Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

It may be hard to believe but there is a near future when your organization will likely be hiring a AI Prompt Architect to build custom applications for your staff and stakeholders. Press Releases : AI writers can help nonprofits create attention-grabbing press releases that generate media coverage and raise awareness of their cause.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 26, 2011

We spend a lot of time and energy focusing on the impact of individual organizations, but how does that translate to the bigger picture? To do this, it looks at the organization's impact on a number of stakeholder groups, such as employees, volunteers, customers/clients, society-at-large, and the environment.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

The tools we develop for that purpose span a range of fields—from human rights , to global literacy , to the environment —but no matter what area we work in, we depend on an IP system that’s friendly to technological advances and to positive social impact. And, Benetech is committed as an organization to all of these six principles.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

But what about setting your organization up for nonprofit tech success in the new year? The guide below provides a reasonably comprehensive look at conducting a nonprofit technology assessment for your organization. You’ve decided to lead your organization through a technology assessment. With that, let’s get started!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

That’s why we were excited to participate in the Skoll Foundation’s second annual Skoll Social Entrepreneurs Challenge , a fundraising campaign committed to strengthening the capacity of organizations like ours to accelerate impact on some of the most critical issues of our time. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 12, 2014

As the parent nonprofit organization of the Bookshare online library, a leading provider of accessible books to people with print disabilities in the U.S., You can read more about our position in the Amicus Brief , which we filed jointly with our peer organization, Learning Ally. The Authors Guild then appealed the ruling.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

It brings together foundations and funds that are primarily dedicated to support or have a significant program to support those organizations. Visit Grantli to learn exactly how I do my grant research and how your organization can find more appropriate funders and funding opportunities. Connections like this are built over time.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 25, 2018

Where does your organization sit in your community? Do you have a pulse on what the most pressing local needs are at this moment? Inspiration can come from an assortment of places, but to be connected to collaborative opportunities you need to have relationships across different organizations in your community.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

To find those creative solutions, it’s important for nonprofit advocates, communicators, and program directors to challenge barriers, habits, and assumptions that separate us from other offices, “competing” peer organizations, and disciplines. The recent award winners of the 2012 Grinnell Prize are a great example.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done! Speaking of the press, it is clear that they really get my overarching goal: to engage more of the tech community in serving the 90% of humanity we haven't been focusing on (yet).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

A call went out over a combination of listservs and social media channels asking local nonprofits and libraries to share their most pressing needs and dirtiest jobs with TechSoup via video or text. Seven organizations were chosen, and then the real work of organizing the day of service began. TechSoup Sweat Equity.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

A lightweight framework can also help organizations that are in the process of updating an existing strategy – whether that’s understanding data and systems, solving known and unknown challenges, or improving operational performance and member experience. Data Does your organization have the data you’re looking for?

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NonProfit Hub

MAY 23, 2017

From improving literacy to helping communities recover after natural disasters, nonprofits take on vital roles to do good in the world. These nonprofit organizations each have a unique and powerful mission to serve their community and the world at large. How do you get noticed in a busy world with many growing and pressing concerns?

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . Step 2: Write a pitch or a press release.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 7, 2016

Ideas include financial literacy training, fundraising discussions, or a presentation about a political or economic issue that affects your organization. It is good to give the group time to flesh out its most pressing issues—ideally, before those issues become too urgent. The big picture. Decision points.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2015

It's practically free advertising to appear in a search results list when a donor, partner, or constituent "googles" phrases that are related to your organization's services. Do a search by pressing the [Ctrl] + [F] keys at the same time. Try searching online for the services your organization provides.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. I believe in the power of books to change the world. It’s of course this last capability, flexibility, that is so powerful for people with disabilities.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. If you want to see the data historically, be sure to visit the site and press “Play&# on the map. Thousands of reports were placed via SMS. Costs & Benefits.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The Press Institute for Women in the Developing World is an international nonprofit organization and citizen journalism initiative. The goals of the organization are three-fold. We sell our content to mainstream and other media organizations all over the world. I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2006

Rachel is a mechanic, former union organizer, belly dancer, and was one of the co-founders of the Chapel Hill chapter of Food Not Bombs. Here are a few profiles of REALLY hot women : Rachel Burton, 31, Pittsboro, NC: What makes her REALLY hot? I think we all know a REALLY hot woman we can nominate feminism real hot 100 women beauty

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

When considering what kind of event your organization could hold, you might find yourself suffering from choice paralysis. The type of events that will work best for your nonprofit will depend on three major factors: Your organization’s mission, your available resources, and your supporter’s preferences. How do you choose just one?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

As part of the assessment, we researched the challenges faced by organizations working on the ground in Darfur and how different groups operate in the face of the risks. Route 66 Literacy was put on the back burner last year because it ran out of funding. Department of Education gave us a major award on September 28, 2007.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

Fundraising 101: Getting Started The key to Fundraising 101 is finding and keeping wonderful donors who love the work your organization does. You find and keep wonderful donors by inspiring them with the important work your organization is doing, thanking them well every time they give and even when they don’t give, and keeping them engaged.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

And if you’re in the room today, chances are you are part of a nonprofit organization or, what I like to call, a purpose-driven organization. We’re so busy doing the work that we forget to stop, track what we’re doing, and share it with others so that they can engage in the organization.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 6, 2012

An official press release for the study reads: The survey. Less than half of respondents noted that they are "satisfied" or "very satisfied" with their organization's current level of information technology. What is more, a significant proportion of nonprofit organizations remain well behind the curve.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 22, 2013

A couple years ago I was working at a nonprofit, and I made a call to a small grassroots organizing group in Arkansas. I was building social media contacts with progressive policy organizations and conducting a routine communications capacity audit. I learned a few things from this experience.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

I have noticed that smaller nonprofits especially, don’t always have the organization or funding to develop programs that appeal to corporate donors; or they worry that they’re not big enough for corporate dollars. Many organizations list sponsors on their home page. Others only bring a few options to the table.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

We have reality tours where we take people out to other parts of the world, kind of reverse Club Med, "get your butt off the beach and meet real people," see the development projects, the literacy campaigns, the women's groups, the political opposition parties, the trade unions, but focused on positive, build the next system kind of things.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 14, 2008

Last week, NAS brought 25 people (including me) to Washington to discuss what issues might be appropriate to cover in the report, which is at least 3 years from hitting the press (assuming it receives funding). From my perspective the line wasn’t between libraries and museums but public-facing and private/researcher-facing organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

KR: The Global Fund for Women has an extraordinary commitment to keeping our doors open so that as many organizations working to advance women's human rights internationally can really gain access to resources that they so desperately need. Each year we receive over 3,500 proposals from women's organizations all around the world.

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