Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

We’re excited to see Y Combinator admitting some nonprofit teams into their program , but their focus is still on cultivating a community of top-end entrepreneurs for a relatively short period of time. So far, we’ve spun off one for-profit, one nonprofit, and sold one venture for $5 million.

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JULY 6, 2021

This tool is a game-changer in elevating the advancement, recruitment and admissions, student success, communication, and other critical business capabilities of your institution. Blog: State of Salesforce Findings: Online Giving in the Nonprofit Sector. You’ve implemented Salesforce – Congratulations!

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2017

million matching funds from our NMSU license plate affinity program, an estate gift from a loyal Aggie and additional campus matches. We entered all gifts with an appeal code in our nonprofit fundraising software. We raised a grand total of $5.7 million with the matching gifts. So, here’s our first tip: match funds, if you can.

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Bloomerang

MAY 6, 2021

As a fundraiser, I understand all of these matters impact nonprofits, and the trend is leaning—hard—toward privacy and donor data protection. . At the time, Mark Zuckerberg was at Harvard University, and he developed it with his fellow students and friends, Eduardo Saverin, Andrew McCollum, Dustin Moskovitz, and Chris Hughes.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2013

Security details such as managing passwords, software licenses and intellectual privacy. Given the increasing use of cell phones and other mobile technologies by students and employees, as well as the rise of BYOD policies, your. Educational organizations walk a fine line: enabling student access. connected to the network.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 18, 2011

I've organized them into sections: creative ladies, yummy food, nonprofits/do-gooding, blogging/social media, and events, so that you can peruse the ones that fit your interests. A collection of blog posts and articles that caught my eye this week.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Material should be posted under an unencumbered open content license, so that the content can be shared widely, especially in case of the Clearinghouse losing funding as some future date (so that the content can be freely moved to a new home) • Promotion: the Clearinghouse won’t matter if no one visits. Are they intended to inspire students?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2006

I discovered this new tool during a discussion on the NTEN Affinity Group list for nonprofits and flickr about how to be efficient using flickr. Mike Connery from OpportunityAgenda shared a fascinating project his nonprofit did in flickr in partnership with students in a media production class. Anyway, here's the flickr set.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

By this, I am not just talking about the publishing business, but also the nonprofit libraries committed to universal accessibility. We see this with a much greater ability to lower prices, to offer all you can read subscription pricing plans, to choose to license content freely, to publish open access articles, and so on.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2012

in schools, libraries, local governments, and nonprofits, it was tough to choose just one to profile this week, but I chose YouthBuild Boston because of my fondness for green tech. After school programs do important nonprofit work, and it is largely a non-commercial field. Among the many thousands of after school programs in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2015

The library gets a mix of both general public visitors looking up family history as well as graduate students, writers, historians, and other professionals. With everything that the MBWML does, it might seem like the nonprofit has a large staff. The Symantec Security and Antivirus Donation Program for Nonprofits. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

TechSoup and Interconnection , one of our Refurbished Computer Initiative partners, teamed up to supply a group of nonprofits and libraries with everything they would need to set up a MultiPoint Server lab in their environment. Windows MultiPoint Server Premium 2011 licensing. Installation date: December 18, 2012. Image: Jim Lynch.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Through TechSoup Japan, KnK received a donation of 15 Microsoft Office 2007 licenses and Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. " Nonprofit Education in Haiti.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Throughout the month of May, TechSoup is sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. One thing I love about Gateway's site is that it breaks down its three primary audiences — students, educators, and artists — in an extremely easy-to-understand way.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

San Francisco, California: Nonprofits and Storytelling: How to Create Social Impact, First-Person Stories. Kibiribiri, Uganda: Building Capacities of Teachers and Students in Digital Storytelling. Nonprofits and Storytelling: How to Create Social Impact, First-Person Stories. Seattle, Washington: Google AdWords for Nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 9, 2015

Unlike many other subscription services, Box offers TechSoup members 10 perpetual licenses to the service. There are Box apps for nearly every popular mobile device, and Box integrates with Microsoft Office, Office 365 Nonprofit, Salesforce, NetSuite, and many other tools. Little Green Light. Two Truths and a Lie. Two Truths and a Lie.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2007

