Tech Soup

DECEMBER 4, 2015

A decade and a half into the digital century, the vast majority of large foundations concerned with strengthening American democracy don't seem to get tech. The fact that the $78 million awarded for technology funding in 2011 declined to $61 million in 2012 and $58 million in 2013 does not necessarily indicate a trend.

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TechImpact

MARCH 19, 2014

Image courtesy of James Madison University. Passive content gathering is when you are working throughout the week, aggregating links, content and information as you unintentionally stumble over it. The post Your 10 Point Checklist For Nonprofit Newsletter Writing appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 12, 2014

Smile Train consistently shows the dramatic impact of its work via Twitter. Image courtesy of No Kid Hungry. Donors love to see the behind-the-scenes work of the organization. Image from TrickleUp’s Facebook. Here are 5 ways that you can use stories to raise money for your nonprofit on social media.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2013

Being a nonprofit techie can be lonely work, since our role requires that we be change agents in our organizations as we help them discover the future! work, but we can renew our energy to connecting with our peers. Singapore: UP Singapore ‘Smart Cities Hackathon’ - 19th–21st July 2013. Friday, July 19.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2013

Date: Tuesday, May 7, 2013. This webinar begins with a brief demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest and then explores click-by-click the Pinterest tool set, highlights what kind of content works best on Pinterest Boards, and features numerous tips and tricks that can help your nonprofit become a better pinner.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 2, 2012

Date: Thursday, January 17, 2013. Next, an in-depth tour of the Admin Dashboard, Circles, and the Google+ Stream is presented as well as an exploration of what kind of content works best on Google+. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: Free (One Time Only – Usually $50). How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

Date: Tuesday, March 5, 2013. This webinar begins with a brief demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest and then explores click-by-click the Pinterest tool set, highlights what kind of content works best on Pinterest Boards, and features numerous tips and tricks that can help your nonprofit become a better pinner.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 15, 2013

Date: Tuesday, May 28, 2013. Next, an in-depth tour of the Admin Dashboard, Circles, and the Google+ Stream is presented as well as an exploration of what kind of content works best on Google+. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Spring Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 22, 2021

Morehouse Uses Tech to Transform Its Fundraising. Monique Dozier, vice president of institutional advancement at Morehouse, says that with the transition to Salesforce, the advancement office raised a record $107 million—an eight-fold increase over its levels from 2013 to 2018 and the highest total in Morehouse history.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2013

Date: Tuesday, August 13, 2013. This webinar begins with a brief demonstration on how to get your nonprofit started on Pinterest and then explores click-by-click the Pinterest tool set, highlights what kind of content works best on Pinterest Boards, and features numerous tips and tricks that can help your nonprofit become a better pinner.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

She works with. The Spring 2013 State of Grantseeking Survey includes these five new questions chosen by participants: What is the household income in your service area? Can you help us make the Spring 2013 State of Grantseeking Survey a success? Please take five minutes to complete this survey before March 15, 2013.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 29, 2013

Image courtesy of Coordinating Public Relations. 21, 2013), with a step-by-step guide to creating an organized and successful Giving Day Campaign. Put the numbers in the context of previous campaigns to compare what works and what doesn’t work so you can anticipate and set realistic goals for the next Giving Day.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2013

New image and video editing tools, templates, and other multimedia features allow you to create professional-looking newsletters, flyers, presentations, brochures, and other multimedia projects. We've compiled some resources from TechSoup, Microsoft, and our favorite tech news sites to help you get started. Microsoft office 2013'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2013

Date: Wednesday, September 4, 2013. Next, an in-depth tour of the Admin Dashboard, Circles, and the Google+ Stream is presented as well as an exploration of what kind of content works best on Google+. Time: 1pm-2:30 EDT. Cost: $50 or Spring Webinar Special. How to Register: Sign up ! Presented By: Heather Mansfield.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2014

It was the end of February in 2013 when Yahoo’s celebrated young CEO, Marissa Mayer, decided to end telecommuting at Yahoo to boost collaboration and communication within the company. The memo was leaked to tech journalist, Kara Swisher, then at AllThingsD. I remember it well. Forbes printed a piece called Back to the Stone Age?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2015

At a recent talk entitled Jobs for the Future: Using Technology to Empower in the Digital Economy , Tess Posner of Samaschool explained that although on-demand freelance technology work is proliferating, those lacking in digital skills will be the most likely to be left behind. Image : Jon Gosier / CC BY. million today to 7.6

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help. For business storage: Google Drive for Work is offering unlimited storage for businesses at only $10 per user per month. Images: Image one: mattza / CC BY-SA 2.0. Image two: Franco Folini / CC BY-SA 2.0.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

In 2013 the number of nonprofits that hired part-time or full-time new media managers increased fourfold. Woe to the nonprofit that incorrectly assumes that a new media manager is a tech position. To effectively work with image and video content, your new media manager must be adept at using photo and video editing software.

