Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 24, 2010

They also offer free advertising to nonprofits through their Google Grants Program. They also have an extensive list of free or low-cost services for nonprofits and universities through their “Technology-Driven Philanthropy&# campaigns. Tags: Facebook Google LinkedIn MySpace Social Media Twitter YouTube. 2) Google/YouTube.

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NTEN

MAY 19, 2010

Time strapped nonprofits can sign up to receive free web site analysis. You provide access to your data and a few hours of time, and a student-mentor team will analyze aspects of your site's performance in just a few weeks. Tags: analytics exchange Data NPTech NTEN web analytics Web Sites Communications. And you should.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 11, 2023

Download the Free Guide Benefits of volunteer appreciation gifts Volunteers who feel noticed and appreciated are more likely to continue volunteering with you long-term and spread the word about how appreciative your organization is! Event tickets You can give your volunteer free tickets to any sporting event, concert, or festival.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 28, 2010

I just found out that our Bookshare volunteers can sign up to get a free day at a Disney park. Volunteers who do a chapter's worth of image descriptions for a student textbook will get their day pass. Tags: volunteer Disney Bookshare.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2009

I gave $25 [which will provide 1 student with textbooks and other supplies for 1 year]. Also, Circle of Women … for being number 10,000, you win a free pass for all your staff. Tags: Twitter Micro Fundraising Online Fundraising. If you are feeling generous, please join me in making a small donation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

In addition to the traditional methods of integrating technology, I want them to explore some simple ways to integrate these new tools such as tagging and blogging without running away screaming. Use of blogs for student poetry journals and for instructor "mini-lessons" 2. " I ended up with blogger because it is free.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 7, 2010

Most of the books I work with are books requested by students and titles from the New York Times (NYT) bestsellers list. We also picked up books Carrie had previously ordered - including special requests from students who need specific texts for their classes. students thanks to support from the U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 6, 2009

Students experience the interdisciplinary and collaborative development of user interface solutions in international software projects while getting into FLOSS development." " Tags: roundup bookmarks. " OpenMRS - OpenMRS - Such a great group doing great work.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2014

3) Influencers: Pete Frates was one of the early “influencers” or what Allison Fine and called “Free Agents,” people who have large and passionate networks that they can leverage for a good cause. But he had help from another free agent, Corey Griffen , a management consultant who organized the fundraiser.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

As a followup, I want to note that there are at least four ways to attend the American Association of Museums annual meeting in Houston May 22-25, 2011 for free. NAME student fellowship (2): WHAT YOU GET: conference registration, $500 for travel/hotel, free tickets to NAME events, and a NAME mentor to hang out with you during the conference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2010

This case study explores how a small nonprofit, Students for a Free Tibet (SFT) , a contest winner in the first and second America’s Giving Challenges, is using social media effectively. Tags: Case Studies activism Causes Engagement Facebook online contests. Come join the discussion !

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 22, 2010

We're so excited about all this action that we announced today that we're celebrating the ADA by making Bookshare available free for three months to all Americans with qualifying disabilities (not just students). Tags: White House accessibility Kareem Dale Obama CTO ADA ADA20 CIO Bookshare Aneesh Chopra.

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NTEN

MAY 25, 2010

See Students for a Free Tibet and Darius Goes West.). In the Students for a Free Tibet case study, Beth highlights that the organization has to make choices. Tags: Community E-mail NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications. It only enters one social media contest a year. What about you, small organizations?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

Or this free license that might involve some kind of risk of liability? student with a qualified print disability needs, we have a wonderful domestic copyright exemption. We can and will scan it and get it to that student in under a month. Do I work on this $50 million licensing deal on a short deadline?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

At the end of every presentation, they put up a slide where students can either 1) join their cause on Facebook or 2) text them to sign up. If you have a topic or question you’d like to explore in an upcoming chat, feel free to let me know anytime! It works really well. Hope to have you join us next time!

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 20, 2010

" AGC Coversational Case Studies: Students for a Free Tibet: A mindful social media strategy for campaigns or contests – Beth Kanter and Allison Fine are evaluating the second America's Giving Challenge and are sharing case studies from the winners.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2009

Photo emailed from Cambodia by Elephant, Sharing Foundation 's in-country director In this post, I share some learnings as a free agent fundraise r (an individual who uses personal fundraising to raise money for a charity) who is leveraging their personal network to support a nonprofit's programs that help children in need.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 20, 2009

As you can see in the photo, each table had a name tent listing a student’s name, general information, and his or her telephone number (I’ve blocked out the phone number in this photo). Over dinner, guests were encouraged to text or call the student to chat and say, “Congratulations on your scholarship!&# . .

