Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

For nonprofits that have online stores or receive a percentage of profits from ethical retailers, it could be a banner year for online sales. The profits from the BeadforLife Store go into training and community programs in Uganda and education in North America. promoting human rights. BeadforLife Store. Paul Getty Museum Store.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2018

Adult beverages are often part of the routine checklist when hosting non-profit events. If your organization is a large entity and you regularly host events that serve alcohol, it is likely that liquor liability is included with your non-profit's insurance. posted by Kylah Strohte Editor-In-Chief. Insurance and Liability.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Guest blogger Soha El-Borno is a freelance writer specializing in non-profit technology and web 2.0/social For the last several years, Symphony Nova Scotia has been changing children’s lives with music. For the last several years, Symphony Nova Scotia has been changing children’s lives with music. social media.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Now is the time to take hold of this opportunity to embrace digital strategies in order to raise more funds with less effort. Act Like For-Profit Brands. Just look at the recent obsession with the daily word game, Wordle, or the increased popularity of at-home fitness classes with a real-time leaderboard.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2013

Unfortunately, most companies won’t pursue projects without the promise of big profits and the people who need tech tools the most often can’t afford them. Gordon asked Brynjolfsson about the value of some of the innovations he mentioned in his talk, from highly intelligent machines like IBM’s Watson to free streamed music.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 10, 2011

She also equates film editing with dance choreography: The intuitive, choreographic shaping of movement and energy over time… creates the rise and fall of tension and release in a film. Music can, of course, be a powerful tool for driving the rhythm of a video. You are swept up as the tension and pacing mount.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Fort Meyers, FL/ $445. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / TBD. Nonprofit Management. Planned Giving Primer.

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JANUARY 4, 2022

Thanks to the pandemic, online giving grew 21 percent in 2020 alone, and that growth isn’t slowing down any time soon. Due to a lack of major upfront expenses, fundraising online is one of the most profitable ways to raise money for your organization. With virtual fundraising, it’s also much easier to expand your reach.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 13, 2011

Musical Instrument Museum. This pairing speaks directly to my passion for the arts – my day job is as manager for individual giving at the Musical Instrument Museum , and I serve on several music-related boards, as well as perform as a flutist and singer. Click here to read Kayla McKinney's "Time to Give a Little.".

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 30, 2007

Jobs understands that DRM doesn’t work, and doesn’t help sell music. There are better sites for music and there are adequate players for 1/5th the price. What Apple did do correctly is allow users to submit their own podcast and homemade music on the itunes website. The iPod is a rip off. 2 DeathMonkey 10.10.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

It’s because, basically, I am about as busy as I’ve been in a very long time. I’m spending about 1/2 of my time being Coordinator of NOSI. And, I think I also get to educate the varied vendors and developers I’ve been in contact with. It feels quite good, actually. I love this work.

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NTEN

JUNE 12, 2014

But it takes more than a name and a place to convene a group of thoughtful people; it takes local organizers who are willing to give their time and efforts to build and maintain a local Tech Club. If people are asking a lot of questions every month, make sure to leave time for discussion and questions.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

Council for Advancement & Support of Education (CASE) / Philadelphia, PA/ $410. Learn about new and proposed accounting and auditing standards and how they will impact not-for-profit entities and their auditors. USD School of Leadership and Education Sciences / San Diego, CA / $250. Nonprofit Management. Finance / @nysscpa.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

There are a number of reasons for my deciding to slowly leave the Macintosh platform: I want to focus more energy and time on free and open source platforms – I might donate what I would have spent on Leopard to some deserving projects. Music converters: [link] [link] [link] 3 Gordon Montgomery 11.20.07

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

Not because I don’t want my blog to be better, it’s just that I don’t have the time right now. I figured it was a good time to think about and articulate mine. And, a secondary mission is to educate people about technology that I think is interesting and useful. One of them, I’ll do now.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2018

There is nothing wrong with providing adult beverages for guests, and a cash/open bar may prove profitable. Additionally, give guests things to do other than drink, and plan “last call” about one hour before the dancing, live music, games, and fun photo ops end. Provide Varied Menus and Activities. Safety Monitoring.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

The last time I coded in a CMS was when I was working on the (now dead) perl CMS I wrote many moons ago. I’m quite excited about really getting my hands dirty working on some plug ins, or some such, really learning the ins and outs of Drupal. It will be interesting to learn the innards of a CMS.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2009

