Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

Related Links: Nonprofit Organizations on Google+. Google+ and Google Products for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. Google+ and Google Products for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. Habitat for Humanity Ireland. KQED Science. Monterey Bay Aquarium. New England Aquarium. National Public Radio. Rotary International.

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NTEN

JUNE 23, 2014

This issue is packed with actionable ideas, inspiring interviews, and tips that your organization can use to get ready for the end of the year, if not sooner! >>Read From Bitcoin, to crowdfunding, to the tricky discussion about overhead - articles cover some of the latest topics in digital fundraising, and opportunities for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2019

If you think about it, our nonprofit organizations already have rituals — from the boring everyday activities like coffee breaks to larger events such as annual meetings and holiday parties. Celebrate that milestone with anything festive that fits your organization’s values, is inclusive, and everyone finds enjoyable.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2010

Kiva is probably the best-known example. Kiva lets individual lenders pool their resources and provide substantial loans to entrepreneurial borrowers in the developing world. Tags: Donors Grants for Technology Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Grantseeking Running Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2011

And Kiva ([link] builds on already existing networks (including that network of networks we call the Internet) to give people the opportunity to loan money to entrepreneurs in the developing world. The Value of Specificity. They don’t just say, “You’re here now, talk amongst yourselves.”

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 19, 2009

blog post from the SSIR opinion blog about why Kiva ([link] chose to be a nonprofit and the story of how it started. Those of you in the test group will be able to find content from the people, organizations and public figures that matter to you as soon as they share it on Facebook."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 6, 2010

The winner was Lethal Sheethal who was about to leave for six months on her Kiva Fellowship in Peru. Before leaving, she did a fundraiser and raffled off her copy of the book. They are giving away 500 paperback copies of The Blue Sweater in quantities of 25, 50, or 100 books to organizations that can leverage the ideas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 6, 2010

Kiva :: Download. International Committee of the Red Cross: an independent, neutral organization ensuring humanitarian protection and assistance for victims of war and armed violence. Mobile Technology for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group. App Name: KivaAlerts. Updated: May 6, 2009. App Name: MAZON.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2009

How is it being organized? Decentralized event organizing, it's grassroots and anyone can organize a local event. The charity isn't the central organizer of the event - it appears that they are letting their stakeholders run with it and not imposing "branding and messaging" standards. How did the relationship originate?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

My friend Jessica Jackley Kiva. told me early on that one of the reasons Kiva works is that you see the exact goat herder you’re helping with your loan (not to mention read his story and look at his pictures).

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Microcredit processes with mobile phones worked because of effective microfinance organizations…" YMCA of Metro Chicago Launches Facebook « Chicago YMCA's IT Space – Great resource from Steve Heye, thanks for sharing your facebook manual! "How

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits. Free Agents still find creative ways to make a difference today. And that’s why I’m supporting Giving Tuesday. What about you?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2013

Is It Right for My Organization? NetSuite is ideal for larger nonprofit organizations that store substantial donor data, send marketing emails, and accept online donations, either on premises or in the cloud. Other nonprofits, including Good360, Kiva, and the San Francisco SPCA, have all adopted NetSuite. How Does It Work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2010

Another iPhone application is Give Work , a collaborative effort by CrowdFlower, a professional crowdsourcing service provider, and Samasource , a non-profit organization that trains youths and refugees to use computers, and by extension to find sustainable employment. This application can now be downloaded here. . New York Philharmonic.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2009

The site, which serves as a learning and sharing center for nonprofits and social change organizations, debuted today at [link]. There’s nothing else like this on the Web for nonprofits, social change organizations, non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and educators.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Box.org provides organizations with the Box file-sharing, content management, and collaboration service. Is It Right for My Organization? If your organization works with sensitive data, Box also provides the administrative, technical, and physical safeguards to support your organization's compliance with HIPAA.

