Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Plain Language Movement started in the 1970s based on the idea to make it easier for the public to read, understand, and use government communications. Plain Language Resources: Big Duck’s Plain Language for Nonprofits. They focus your nonprofit on tracking and reporting impact which is essential for fundraising success.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

I’m often invited to speak with organizations about the latest fundraising and nonprofit trends. While I am happy to share my perspective, trends are, by nature, always changing and have varying impacts depending on your nonprofit’s function. The first is to share my view on some of the latest fundraising and nonprofit trends.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 11, 2020

posted by Erna Dubravic, Accounting and Assurance Manager, Beach Fleischman Blog originally posted here. For the general public, the designation “nonprofit” is often correlated with donations. The thought of a nonprofit entity earning revenue and having customers can appear contradictory. The answer is, not exactly.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

Initially a reluctant blogger, I launched Nonprofit Tech 2.0 in August 2009 and within a few months came to the conclusion that blogging had been the missing piece in my social media campaigns. That first month Nonprofit Tech 2.0 As of last month, Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofit Tech 2.0 received 13,000 visitors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Allison Fine and I have been looking at artificial intelligence, nonprofits, and philanthropy. While this particular research was focused on giving and fundraising, we have looking at topic with a broader lens. As we continue to explore this topic, I’ll be posting more regular updates about new developments.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

As personal computers, smartphones, and the Internet of Things evolve, so must your nonprofit. This webinar was presented on December 19 to more than 1,900 nonprofit staff worldwide and focused on what’s new and next in online communications and fundraising to help nonprofits prepare for the future and embrace being an early adopter.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 13, 2015

What were the blog posts that were most popular on the BoardAssist blog in 2014? Our 5 Most Popular Blog Posts of 2014. Seven Nonprofit Finance Tips to Keep Your Board Out of Trouble was an extremely popular guest post by finance pro Paul Konigstein. Don’t Forget to Join a Nonprofit Board. nonprofit governance'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

Stay tuned for a blog post about it. Session topics include: Supporting Effectiveness sessions explore how grantmakers can improve practices to build grantee capacity and better support nonprofit sustainability. David Greco, Vice President, Nonprofit Finance Fund. Efrain Gutierez, Associate, FSG.

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BoardAssist

JANUARY 19, 2016

What were the blog posts that were most popular on the BoardAssist blog in 2015? Five of Our Most Popular Blog Posts of 2015. As a part of Google Grants, qualifying nonprofits can earn a free advertising budget of up to $10,000 each month to use on AdWords to help promote their website and cause.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Tax compliance can be an intimidating topic, so in this article, we’ll be re-framing the process. Misconceptions About IRS 990 Filing Requirements It is a common misconception that because nonprofits are not taxed, they have limited interactions with the IRS. For this reason, many nonprofit leaders fear their annual requirements.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 25, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! We welcome your comments, feedback and suggestions! So why do we do it?

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Topic : Keynote. Description : Libraries, whether associated with a school, government, agency or geography, serve a community. Nonprofit organizations, local and federal governments, campaigners and even businesses are trying to innovate at the speed of communities. Blog post with slides and notes.

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 16, 2022

Your nonprofit pursues a worthwhile mission, and as a marketing professional, it’s up to you to find the unique channels and messages that help current and potential supporters see that. Nonprofits have realized the power that well-designed apparel holds. Supporting nonprofits whose missions align with the company’s priorities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

We focused on digital transformation because incorporating digital has become essential for delivering on all aspects of a nonprofit’s mission, not just fundraising and communications but program delivery and governance. Each section lists best practices and processes for being a digital nonprofit.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

As a best practice, use a constituent relationship manager (CRM) such as those included in EveryAction’s guide to picking a nonprofit CRM to help organize and monitor your campaign’s success. Your solution should be related to specific actions your nonprofit is taking. Does Your Nonprofit Need a Website Revamp? How to Tell.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Examining the best nonprofit websites out there may give you an idea about whether it’s time to revamp your website or not, but we recommend also using a more empirical approach to determine if you need a new online strategy. These are not the types of questions you want your audience to ask about your nonprofit.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” The post Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

What does it have to do with fundraising and nonprofits? There are plenty of books, articles, and research papers (see, e.g., here , here , and here for just a few) on the topic of how people learn, but the reality is there’s a continuum. Identify a key value that governs your behavior or life. Why am I bothering with this?

