Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2017

Design ain't easy, or we'd all be making Clio award-winning designs in our sleep. Nonprofits and libraries are consistently tapped (and drained) to leverage creative talents and produce palatable brochures, logos, web pages, presentations, and annual reports — just to name a few — with little budget. spanhidden.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 3, 2011

In my Fall 2011 President's Update , I mentioned some of our incredible recent achievements in this core program, including the amazing milestones of our Bookshare library. This last September, Benetech won a 3 million dollar award over one year from OSEP for a project we call Leveraging Impact through Technology, or, very appropriately, LIT.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Focus on selling – Judge ads by sales results, not awards. Key Takeaway #2: Spotlight Your Mission as the ‘Hero’ In the book, Ogilvy realized in a flash of insight that taste was irrelevant for whiskey – it was brand image alone that motivated purchases. Apply those lessons to general advertising.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 23, 2023

Should you use buttons and links on your homepage to direct visitors to your internal directory or research library? You can boost perception by using sufficient color contrast between the foreground and background, adding alternative text to images and videos, and creating audio descriptions for text when necessary.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2012

While Heather (shown in image below) may have raised just $100 for the 2012 event, she’s solid gold … actually, a “Double Diamond” fundraiser for Children’s Hospital of Colorado, with over $50,000 and 5 to 9 years of participation in the Courage Classic under her belt. And you can do it with a simple strategy. Trophy Case” Badges.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

I say thorny because despite the nearly $300 million in stimulus funding awarded by the U.S. The Kansas City Public Library System will also have a role in this work. Library director, Crosby Kemper, envisions expanding library services further into public housing and community centers. Image: City of Kansas City.

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Tech Soup

JULY 17, 2015

The 2015 UK Digital Leaders 100 Award for digital inclusion was awarded to Citizens Online. The organization already has a significant array of members , which include mostly cities, libraries, and nonprofits. Every Public Library in the United States. 98 percent of libraries offer some form of technology training.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

Each year the International Computer Refurbisher Summit awards a lifetime achievement award in my name (it's a long story on how that came to be). This year the award went to Sean Nicholson. We are proud to announce that Sean Nicholson is the 2014 Jim Lynch Award winner for lifetime achievement in refurbishment.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2013

This is the fourth and final installment in a series of grantseeking pointers inspired by fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding ’s great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries that came out a few years ago. Big Book of Library Grant Money. Big Book of Library Grant Money. American Library Association.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 22, 2009

Last night, we held our Digital Storytelling Challenge Awards Party here at TechSoup headquarters in San Francisco. We screened highlights from the more than 100 video, image, and GoldMail submissions and celebrated the great work nonprofits and libraries are doing to tell their unique and important stories. read more.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

Bitdefender now has on-premises and cloud-based versions of its award-winning software available in our catalog. Adobe's powerful tools allow you to create beautiful images and videos to enhance your print materials, websites, social media, invitations, and more. Image 1 : Dragon Images / Shutterstock. spanhidden

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2011

Week three of TechSoup's Social Media Mondays in May focused on use of video for nonprofits and libraries. engage audiences can be overwhelming to nonprofit and library. Nonprofits and libraries need not worry excessively about technical quality, as chat participants were in agreement that content mattered most.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Awards can be incredibly gratifying. Awards can show higher-ups the value of our work and they can be important tools for showing funders results. And, I have been known to give out an award or two. Our visitors often see museums as a genre, not unlike hospitals or libraries. That’s huge.

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Forum One

MAY 17, 2023

Forum One has been nominated for 11 Vega Awards in 8 different categories! The Vega Awards highlight the vital role that digital pioneers play in the always-changing digital landscape. Check out the rest of this post to learn more about each of our Vega Award-winning projects. We’re glad to share some exciting news!

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why he got the award. He taught me how to listen for the pulse and passions of charities and libraries over social media. Images: Image one: Fog & The Bridge: Mohit Hingorani / CC BY. Image three: Microsoft Imagine Cup.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

The Sweepstakes is open to individuals, submitting on behalf of nonprofit organizations and libraries all over the world, who are attending the 2017 Nonprofit Technology Conference ("17 NTC") in Washington, DC. Image 1: Adobe. Image 2: TechSoup. The TechSoup 17 NTC Social Media Sweepstakes Terms and Conditions (Short).