The title slide - "Teaching to Transform" should be a second or two longer and then hit me a visual that shows "transformation" -- maybe a bored student and then an engaged one. Search on flickr using creative commons licensing. Is it licensed by creative commons? The visuals are not reinforcing the idea.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2007

" which is an introduction to social media concepts and tools for nonprofit use. " I'm trying to walk the walk and talk the talk of Remixing Content for nonprofits. It also incorporates cc licensed materials from others, including videos and flickr photos. transparent open licensing, such as Creative Commons.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. Unlike the others, that are released under varied open source licenses, the code for SQLite is public domain.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2006

I don't know how to tell my students that there is a future for them and that one day they can live like other youth in the world. I guess it is no further than a few hundred meters of my place. I can hear ambulances running and US helicopters flying at a very low height. My people have lost hope and faith in everything. What happened to me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

which was a remix of Marnie Webb 's Ten Ways Nonprofits Can Change the World. I'll be using a new online learning platform that I haven't used before and the participants are a slightly different audience than nonprofit staff or at least I think. Guide your students to conversations and resources. I'm nervous. Openness - ????

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 12, 2007

Penguin Day is a day-long workshop for nonprofit organizations to explore the range of issues and options inovlved in using Free and Open Source Software. happen in different locations several times a year and for the past three years, these meetings have taken place after the annual NTC: Nonprofit Technology Conference. Penguin Days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

The students are the children of the poorest families of Roteang Village and who participate in the Sharing Foundation's farm project. I turned to one of my favorite nonprofit marketing bloggers and colleagues, Marc Sirkin , for some advice and help with the America's Giving Challenge for the Sharing Foundation. NpMarketing Blog.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

Bruce Buckelew of OTX West, which supplies refurbished computers to low-income students in Oakland, California, recalls the "decline and fall" of the computer refurbishment field 20 years ago. To paraphrase Mark Twain, reports of the refurbished computer’s demise have been greatly exaggerated.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 5, 2017

The Energy Wise Alliance (EWA), a small nonprofit based in New Orleans, is determined to do just that. Its Energy Smart for Kids program teaches students throughout the state how to lead a more energy-efficient lifestyle. Aside from schools, EWA also helps nonprofits become more sustainable.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing. Britt Bravo: What has been the biggest challenge of starting your own nonprofit? I mean, their teacher is amazing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 25, 2021

By night, she’s a Master’s in Counseling graduate student at Palo Alto University — the first step in her journey to become a licensed therapist. By day, Jamie is a Senior Social Media Associate at Salesforce.org where she leads organic social media strategy.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Because course authoring software solutions tend to be robust in functionality, they’re most often used to create content for associations, corporations, and even nonprofit organizations. A perpetual license costs $1299 and student teachers can access the solution for $399. per month. iSpring Suite. Articulate 360.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 17, 2015

That seems like a silly thing to say, but I get to take creative license often. Student-led grant committee program with University of Central Florida. Challenge nonprofits to grow and strengthen. Professional services for donors and nonprofits. I get to use my brain to think and figure things out.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 2, 2014

For example, students and senior citizens often are willing to pay less than the average patron, and they can be easily identified with an ID or driver’s license. Nonprofit Marketing Arts & Cultural Performance Arts Pricing ticketing' Let’s continue the conversation in the comments below or on twitter @laurabeussman.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2009

Students will acquire the tools needed to make their tweets glimmer with a complete lack of forethought, their Facebook updates ring with self-importance, and their blog entries shimmer with literary pithiness. It's called poetic license when writers do it! All without the restraints of writing in complete sentences.

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Pamela Grow

JANUARY 14, 2021

Nonprofits who were afraid to fundraise. The nonprofit sector is not immune. One of our long-time students wrote in: “We’re 74% of the way to our revenue budget and we’re not quite halfway through our fiscal year and are up 322% year over year (last year we raised almost $770K) How are we doing it? And missed out.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

And what I always tell the students that I work with is, number one, stay in community. activism art youth green This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 2.5 Do not isolate. It's so easy. So it might be researching. It might be writing. It might be teaching. It might be bringing people together.

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