Tech Soup

JULY 26, 2017

Websites, blog posts, social media, online news — all of these are part of your community's history, but all are ephemeral in nature. This program is offered in partnership with WebJunction and with funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS). Register for webinar.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Spring fundraisers are a great way to bring your community together while gaining support for your cause. You can recruit volunteers from your community to bring in different homemade goods and sell them. Talent show Another family-friendly fundraising idea is to host a talent show.

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Greater Giving

MAY 17, 2024

Wine Event Inspiration Hosting a wine tasting event can range from a small tasting with light nibbles, to a large party with thousands of guests. Engaging Your Wine Community Where to find wine for your fundraising event? There are two sectors of the wine community that would be helpful to tap into – the makers and the lovers!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

People rely on their neighborhood library to borrow books, magazines, and movies. Providence Community Library (PCL) is leading the way. PCL is a nonprofit network of nine neighborhood libraries that provide free, accessible library services and serve as vibrant neighborhood hubs. But borrowing the Internet?

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2013

Thinking about providing health information training for your community? Dana Abbey is the Health Information Literacy Coordinator for the National Network of Libraries of Medicine, MidContinental region. She has a background in public libraries, library consultation, and prescription drug monitoring.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

Join online fundraising communities and ask lots of questions and monitor for great ideas. Learn how to speak publicly and eloquently about the organization and offer to speak to community organizations, mutual aid organizations, clubs, coalitions, or commissions. Do a raffle, sweepstakes, contest, or giveaway in your community.

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Forum One

JANUARY 24, 2023

Finding cost-effective ways to launch new services, having the ability to iterate quickly, providing non-resource intensive access to remote and underserved communities, and creating the most accessible and secure experiences possible, just to name a few. This means a more performant and less resource-intensive experience.

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Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2015

In part 1 of this series, we introduced MathAndCoding , a nonprofit that offers teen-led programming classes for children in public libraries in the Silicon Valley area. In part 2, we offer a librarian's perspective as the host for this program. " Library-Specific Curriculum. But they are still kids.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2013

I preferred starting from scratch and using Easel.ly's library of shapes, images, and fonts to create my infographic. The free plan includes 2MB of online storage (for hosting your graphics), supports image export, and offers a library of shapes and symbols. Community Organizer 2.0

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NTEN

OCTOBER 2, 2013

The NTEN Community platform recently went under the knife! After a transplant and a few initial scars, we''re excited to report the new platform is alive and rejuvenated with a fresh new face and a host of new features to help you engage in the community. Searchable resource library with easy file uploading.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 28, 2013

It is our hope that Benetech’s Bookshare library, the authorized entity which we believe has the world’s largest accessible online collection with its 198,000 titles, becomes a major source of books for all people who are blind or otherwise print disabled. For years, we have been working to end the worldwide book famine.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2015

In August, we hosted a webinar called Technology Planning Tips for Small Libraries. Julie Elmore, library director, Oakland City-Columbia Township Public Library (Indiana). Travis Montgomery, technology specialist, Liberty Lake Municipal Library (Washington). Our guests for this webinar were.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 5, 2012

We're happy to announce the next stage of the App It Up project: Transforming Communities. What Is Transforming Communities? Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the App It Up project. Uncertain whether apps can benefit your organization?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

Pottsboro Area Library in Texas. We of course got lots of great stories, and our winner is the Pottsboro Area Library. When librarian Dianne Connery came to the library a few years ago, she found a classic small town library situated in a converted post office building with the requisite institutional green paint job.

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The Modern Nonprofit

MAY 1, 2024

But how do you ensure your events not only honor this rich heritage but also captivate and mobilize your community towards meaningful action? Well-planned events enable nonprofits, community groups, businesses and government agencies to showcase AAPI arts, food, performances, and more. Be sure to recruit knowledgeable facilitators.

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EveryAction

JULY 3, 2023

Integrated tools hosted directly on your website can help boost engagement by simplifying the user experience for your supporters. Host the donation page directly on your website rather than requiring donors to leave your site to use a third-party donation tool. Prioritize a streamlined UX for donors. Keep your website organized.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Your post-event planning should include marketing landing pages, dashboards, or even full-on webpages as a way of hosting the post-event information, follow-up details, and sales information. Email the Recorded Content Library With Limited Access. You’ll likely need to host these files on your webpage. Plan Ahead for Post-Event.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 25, 2018

For the past five years, each summer, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History has hosted MuseumCamp. Some people want an outcome-oriented training (as opposed to a community co-created summer camp). You will learn the theory and practice of how to open your organization to robust community participation. Learn more here.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 20, 2020

Some of your board members may be plugged in to grant opportunities through foundations or corporations in the community, not to mention family foundations that their social contacts and business colleagues may control. They may be helpful, or not, but it never hurts to ask.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 8, 2011

However, many nonprofits and libraries aren't using apps, for various reasons. The App It Up project is here to help, by identifying - and even creating - apps specifically for nonprofits and libraries. Some nonprofits and libraries are even creating their own apps. What Is an App? First, a quick definition. Stay tuned!

