Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

Most nonprofits are still experimenting to discover their Google+ voice and hone in on a frequency of publishing content to the stream that makes Google+ both viable long-term and worth the time spent exploring Google+. Detroit Symphony Orchestra. To me, the Google+ Stream feels like a mixture of Twitter and Facebook. Amazon CARES.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

They accept applications at any time. They believe that by “placing children at the center of this movement, their well-being becomes the focus of their collective work, and with it comes higher achieving students, highly-engaged young people, and a brighter future for Detroit.” Areas served: Detroit/Michigan.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 21, 2020

So, h ow do the local and regional health systems get in front of these patients (and physicians) to compete for their time, talent , and treasures without the same resources as our competitors ? . The physicians were nominated by leadership at the Henry Ford Cancer Institute and the Detroit Lions. Third Quarter .

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The Nerdy NonProfit

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

It can reach a larger number of people in a shorter amount of time than in-person training. She probably has a job, a family, and maybe pets that use some of her time each day. Then, there are her responsibilities as a volunteer, which may look different each time she shows up. She currently serves on the board of ATD Detroit.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2016

We received more than 600 submissions from 35+ countries, including mainland China, Taiwan, and Hong Kong for the first time. Our Best Video winner hails from the proud city of Detroit and is the unanimous top choice. How do you get folks to volunteer their time? The Storymakers 2016 campaign surpassed all of our expectations.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

Of all the projects presented, the Detroit Water Project might be the most well-known. And there's good reason: the Detroit Water Project helps match families who need help with their water bills to donors by using utility data from the city of Detroit. The project has been able to help 900 families pay their water bills.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 23, 2018

You need to focus on decreasing the time it takes and get it down to as few clicks as possible. Many times, website owners want to blast their homepage and side bars with a ton of different options. Chris has also been seen in The Associated Press and Crain's Detroit Business. Optimize Your Main Donation Page. Keep it simple.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

It can be tricky, though, AND time consuming if you aren’t sure where to look…and your time is valuable. That clarity will save you a ton of time and effort. Sure, grants can be an awesome source of income for your nonprofit…but when it’s for the right reasons and at the right times. Rough out a timeline.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 23, 2018

You need to focus on decreasing the time it takes and get it down to as few clicks as possible. Many times, website owners want to blast their homepage and side bars with a ton of different options. Chris has also been seen in The Associated Press and Crain's Detroit Business. Optimize Your Main Donation Page. Keep it simple.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 27, 2017

Philanthropy is the term given to the donation of time or valuables for public purposes. A look at budget trends of metro detroit social service agencies. The implementation of entreprenurship has shown to be successful in terms of revenue and enhancing an organization’s mission. Nonprofit Finance Fund (2015). Leroux, K.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2009

We were are all leaving Detroit at different times and the taxi to the airport wasn't exactly cheap. So, EPIP provided a self-organizing platforn (a flip chart with a time line sign up.) This let everyone organize into small groups and get to the airport without having to spend a lot of money.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit. Prashant and his co-founders identified a need for local data about buildings and real estate in Detroit and discovered that the city was under-resourced when it came to the technical tools needed to collect it. It was the first project of its kind in 28 years.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 8, 2018

When Detroit was going bankrupt in 2013, the city's emergency manager fought to sell off some of the prized artworks in the Detroit Institute of Art. Two years ago, the Detroit Institute of Art won the battle to keep their treasured artwork in the museum. And once that happens, all bets are off.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

In 1963, Charles Hermann defined a crisis with 3 distinct characteristics: surprise, threat and short response time. Next, our patrons felt that our board of trustee meetings were held at a time and location that was inconvenient to them. Many are turning to social media to assist them. . Implementing the strategy. What we learned .

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Top Nonprofits

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Movie streaming services, family members and pets, and noisy neighbors all add up to one thing— limited time and attention to dedicate to e-learning during COVID-19. Often times, people soliciting donations aren’t warmly welcomed. This isn’t the time to take a deep-dive into your nonprofit’s history. It’s okay to show that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2012

” Only a tiny few raised their hands as Debbie mentioned that organizations that have been around for a century or more take time to change their culture. “If Stop pushing and leave time for interaction. And continued to until “How many of you work for nonprofits that have been around for 100 years or more.?”

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 21, 2011

It's that time of year when inboxes fill up with digital thank you's, happy holidays, and end-of-year solicitations. At the MAH, we had an intern who worked this summer and fall to create a video (her first!) to reflect some of the new activities at the museum. Enjoy our video and share your own via the comments.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 23, 2004

Kevin Boyle, a professor of history at Ohio State University, won the nonfiction prize for "Arc of Justice: A Saga of Race, Civil Rights and Murder in the Jazz Age," is a 1920s courtroom drama about the murder trial of Dr. Ossian Sweet, who purchased a house in an all white neighborhood in Detroit with some serious consequences.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

The Ambassadors are senior NetSquared leaders who offer their support to other organizers in their country or region, allowing us to serve members in different time zones and in languages other than English. Detroit, Michigan: Office 365 Setup Event — FREE Email for Your Domain! Communications Networking Lunch.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 19, 2015

