Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 17, 2011

The apps I use most on my phone include the Facebook app for Android and Tweetdeck. In other words, I don’t avoid social media, I use it a lot, and I actively facilitate my clients use of social media integration with their web presence. ( And I use hashtags in blog entries! ). But I’m still bored silly.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

Attracting and engaging volunteers is both an art and a science—a nuanced dance of understanding, inspiring, and retaining individuals driven by purpose rather than profit. From the first email, phone call, or meeting, volunteers are gauging whether your organization is a place where they want to invest their time and energy.

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Arts Volunteer Retention Skills 62

Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 9, 2012

Turn off the television, turn off the cell phone, and pay attention to the people around you. Do something meaningful for a non-profit organization. Volunteers are the lifeblood of non-profit organizations. If everyone volunteers a few hours a week, think how much non-profits can accomplish.

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Advice Tulsa Exercise Profit 73

Achieve

MARCH 10, 2021

Keep in mind, if your donors’ personal information such as their phone numbers and financial credentials were to be compromised, it could tarnish the reputation of your brand. For anyone to facilitate online payments and receive funds, you need a merchant account. Individualized Merchant Account. -

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 17, 2011

Turn off the television, turn off the cell phone, and pay attention to the people around you. Do something meaningful for a non-profit organization. Volunteers are the lifeblood of non-profit organizations. If everyone volunteers a few hours a week, think how much non-profits can accomplish.

Advice 61

Advice Tulsa Exercise Profit 61

Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events. Events like 5Ks, fun runs, field days, and charity sports tournaments drum up a lot of excitement from donors and can be very profitable fundraisers.

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Online Fundraising Social Media Fun 52

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

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Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 82

NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Imagine our lives if getting a new mobile phone required leaving behind our friends on Verizon who couldn’t text us when we switched cellular carriers to T-Mobile. The bottom line of the shareholder economy is maximizing profit on monetary investment. What is ordinary in the corporate world is heretical in the nonprofit world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

On November 13, Minnesotans broke a record Thursday, donating more than $18 million to schools and non-profits. We had volunteers working the phones and online help desk, monitoring and posting on social media, and a crisis management team ready to address any potential issues. This has been a huge year for us.

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Bloomerang

MAY 31, 2022

Partnerships between nonprofits and the for-profit sector are more common and impactful than ever before. Your fundraising strategy should facilitate convenient, simple giving opportunities on an ongoing basis so that donors can contribute whenever they feel inspired. Incorporate phone and Zoom calls and in-person meetings.

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Strategy Develop Fundraising Nonprofit 104

Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

The price of shirts should make your church a profit while completely paying for the printing costs. All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. To be profitable, simply charge a registration fee to attend the class and encourage congregants to sign up and invite others. Text fundraising.

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Giving Fundraising Pledge Classes 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

Last week, I facilitated a mini-innovation lab on measuring impact for grantees of the Google Nonprofit program at the Impact Hub. They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities. My Nonprofit Needs A Data Nerd!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 5, 2015

Most Popular Post In his new book, Fail Fast or Win Big: The Start-up Plan for Starting Now , author Bernhard Schroeder gives you the edge he believes you'll need to be an entrepreneur who can launch a profitable business—in 90 days or less. Turn off the television, turn off the cell phone, and pay attention to the people around you.

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Leadership San Diego Yahoo Advice 40

NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2013

Amy saw that members of the nonprofit tech community were itching to dive more deeply and regularly into topics of online community building, but she didn’t want to create a space if there weren’t willing co-facilitators and a good deal of buy-in. Whoever’s hosting facilitates the discussion using the @CommBuild account.

Facilitation 60

Facilitation Guidelines Hosting Twitter 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

He describes how with the widespread adoption of social media in the non-profit sector, people’s ability to act and support communities in need like Haiti has only been increased. If you're interested in learning in more depth about mobile phones and social good, I recommend that you follow Extraordinaries , MobileActive , and Ushahidi.

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Haiti Volunteer Disaster New York 97

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Early adopters have been all over FourSquare and downright bullish about location based social networks using mobile phones in general, despite some privacy concerns. We decided to create an organization to facilitate those activities." As I was reading this I wondered when someone was going to launch a fundraiswer with FourSquare.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Operation Groundswell is a non-profit organization that offers backpacking-style group volunteer programs to the developing world. Operation Groundswell not only provides the tools and guidance to empower individual participants, but the organization does a great job facilitating peer-to-peer awareness of "backpacking with a purpose".

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Personal Experiment Online Fundraising 70

Neon CRM

MAY 9, 2023

Fundraising Software: Fundraising software facilitates donations, fundraising events, and other online fundraising activities. Many are specifically built for nonprofits, and many are built for for-profit organizations. It’s a tool that holds all of your information about your donors and their interactions with your organization.

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Software Management Donor Guide 52

Connection Cafe

MAY 27, 2020

The video was recorded on her phone – at no cost! Their influence comes from the positions they hold and the fact that they are not paid to raise money. Earlier this month we asked one of our program leaders to record a thank you message to share how her program is making an impact on families and caregivers during this pandemic.

