Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

Now more than ever, nonprofits need to share stories of how they’re making the world better. Tailor your most compelling narratives for different channels to share them widely. A number of nonprofits are already doing an incredible job of this—and you can easily follow their lead. Stories are windows into new worlds.

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 23, 2017

From improving literacy to helping communities recover after natural disasters, nonprofits take on vital roles to do good in the world. million nonprofits registered in the United States, which includes private foundations, public charities, chambers of commerce and civic leagues. There are currently over 1.5

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MARCH 8, 2023

Library Giving Day branding should be used across all channels to give a sense of legitimacy to the campaign. Connect the dots and remind supporters that libraries promote literacy by offering free access to literature for all community members. Need inspiration? Check out what other libraries have done.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

While there are tons of ways that your nonprofit can engage donors, following the basic steps of the donor engagement cycle—ask, thank, report and repeat—will forge a clear path that the rest of your stewardship strategy can follow. This triggers a connection with the nonprofit that can reinforce commitment to the cause.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

Facebook is hardly a new platform for nonprofit organizations to interact with supporters. Rather than moving Facebook supporters to a different channel, the goal is to grow relationships with them from within the platform itself. According to GoodUnited , these fundraisers have since raised billions for nonprofit organizations.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 12, 2011

Our Nonprofits Live interactive series is designed to address such questions and find solutions for the toughest organizational issues. Ken is currently working as the Worldview Literacy Project Manager at The Institute of Noetic Sciences. Pacific time on the October 25th episode of Nonprofits Live.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 30, 2012

Content Curation for Nonprofits. Here are my slides and curated resources materials for a talk called “ What Can Nonprofits Learn from Robin Good, the Best Content Curator on the Planet? ” that I will be presenting at the Social Media for Nonprofits. Benefits for Nonprofits. That’s less true.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. SocialCoding4Good is a force multiplier: the nonprofit organizations we work with deliver the social impact; SocialCoding4Good makes them stronger. In this update, I’m delighted to be able to share Benetech’s latest efforts to do both.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. Source: Pratham Books.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 4, 2019

In 1999, Blackbaud pioneered the nonprofit technology market by introducing reliable, secure, and donor-friendly online donation forms. The last three years, in particular, have shown how online giving continues to be a growth engine for fundraising in the nonprofit sector. Stop, Start, and Continue. It’s in our org charts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 23, 2012

The ability to search effectively for information online and to be able to discern the quality and veracity of the information one finds and then communicate these findings well (referred to as digital literacy). How does this play out in your work with a nonprofit? Being strategically future-minded. The ability to concentrate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. I will also be teaching this workshop for nonprofits in a number of other locations in the coming months. Getting Your Nonprofit Ready To Listen. Your organization may be skeptical about the value of listening through social media channels. Keywords Are King.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

Ever helpful, the team got on board to roll up their sleeves and pitch in at San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits that had big volunteer jobs. A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text.

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NTEN

JUNE 27, 2012

Benefits for Nonprofits The act of content curation can actually reduce our information overload. One 21st century work place literacy is sense-making of information together and alone. It’s about curation, creativity, and coordination across channels. We need to go on an information diet. And guess what? That’s less true.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

Photo by Marcopolos I'm a few weeks away from SXSW where I'll be leading a session called " Nonprofit Social Media ROI Poetry Slam " which will incorporate a lot of audience interaction. What's also different is that more and more people are viewing the back channel as integrated with the conference networking and participant learning.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

” The Google.org sponsored project invited Bay Area nonprofits to share information about their great work to make a better world. The finalists are an impressive roster of charities from diverse fields doing great work in nonprofit technology. Google then invited the public to vote for the top winners. 500,000 Grant Winners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

I am doing some research for a friend who is working for a wonderful, large nonprofit that serves and engages youth. We are also interested in other kinds of teen social networking under the auspices of a nonprofit or other "social sector" kind of organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