As we do several times a year, we pass along this essay from Stan Stahl. I came-of-age politically growing up in Detroit in the 1950s when I was part of a picket line outside Woolworth''s because Blacks were not allowed to sit at lunch counters in Woolworth stores in the segregated South.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 26, 2017

As The Children’s Center in Detroit learned first-hand, their unique and compelling brand story was the secret sauce for touching the hearts and moving the minds of donors. It evolves over time as it responds to the changing needs of those you serve. It was a game-changer. The challenge. What is a brand story? True story.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 21, 2013

As we do several times a year, we pass along this essay from Stan Stahl. I came-of-age politically growing up in Detroit in the 1950s when I was part of a picket line outside Woolworth''s because Blacks were not allowed to sit at lunch counters in Woolworth stores in the segregated South.

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Achieve

MAY 22, 2016

At times, though, others will not understand what or why you do this important work. Like so many times before, the typical question that maybe even the parents in the room have asked you, their sons and daughters – “What do you do?”. That is the truly remarkable and purposeful life you will lead. I said, “Yep. And then it happened.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

National LGBTQ Task Force / Detroit, MI / $500. The National LGBTQ Task Force’s 2019 Creating Change Conference convenes in Detroit, Michigan January 23-27, 2019. Nonprofit organizations have moved well past the time when technology and data were treated as standalone entities. Finance / @nysscpa. Creating Change Conference.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2013

Microsoft extends the reach of employee giving by matching contributions and volunteer time dollar for dollar, up to $12,000 a year. Today, there are nearly 400 projects in the portal that range from supporting business training for young Nigerians , to funding after-school enrichment programs in Detroit. Why Does Microsoft Give?

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Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Some events: Aaron Dworkin , a pretty amazing individual in many ways, is putting together SphinxCon , a conference happening this weekend in Detroit with a focus on "empowering ideas for diversity in the arts." My sister attended, and I kicked myself about 87 times for not knowing about it or getting out there.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Previously oversaw The Trevor Project’s crisis services program, when chat and text services expanded to 24/7 for the first time in the organization’s history, and oversaw the operations portfolio when Trevor launched an artificial intelligence partnership with Google . Sharon Russell. Vice President, Finance and Donor Development.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 23, 2019

Lumin at Detroit Institute of Art Now on to the interactives…I’ve been thinking a great deal about the function of interactives in museums. People go to school regularly over a period of time (and to museums intermittently, occasionally, sporadically, or rarely). Those feelings developed over hours of classroom time with a human.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

At the time, it was one of the biggest online contests thus far, open to more than 500,000 charities and offering over $5 million in prizes. (In In other contests, the leaderboard has been updated in real time. Having real-time information is very important to the organizations. At the time, it was one of the.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

With my short time Scholar in Residence, I've been exposed to a gold mine of incredible thinking, discussions, and resources on topics related to my field. Share history ( Detroit Foundation ). Nothing proprietary or sensitive, just that I've been exposed to papers, studies, links, thought provoking articles. Why keep them locked up?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

I grew up just outside of Detroit Michigan, daughter of a police officer and nurse. I went to the University of Detroit-Mercy where I got a dual BA in English and Communications. During that time, I discovered this group of English majors who had started their own Internet Company. How did you end up working in a virtual world?

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 17, 2014

When he’s not working with nonprofits or being a hapless Detroit sports fan, he’s busy watching reruns of Downton Abbey and Parenthood. Around the time I began writing this post I had just finished reading a biograpghy of the rock band, Pink Floyd. Strategic stewardship should involve the thought of staff time and efficiency.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2011

Guest blog alert: In my past life as a staffer for a Girl Scout of the USA affiliate, I met Suneil Singh, the then Chief Communications Officer for Girl Scouts of Southeastern Michigan (for those of you with limited Michigan geography like me, think Detroit). At that time, there were more than 300 separate Girl Scout pages on Facebook.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 3, 2019

I tried to picture a time before Jen Oleniczak Brown's museum improv company, Engaging Educator , as well as the aforementioned Jen, Mike Murawski, as well as Rachel Ropeik , and PJ Gubatina Policarpio 's GalleryThrowdowns. I tried to picture a time when we were okay with only having a sliver of American society walking in our doors.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

At frank, we divide our time among great talks by strategists, storytellers and scientists and casual opportunities to connect with other sophisticated communicators over coffee or cocktails. Whether you have a staff of one or 100, you will find benefit in taking time away to attend. Points of Light / Detroit, MI / $400.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 24, 2009

When Americans began to feel the dual squeeze of rising fuel prices and economic trouble, sales of these expensive and inefficient vehicles plummeted.and so did the cash flow of the Detroit Three. What do these two occurrences have to do with nonprofits?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2018

I had the honor to be the opening keynoter for the first-ever Good Tech Fest , which was held in Detroit on May 22, 2018. Using Software and Data to Change the World We are in an amazing time. And then we take a time machine and journey into the past – no wait! It’s just the present day social good sector.

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