Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 4, 2010

Worldometers : Provides world statistics updated in real-time. Very useful to social media practitioners and bloggers. National Priorities Project : They offer three unique web-based tools that nonprofits can use to help educate the masses about the U.S. tweeting powerful stats is guaranteed to get your organization ReTweeted!

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

The benefits of strength-based messaging Strength-based messaging encourages long-term and recurring giving, rather than a one-time gift to meet an immediate need. This encourages sustained donor loyalty over time. Recognize we all face obstacles and require support from time to time. She is not a cancer patient first.)

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Byte Technology

AUGUST 16, 2016

Whether you’re a media-conscious blogger, marketing maven for a non-profit cause or a new or established e-tailer, having your content feed into multiple social media platforms is a vital element to increasing your visibility and grabbing the attention you want and need. Get and Stay Educated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 5, 2008

and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" The next logical step, of course, is to start to get to know some of these bloggers by doing interviews. Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist. Tell me about you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 24, 2011

Each day a different blogger champions a cause. Education is the path out of poverty in Cambodia. The Sharing Foundation has a full range of educational programs for children, from pre-school to college sponsorship. Her education was interrupted by a serious medical problem, but she recovered. DONATE HERE !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2008

Even though I'm more like twenty-something times 2.5, Julia Smith, who blogs at the idealist and was in the room asked "Where are the twenty something/millennial bloggers writing about social change, activism, and nonprofits?" There are lots of twenty-something bloggers and gen-y bloggers. Why did I go?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Use relevant headings to make it easier for readers to find what they are most interested in so that if someone only has time to skim, they can quickly find the information they need. Draft your blog in advance of your due date so you have time to edit. Long-form writing performs better with SEO. There is a lot to learn about SEO.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 26, 2005

They are looking for bloggers from around the world to be blogging mentors for 1 week as part of the Young Caucasus Women project, a group blog for young women from the Caucasus region (Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia). Last night we watched Mad Hot Ballroom , one of the best movies I've seen in a long time.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Blog Action Day is today, October 15, and the international community of bloggers is blogging about this year’s theme, The Power of We. Converting and delivering these accessible books was expensive and time consuming. With the old approaches, only a fraction of print materials was made available in accessible formats.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

Time is Running Out: Apply or Nominate Someone by Wednesday, February 29th! 1,500 for One Hero: The CTK Foundation will also be offering a $1,500 (USD) President's Choice Award (the Susan Lee Winter Grant Award) for an individual working to provide creative and innovative approaches to HIV/AIDS education or prevention.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2019

Community Fundraisers will enable multiple YouTube “Creators” to raise money for the same fundraiser on multiple YouTube channels and videos, all updated at the same time. Filmed in Nepal, this story is told by the woman it features – Chuna – and her experiences being a girl in a traditional culture that would not let her get an education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Our website’s blog – which now has over 280 bloggers who publish up to 25 posts per week – has been a powerful tool in our work to create cultural and political change on a range of topics related to family-friendly policies, flexible work and parenting. To reach out to bloggers in the health care field. To grow our membership.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 1, 2018

Google is reported to change their search algorithm 500-600 times per year – that could be up to 2-3 changes per day that affect where you appear in rankings! For example, if Google has a hard time reading your website or if their spiders are missing pages, this tool will tell you. SEO can seem overwhelming and like a full-time job.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 3, 2010

As part of her virtual book tour , she's written a guest post for Have Fun, Do Good about Five Ways to Do More Marketing in Less Time. No matter whether you want more people to donate to your good cause, to read your blog, or to recognize your name as an expert in your field, you have to make time for marketing. Will they like us?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2011

It's one of the most important ways that you position the people that you're serving to be successful over time. ~ He is a regular blogger for the Huffington Post and SFGate , and serves as a lecturer on the faculty of the Haas School of Business at UC Berkeley. 15: Tea and Cupcakes with Creative Bloggers (Berkeley, CA) Jan.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I've been absent from these pages a long time. We'll start in Bamako, where we will be staying with our niece Rebecca and her family -- Rebecca is there heading up a project of the Educational Development Center -- but then head up north to Segou, Djenne, pays Dogon, and Timbuctou. Let's get back on track. What have I been up to?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 9, 2010

Wendy was hired “to make the bloggers go away.&# Step 5: Testing the policies: refining, educating. They are anchored to the ocean floor, they let in 20 thousand times their weight of water through them every day, and they hold the nutrients from the water. Radical transparency: all naked all the time. Transparency.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 20, 2019

There are people within different interest groups who have amassed a loyal following on platforms like Twitter, Instagram and YouTube, or are influential bloggers. Often times they’ll then share it with their networks. When they speak well of a product, service—or nonprofit—their followers take notice.

