.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. They are charged with posing and answering significant questions like these: Why was our organization founded? What has changed over time?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2013

MacArthur Foundation named 13 organizations as recipients of the MacArthur Award for Creative and Effective Institutions. The Award, which recognizes exceptional grantees and helps ensure their long-term sustainability, provides each organization with up to $1.5 and Catherine T. million, depending on the size of its budget.

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sgEngage

MAY 31, 2023

If your nonprofit organization hosts a peer-to-peer event with thousands of happy participants and supporters, but you don’t have a plan to convert those bikers, gamers, walkers, golfers, dancers, scavenger hunters, or pub crawlers into monthly donors, you’re missing out on the point of putting on an awesome P2P event.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 20, 2022

When you started your organization, you drafted a set of nonprofit bylaws which are the rules spelling out how your new venture would operate and how your Board would govern it. Many new organizations draft bylaws based on a template or an existing organization’s bylaws. Now, you are not so new anymore.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) increases your organization’s visibility in organic (not paid) search results, making your organization easier to find and driving people to your website. The way to get a higher ranking is to use the right keywords… not words your organization uses but words people use in searches.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Like climbing a mountain, it helps to have a path to follow to reach its summit, or in this case, a map of sorts to guide you to your desired destination—a compelling proposal that unlocks funding to advance your mission-driven work. Information about your organization and its experience addressing your proposal’s key need or problem.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 18, 2021

Keep a spreadsheet containing a list of old urls that map to the new ones so you have an idea of how users are reaching new pages from old urls. Upload a site map. A site map is the list of urls most important to you. Content written years or even a decade ago may not match the current language tone of the day.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

What the Organization Does (22 percent). Provide the following information about the organization and staff. Professional References/Testimonials (others who can speak on the organization’s behalf). Organization’s Donation Website. Organization’s DUNS Number and/or GuideStar profile. Organization’s Fax Number.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world. Design and implement data visualizations, including everything from simple static charts and maps to custom interactive visualizations on the web.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2014

My Ocean , is a niche social network of more than 9000 divers and this guest post by Darren Barefoot describes some powerful outcomes for ocean conservation by bringing together several strategies: niche social network, crowdsourced data mapping, and deep engagement. For decades, scuba divers have been cleaning waterways.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

The following is a comprehensive guide to help organizations looking to build a conversational AI that is enhanced by the use of RAG, including considerations for planning, design, and technology stack. However, developing these conversational AI applications in a robust, scalable, and efficient way is no easy task.

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NTEN

JUNE 6, 2023

A tech-savvy team is essential for nonprofit organizations that want to thrive in the digital age. Determining what technology skills your organization needs Skill requirements are not one-size-fits-all. One approach to documenting skill requirements could be to create a matrix of skills and roles for your organization.

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Candid

JULY 1, 2021

This data is available on our racial equity map.[ Corporate funders are for-profit organizations funding philanthropic work. Some corporations provide updates by maintaining a web page that simply mentions the organizations the funder is working with (e.g., billion dollars. the NBA Foundation ).

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The Storytelling Non-profit

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Then, I’ll go back through the audio and map out the story. I’ve been able to work on some substantial projects with them and see the organization grow so much in the last 5 years. I’ve been able to work on some substantial projects with them and see the organization grow so much in the last 5 years.

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Qgiv

APRIL 21, 2023

This method makes complex concepts easier for your stakeholders to understand and makes it easier to have more informed discussions on the next steps your organization should take. “Map out the story you need to tell. When you use a donor’s love language the first thing you see is verbal feedback, not dollars.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Although they are not an IRS requirement, compelling annual reports can sway potential donors and show current donors how their money is helping your organization to make an impact. Your annual report should communicate the success of your organization and its financials in a concise, visual way.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 26, 2022

As you get comfortable trusting your plan, you will have the map you need to raise the money you need to fund your programs and change more lives. Your message is your mission molded into language that donors will respond to. But … for many reasons, a virtual fundraiser event may be just the right choice for your organization.