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Donor Colorado Change Foundation 44

Qgiv

JUNE 1, 2021

The price of shirts should make your church a profit while completely paying for the printing costs. All you need to do is partner with a shoe drive fundraiser facilitator. To be profitable, simply charge a registration fee to attend the class and encourage congregants to sign up and invite others. Text fundraising.

Giving 52

Giving Fundraising Pledge Classes 52

Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

This includes keeping your LMS up and running smoothly and providing end-user, after-hours, and overflow live phone support. The goal is to create a learning business that is profitable while providing the maximum value to members— both increasing membership and decreasing your team’s administrative burden at the same time.

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eLearning Consultant Guide Associations 69

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

The group’s leader is Martin Brookes , a British economist at a hedge fund, who got the idea after a phone call. ” They provide free web analytics consulting to non-profits and NGOs around the world by matching analytics professionals, students, and charities. “A big U.K.

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Data Help Measure Analysis 109

Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. ” Rakesh Rajani, Tweweza, talking about the potential dramatic impact of the mobile phone in Africa in the next five years. we like to buy mobile phones to have fun, talk to friends, listen to music, tweet and connect on Facebook.”

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Activities Active Activism Review 47

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Jane Meseck, Microsoft Corporation. This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work.

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Change Social Model Myanmar 73

NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Jane Meseck, Microsoft Corporation. This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work.

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Change Social Model Myanmar 73

Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Create engaging opportunities for new donors, but make sure those opportunities will be profitable in the long run. Phone calls. Limit your phone call to thanking your donor and telling them what their gift will achieve. You don’t want the money you spend on your campaign to be more than the money you raise!

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Campaign Effective Fundraising Nonprofit 98

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I then got into the non-profit sector in 2001 when I joined GiveIndia, the first and leading online giving portal in India. I was there for seven and a half years, and I had a fascinating time applying what had worked for me in the for-profit sector, including scaling up various systems and processes, to the non-profit space.

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India NGO South Africa Profit 93

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2013

Many in the sector are at a loss to where they can tap into or validate information that the for-profit sector is collecting. Jacob Harold, Guidestar , shared some thoughts to this question, “What are the basic building blocks to facilitate better access to data?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Blog : A resource which talks about publishing, reading, literacy, kidlit, learning, non-profits, events and more. Example of Partham Books on mobile phones. John Gautam works for Pratham Books is a non-profit trust that publishes high quality books for children at affordable prices and in multiple Indian languages.

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India Strategy Skype Remix 99

Wild Apricot

JUNE 27, 2008

Find a spokesperson or facilitator who is familiar to your audience; ideally, someone who is perceived as a colleague or fellow member of the community. Filed under: General non-profit interest , nptech , Best practices , Non-profit Communications , training , publicity. Michael Steins NON-PROFIT TECHNOLOGY BLOG.

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Knowledge Effective PDF Evaluation 60

NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2009

I'm the sole IT person at my non-profit organization (we are a shelter for homeless families), and we are undergoing severe budget cuts at the moment. Fundraising for a 2009 NTC scholarship fund, and facilitating donations of airline miles. Phone: 415 397 9000. And, as one member recently told me: . You can find me at: .

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NTEN Homeless NTC Knowledge 36

DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

RealHR Solutions is a leading consulting firm specializing in HR for nonprofits and for-profit companies. Direct mail and phone calls continue to be extremely effective outlets for nonprofits promoting their campaigns but only if they’re handled with the right strategies in place. Breakout session and workshop facilitation.

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Consultant Nonprofit Strategy Philanthropy 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2008

A new role here to facilitate these Wired fundraisers. Meanwhile, I came across the for-profit take on this -- a post by Jeremiah Owyang titled " Getting Your Digital Immigrant Executives To Understand the World of Digital Natives." re too busy running the company) ask them to take a closer look, and get back to you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

I followed anybody who seemed knowledgeable and well respected in areas like social media, social entrepreneurship, health issues, autism, non-profit technology, philanthropy, micro-lending, and Islamic finance. I "favorited" almost everything, and I basically used Twitter as a personalized library. As such, I have chosen option #2.

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Social Media Media Social Twitter 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2006

Can blog communities be facilitated? I'm thinking about the blog (and phone) conversation I had with Andy Carvin about podcasting in the developing world - i n places without electricity. Technorati Tags: CoP2.0 , CP2Web2 , net2 , nptech , nonprofit , ngo , non-profit. I've had a couple of ideas swirling around in my head.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc. Even though I love promoting open source software and Linux among my non-profit clients, we’re not at the point where I could recommend Linux desktops for organization staff. This is where Linux will shine. at 9:04 pm I agree with your assessment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

E-books, therefore, make access to information an affordable reality, as more and more people, including students, have a device in their pocket capable of operating as an accessible e-reader: from inexpensive mobile phones and MP3 players to Braille note-takers that can store thousands of e-books in digital Braille.

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