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Even if you don’t have anything in common, you can start to understand who your donor is by hearing about the ways they spend their free time. Maybe they are an avid knitter, just like you. Maybe they play tennis, just like you. What are you most proud of in your life?”.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 29, 2010

I’d visited them in Dhaka a few years back (and written a blog post ), and they have a very impressive social enterprise that offers a municipality the following deal: let us haul away your waste for free. Tags: WEF Skoll Brilliant social enterprise Waste Concern. What a great kick-off for a day!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 20, 2009

SIFE (Students In Free Enterprise). For your free copy on publication, subscribe to the free Getting Attention e-update. Tags: challenge marketing awards competition taglines. Other: A head for business. A heart for the world.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 10, 2009

And of course, we have the dystopian vision from Richard Stallman, the founder of the Free Software movement, in his short story from the 90s, The Right to Read. If I live another 50 years, those books will still be there, free to be given to my kids, given to friends, or sold to pay off my debts! The DMCA workaround.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 25, 2010

Last week’s case study about how the Students for Free Tibet vets participation generated some great responses and advice in the comments from Wendy Harman , Red Cross and Stacey Monk , Epic Change, both veterans of online fundraising and voting contests. Tags: Fundraising ROI Strategy agc2 case foundation contests.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

Here’s what your membership or donor benefit structure might look like today: Free admission. Free Parking. Did your donation dollars allow schools to bring students to your educational programming for free last year? Because millenials have different motivations for giving than the generations that came before them.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits are giving back to the web analytics community because our experienced analysts work directly with “student learners” so that they can gain valuable “hands on” interaction with web data. . Joining Analysis Exchange is completely free and the entire process takes about three weeks beginning to end.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 25, 2014

Here’s what your membership or donor benefit structure might look like today: Free admission. Free Parking. Did your donation dollars allow schools to bring students to your educational programming for free last year? Because millenials have different motivations for giving than the generations that came before them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

I still don't know of that many nonprofits using Friendfeed , though, whether as an overall tool or for joining the "nptech" community conversation ( "nptech" is a tag that Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, and others have been using to tag nonprofit technology resources on delicious, twitter, etc., Tags: friendfeed guest blogging.

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NTEN

JUNE 17, 2009

The Student Conservation Association : @the_sca. " then you might want check out the recording of our free webinar on Twitter: > You're All a-Twitter , with Holly Ross, NTEN's Executive Director . Tags: community buzz NPTech NTEN twitter. The Wilderness Society : @wilderness. Nice work, y'all!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2009

These schools are also more likely to research students online via social networking sites. Using free tools to listen is good if you're just getting started. Tags: listening. Those schools that monitor online activity as it relates to them tend to be schools with higher tuition, private rather than public.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 25, 2010

I immediately recalled a phenomenon I witnessed as a student at the Rhode Island School of Design (RISD). The Rhode Island School of Design was established in 1877 alongside its Museum of Art, an important resource for RISD students. The Edna Lawrence Nature Lab was established in 1937, also as a resource for students.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Ben works on Blackbaud’s Corporate Communications Team, is a Graduate Student at University of Texas School of Advertising (Hook ‘Em) and a Mississippi native. Free flights. Free hotel. Free car rentals. And, in the world of social media, you don’t even have to give away free flights or hotel rooms.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 28, 2008

NancyWhite of Full Circle Associates suggested using a Google Group , a blog, or Moodle, a free, open source course management system. santhonys of AShowalter.com suggested using the haiku Learning Management System , which on first glance looks pretty easy to use and ranges in price from free-$30/month. Tags: askbritt.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Google Analytics vs Site Meter September 18, 2006 Yes, I promise, the post on tagging and folksonomies is coming. Google Analytics is also free. But first, a great example of Web 1.0

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

APRIL 22, 2009

Nearly half of the surveyed institutions hosting education programs reported an improvement in air quality at their facilities due to actions taken by students, including doing service-learning projects and fostering community partnerships. Free-marketeers have been extolling the value of "Cap and Trade" solutions to control emissions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2014

Even better if you can tag the individual or do their Twitter handle. In this Twitter example below, the school is also encouraging the alumni network to RT this alum’s accomplishment. Be sure to use compelling photos and other visuals. Notice the engagement in the comments, with people tagging each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Quentin Young describes an early movement he was involved in: In 1937-39, I was a member of the American Student Union – a national organization of high school youth protesting    fascism, racism. College students recruited youngsters, exploited our youthful zeal as they exposed us to the issues of the day.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 23, 2007

The more we teach and judge based on laws, the less students and graduates will try to break them. If I've learned in a few years of experience and reading--for free--what I would have learned in graduate school, why bother? The students designed and fabricated prototype pieces of an upcoming exhibition.

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