Forum One

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

” The new product seeks to seamlessly blend digital content with your physical space, offering both Virtual and Augmented Reality capabilities. Apple launched its first headset on Friday, the Vision Pro, heralding what the company calls “the era of spatial computing.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 3, 2018

The concepts around connectivity and leadership were synergistic with the concept of networked leadership that Allison Fine and I wrote about in the Networked Nonprofit , published in several years before. The article caught fire – not only in nonprofit and philanthropy circles – but also business, government, and beyond.

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M+R

MAY 10, 2021

As video content on social media continues to reign supreme and audio-only content, spurred on by Twitter Spaces and Clubhouse, grows, it’s important for nonprofits to prioritize accessibility when publishing content online. We’ve noticed a common practice on TikTok: referring to open captions as “CC” or “closed captions,” which is incorrect.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 24, 2022

Designed pro bono by acclaimed New York firm CookFox Architects, the ecological design creates a healthy environment for learning, limits water and energy usage, with a rooftop garden, natural ventilation, low-energy lighting, solar energy, and open-air learning spaces.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 16, 2021

In the Blackbaud Institute’s incredible npExpert free e-book, The Great Reset: Moving Into the New Normal with Intention , Dr. Una Osili opens with some key findings from the last year of fundraising data compiled by the Lilly School of Philanthropy. Most notable is that in a recent survey of nonprofit organizations, 80.5%

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 2, 2021

Cause Camp, presented by Nonprofit Hub and Do More Good , has been nationally recognized by Forbes as a “must-attend” for the nonprofit sector. Being a nonprofit professional isn’t easy. She was recently named one of the top 25 Nonprofit IT Influencers to Follow in 2019 by BizTech Magazine. “In

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. Of course, part of the role is the bread-and-butter work of a nonprofit GC: day-to-day transactions, reviewing our 990, providing counsel to our senior team and board.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

While focused on selling products, many of Ogilvy’s principles and “rules” around research, messaging, and motivating action remain surprisingly relevant today, especially for nonprofit organizations seeking to engage donors and volunteers. Remember your goal is persuading consumers. Helping real people should be the star.

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AFP Blog

JULY 12, 2011

Blending Old and New Tech to Make History Come to Life - Social Philanthropy - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas : "The site has been in an open test for the past year and won the 2011 Webby Award for the best site for a charitable organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2016

A few weeks ago, I wrote a blog post called “ Why the Nonprofit Work Ethic Is Outdated and Needs Change ,” about why nonprofit professionals need to pay attention to self-care and bring a culture of wellbeing into the nonprofit workplace. (The Gabriela says that senior leaders at her nonprofit model self-care.

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Media Cause

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

We have so many different types of Hispanic backgrounds here that you get a mix of it all, and it kind of shapes you into one blend of backgrounds. It gives people who are open-minded the chance to learn and experience new things. Be open-minded and ask questions, but also be supportive and respectful. Luisa Chil, Sr.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2015

This guide will walk you through the first steps of how to create the poster from Intro to Photoshop for Nonprofits: Part 1. Let's open the photo next to it. Open the photo you downloaded by choosing File > Open and browsing to where you saved the file. (If Welcome back! Clean the Photo. Now we have a blank canvas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Jeff Howe, author of Crowdsourcing , defines it as: The application of Open Source principles to fields outside of software. Nonprofits that have built their network can use social media tools to crowdsource ideas for projects at an amazingly fast pace. Are there special cautions related to crowdsourcing for nonprofits?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2013

Note from Beth: I’m thrilled to participate in the LinkedIn Influencer Program where I get to write regular posts about leadership, failure, analytics, big data, presenting, and training from a nonprofit perspective. New York City is a tough place to open a bar. But what makes something go viral?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

.” The Presencing Institute grew out of the MIT Center for Organizational Learning, which was founded by Peter Senge and his colleagues. The word “Presencing” blends the words “presence” and “sensing” and works through “seeing from our deepest source.” It’s a systems leadership framework.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Yesterday, I attended — and live tweeted (#baruchnp) — an interesting panel discussion at Baruch College here in New York, “ Social Media and Technology: What Nonprofits Need To Know.” The panel featured some great nonprofit social media heavy-hitters: Allison Fine , Speaker and Author of Momentum: Igniting Social Change in the Connected Age.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 1, 2017

But wait—should you really be starting a nonprofit? An L3C, though, is a hybrid of an LLC and nonprofit business model, which is where an organization operates to benefit the general public without shareholders and without a profit motive. So you want to start an organization that benefits a specific cause.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

The newest addition to TechSoup's vast array of nonprofit resources is a live monthly interactive video chat series, Nonprofits Live. The event blended virtual video speaker conferencing; online presentation and video; and live audience chatting and social networking, including conversation on Twitter using the #NPLive hashtag.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. It’s an interesting model that blends the kind of action triggered approach to donation that HelpAttack! Frogloop has you covered. Google Drive.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! The type of events that will work best for your nonprofit will depend on three major factors: Your organization’s mission, your available resources, and your supporter’s preferences. It’s a healthy and engaging way to support your nonprofit’s cause.