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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. Image: Digital Wallet, Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The forecast for 2013 is for giving to slow down. People working in corporate philanthropy often like to follow the philanthropic interests of employees. Make an interesting case for your work and assume they are looking for innovative approaches. Images 1 and 2: Shutterstock. Image 3: Junior Achievement.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2015

If you have staff or volunteers that do a lot of work in the field, remotely, or from home, you could be eligible to win your choice of phone or conferencing service prizes worth more than $400! organization doing innovative and inspiring work in the social sector? Chances are that you have worked or will work remotely at some point.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

Here's a roundup of recent work to address this issue. There are new and interesting things in the works. Organizations Doing Notable Digital Inclusion Work. According to the 2013–2014 Digital Inclusion Survey : 98.9 According to the 2013–2014 Digital Inclusion Survey : 98.9 Nearly a third of U.S.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

My 12-person nonprofit, National Council on Family Relations (NCFR) in Minneapolis, began work on a Office 365 implementation in mid-April last year, and by late-May our email migration was complete. Tech Impact's $300 program provides a cohort group guided by expert help to assist you in a hands-on setup and migration process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Click to See Larger Image and Full Data by Marc Smith. Victoria Dougherty (@VJDConsulting) April 18, 2013. That often intimidates nonprofit folks (including me), but it doesn’t have to be that way. There are low tech tools and online (low cost or free) SNA tools and great resources like Marc Smith at NodeXL.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 13, 2014

Now that it's time to upgrade from Windows XP (it’s retires in early April 2014), you may well be wondering how much of your current software and hardware will work on Windows 7 or Windows 8.1. I tested it on a classic Windows XP computer , a Dell Optiplex GX 280 from 2005 and it worked fine. Image: Eurritimia.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

The forecast for 2013 is for giving to slow down. People working in corporate philanthropy often like to follow the philanthropic interests of employees. Make an interesting case for your work and assume they are looking for innovative approaches. Images 1 and 2: Shutterstock. Image 3: Junior Achievement.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

If you’re trendspotting the latest in webwear like me, you’ll notice that the bold and beautiful charity websites are slimming down the text and accentuating the images. that the very latest trend in web design this fall is all about the images. The 2013 Activism awards go mainly to charities and include: Change.org.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

It's an organizing principle that encourages the energy and creativity of people to work together for good. In 2013, in only its second year, 10,000 groups in 40 countries participated. In 2013, according to Melissa Cronin, the overall volume of donations increased 270 percent from the same Tuesday in previous years.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The following advice can help an NGO move away from constantly seeking grant funding by building a constant inflow of funds from individuals: Plan you crowdfunding campaigns early – what will you raise funds for, how will the funds be spent, plan your media campaign including a compelling story and images/videos.

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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. The next Open Challenge will begin on September 1, 2013. The deadline to submit the full application is July 22, 2013. Image: Global Giving. Get Started!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Adobe : Adobe products aren’t just for creative professionals — with a little know-how you too can make powerful digital images and videos. Citrix Online : Do you work within a distributed work team? You can even discover your best photos by looking at your image stats.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 10, 2015

That’s why we turned to our good friends down at nonprofit Tech Impact in Philadelphia to educate us, and hopefully our readers, on why all our websites need to be responsive. Thanks Tech Impact! They don’t want to work to give. This post originally appeared on the Tech Impact blog. Responsive?!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

If nonprofit groups are no longer able to effectively reach the communities of followers they have worked hard to cultivate, they may be forced to look to recreate these communities elsewhere. The effect in the nonprofit workplace will be that one more barrier to employees having work email and documents on their phones will be removed.

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Tech Soup

JULY 10, 2014

In 2013, Alison and her team raised $270,000 from donor emails. Join us if you're interested in learning how you can apply best practices from peers and experts to see what works for your audience. Image: Technology pig, Shutterstock. Join us next Thursday, July 17 at 11 a.m. Pacific time (2 p.m.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. As I suspected, privacy and security remain a very hot topic in NPTech and in the general tech zeitgeist. A New Tech Blog: Re/code. Image 1: Microsoft.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

But what if kids learned basic tech skills along with reading storybooks and taking spelling tests? Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Image: Lake Superior Libraries Symposium.

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