to their work, GlobalGiving is an online fundraising platform for nonprofits and charities of all sizes all around the world. If you're interested in growing your donor relationships and raising funds effectively, the GlobalGiving community is worth your attention. Image: Global Giving. Get Started!

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

TechSoup Global’s CEO Rebecca Masisak is presenting at the Social Enterprise Alliance Summit 2013 this month in Minneapolis. It is the part of the world where businesses that behave like charities, and charities that behave like businesses, find common cause. Image 1: Ashoka logo. Image 2: BetterWorld Telecom logo.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Any charity anywhere in the world can send us a short video or five-picture Flickr slideshow that tells about their work and will be entered to win some cash prizes. The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. Storytelling: One of the Most Important Things that Charities Do.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

In fact, we know that storytelling done right is a multi-tiered process that requires working with staff, donors, and beneficiaries, oftentimes with additional effort to organize, produce, and publish assets to the web. first installment of our 2013 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge webinar series, Creating a Culture of Storytelling.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Google launched a similar service for their Chrome browser in 2013. The app uses the Guidestar database to search for charities and Network for Good to process donations. Image one: Creative Commons: Handset Out For Repair : CC BY. Image two: Creative Commons: Garbage Recycling : CC BY NC ND. The Give App.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2014

Since the fall of 2013 when Microsoft made its product donations available to 501(c)(3) faith-based organizations including churches, synagogues, and mosques lots of faith-based organizations have been discovering TechSoup. Blackbaud eTapestry is web-based donor contact management and fundraising software.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2013

While beautiful charity galas and creative offline campaigns still gather support for nonprofits’ causes, they slowly slip away from donors’ focus. Creating strategies for online fundraising, with a little of effort, will transform your donors into online supporters. With these experiments you can establish your own benchmarks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Image courtesy Tsahi Levent-Levi via Flickr. Fundraising with social media (particularly Facebook) means under- standing that donors don’t separate liking, sharing, or pledging, from donating,” explained John. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2013. T-shirt giant CustomInk backed and launched Booster in 2013.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2015

It was a pretty interesting summer for charity fundraising launches. Facebook expanded its Donate Now buttons to all charities; eBay has a new Sell for Charity mobile app. " Facebook piloted "Donate" buttons for some big charities like the Red Cross and the American Cancer Society back in 2013.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Mobile matters for nonprofits, charities, and libraries. According to 2013 Pew research : 91% of American adults have a cell phone, 55% have a smartphone, and 42% own a tablet computer. What does this really mean for your nonprofit, charity, or library? Image: Martijn van Exel. Mobile by the Numbers. Over 15% of U.S.

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Tech Soup

JULY 24, 2013

On a four-inch smartphone screen, a potential donor scrolls to the far corner of the youth outreach program's webpage. New and existing donors, volunteers, and others could be frustrated with perhaps their first interaction with your organization, miss out on particular initiatives, or never return to your site. It's Here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

This spring, NTEN launched its Digital Inclusion Fellowship Program in which 16 young community leaders in eight Google Fiber communities will have paid internships for a year with local charities. It is a Scotland-based charity that has to date helped more than 20,000 people to gain digital skills. Image : ESOlex / Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

We’ve been talking to folks from some of the 350,000 congregations around the country and have been hearing that they’d like more coverage of IT resources for religious oriented charities on TechSoup. Image: Aftab. That’s the highest adoption rate in the nonprofit sector. Please log in to comment on this blog post.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

When nonprofit organizations pay their executives exorbitant salaries, or throw lavish expense-filled parties, it reflects badly on all nonprofits, and increases public and donor scrutiny of nonprofit financial stewardship. Back in 2013, GuideStar, BBB Wise Giving Alliance, and Charity Navigator formed an alliance to combat the overhead myth.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

The online protest was to raise awareness on NSA mass surveillance practices and also to promote ‘Aaron’s law’, a response to the 2013 suicide death of activist Aaron Swartz who was convicted of hacking data on an academic website and getting a sentence of 35 years in prison. Image 1: Microsoft. Gaming for Good.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 23, 2014

In 2013, online fundraising grew by 13.5 No other staffing is required, which frees up time for other fundraising efforts such as donor relations. They improve brand image. Affiliate storefronts demonstrate a merchant’s commitment to making the community a better place and serve to enhance the brand’s image.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Despite declining sales, well over 300 million PCs will be sold worldwide this year while tablet sales are in the range of 200 million in 2013. Also, TechSoup Donor partner, Citrix , recently determined that the business PC market is actually growing, not shrinking.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Digital Wallets.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative. Image: Courtesy of Shutterstock.

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Whole Whale

JULY 10, 2021

Focus on new donor cultivation. . America’s Charities is a leader in running workplace giving campaigns and have some great tips for #GivingTuesday corporate giving. Fox Foundation did this very well in 2013. Announce new donors and interact with social media interactions via YouTube or Facebook Live.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog. Donors want to hear them.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This year #GivingTuesday is on December 3, 2013. The idea is for charities and the people who support them to sign up on the #GivingTuesday website. Supporters commit to doing something good like donating money or services to a registered charity. Image: #GivingTuesday. There is no cost of course. VolunteerMatch.

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Achieve

JANUARY 15, 2014

More notably, 64% of all online giving is given through charity giving pages, which means you had better pay attention to how well your donation page functions. The last thing that you want is for a donor to show up on your website and then get frustrated with your donation page and decide to just give up and leave. 5) Test It.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

We’ve had multiple celebrations of the web in recent years: the 20 th anniversary of the first public web page in 2011 , another 20 th anniversary webpage anniversary in 2013 , and this month, the 25 th anniversary of the idea of the web. The web introduced publicly viewable web pages that include text, images, and sounds.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2013

October 2013 being the 10 th. anniversary of National Cyber Security Awareness Month , the folks from our great donor partner, Symantec, asked us to check out the nonprofit National Cyber Security Alliance website. to see what resources are there for charities and libraries. Image: Courtesy of National Cyber Security Alliance.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2015

Nonprofits could considerably enhance their fundraising and donor numbers using some or all of these digital finance options. As reported by the Star Tribune local , "Spare Key [the charity] is one of the first Minnesota nonprofits to make an appeal to cryptocurrency holders, and among a tiny but growing group nationally.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

I’ll review Mary Meeker and Liang Wu’s annual report on the Internet, a new NTEN report on nonprofit technology assistance providers, Facebook’s new guidelines for nonprofits and causes, charities losing control of Hactivism, Google’s new micro-donation app, and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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