Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. Recently, CTA conducted a study on mobile use by the homeless population of Santa Clara County (where CTA is located). " What's Next: A Mobile Plan that Works.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

They’ve tried what they know to raise money, but it just isn’t working. Or it kind of works but not at the level they need it to. It’s not easy to figure out what works in fundraising when you have little to no experience raising big bucks. The way you’re trying to raise money doesn’t work, no matter how hard you try.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 22, 2024

At the core of every nonprofit organization is a mission driven by passion and fueled by the hard-working hands of volunteers. Bloomerang Volunteer is more than a tool ; it’s a strategic ally, transforming the way these nonprofits attract, engage, and retain their core volunteers.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Whether you’re working to end sexual violence or advocating for unhoused residents, the first building block of a successful digital advocacy campaign begins with telling an impactful story. #1. These folks do the hard work of collecting data on how people think about certain topics, like climate change and racial justice.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Creating a sense of urgency also works well for a matching gifts campaign or when showing a donation progress bar with a countdown timer to when a fundraising campaign ends. You can show your clients’ adventures, escapades (this works especially well for animal shelter nonprofits), or triumphs. It’s time to decide.”.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

53% of nonprofit staff who are extremely or somewhat satisfied in their current roles donate to the organization where they work ( World-Changing Work Report ). homelessness (8%), and education (7%) ( Global Trends in Giving Report ). The estimated value of a volunteer work hour is $25.43 In 2018, Americans gave $427.7

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Volunteer Hub

DECEMBER 2, 2020

The nonprofit organization, founded in 1983 , is focused on meeting the urgent needs of those who are experiencing homelessness in Washington D.C. Miriam’s Kitchen supports over 200 individuals in supportive housing; and assists over 3,000 other individuals who are experiencing homelessness with obtaining critical day-to-day resources.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

My interview with Bob Lynn, the technology manager at the Omaha, Nebraska branch of Habitat for Humanity, is a lesson in the advantages of remote work tools. Habitat for Humanity has been working to serve the nearly 100 million homeless and 2 billion people living in slum housing around the world since 1976.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 23, 2014

I'll also update you on the "kill switch" initiatives as well as a nonprofit that's using mobile services to alleviate homelessness. The commitment promises that smartphones will have a "baseline anti-theft tool" that will either come pre-loaded or be easily downloaded. Homelessness and Mobile Technology.

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Bloomerang

MAY 15, 2024

Empower them by giving them the training, tools, and inspiration to lead effectively. Unless you’ve worked with an individual as a volunteer, you won’t have any way to know, so try before you buy by inviting them to volunteer or serve on a committee. Appreciate them and make sure they know they’re making an impact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

Note from Beth: Last week, I wrote about the launch of LinkedIn’s Board Connect tool that helps nonprofit identify potential board candidates through searching the networks of their board members on LinkedIn. 5 Ways to Make LinkedIn Board Connect Work for Your Nonprofit by Geri Stengel.

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sgEngage

MAY 14, 2024

You worked your way up through the normal accounting roles. As a nonprofit organization, you aren’t working to improve a stock price or the bottom line. For example, perhaps a donor gave a large gift for the construction of a new shelter for people experiencing homelessness. You can run a profit and loss statement in your sleep.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 5, 2022

always works best. Their second subject line: “What is doubled-up homelessness?” . My friend Tom Ahern shared Healthcare for the Homeless in Baltimore who offer free dental care to the homeless, and the brainchild of their senior exec/fundraiser Keiren Havens. 3 Key Takeaways, Tips & Tools to make it easier.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

With one shift in our understanding about data, we can reclaim a sense of wonder, creative agency, and value in our data work: Recognizing that information does not equal data and data does not equal knowledge. In working with a nonprofit intermediary, we brought together a knowledge team that met monthly over the course of nine months.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

In the anti-rape movement, we see the work of ending violence as dismantling systems of oppression, like sexism, racism ableism, classism, homophobia, etc. These folks do the hard work of collecting data on how people think about certain topics, like climate change and racial justice. Frankly, people don’t want any more problems.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The star of Barbie (2023) champions the power of using your voice both on screen and off, promoting voting rights and cultural representation through her work with organizations such as Voto Latino. Be sure to opt into networking at time of registration to be able to connect with people through the tool.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the last few years, Microsoft has rebuilt LinkedIn working out many of the kinks and bugs that made it frustrating to use, and has launched a suite of new tools and functionality for LinkedIn Pages , Profiles , and Groups. Upload work projects, such as presentations, videos, or special fundraising campaigns. For example: 1.