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Byte Technology

APRIL 28, 2015

Whether you’re the IT professional for an established non-profit or huge multinational, a budding blogger or a mom-and-pop etail startup, your website is the face you put forth to the world.

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The Modern Nonprofit

APRIL 6, 2021

Estimated Reading Time: 5 minutes Top Nonprofit Blogs to Bookmark Today. It’s no surprise: thought leaders in the nonprofit sector, many with decades of experience, still take the time to give back to others. Don’t think of donors as ATMs that dispense money from time to time. It’s a two-way relationship.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 22, 2020

For instance, if your nonprofit’s mission is to provide hungry people with food, your success will be measured by how many meals you’ve provided over a certain period of time. Daniela McVicker is a blogger and a freelance writer who works closely with B2B and B2C businesses providing blog writing, copywriting, and ghostwriting services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

Evaluation and Learning sessions help grantmakers and their partners better use evaluation to foster learning and make real-time improvements in their work. Vicki Rosenberg, Vice President Education, Communications and External Relations, Council of Michigan Foundations. Tom Kelly, Associate Director for Evaluation, The Annie E.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

Once we hit November and we’ve gotten through Halloween, Daylight Savings Time, and the first frost, it’s officially the holiday season – and for nonprofits, that means it’s also time for year-end giving campaigns. The reason is twofold: first, it makes sense to align with the holiday season, a time of generosity and giving back.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2013

The Grandmother Power Blogging Campaign is a collaborative effort of hundreds of bloggers writing about how grandmothers are changing the world from May 7-14, 2013. Some people don''t even begin to use all the power they have." ~ my Gram "I think the answer to everything is education. I think the answer to everything is education.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2021

As you implement the strategies given in this guide, you’ll be able to find and recruit people who want to dedicate their time and talent to helping your organization. When someone is willing to donate an hour of their time, a nonprofit is able to save money while getting the assistance they need to move their work forward.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

If you haven't heard, during the month of April TechSoup is hosting our 4 th annual Digital Storytelling Challenge designed to inspire, educate, and empower nonprofits, libraries and social good organizations to tell their story through video and photos. Free Range tells great stories that inspire, educate and activate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

Blogger Influencer: Individuals who write a blog on a topic that is aligned with your organization’s mission and programs and has an online presence of 500-5,000 followers. It is important to understand that an influencer strategy takes time and effort and you must be thoughtful. Read Blackbaud’s white paper on how to engage with them.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 6, 2011

Maria Rainier , Freelance Writer & Blogger. First in Education. Maria Rainier is a freelance writer and blogger for First in Education , where she's recently written about obtaining a master's degrees in teaching through distance learning , along with a piece on online art history programs. Like this article?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. Over the holidays, I took an all too brief social media break to spent time with family. My “Circle of Wise&# is always changing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

Each panel allotted ample time for Q/A from the audience which consisted of nonprofit techies and bloggers. Google has also developed other online resources such as educational videos , case studies and better ways for you to connect with other nonprofits. lets the handsets translate conversations in real time.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2009

It’s soft and maliable and relative, pretty much all of the time. You also have a volunteer program for middle and high school students to work with the children in after-school time in lieu of child care, but find that the current partners you have in the community don’t work for attracting new volunteers to participate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits April 17, 2008 I guess because I’m a blogger, I get these interesting tidbits in my mailbox. I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

Once on board, they often do just that, like this week’s guest blogger Vanessa Wilson who BoardAssist was honored to place on several boards. Is this contract too risky because of the timing of payment? Do build some reserves – Educate funders that 6 months of expenses is prudent management.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Our goal this time around is—you guessed it—10,000 people giving $10 each on 10/10/10. When it was time for 09/09/09, I didn’t have to scramble to find RTers or bloggers; they were there. We sent it to bloggers, media, and anyone who’d open the file. We used those insights to design our Twitterthon on 10/10/10.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

I have recently participated as a speaker at several press events: a traditional press conference with newspaper reporters; a recorded over-the-telephone radio interview; and a call-in event for bloggers. The topic was similar in all cases -- specific cases of entrepreneurship and environmental action around the world.

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Forum One

MAY 11, 2009

I have recently participated as a speaker at several press events: a traditional press conference with newspaper reporters; a recorded over-the-telephone radio interview; and a call-in event for bloggers. The topic was similar in all cases -- specific cases of entrepreneurship and environmental action around the world.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 10, 2008

In most cases, the audience wasn’t asking about money: they were asking about time. As one woman put it, “spending time on this means time staff isn’t spending on other work.” So in the interest of hers, yours, and everyone else’s time, here’s a rundown on what I see as the real time costs of a variety of Web 2.0

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