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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations

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They are helpful. Your donation receipt should be all these things: friendly, professional, engendering trust, helpful. This tone helps build a connection between you and your donor. If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. They are friendly.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

We fed the many hours of conversation into an application called Dedoose, which helped us to sort and flag themes in the focus groups. Remote technologies, especially social media, helped many organizations reach younger people with whom they were not previously connected. Reaching younger volunteers. “My

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9 Amazing Organizations Share Their Tech Success

Tech Soup

Assistant director John Klima explained: "We get a ton of usage on our public PCs, and the RCI program is going to help us continue to provide this valuable service to our community." Legacy of Hope has leveraged Cisco networking equipment donations from TechSoup and some help installing them from Cisco volunteers.

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The Art of the Backchannel at Conferences: Tips, Reflections, and Resources

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

While this advice is more appropriate for the classroom, Vicky Davis shares how she manages the back channel. I like to find two people to help: one to serve as Google Jockey (a/k/a Link dropper) and another to serve as a moderator -- posing questions to me when I take a breath and ask.

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Games for Change 2007: Funders Perspective Panel

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Mentioned recent studies about taking laptops out of the classroom and there is a problem with using old metrics and it is important to look for new metrics and rethink learning environments in general. How do we think about virtual worlds and help us study human behavior. Emphasis is on digital literacy. Two years ago.

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Seven Ways Your Organization can Put Privacy Into Practice – and Why

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

With a little help from Mozilla Manifesto , here are seven basic privacy principles to keep your organization in check and help guide your decisions on social campaigns, privacy policies and more: No surprises. We guide parents through raising kids in this digital age, and provide digital literacy curriculum to educators at no cost.

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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In this photo, Tyler is listening to a book from Bookshare.org on his school's laptop with the assistance of the Kurzweil 3000 audio software. This response is a measure of how eager the environmental field is for a tool that helps better manage projects. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007.

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