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Top Nonprofits

JANUARY 5, 2022

For nonprofits of all sizes and missions, building relationships with individual donors should be a priority to help ensure financial stability and long-term sustainability, regardless of what is happening in the world. Nonprofit Marketing: 3 Easy Ways To Grow Your Audience. Connect with them on social media on LinkedIn or Facebook.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

It was seemingly a year and forever ago when we last wrote about nonprofit trends reports. Our latest 4th edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report reflects a set of organizations struggling with this imbalance while navigating a rapidly-changing future. How nonprofits are traversing the extreme shifts in the workforce.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

Out of all last week's conversation on nonprofit movement building one quote stuck in my head. I first became aware of it from a nonprofit blog meme from 2005 started by Ed Batista. I'd like to look the topic from both the institutional lens and in the weeds or practitioner level. Photo by Okinawa Soba.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 28, 2021

Remember these words: Your nonprofit’s logo is not your story. If you Google “nonprofit logos,” you’ll see some common themes. Many nonprofit leaders really want to take every opportunity to help you understand that they are helping people. Risk of overcomplicating your nonprofit’s logo. It makes sense.

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Classy

APRIL 9, 2021

In 2020, nonprofits raised around 20% of their income from grants. Grant funds from foundations, government entities, and corporations help nonprofits diversify their income streams. In addition, make sure your grant team has easy, centralized access to basic marketing and branding language for your nonprofit.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2013

This post originally appeared on Arabella Advisors'' Greater Good blog as part of the series Impact 2014. For many years, people frequently suggested that Benetech , the nonprofit tech company I founded and lead, get more involved in Washington, DC policy and legislative action. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?” I was wrong.

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3rd Sector Labs

AUGUST 22, 2014

The topic – “10 Decisions You Will Face with Any Donor Data Migration” – focused on preparing for your next CRM or data migration while addressing 10 tough decisions nonprofits encounter along the way. Check our blog – you will find that we periodically report on the aggregated polling results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

Note from Beth: Many nonprofits do not have dedicated teams for social media and social media strategy and implementation is typically only a part of a someone’s job. Nonprofits nowadays invest serious resources to keep pace with the latest social media trends. Federal Government has made digital communications a priority.

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Media Cause

AUGUST 8, 2022

Metaverse is a word that carries a lot of weight these days, and it seems like the loudest voices on the topic are on opposite ends of the spectrum. This is the first post in our series on the metaverse, where we’ll uncover what nonprofits need to know about entering the metaverse. What does it have to do with me?” .

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Nonprofit professionals and the organizations that depend on them understand the importance of investing in ongoing professional development. That’s where ongoing professional development for fundraisers and nonprofit leaders comes in. Why investing in ongoing professional development is so important .

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. What’s a Nonprofit? Let’s begin. Your Mission. Discuss that too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2017

Last week I attended the launch of the book, Engine of Impact: Essentials of Strategic Leadership in the Nonprofit Sector by William F. The authors identify seven leadership best practices of high performance based on their extensive experience in the nonprofit and philanthropy sector.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This example can be applied to many situations, whether it's malicious comments on a blog, bad behavior in a forum, etc. Introducing Tactical Philanthropy Advisors | Tactical Philanthropy - If you don't read Tactical Philanthropy, the blog from Sean Stannard-Stockton, you should. One is on the idea of government 2.0,

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 5, 2011

Last week, the New York Times ran an article exploring a segment of the nonprofit/social impact sector that the author saw as a small minority of organizations, but one I care deeply about: those that plan to go out of business. The article featured Malaria No More, and their vision of the project’s work: to end Malaria.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2012

One of the themes that came up is the gap in skills of citizens and nonprofits and the use of data. It is all about the data, but data is playing a huge role in civic engagement strategies and if people or nonprofits lack the skills to use it for civic engagement goals, that poses a problem. Why this resource?

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 16, 2009

Using hashtags lets you mark your message as pertaining to a certain topic, then automatically include that message in a stream with everyone else’s that include the same hashtag. 4Change or #NPCons (nonprofit consultants) seem like pretty obvious topics. What do those # mean? Build a landing pad. Consider your time.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

I don’t have to tell anyone who reads Beth’s blog about the value of storytelling. We saw a larger number of reports and publications out there on the topic, but most felt stale and too isolated to the nonprofit sector. from entertainment media and news, brand strategy, technology, government, nonprofits, and business.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

According to the survey of funders about capacity building completed by GrantCraft , the top five areas of capacity building that funders most likely support include: leadership, strategic planning, financial management, governance, and fundraising. If so, what approaches lead to the greatest impact and under what conditions?

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