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AFP Blog

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Charity Seeks to Move Beyond Making Loans to Entrepreneurs - Technology - The Chronicle of Philanthropy- Connecting the nonprofit world with news, jobs, and ideas: "Kiva first made its mark by allowing people to make online loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries, but the organization has ambitious plans to move beyond its initial mission.The (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

You can buy beautiful, handmade gifts made by artisans from companies and organizations like World of Good , Be Sweet , Global Girlfriend , The Amber Chand Collection and New Mexico Creates. Introduce the coffee lover in your life to the benefits and deliciousness of organic, Fair Trade coffee. Empower an Entrepreneur with a Kiva Loan.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

ReadWriteWeb wants to point out the "social media for good" organizations that deliver on the "good" part, not just the social media. Congratulations to The Extrordinaries , Kiva , and Inveneo for bringing the good with the socmed! Judy Hallman , organizer for the 501 Tech Club in the Triangle , N.C.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

ReadWriteWeb wants to point out the "social media for good" organizations that deliver on the "good" part, not just the social media. Congratulations to The Extrordinaries , Kiva , and Inveneo for bringing the good with the socmed! Judy Hallman , organizer for the 501 Tech Club in the Triangle , N.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2009

I loved what he said about Premal Shah - that he wanted to apply for a job at Kiva after hearing him speak. There must be catalytic organizations. If you build the platform, will spontaneous organizing happen?" Synthesis of grassroots organization to channel social change. Kiva is at the intersection of money and meaning.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2009

Twitter added several organizations to the list and these nonprofits are instantly growing their list of followers by the thousands. But things changed for the nonprofit world on Friday.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Shopify (iOS) lets you run an online store to raise money for your organization from anywhere in the world. can be customized to meet your organization's needs and run on either a new or existing website. Windows Phone) brings your Kiva portfolio to your Windows phone. The Shopify service (available through TechSoup!)

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 16, 2010

5 Trends Shaping the Future of Social Good: "ocial media has had a profound effect on the way social good organizations approach global problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 22, 2007

Nonprofit organizations will be able to use LinkedIn as a platform for involving the LinkedIn community with their causes, leveraging the 11 million users that are present within the online community. I much rather see organizations that provided essential cosmetic surgery to children in the developing receive this type of media attention.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion on whether social media for fundraising and marketing can effect real on the ground change. In 2008, I was on one of the few nonprofit panels on the agenda.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

Ready or not, the mobile trend is affecting your organization. Donors have multiple options in crowdfunding platforms: Kickstarter, Indiegogo, Kiva, Crowdrise, GiveEffect — and this list is growing fast. Leveraging Mobile and Crowdfunding Trends for Your Organization.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Started with an idea two years ago that the web is important because it helps people organize for themselves and impacts how we make things work; but in order to make that happen you have to bring people together who are interested in making it real. Organizations that are trying to support people to do new things know this.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2007

offering solutions, not to mention all of the organizations in other countries, plus socially responsible businesses, plus individual activists' campaigns, knowing the best way to take action can feel as overwhelming as the problem. Organizations like Kiva and Dining for Women demonstrate these principles well.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 2, 2008

FinancialAidPodcast suggests paying down your debt, putting it in a savings account, or donating to a charitable organization. How will you spend your economic stimulus check? They recommend giving to the United Nations World Food Program and America’s Second Harvest. Flickr Photo Credit: Money uploaded by Jennifer R.

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See3

JUNE 22, 2009

Social Actions’ actions come from Care2, Change.org, DonorsChoose.org, DemocracyinAction, GlobalGiving, Idealist, Kiva, SixDegrees and VolunteerMatch and others. with nonprofit organizations that could use those skills. Lots of organization could use help in developing more video assets and we say, great!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

What I didn't realize about Dining for Women, is that they research and choose the organization that will be receiving the funds from that month's gatherings so that all of the Dining for Women groups meeting across the country are donating to the same thing. This month's organization was the Village Enterprise Fund.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2009

leave a comment and come to SXSW in March to join the debate with Jacob Colker (Co-Founder and CEO of The Extraordinaries ), Premal Shah (President of Kiva ) and Jason Cooper (Online Coordinator at Kaboom.org ). This flaw is not that the tools are ineffective; it’s rather a misuse and missed opportunity by the organization.” – Kristin Ivie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

They are exploring how non-profit organizations use the Web and the tools available for them in the last three years or since this Wired article was published ( For Nonprofits, Web Is Windfall ). I slacked off on my Sunday RSS reading because I had a board meeting, so I missed this post. I even discovered a Cycling Advocacy Network blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

It was organized by Ed Schipul. Last year, there was an event called "Social Media for Social Good" organized by Jeff Pulver that prompted quite a rich discussion. The Real House Wives of Social Media You've heard the buzz around how nonprofit organizations and corporations are using social media for social good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 2, 2009

The book will take a look at how social media is facilitating a shift from organization to working in a more networked way. Allison mentions a few more like mico-finance like Kiva's small loans to entrepreneurs here and abroad. . How do we make that culture shift in our organizations? In a session at the Web 2.0

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