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Greater Giving

JUNE 1, 2023

LGBTQIA+ philanthropy is a powerful tool for creating a more inclusive society and supporting the community Inclusive and supportive communities are built upon the principles of equality and respect for all individuals. These organizations work tirelessly to provide advocacy, education, healthcare, mental health support, and legal assistance.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Fortunately, TechSoup’s generous donors offer the following range of tools to create powerful digital stories. Citrix Online : Do you work within a distributed work team? Then tools like GoToMyPC, GoToMeeting, and GoToWebinar from Citrix Online let you share your desktop and collaborate with your creative team.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. However, there’s a lot more work to be done. What are ways of helping farmers get more money from their work?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 9, 2022

We use Salesforce tools to create a digital environment which engages at-risk youth, and has proven to be highly impactful in changing negative trajectories and positively impacting wellbeing. If you’re working in any of those spaces, wellbeing is what you should be interested in. At Noise Solution , we’re doing just that.

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sgEngage

JUNE 4, 2023

Employees still on the roster often have a considerably heavier workload, resulting in 77% of workers feeling burned out at work. Think of automation as a tool to help your team focus on the uniquely human skills of creativity, relationship building, and critical thinking that only they can bring to their fundraising roles.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Studies show that donors are more likely to give when a nonprofit is working towards a goal, especially if the goal is close. reaching our goal of $5,000 will help us provide 1,000 meals to the homeless.) Consider Boosting Your Posts Facebook and Twitter give users incredibly powerful tools to target audiences with advertisements.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 24, 2023

Supporter self-service tools Technology allows you to decentralize parts of your operations and put more power in your supporters’ hands. Self-service tools let your donors manage various parts of their engagement, such as how often they give, what activities they want to participate in, and how they prefer to be contacted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2017

Are you interested in partnering with national funders supporting pioneering work in bringing the rich idea of customer satisfaction to the social sector? L4G invites nonprofits and funders to explore a simple but systematic and rigorous way of getting feedback from the people at the heart of our work. to these questions, keep reading!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

Discover how HOPE Atlanta , Metro Atlanta’s most established agency committed to fighting homelessness and hunger, capitalized on this integration to optimize their data collection , and explore how your organization can do the same to maximize fundraising potential. Classy for Salesforce is helping us get exactly where we want to be.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

You can use Atomic Training to help your organization maximize its tech tools and software products. This makes Atomic Training ideal for: General workforce development (the work that Goodwill does, for example). This makes Atomic Training ideal for: General workforce development (the work that Goodwill does, for example).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. 1 text or phone entrance fee go to help The Foyer Foundation , a nonprofit that works with homeless young people. tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg.

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Qgiv

MARCH 11, 2024

Nonprofit organizations are groups that work for a social cause, but they do so without making a profit. Perhaps there is a large homeless population that could use support, or an uptick in stray, unneutered cats in your area. There may be other groups that also work to serve the needs you’ve identified.

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VisionLink

APRIL 30, 2012

Newly released features focus on the client intake and case management tools, an improved service tracking and referral tracking tool, a number of form builder tools to further enhance workflow flexibility, and more. A significant amount of code was released for both immediate use and future releases to come.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Together they are a powerful set of tools for nonprofits, especially with integrations to automatically sync data between them. Unlike web-to-lead tools, these provide the flexibility of submitting data not just to Leads but to other standard or custom objects in Salesforce. Sample Apps or Tools: Ninja Forms with Salesforce extension.

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VisionLink

MARCH 21, 2012

The first is an inline fields tool. For our homeless management (HMIS) work, we have been making many more, and more substantive enhancements to the Form Builder. This module is used to arrange the fields, tabs, conditions, navigation, and workflow useful to every organization managing client and call information. Stay tuned!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 28, 2010

Part social networking site, part smartphone App, Foursquare is a tool meant to be primary used on the go on your smartphone. Food banks and homeless shelters: St. That may not seem like very many compared to Facebook’s 465 million users, but Foursquare is only one year-old and growing quickly. Mary’s Food Bank.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

This year’s Day of Service featured three different projects – a computer recycling project and installation of a wireless network in Washington, DC’s largest homeless shelter and meal preparation at DC Central Kitchen. Since Mark works solo, this is a useful tool. Tech Recycling Day. Here’s an example.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Though originally focused on advertising, Ogilvy’s wisdom contains enduring truths around driving action and results that can aid any cause, even with today’s new tools and platforms. Repeat what works – Run successful ads repeatedly until they stop selling. Lean into what works.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 24, 2021

Email is a powerful marketing tool, but to get results you need to learn how to write fundraising emails that connect emotionally and inspire people to give. Well, one of the families we were able to work with as a result of your gift just moved into their own apartment! Thank you so much for supporting us and believing in our work! .

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