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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Most nonprofits use marketing tactics to recruit, like emails, social media posts, blog posts, and web pages. Volunteer applications can also uncover valuable skills, interests, and certifications. Use your application to learn more about who your volunteer is, their interests, skills, experience, and their reason for volunteering.

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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity

Get Fully Funded

Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

Get Fully Funded

How much tech skill is required? With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets.

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Tech Across Your Org: Social Media Collaboration Across the NYC Elder Abuse Center

NTEN

This spring, the New York City Elder Abuse Center (the Center) began its journey from a traditional, “non-social” organization to one that uses and embraces social media in both its communications and internal processes. In order to accomplish the goals of social media strategy, Deputy Director Risa Breckman knew that 1.)

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Information Coping Skills - How Information Overloaded Are You? Take This Quiz

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Blogging Basics: Managing Information Overload: How to find your blogging community Join Beth Kanter, who has been writing about what she prefers to call "online information coping skills" since the 1990s, when we mostly had to worry about email. I'm trying to look at social productivity here as well - there's a fine line there.

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How nonprofits engaged volunteers during the COVID shutdown

ASU Lodestar Center

A group that is better known for their interpersonal skills than their tech-savvy was suddenly thrust into new technology waters. Some rely primarily on generic workplace tools like Google Docs and Microsoft apps, but others invest in industry applications like Better Impact and Volgistics. federal government agency.

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Join Our 2016 Digital Storytelling Challenge!

Tech Soup

For the sixth year, TechSoup's annual challenge will help nonprofits learn how to increase their storytelling skills for fundraising and advocacy purposes. They become the means for nonprofits, NGOs, religious centers, and social enterprise organizations to reach out to customers and enhance their brand.