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Care2

JUNE 30, 2012

With so many apps coming out all the time it’s easy to miss the ones built for social good and hard to keep up on useful apps that nonprofits and causes can use to do their work. It’s an interesting model that blends the kind of action triggered approach to donation that HelpAttack! Frogloop has you covered.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 18, 2015

San Francisco, like many cities embracing the open data movement, has a dedicated data site with all sorts of data available for free for anyone to download and use. However, to view the above information with transit stop data, I needed to blend or overlay additional data. Gathering the Data.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I hope it's a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer. An example of our early "brand" circa 2005 Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference).

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Museum 2.0

MAY 3, 2017

Even as we talk about “abundance thinking” in nonprofits, we tend to restrict ourselves to a limited landscape of opportunities. FLEXIBLE OPTIMISM + HARD CRITERIA Real estate developers blend optimism and flexibility with clear-eyed assessment of what external conditions make a project go. The question is not, “what do I want to do?”

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NTEN

JANUARY 4, 2012

As Stefan Wray posited in a drupal.org post , “The capacity or ability for a nonprofit to create and maintain its own Drupal-based CMS / web site … is a function of, and proportional to, its size (measured in staff and budget) and (or) the amount of technical know-how that its staff possesses.”. Ask around and get lots of references!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. In the prosecutor’s opening statement, he said ‘If you have an oversupply, people will die.’

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CauseVox

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

This enterprise became a catalyst for nonprofits, enabling them to amplify their mission and cultivate a burgeoning donor base. His unique blend of experience has not only bridged the gap between altruism and business but has also allowed him to develop a four-step approach to help you find new donors for your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Here are some good examples of CEO and Executive Director use of social media in the US social sector: Holly Ross is the executive director of NTEN, the nonprofit technology network in the US. Holly also shares more of her in-depth thinking about the nonprofit technology field on NTEN's blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2021

By Beth Singer , Principal at Beth Singer Design, LLC – a design and communications firm specializing in nonprofit organizations to help them fundraise, educate, and promote membership and the mission of their institutions through design solutions. In the prosecutor’s opening statement, he said ‘If you have an oversupply, people will die.’

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 15, 2024

million nonprofit organizations in the U.S. Today, nearly everything is digital, so it makes sense that your nonprofit’s website is often the first point of contact for potential members and donors. Imagine opening a website that is cluttered or confusing. With over 1.9 How can you accomplish this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

At Fort Mason on San Francisco Bay investors, fund managers and social entrepreneurs put their heads together to discuss what it will take to do better, and do more, in the space that lies between strictly nonprofit and strictly for profit. People are open sourcing their metrics, and building taxonomy.

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Judi Sohn

MARCH 12, 2011

I hope it’s a fun read for anyone either looking to redo their own small nonprofit brand, or who wants a deeper dive on what we did at Fight Colorectal Cancer. Like everything else that has gone well in my career, it started with a NTC (Nonprofit Technology Conference). Tip #3: Be open to anything. Sounded perfect.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2023

Estimated Reading Time: 7 minutes END-OF-YEAR EVENT FUNDRAISING The final quarter of the year unfolds with a blend of reflection and anticipation. As the days grow shorter and the year’s narrative approaches its climax, nonprofit leaders are presented with a golden opportunity: to rally their communities for one last, impactful push.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2009

Share Your Story: ROI, Social Media, Nonprofits. tags: nonprofits roi ). My chapter lays out a traditional ROI process that Nonprofit technology staff use to make major IT investment purchases such as hardware, video conference system, database system, etc. Look at what other nonprofits are doing in the space.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 3, 2011

This is less true of Dirty Laundry, which required a blend of friendly invitation to participate and private spaces to contribute secrets.) While the Henry was open to experimentation, they hadn't really done interactive activities in the galleries alongside artworks before, and this project brought up a lot of questions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

She is also the creative director and designer of TranquiliT , an ecoluxe lifestyle clothing line, and the founder of Tranquil Space Foundation , a nonprofit that brings yoga, creativity, and leadership to women and girls. What tips do you have for starting a nonprofit? That's been super handy. Also, determine your mission.

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