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 11, 2023

That way, you can ensure all current and potential supporters follow your organization’s social media accounts. Use your audience personas as a guide map for your campaigns. For example, if you’re an animal shelter in the Atlanta area, you may want to prioritize targeting local supporters. Align your campaigns with your audience.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 21, 2020

This has helped to save employee’s time and the valuable investment of the organization. . AI, which uses machine learning techniques for streamlining the operations and enhancing programs at the nonprofits, has acted as a catalyst in transforming many organizations. Resolving food and water crises. Raising funds for orphanages.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. LABB created an Oil Spill Crisis Map in response to the BP Deepwater Horizon oil spill in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 16, 2009

In our book, The Networked Nonprofit , co-authored with Allison Fine, we provide an overview of mapping your social network in Twitter and other sites using some of the social network analysis tools available. . The workshop was organized by colleague, Tatyana Kanzavelli. When you map your network, it tells you a story.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2011

If you work for a nonprofit, the program provides your organization with several new benefits. The Google Translate gadget is something that I often use for web content that can translate phrases between over 50 languages, but I had never seen it used on a smart phone in the way it was demonstrated.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 27, 2009

I must say, I was thrilled to see such a huge, powerful technology coming to not only support but evangelize their myriad programs offered at no cost to nonprofit organizations. Free domain mapping. 41 languages. There are lots of third party options and the templating language is pretty sophisticated. Google AdWords.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The platform would then take their data, map it from their sending location, and create the other visual support data you see on the map. Indirect Content. Examples from Haiti.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

At its most basic level, you photograph the dump and post a pin on a global Trash Map. They organize local citizens. In Romania, Let’s Do It: [link] people used TrashOut to map all illegal dumps and mapped also dead horse: https://www.trashout.me/illegal-dump/6599659631935488. Check it out here: [link].

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 29, 2011

From Crisis Mapping Egypt: Collection of Maps. As she says, “ Go one way, and you risk overstating the influence, go the other and you’re dismissed as assuming individuals in the Arab world incapable of leveraging social media tools for organizing.&#.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

For many nonprofit organizations, the rise of crypto philanthropy has been a shock that seems to have appeared virtually overnight. One of the rising trends in crypto projects are DAOs, or Decentralized Autonomous Organizations. Now, in 2022 Pew Research surveys show that 87% of U.S. Crypto donors will probably give more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? I created the above visual using wordle to represent our collective knowledge and skills. Later in the day, we did a network mapping exercise. Network Mapping Exercise.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

For decades, Adrian has been espousing the values of focusing on donor retention as a top-line metric of the health of an organization. You can set up a fundraising campaign in Qgiv and customize it based on the specific needs of your organization and donors. Q: What types of organizations do you work with?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2013

or “collective impact,” this work is characterized by a very different mindset, approach, and set of tools than traditional grant-making or nonprofit work, which has historically focused on supporting programs and organizations, and scaling those up. How can we create standards of practice or at least shared language and framing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2016

I thought I’d take this opportunity to organize some of those posts into a resource list. Creating a Network Map. Training in Another Language: Working with Translators and Interpreters. Instructional Design. 8 Tips for Designing Powerful Nonprofit Training Workshops. Getting Past Resistance. I cebreakers and Closers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2013

The template itself is geared for the USA, but since Holly has so generously shared it for free in Google document, I suspect it could be easily localized for NGOs in many other places of the world and easily converted to other languages. So now the 2013 version has twice the hooks to inspire nonprofit communications.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

Before the reading begins, you’ll recruit fundraising participants who will raise money on behalf of your organization. While read-a-thons are a great fundraising idea for nonprofits of all kinds, they’re the perfect fundraiser for schools, libraries, and education nonprofit organizations. How to host a read-a-thon fundraiser.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 9, 2022

If you depend on only one source for funding, you will put your organization’s future at risk. What if that person or organization does not come through this year? 1,000 donors: A big, loyal donor base creates stability for your organization. Not 10, not five. Build your donor base up to 1,000.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Online tools like Twitter , Ushahidi , Google Person Finder , CrisisMappers , and the work of nonprofit organizations like Crisis Commons. This is a group of largely self-organizing digital volunteers who use Twitter to respond to all of the major disasters around the world. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2015

Digital organizing: Once communities are digitally literate, they can use the tools to advocate for addressing the challenges and problems they are facing. When they can give data in a report, when they can show a map that has detailed information, when they can show a photograph that produces evidence, it really changes the game for them."

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NTEN

MAY 1, 2013

Care2 Impact Prize Awarded to Jamie Biggar of Canadian Organization Leadnow , Clinton O''Brien , Care2. Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Resources from Tech Support Confidential , Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks. Brett Shares Tips on Content Marketing and Rails Against Dangers of Skynet , Cary Walski , MAP TechWorks.

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