Candid

APRIL 26, 2021

It includes, but isn’t limited to, people who use wheelchairs, canes, and those with vision or hearing impairments. But if your web design isn’t accessible, you risk missing out on online donations and other conversions. You’ve come to the right place. Good building accessibility means creating spaces that can be used by anyone.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2018

We are tracking the conversation and resources about AI and Nonprofits and social good. Facilitated by Lucy Bernholz, the panelists discussed how data mining, policy algorithms, and predictive risk models affect poor and working-class people in America. More on the new law here. Here’s this month’s roundup.

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 24, 2021

Below is a recap of our ‘teeny conversation’ from May 11th, 2021. Our most recent ‘teeny conversation’, an open conversation with nonprofit leaders around the country, discussed the challenges nonprofits are facing with engaging their audiences as we transition to the “new normal”. Changes are happening in 2021. 2021 Challenges.

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Qgiv

MARCH 14, 2023

If those systems don’t communicate, or place data into the same data warehouse, your organization can’t track donor/constituent engagement and behavior. Conversely, some of the largest technology companies laid off high-paying technology jobs , which will impact leadership and major donors for many organizations.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson is a lawyer who graduated from Harvard Law School and started EJI to dedicate his life to fighting the unequal treatment of marginalized communities. Enslaved people were so disrespected that those who enslaved them didn’t even tell them that they were free for months after the South had surrendered.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 25, 2022

Salesforce, for example, founded its Office of Ethical and Humane Use to help build and foster a culture of responsibility as it relates to technology use, instilling a strategic framework around product, law, policy, and ethics to ensure the humane use of technology across Salesforce’s many clouds.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

A conversion-optimized donation page. Choose images that show interactions between people, whether it’s your volunteers and constituents or your donors mingling at previous fundraising events. A/B testing involves creating two different versions of a webpage and assessing which drives more engagement and conversions.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

If you, like many, find asking for money hard or distasteful, let’s reframe it, because when you come from a place of negativity, you’ll actually repel donations. You’re asking people to help you feed hungry families or save animals or provide scholarships for at-risk youth. It’s true. See how that works?

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NTEN

MARCH 15, 2011

But with the ever-changing properties and tools on the Internet, that door has evolved into countless spaces, conversations, and opportunities that can seem tough to tackle. The days of "reaching out" via a static website and hoping people come to you are over. You need to join the conversation where it's happening.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

It will be interesting to see what kind of reception Tori’s doubt’s about microfinance has; will it be ignored and ridiculed as naive and superficial (the easiest way to dismiss dissent) or will people open and honestly engage her in discussions about where and how microfinance works and where and how it doesn’t. More on this to come soon.)

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Qgiv

JULY 3, 2023

Disability Pride Month is a great awareness month dedicated to celebrating the accomplishments and the importance of people with disabilities in our communities, promoting the visibility of people with disabilities, and honoring the inherent right to a better quality of life for people with disabilities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! WIPO has a mandate from its member states, and is working to address the need to change laws and get more accessible books flowing. law works: the one that made Bookshare possible.

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sgEngage

JUNE 13, 2022

This blog post draws on our own experiences at Candid as well as recent conversations with several funders. Central to Candid’s approach to data protection, and to that of the funders I spoke with, are concerns about the risks to people (versus risks to property or organizational reputation, for example).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Change the conversation from vanity metrics to validated learning. Networks have been valuable to the social change sector because of the potential for collective impact rather than individual impact. Networks are made up of people – people who are in relationship with each other. Funder Support for Relationships.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

FEBRUARY 15, 2018

February is Black History Month and while there are countless ways to honor and celebrate black history throughout the year, we’re giving you a place to start by highlighting eight nonprofits that are making major waves in their communities. Southern Poverty Law Center. Black Public Media. Higher Heights.

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Forum One

MAY 25, 2023

For local governments that rely on Twitter for law enforcement alerts, public transportation updates, and to hear directly from residents about service requests, this has been especially problematic. Be sure to provide a way for people to double-check that the account they’re looking at is really yours, and not an imposter.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 9, 2019

If you’re looking for ways to boost your 2019 fundraising efforts for your nonprofit organization, you’re in the right place. Understanding what’s happening around you helps you to think ahead, learn people’s behaviors, and seize the opportunities available. The way people talk to donors has changed. Personalization.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

APRIL 5, 2019

We advocate for laws that uphold the 7th amendment which is our constitutional right to trial by jury and focus on improving safety for all Texas families, workers, and patients. This really opened the eyes for a lot of people in the auto body industry, especially here in Texas. We want to encourage them to be more involved.

