Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

In this second installment of the three-part blog series (the first one is here ) on Bookshare International, I’m excited to share some of the ways in which our Bookshare library is part of the latest trends in the digital publishing world and is thus going deeper and serving many more people.

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Spain Language America Law 151

Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

Or maybe your Executive Director or Board wants you to focus on certain ones? Sometimes that one phone call can give you a leg up when it comes time for the funder to review grant proposals. Each Friday, you’ll receive information about a few upcoming deadlines and new Requests for Proposals (RFPs) posted within the week.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

A couple of years ago, outreach, training, and fundraising consultant, Stephanie Gerding , posted some great basic grantseeking information on TechSoup For Libraries. One tip I could have used early on was to plan and design the grant project before writing up a query letter or proposal.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 28, 2016

Being Part of a Funder’s Portfolio: Perspectives on the Public and Private Funding Landscape: Come learn from Dr. Kathryn Mathew, Director of the Institute of Museum and Library Services, the main provider of federal support within the United States for museums and libraries.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

At TechSoup, it has enabled us to hire gifted people who live and work in far-flung places, and yet still do great work on behalf of charities and libraries. Jessica Galeria — Associate Director of Strategic Development. In this series of blog posts, TechSoup staff will share our telework experience.

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

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Los Angeles Cancer Proposal Model 130

ASU Lodestar Center

FEBRUARY 27, 2017

Director of Development, ASU Health Initiatives. Participating in drafting portions of grant proposals. Retrieved October 26, 2016, from https://www.bridgespan.org/insights/library/leadership-development/52-fr. Eric Spicer is currently the Senior Director of Development for Health at ASU. posted by Eric Spicer Sr.

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Leadership Develop Retention Phoenix 40

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 14, 2009

We discussed Chafee, especially in the context of the Amazon text-to-speech brouhaha, and the proposed international treaty that was tabled at the WIPO SCCR meeting in Geneva last month. The hot topic was the proposal made by Brazil, Ecuador and Paraguay, for a global treaty (a treaty for which I was part of the expert drafting team).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Upon finishing his Peace Corps service he began his nonprofit career as the founder and first executive director of Servicios Ecoforestales Para Agricultores (SEPA), a large agroforestry demonstration farm in Eastern Paraguay. Eligible nonprofits and libraries can request a special NOZA discount through the end of this week.

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Paraguay Consultant Gift Fundraising 44

Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

" Braided River's Seasons of Life and Land book on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was held up on the floor of the Senate during a debate on a bill proposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; the bill was ultimately defeated. This story was written by Jim Lynch, director of green technology at TechSoup.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

" Braided River's Seasons of Life and Land book on the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge was held up on the floor of the Senate during a debate on a bill proposing drilling in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge; the bill was ultimately defeated. This story was written by Jim Lynch, director of green technology at TechSoup.

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Arts Alaska North America Photography 36

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Create a request for proposal (RFP). Review their proposals. Develop a basic scoring system for each key stakeholder to use when reviewing and ranking each proposal. Plus, the resources section on their website has a library full of information to help your nonprofit succeed. Review your candidates. Marc Pitman, a.k.a.

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Consultant Nonprofit Strategy Philanthropy 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2006

The NPTech Blog Chatter Confessions of a non-profit IT director blog rasied ruckus with his proposal for creating a closed forum and new NTEN Affinity Group : nptechhelp. Here's an interview about How NOT to teach in Second Life with the founder of the Second Life ICT Library Ross Perkins from Kevin Lim. Full report here )

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

For example, say you wanted to run a capital campaign to buy a new building for your literacy organization; your feasibility study process might look like this: Define your goal: Your project aims to raise $300,000 to purchase a new building to hold a library. That’s not always possible, though. Will you support this work?

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Campaign Phase Guide Library 52

Museum 2.0

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

For example, a few months ago we had a couple approach us to propose a Pop-Up Tea Ceremony. For our Art That Moves event, our Membership and Development Director suggested the incredibly popular Tarp Surfing activity. Their enthusiasm and commitment charmed us and aligned with our social bridging goals.

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Collaboration Community Tools Museum 55

CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

To get the details behind their successes, we spoke to Melissa Benjamin, Fiver’s Director of Development. 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.

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Guide Giving Campaign Social Media 73

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 28, 2009

Earlier this month, I participated in a social media library giveaway organized by Steve Cunningham , who like me, loves books. For the social media library giveaway I asked folks to leave a comment on how they would use the books to shape their 2010 social media strategy. and externally (with all of your fine readers!). .

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Library Social Media Louisville Media 94

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Elaine Gurian once told me there are two ways for institutions to innovate: they can be so small that no one notices them, or they can have a director who is willing to put his/her neck on the line for the innovation. Maybe the director is obsessed with “company secrets” and you’ll never be able to share behind-the-scenes work.

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Project Museum Teen North Carolina 22

Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Over the next five weeks, we're going to be sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. You can also view sample RFPs and visit our RFP Library for more resources to start any tech project out right. Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website. Week 1: The Basics.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

Over the next five weeks, we're going to be sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. You can also view sample RFPs and visit our RFP Library for more resources to start any tech project out right. Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website. Week 1: The Basics.

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Websites Library Phase Guidelines 44

Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Over the next five weeks, we're going to be sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. You can also view sample RFPs and visit our RFP Library for more resources to start any tech project out right. Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website. Week 1: The Basics.

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Websites Open Source Library Analytics 48

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2009

We checked out library books on building and maintaining a blog, taught ourselves some basic web design techniques – again from library books and online articles – and chose a free blog hosting service. We saw the real value of the blog when we began using it to provide information on a proposed name change for our charity.

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Analytics Twitter Web Community 88

Bloomerang

JULY 31, 2021

And if you can develop those relationships with funders, if you can develop great core content, if you can leverage materials for different kinds of proposals, then that is really going to set you up for success. . So if you are a smaller organization, you might not need to have 100k proposal in the pipeline. Have a good one.

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Grant Build Video Strategy 117

Bloomerang

OCTOBER 8, 2021

In my work, I’m constantly fielding questions about grants from busy executive directors without formal grants training. Development directors who wear many hats, entry-level grant staff who don’t have much experience, and even program staff who get thrown into grant-writing roles. We’ve got development staff.

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Grant Lesson Tips Video 76

Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

What’s in the crystal ball for museums and libraries? The IMLS (Institute for Museum and Library Services) has commissioned a preliminary proposal for an NAS (National Academy of Sciences) report on museums and libraries in the 21st century. How do you measure and articulate the value of museums and libraries?

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