Tech Soup

MARCH 4, 2016

The city's OpenData goals are to improve city services for residents and businesses, produce jobs, enhance economic opportunities, and increase resident engagement and empowerment. Benetech 's product manager John Higgins showed how his organization helps human rights defenders manage information with the app Martus.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

Data Collecting and Mapping. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. Like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project , buyout data is displayed on a map of the city so that city officials and housing organizations can identify and respond to buyout trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2014

These could done by one person or could be shared if mapped out in advance. Later, these questions were organized into categories so we had a concept map of issues people wanted to explore and these categories were also used in different activities. Taking in New Ideas: Facilitated Listening. Closing Exercise.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Grantee organizations will measure what matters.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

CON: can make people feel like second-class board members instead of equal leaders in the organization. We worked with C3ers at the kickoff workshop to map the issues and communities of greatest interest and connection. This map formed the basis for topic definition for subsequent meetings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

Grantees will engage in peer discussions about integrating social media effectively into their communications strategies and will learn from each other – from challenges and missteps as much as from accomplishments and wins – so success means organizations sharing both. Grantee organizations will measure what matters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I’ve also done this with groups of organizations who have collectively created their network maps on the wall. You get people to line up in the room as to whether they agree or disagree on a provocative statement related to the content – and then interview people. Then the group draws the connections.

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CauseVox

MARCH 13, 2024

And we couldn’t think of a better organization to highlight than Spur Local. Founded in 2003, the organization initially served as an annual publication, helping donors discover and support community-based nonprofits with limited outreach capabilities. Here at CauseVox, we love a good success story.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 2, 2009

I love this stuff because, to me, data done right is empowerment. I'd like to stress that even though it has a fancy name and is used at large corporations, BI is something we all can do, no matter the size or scope of our organization. It's all about mapping data to business needs to make better decisions. We're Fine.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations are in the business of making the world a better place by providing grants to organizations they see making an impact on the issues that they care about deeply. Provide services: Services that people or organizations can themselves repackage and tailor to their own needs can be provided via digital platforms.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 8, 2008

Last year, I was on a panel organized by Ed Schipul and we were hoping that there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this year I just scanned the list of over 1200 panel submissions to SXSW in search of nonprofit oriented panels (in addition the two I submitted) and found a number of them for your consideration.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Since then the organization has grown to work in 10 different countries. Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. Last year disaster relief once again became the main focus of our organization as we activated and served over 4 million meals in Peru, Houston, Puerto Rico, and California.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 6, 2016

One of the nonprofits that inspires me locally here in Santa Cruz is a youth empowerment and food justice organization called "Food, What!?" Kids on probation, kids struggling with addiction, kids whose lives have detoured off every map to a brighter tomorrow. Read more online and buy your own copy today. Doron believes in them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

“Anyone who works for the State Department knows that they work for women and for the advancement and empowerment of women,” said Alec Ross , Secretary Clinton’s Special Advisor for Innovation, with pride at the opening of TechCamp Tel Aviv. The spirit of his statement inspired the entire seminar.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. The third kind of face to face opportunity we provide is in partnership with an organization called Global Exchange.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2009

Technology planning in nonprofits is too often thought about in terms of how many computers we need and the IT staff to maintain them from the basement of the organization. But technology is critical to an organization's success: all staff depend on it to deliver programs, communicate the organization's mission, raise money, etc.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Don't rely on maps, charts, or graphs because that's what you're familiar with; instead, use the best medium or format or organizing principle to express the idea best. Put in your zip code and get a map.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" An example is a campaign sponsored by the Women Empowerment Program at the Hariri Foundation in Lebanon. Don't rely on maps, charts, or graphs because that's what you're familiar with; instead, use the best medium or format or organizing principle to express the idea best. Put in your zip code and get a map.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

Impact Circles - Birgit Pauli-Haack Executive Directors meet to open the Pandora''s Box of technology and take the beast to serve their organization''s mission and save time and money. Design solutions for collaboration, empowerment, global views, and self awareness. The goal: greater open rates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

The combined forces of smartphones, mobile broadband, and location-aware applications will connect us in more meaningful ways to the people, organizations, events, information, and companies that matter most to us—namely, those within a physical proximity of where we live and where we are. No more paper and a much better experience.

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