Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Many of these virtual events were born from a spirit of innovation and resiliency from organizations that were forced to evolve in a matter of days and raise much-needed funds in new ways. What’s more, recurring donors typically make this additional gift within one year of their first donation. We also saw organizations like St.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

TechSoup recently updated its disaster planning and recovery guide, The Resilient Organization , to include the new ways nonprofits, charities, and public libraries are using technology. Apps by TechSoup Donation Partners. by Symantec (Android, iOS) before disaster strikes. Microsoft's HelpBridge. Other Useful Apps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

When a disaster of this magnitude strikes, our impulse is to help in some way. Like many people, I donated both on the Web and for the first time via text to the Red Cross. Here you will find opportunities to donate your tech skills to Haiti. Tweet from kateatyrownrisk.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 15, 2010

When I posted about How to Help Haitian Earthquake Survivor s on Tuesday evening, there wasn't much information out yet about how to help, but now there are lots of posts and articles with lists of organizations you can donate to like: Helping Haiti. donate safely; 3. Her advice is: 1. give money, not things; 2.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

I want to provide some updated findings for the entire year, as well as discuss the importance of online donations to support the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. This represented 77% of the organizations in the sample analysis.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

I want to provide some updated findings for the entire year, as well as discuss the importance of online donations to support the Haiti earthquake relief efforts. 2009 proved to be another important year for online giving by nonprofit organizations. This represented 77% of the organizations in the sample analysis.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 16, 2010

You may find this list of relief agencies useful, as you build links on your CommunityOS site to help the people of Haiti. State Department Operations Center has set up the following number for Americans seeking information about family members in Haiti: 1-888-407-4747. • Donate to the IRC Haiti Crisis Fund.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 20, 2010

In the past 8 days, the surge of generosity for Haiti relief has been amazing. In less than a week, nonprofits using Convio systems have raised over $100 million through email appeals, websites and social media outreach and many other organizations are raising record amounts. Author: Jordan Viator.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 15, 2010

With this entry, we are responding to questions from several of our customers about possible ideas for donors who want to give in meaningful and more personal ways, to the people of Haiti. Given the lack of infrastructure in Haiti, the situation will certainly become worse before it improves. Focus makes donations more meaningful.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Impacts to Society.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 12, 2010

The people of Haiti are going to need a lot of help after today's 7.0 Below is a quick list of organizations asking for donations. I'm particularly interested in hearing about grassroots organizations. • The American Red Cross is accepting donations for its International Response Fund. . • earthquake.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. I hope you can take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you serve your community. All these are available as donations from TechSoup.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 14, 2010

The past 36 hours have been crucial for disaster relief organizations across the world as they reach out to supporters requesting donations, volunteers and general support for the efforts to help Haitians in need. Hijack your homepage to make Haiti the focus if it is a significant fundraising effort.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 15, 2010

" » Your Mobile Giving by State – Wendy Harman at the American Red Cross has posted a map and data about the funds donated via texting "Haiti" to 90999 to support the victims in the Haiti earthquake crisis. Design for People To Self Organize! Submissions close January 22, 2010."

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2011

When it comes to fundraising, though, one of the areas of most interest is motivation – this can help fundraisers and organizations align their message and delivery with the points of interest and the channels that are the most influential to the target audience. Have you seen online donations increasing for your organization?

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NetWits

APRIL 4, 2012

Every fundraiser knows the role that social media users played in delivering dollars to the American Red Cross for disaster relief in Haiti and to Planned Parenthood for mammogram screenings in the wake of the Komen Foundation’s withdrawal of funding, but actually how social media delivers such results has been a bit of mystery.

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Care2

MARCH 22, 2011

Are enewsletters still worth your organization’s time? Check out the 2010 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study from M+R Strategic Services and NTEN which surveyed 40 nonprofit organizations and analyzed all of this data and more. The average one time donation across sectors was $60 and $20 for monthly giving. Why is that?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 30, 2011

Convio acquired StrategicOne earlier this year, and they have done significant analytics on disaster donations with some hefty data sets to look at, so Katie Beth had some excellent suggestions. A disaster happened and an organization receives a sudden, spontaneous burst of giving. Is it working?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Ed Granger-Happ shows off his office server in a carry on bag that disaster relief workers can use to set up IT support in the field.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 11, 2011

Is your organization working to ready itself to respond to the needs caused by the earthquake in Japan? Being prepared for an unforeseen surge of donations is something every nonprofit should be positioned for, and the swell of attention doesn’t need to come only from a natural disaster. Convio wants to help you.