Wireframes Magazine – I’ve been doing Information Architecture for a very long time, now, but it’s great to learn new tricks and tools. Flowing Data – OK, I’ll fess up, I’m a data geek. And I love data visualizations, and ways to make data easily accessible.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 18, 2007

June 18, 2007 OK, so I finally drank the Facebook coolaid – and although it took me a long time to get around to, I have now realized how many people in the nptech field have already been on facebook for a while. Relatively recently, I’d finally, after tons of invitations, joined invested time and energy into my LinkedIn profile.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 17, 2008

I don’t always have a lot of time to investigate them, or figure out if they are useful, but I do like to not completely ignore the ones that look interesting. I do hope folks will comment if they know something about these, or have an opinion.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2008

Not waiting for Android vaporware (my research suggested it was probably a long time coming, and would not be on my carrier, AT&T,) I decided to succumb, and buy an iPhone 3G. It’s an interesting question, what Android might (or might not) turn out to be. So far, it’s simply vaporware. More on that in a later post. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2007

It’s that there is a lack of really good support – responsive, empowering, educational, integrative, and knowledgeable about, and invested in, the sector. How do you get providers to invest time and energy in what is really a marginally profitable business? How do you teach the ins and outs of the nonprofit sector?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 31, 2007

Traffic is flying at four plus times the speed, I can actually do remote shell sessions that aren’t painful. Unfortunately, it is the apparently increasingly dastardly Comcast, but it is so way much better than satellite by Hughesnet , that I can’t really find it in myself to complain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 7, 2007

I have said many times that I wouldn’t Twitter. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Why I’m twittering December 7, 2007 Yes, it’s hard to believe. I succumbed. I’ve critiqued Twitter and social networks in general.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 19, 2008

Here are a few: The blog at the Nonprofit Times, called “Don’t Tell the Donor&# has a very interesting entry on the flurry of benchmarking studies that came out recently. Time will tell. { Time will tell. { It’s titled “ Benchmarking With a Warped Stick.&#

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 17, 2008

I think it will be a great time. I’m excited to be doing it again, in a new city, with some great partners, including Aspiration , of course, Joomla , PICnet , and the Chicago Technology Cooperative. And I hope to bring home a penguin!)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

I’ve used more FTP clients in my time than I can even begin to remember, from command-line ftp, to WS-FTP, and lots and lots of others (I have this memory of a really old, clunky FTP client for Mac OS 7 or something that I was using a lot, when all filesharing was via FTP.) I use it all the time, and I really like it.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

One of the most important roles I play is educating clients about the technology that they will be engaging with, based upon what I’ve heard while I’ve listened. I’d had bits and pieces of this in varied places, and in my head, but it was a good time to get it all down. This is also an ongoing process.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 30, 2007

I’ll leave the complaining about Croatian food and other things to my personal blog, when I get the time. The event itself has been fab. As one of those monolingual American types, I’m learning a huge amount about what it takes to create open content in different languages.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 6, 2007

The course is a 12 week course, starting on November 19th (with time off for the holidaze.) That was one of the big reasons I had been looking for good web conferencing a while back (I’m still looking…) I’m starting my foray into this territory by giving a free course in the database management system, PostgreSQL.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 24, 2008

I’ve got several posts on tap about specific aspects of the conference, or specific products and such that I’d come across during my time at NTC last week, so stick around. I want to give huge props to Holly and all of the NTEN crew for putting on a fabulous conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 6, 2007

As a full-time user of both Firefox and Thunderbird, I’m really enjoying the benefits of these open platforms, and the immense creativity of people who create add-ons. And it’s all free! Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 26, 2008

New open source players entering the market (more on them soon), high satisfaction for other open source tools, and SaaS vendors throwing the doors open so that nonprofits can integrate their systems well (I’m psyched to hear about all the new connectors, mashups and apps happening all the time.)

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

My suggestion: if you like gadgets, are addicted to being connected at all times, and you feel like you need reading glasses to read email or the web on the Blackberry screen, the iPhone might be a good bet, but I’d wait until software version 2.1 comes out.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

You don’t have to code to do what should be basic tasks using the tool (for instance, this eliminates a good time tracking program, which at some point I might blog about, but that you have to learn scheme[1] to get customized reports with any complexity. )

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

I think of myself in these terms: I educate, facilitate, mediate, and problem-solve. I myself wrote a custom CMS a long time ago that would be considered crap now, so I don’t blame them for that, but the charges???) And, I guess truthfully, the blurb on my consulting site is kinda dry. Gotta work on that. So, what do I do?

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