Social Networking and Web Tools for Chicago Nonprofits. now hear from homegrown social networks and what they have to offer local nonprofits. they have a YouTube Channel. How do increase internet literacy with communities? Interesting to see how nonprofits start to use it. All live blogging disclaimers apply.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

Listen Learn Adapt: The Secret To Nonprofit Social Media Success View more presentations from kanter. These is a rough cut where I've riffed on some of the ideas in David Armano's " The Collective Focus Group:Listen, Learn, and Adapt " and extended them to nonprofits and social media. tags: blogs facebook ).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

In this edition of nonprofit tech news, TechSoup shows new ways your nonprofit could harness mobile and killer apps in 2016! For 2014, our NPTech experts made strong predictions about charities doing more multi-channel marketing or going beyond email and direct mail into social media. Social Media and Fundraising. One is hiring.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I couldn’t help but think about how important content curation skills, information literacy, and encouraging a movement around this as Clay Johnson suggests in his book, the Information Diet. ” I also talked about this from the perspective of nonprofits putting social media into practice. I call it slow social media.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. Keep the pitch focused on the issue, not what programs your nonprofit offers to help people.

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Neon CRM

JUNE 7, 2023

Email is one of the most popular fundraising channels: 48% of donors prefer to receive updates and appeals in their inboxes, and email beats out social media, phone calls, and other digital channels in terms of fundraising performance. Why do they donate to your nonprofit? Why do they donate to your nonprofit?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

We at TechSoup are proud to support the important work of nonprofits around the world. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. The winning story will be promoted through all of TechSoup’s channels. Interested? Eligibility. a) Non-Discrimination.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

We at TechSoup are proud to support the important work of nonprofits around the world. We want you to tell us how you are using TechSoup product donations to promote digital literacy. The winning story will be promoted through all of TechSoup’s channels. That sounds great. How do you plan on doing that? Eligibility.

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Nonprofits Source

MAY 8, 2024

By understanding your nonprofit’s audience, you can craft marketing materials that connect your mission to their specific interests and values. Telling engaging stories about your nonprofit requires more than just broadcasting an overview of your mission and history to the world. Consider the following donor data points: Age.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands by Carol Cone. A few weeks ago, Beth was kind enough to host a book giveaway and New Year resolution contest for nonprofits to celebrate the launch of my new book Breakthrough Nonprofit Branding , which I co-authored with Jocelyne Daw, Kristian Darigan Merenda and Anne Erhard.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2012

We got into a little side conversation about privacy and nonprofits and she offered to write up this post that includes some tips for nonprofits. As social media managers and nonprofit leaders, we’re living in an age of connectedness with a goal of empowering our users, engaging and mobilizing them for the greater good.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

I think that’s why so many people who start nonprofits decide they hate fundraising before they even try it. Many people would love to do the front-line work of making a difference, just like your nonprofit does. It’s different from how struggling nonprofits approach fundraising, chasing money. That was me. Or the knowledge.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

Virtual events have skyrocketed in popularity, with more and more nonprofits moving to the digital space to facilitate traditional face-to-face engagement efforts like auctions, galas, and walkathons. Ensure your form is branded to your nonprofit organization. This may seem like a no-brainer, but it’s worth spelling it out.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

one of my favorite things about our guests is she’s been in her shoes, right, she’s been an ED, she’s been not just a consultant but also has worked for and with nonprofits directly, which is great, over two decades. Every business, whether it be for-profit or nonprofit business, is usually created for purpose.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Organizations like Room to Read , the Poetry Foundation , and Books in Homes USA work to promote literacy and the significance of literary works in our society - support their work today, bookworms! Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

Photo by James Jordan I'm actually in the clouds, flying to California on Virgin America using the (not free) wifi listening to Mark Pesce's keynote via Mike Seyfang delivered the other day at Connecting Up Australia the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Australia (see web site for details). I keynoted the conference last year.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

For funders, nonprofits, and institutions across industries to effectively participate in the global movement to break the cycle of intergenerational poverty, they must first transform internal organizational culture and capacity to advance access, equity, and justice. Mobilize Funders and Partner Organizations.

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