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Care2

MARCH 12, 2011

Frogloop compiled a list of resources of nonprofits, companies, and do-gooders who are using their tech-savvy and organizing skills to raise money and help locate missing people. American Red Cross Text to Donate. TEXT REDCROSS to 90999 to donate $10. 100% of the donation goes to the American Red Cross. Crisis Commons.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2011

Early last year, mobile giving evolved from an emerging technology to mainstream awareness with Haiti earthquake relief, raising approximately $45 million for victims of that natural disaster. Since that time, other disaster relief efforts such as the Gulf oil spill, Japan disaster, and tornado relief in the Southeast U.S.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 20, 2010

One of the most recent examples I've seen that exemplifies this concept is from the organization Free The Kids that used its influencers earlier this year when the earthquake in Haiti struck. A surge in gifts and donations quickly found their way to Free The Kids through the avenues created by influencers and advocates.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

The program was started in 1999 by Charles Brennick, who still runs the organization. To date, InterConnection has shipped over 20,000 computers and monitors to organizations around the world and properly recycled nearly 100,000 computers. I was going to list all the countries where they send computers, but it’s just too long.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2010

The Haiti crisis demonstrated that text to give fundraising can be a powerful tool, particularly as an "early responder" fundraising technique in disaster. Or be bailout for our nonprofit. But will the dramatic text fundraising that we saw the Red Cross experience translate to every non-profit that wants to add it to their tool bag?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2011

Also, a credit card is not needed to make the donation as payments are billed directly through the cell phone carrier. Causes with high urgency, such as disasters, have had the most success with mobile giving campaigns. That's only 210 $10 donations to break even. And is my organization eligible to create a campaign?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. If you skip that, your mobile tactics won’t yield much impact or learning. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. The organization is working to build a digital public map of the Kibera community for the residents and organizations working there.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 8, 2010

Being prepared for an unforeseen surge of donations is something every nonprofit should be positioned for, and the swell of attention doesn’t need to come only from a natural disaster. But don’t let that inhibit your creativity to turn this concentration of awareness into something positive for your organization.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 16, 2011

Already the NonProfit Times is reporting that charitable donations are lower for the response to the disasters in Japan than to the earthquake in Haiti. The media is less focused on the human story and the media is the primary driver for disaster giving. In the meantime, please do consider if you can help.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 13, 2011

I remember this time last year I was getting ready for work, glancing at the TV in horror as I saw the first live images of the aftermath of the earthquake in Haiti. Let’s expand our passion here, and remember Haiti. From online donating to advocacy, we can help. Author: Blair Naylor. About 200,000 people died.

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Forum One

APRIL 28, 2010

Since we received such great feedback from last year's session , Roger Burks and I have hosted a series of webinars since the last NTC, focusing on how organizations can leverage online storytelling and maximize social media in the process. They've also noted over $6 million of online donations since the launch of their blog last May.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Organizations around the globe are harnessing these tools and data to mobilize supporters, tell their stories and the stories of their constituents, and to share knowledge with people and communities everywhere. The organization is working to build a digital public map of the Kibera community for the residents and organizations working there.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

According to the Center on Philanthropy at Indiana University, the amount raised or pledged for Haitian relief efforts, including corporate donations during that period was $575.4 When you remove the estimated $122 million in corporate pledges from that number, more than half of all funds raised came online through those organizations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. Relief organizations and others could get an immediate picture of what was happening on the ground.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 3, 2011

As we all know, text-to-give has proven successful(ish), especially around disaster relief like last year’s Haiti earthquake. Plus every organization wants to be sure their website is mobile-friendly and easy to navigate on a screen the size of your palm. Events – Galas, walk/run/ride-a-thons. Direct Mail.

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