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Forum One

MAY 3, 2023

We’re happy to say that Forum One has won 11 Communicator Awards in 7 different categories for the second year in a row! The Communicator Awards honor excellence in innovation and creative work in marketing and communications. Since then, thousands of volunteers have transcribed hundreds of thousands of image files of the more than 1.7

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. It’s also looking like relatively few charities and also libraries are getting the hang of it. Images: TechSoup,and Shutterstock.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. Image: Courtesy of Shutterstock. I have updated Stephanie’s pieces a bit. For more information on this, check out our Fundraising: The Tech Tools You Need.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

The Challenge is open to all nonprofits and public libraries in the world that have received Symantec product donation(s) and are currently using the product. (a) Image: Tina Xu. Eligibility. a) Nondiscrimination. Also, do not submit content that contains elements that violate a third party's copyrights or trademark rights.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Teachers used my IQ to recommend me for advanced courses, and such avenues awarded me the ability to attempt learning more difficult topics. While, others must spend days scrutinizing a tidbit of information to determine its worth, write the virtual book, and shelf it in the library stacks in their mind.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

A set of screensavers and background images. Shoutouts to donors on images and cover pictures. Text or attractively designed images on Twitter, Linkedin, TikTok, Instagram, Facebook, Reddit, Clubhouse, etc. Feature your donor images and quotes in social media advertising. Plaque or award. Name an award after them.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The People's Choice award winner is a Windows 8 app, YumvY , a cooking companion to help you prepare nutritious, healthy meals at home with the goal of addressing the obesity epidemic and related diseases like diabetes. The images are called pins and collections are called. Image: Digital Wallet, Shutterstock. social change.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

Our audience choice award for 2012 went to Alliance Center for Independence (ACI) in Edison, New Jersey. The Storymakers Campaign 2014 empowers nonprofits, libraries, and charities with the tools and training to tell their stories, get noticed, and make an impact. Images and videos: courtesy of the organizations featured.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. Many if not most funders publish the size of the grants they award. Image: Courtesy of Shutterstock.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library. For example, Woven Health typically has their annual award ceremony in November, kicking off the giving season. Be specific. Here are some ways to do so: Homepage.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We are proud to see this great work honored and to share that, across our roster of mission-driven client organizations, we took home 63 awards as well as a notable Webby nomination. That’s a rate of over one award per week! This beautifully designed branding and website won five awards this year!

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2023

We are proud to see this great work honored and to say that across our roster of clients, we took home 63 awards and even one Webby nomination ! That’s a rate of over one award per week! This tool was awarded five different awards for its interactive design and ability to communicate key health and livability data.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2015

Each year the Electronics Reuse Conference awards a lifetime achievement award in my name (it's a long story on how that came to be). This year the award went to Kyle Wiens, the co-founder of iFixit. Library of Congress, working with the U.S. Image 1: Sarah Cade. Image 2: iFixit. spanhidden.

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sgEngage

MARCH 22, 2023

Consider these terms in the context of a small college seeking donations for the construction of a library. Use striking images and give your page a compelling headline but keep all copy simple and short. Every organization has unique goals and methods, but all fundraisers for nonprofits use common terminology.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Download a copy of the full report as a PDF file from Imagine Canadas online reference library: Effective knowledge transfer & exchange for nonprofit organizations : a framework (PDF) Fataneh Zarinpoush, Shirley Von Sychowski, Julie Sperling. that you can use to get started, or adapt to suit the needs of your own organization. Feedburner.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 10, 2015

to showcase your nonprofit or library. Upload your images to Facebook starting August 15. Sponsor may require proof of written permission as a prerequisite to award the prize, in which case, the inability to produce the proof of written permission within one month of the Sponsor's request may result in disqualification. (c)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. In fact, they even design the background for you. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

It did herald the coming of something called augmented reality — overlaying digital images on the real world. We did a couple of common-sense articles this past year describing actions charities and libraries can take to be more secure: 4 Steps Nonprofits Can Take to Keep Data Private. Image 1: Wes Holing. Never fear.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Virtual: Online auctions are a category in and of themselves, allowing attendees to view items remotely using live streaming or images while they place online bids. You can also choose a nice leisurely scenic ride or a more intense, high-speed one with prizes awarded.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 12, 2021

Some key features: The Fundraise Up Elements library is a conversion-driven, fully customizable suite of buttons, forms and meters. Check out these resources: The Fundraise Up Elements library. Easily customize the appeal and confirmation experience with text, images, or video to create a compelling ask that gets results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

Unlike library subject cataloging, which follows a strict set of guidelines, tagging is completely unstructured and freeform, allowing users to create connections between data anyway they want. Nonprofit organizations, libraries, and educational institutions are experimenting with "user-generated" or community-powered campaigns.

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