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Everyaction

FEBRUARY 12, 2018

People shouldn’t have to drive for hours or cross a picket line for basic care and that’s what really drives us. It wasn’t just the training, but the systems and laws in place that made it difficult to provide care. We're now on the ground in 19 states and that's because people are so motivated to take action.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Conduct initial research Before taking any steps to formally establish your nonprofit, conduct background research into the people and groups who will help you get your new organization off the ground. Look into relevant laws regarding starting a nonprofit in your community. Look into: Your primary audience.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

How can you help make sure changes are communicated up front and expectations are set for the group so that people feel like they know what is coming and can prepare for it? People Change- this involves succession, leadership transitions , promotions, new hires, etc. What people should be involved? I’m glad you asked!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

Last Friday I spent almost two and a half hours in a wide-ranging conversation with Maria Pallante of the Copyright Office (and two other folks whose full names I didn't write down). copyright exemption for serving the print disabled is commonly called the Chafee Amendment: Section 121 of copyright law. copyright law.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

Cyclists sign up for the ride and seek out people in their network to sponsor their participation. One of the reasons that challenge events work so well is something called the “martyrdom effect” which finds people feel better about a thing if they have to undergo adversity to achieve it. Use that to your advantage!

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Neon CRM

JULY 21, 2023

A nonprofit board is a group of people committed to the organization’s mission who oversee the long-term direction of the organization. But the board is responsible for ensuring that the nonprofit has all the necessary legal, ethical, financial, and overall good governance policies in place to succeed long-term. Let’s get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s a complicated equation that brings together core human rights concerns about privacy, freedom of expression and freedom of assembly and the direct practicalities of real-life struggle with the ways in which engineering, policy, legal and design decisions are made by companies, or placed upon them by the jurisdictions in which they operate.

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Tech Soup

JULY 11, 2013

But we all know what invariably happens when the ‘D’ word comes up in conversation other than at a hackathon or Google staff party. Individual data points begin morphing into larger concepts like, say, The Law of Large Numbers. I would even go so far as to call the Law of Large Numbers awesome! Really interesting.

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Association TV

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

You halt the conversation and break away from your loved ones. Now have you ever wondered, gosh, why don’t places just put up more clear, concise and eye-grabbing signage? According to web UX-pert Tommy Walker, optimizing your microcopy doesn’t just remove challenges, it encourages a massive uptick in conversions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Today I am posting the transcript from my interview with Brahm Ahmadi, the Executive Director of People's Grocery. If you are inspired by the interview and live in the Bay Area, People's Grocery is launching its 2-acre farm in Sunol this weekend and they are looking for volunteers. Brahm Ahmadi: Sure.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And if you've been keeping up with recent trends on mobile , then you also know that by 2014 more people will view webpages using a mobile device than a computer. A system that makes the right data available to the right people at the right time. Not to mention the explosion of social media in the last several years.

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

For example, while we recognize the challenge of people still being in—and expressing—a pivot/unprecedented/back to normal state of mind, we won’t be rehashing that one this year. It can be as simple as something like “we partner with people working at the community level” or “we have staff/volunteers/partners who are in [x location] doing…”.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

When asked, Melissa mentioned having a strong fundraising strategy begins with having a strong plan in place ahead of time. Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library. Goals don’t come out of thin air.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

By Nate Andorsky , CEO of Creative Science , a digital agency that aligns behavioral science with design and technology to help nonprofits, foundations, and mission-driven companies rethink the way that they engage with people. Essentially, behavioral science is the study that talks about how and why people make the decisions they do.

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Media Cause

APRIL 13, 2023

Even if you’re not on TikTok, there are a few important takeaways to consider from this conversation at the moment. 1. Most people, on a daily basis, consume content across multiple social channels, so it’s likely that if TikTok goes away, users will simply spend more time on another platform. Kristen Friedel, Sr.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

But if you can get inside a donor’s mind, I think that is the secret to reducing your attrition, which means increasing the number of people who renew and give you gifts year after year. . Being in thorough and honest relationships with people seems to work better in fundraising. Andy: So we’ll see if the poll works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2006

It's taking place on October 13th at 6:00 p.m. Most people don't always understand how a piece of software that facilitates conversations can change the world. Silona is organizing a Code-A-Thon that will lock up 100 programmers for 48 hours to see what kind of open source software can be written for non-profits. until it does.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 14, 2009

Some excellent resources emerged from this discussion, so I thought I'd share highlights here and invite you to join the conversation on the NTEN Discuss list. (If Unfortunately, most people find that very approach to be confusing, or daunting. This is exactly what Beau Elston, Riverfront, Inc. We know, another log-in!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We write software for people with disabilities as well as human rights and environmental groups. We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. We’re getting very worried that our organization and the people we serve: people with print disabilities (i.e.,

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