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Whole Whale

APRIL 10, 2023

This leads to a rather large podcast graveyard in the iTunes library making it very hard to find current podcasts. While it is easy to create a podcast, the difficulty comes with the ongoing work needed to maintain a podcast month after month.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Hosting a donor appreciation event to celebrate your community of supporters. Here are some ways you can find and get in front of new funders: Attend a “ Meet the Funders ” panel in your community or ask to take a local funder out to coffee to learn more about their organization and funding priorities.

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AccelEvents

DECEMBER 10, 2020

And now, more than ever, tech has risen to the challenge and hosted some of the biggest most important tech virtual events this year. . However, with event technology, Qualtrics was able to launch their campaign WorkDifferent on August 12th, which featured a significant pivot from physical events to the online communities. .

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 29, 2011

The Online Community MeetUp ended 2011 by shifting the focus to the meetup organizers – the TechSoup Online Community and Social Media Team. Tenby, the team’s leader and Online Community Director, got her start with the TechSoup online community on its forums , now managed by DeLong.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. I don’t wait for my books for new classes; I search the library and find them myself.” With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college.

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DipJar

JUNE 24, 2021

Beginning in April and continuing through the summer, thousands of community cats have litters that are taken in, cared for, and ultimately adopted. A Critical Mission for Animals and the Community. This city-supported lifeline for animals and the community that cares for them has demonstrated its value and meddle over and over.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 29, 2022

Purim is a Jewish holiday that brings a community together — and gives everyone an excuse to dress up on a day that isn’t Halloween. Host a Passover seder as an alternative to the rubber chicken dinner or spaghetti supper. Local libraries may also be open hosting egg-hunters for a good cause. March Madness Money.

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Volunteer Hub

JULY 26, 2021

Opened in 1996, Holocaust Museum Houston has become a valuable resource for community residents and people around the world. Museum volunteers fill a variety of organizational roles including assisting with admissions, greeting guests, fulfilling administrative duties, hosting galleries, and working in the museum store.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 23, 2014

Want to make an impact on your library's community with technology? The Edge Initiative has officially launched, and public libraries across the United States can now apply to participate! The Edge Initiative is a leadership and management tool that can help you align your library's technology with community needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2019

But this is more than a simple report on a highly successful leadership program that takes a systems approach to serving an underserved community, it is the authors playbook of how to design and implement a program, including facilitation recipes for designing meetings.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

After all, they’re proud of their creations and would love to see them benefit disadvantaged people and communities, where regular market forces would fail to go. We are now looking for a half-time general counsel to join our team and manage the host of legal issues we are always investigating. Authors Guild vs. HathiTrust.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

Your post-event planning should include marketing landing pages, dashboards, or even full-on webpages as a way of hosting the post-event information, follow-up details, and sales information. Email the Recorded Content Library With Limited Access. You’ll likely need to host these files on your webpage. Plan Ahead for Post-Event.

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NTEN

JUNE 10, 2011

Maybe you’ve also taken the next step of strengthening your stakeholder community by engaging in back and forth dialog online – whether in existing social spaces like blogs, Facebook, Twitter, and YouTube, or in a custom built online community. Are you ready to take your community to the next level of maturity? Some are huge.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. Why Community? So, why community?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 10, 2019

Fundraiser flyers: Create flyers for your fundraiser and post them on bulletin boards in libraries, grocery stores, coffee shops, and anywhere else that gets a lot of traffic in your community. Word of mouth: Use any social interaction as an opportunity to advocate for your fundraiser. 10) Get more support from your donors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2014

This reality changed when both Kevin and Sophia learned about the accessible online library Bookshare , an initiative of Silicon Valley technology nonprofit Benetech. With its rapidly growing collection of over 225,000 (and counting) accessible ebooks, Bookshare is the world’s largest library of its kind.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2013

This post was authored by Brenda Hough and was originally published on TechSoup for Libraries. One of the things I like best about working with TechSoup for Libraries is our connection to TechSoup , which provides opportunities for me to think beyond libraries and to consider technology in the broader non-profit environment.

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