Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2013

Launched in 2007, YouTube’s Nonprofit Program has gone through multiple changes over the last six years. That said, for your inspiration, below are five nonprofits maximizing YouTube’s Nonprofit Program and YouTube’s new channel design : 1. Initially the program was only offered to qualified U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

1) Mass Adoption of Responsive and Flat Design. Websites, blogs, and e-newsletters that are responsively designed will become more common place in 2014 and will incorporate elements of flat design for optimal mobile browsing. Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, many mobile fundraising apps have come and gone.

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NTEN

JULY 15, 2011

and Seth Giammanco, Principal, Minds On Design Lab. Please join us online on September 13th, 10am Pacific for our NTEN Webinar, The Social Website: Integrating Social Media into Website Design and Function to look at additional examples of sites getting social. Debra Askanase, Founder, Community Organizer 2.0

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

In addition, the book is fast paced and highly readable, with a bold design including captivating graphics, end-of-chapter Q&A’s, and bite-size content presentation for easy reading and comprehension. The design – by Stauber Design Studio – is intended to draw you in and pull you along quickly.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2009

This week, the newsletter featured an older TechSoup article, Five Principles to Design By. Guest writer Joshua Porter contributed the article in 2007, but his advice is as fresh and pertinent as ever. These tips aren't only about design: they're about keeping people at the center of your nonprofit's projects, not technology.

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

About the expert: Amanda Ross is the owner of BrashBerry – creative web design and growth agency for Social Good and Nonprofit organizations that builds stuff their audience will love and inspires them to take action. She officially started her full time business in 2013, and has designed hundreds of digital and real products.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2023

Certain payment processors are specifically designed to take payments from digital wallets. Qgiv has been making it possible for nonprofit organizations to accept online payments since its founding in 2007. Instead of relying on checks and cash, nonprofits can easily accept payments via credit/debit cards and eChecks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 17, 2016

In 2007, I was the first person to use Twitter to fundraise so I could attend and help sponsor the first Cambodia Bloggers Conference. Canva is a design tool that lets you create beautiful images without having to be a designer. I’ve also taught social media to young people in Cambodia.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2016

Facebook Notes is a native app that was popular when Facebook Pages first launched in 2007, but as Status Updates and the News Feed took precedence, the Facebook Notes app quickly lost prominence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2013

One of iconic icebreakers that Gunner has used is the “ Human SpectraGram ” that I first observed Gunner do at 2007 Penguin Day. I’ve used these techniques myself and been in many other sessions where facilitators used design-thinking techniques. It is a technique that is used in Open Space design.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

An LMS, or learning platform, is a system that is designed to facilitate some sort of learning process over the web. They can be very complex course management systems which are designed to do things like quizzes and grading (as well as discussions and have places to store course materials.) What can an organization use a LMS for?

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Qgiv

APRIL 18, 2022

In 2007, Qgiv was founded by a couple of friends looking for a way to make it easy for nonprofit, faith-based, and political organizations to accept online donations and payments. Get to know the Qgiv fundraising platform.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

The surveys could stand some graphic design help, but you can design templates for it. Like many free and open source software tools, it leans toward the powerful, flexible side, rather than the slick, easy to use side. So it has its challenges. The admin interface is nice looking, and fairly intuitive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2018

The PI was explicitly designed for nonprofits with budgets over $3 million because those organizations serve the vast majority of people receiving nonprofit services in the US. No longer small, with a budget over $5 million, the organization began work to become a high-performing nonprofit in 2007.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

mobile subscribers… triple the number of how many text messages were sent in 2007. If you are going to design your own mobile Website, make sure you check out the article Mobile Web Design Trends For 2009. In 2008, over two trillion text messages were sent worldwide. 1 trillion of those were sent by U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

.’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design. She makes some great points, and gives good tips to make changes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 6, 2007

July 6, 2007 Deborah, is, as per usual, diplomatic in her discussion of the site " Sustainable Nonprofit ", which is a new(?) website that is designed to: "create a unified place for nonprofits and experts to share their experience, pain, achievements, and discoveries. Throw a website at it!

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 30, 2023

The book is fast paced and highly readable, with a bold design including graphics, end-of-chapter Q&A’s, and bite-size content presentation for easy reading and comprehension. The design – by Stauber Design Studio – is intended to draw you in and pull you along quickly. It’s for the activist who doesn’t have time to read.

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Judi Sohn

JUNE 1, 2009

It took a while, but I finally have a template that seems to be working well for us: I’ve tested the template in Outlook (2003 and 2007), Gmail, AOL, Yahoo and Apple Mail and it looks just like the screen shot above, or close enough. By a very wide margin. There are HTML editors of all different shapes and sizes. images/location).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Making apples-to-apples comparisons of these systems was one of the most difficult analytical tasks I’ve taken on in a while (and, actually much of the heavy lifting of designing the analysis was done by Laura Quinn), and until you attempt such a thing, please be somewhat tempered in your complaints about it. Now the security issue.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

I’m not a designer or photographic expert, but it’s a pretty amazing program. If you are a serious designer, GIMP has its drawbacks, specifically it’s lack of CMYK and Pantone color spaces, which, I understand, is pretty much a requirement for serious printing (but who prints , nowadays?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology How not to treat an open source user community October 4, 2007 I’ve been using activeCollab for a few months now. It’s designed as a basecamp clone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Dokuwiki was designed for small scale installations, primarily documentation and such. Dokuwiki is different in a number of ways, most primarily in that it is one of the wiki systems that stores things in files, not databases. This means that it is easier to back up and migrate, but doesn’t scale well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. It is also important to design a similar process for each small group to work through.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 4, 2023

The book is fast paced and highly readable, with a bold design including graphics, end-of-chapter Q&A’s, and bite-size content presentation for easy reading and comprehension. The design – by Stauber Design Studio – is intended to draw you in and pull you along quickly. It’s for the activist who doesn’t have time to read.

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Benefit Kansas Leadership Authoring 52

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2017

Many of us do this and take content notes, but it is also great to take notes about instructional design and facilitation techniques. This approach to brainstorming and synthesis is based on Design Thinking methods. Does your nonprofit uses participatory design and facilitation at meetings or for trainings?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Researchers have often referred to social enterprise structures as the “fourth sector” (after private, public, and nonprofit) because they combine charitable missions, corporate methods, and diverse social and environmental philosophies in ways that surpass the traditional business and philanthropy models (Billitteri, 2007).

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Double the Donation

JULY 15, 2021

This innovative integration now identifies high-value donors from within the 360MatchPro portal, providing actionable donor wealth data designed to drive revenue for your organization. Double the donation and DonorSearch are thrilled to announce their recent donor insight enhancements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

Note from Beth: Back in 2007, I presented and attended at the Games for Change Festival. Over the past few years, games and mobile platforms have become more and more important for nonprofits to pay attention to for their communications strategy. Each case study will be presented by the designers and their implementing partners.

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Care2

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Romney said that while he was Governor of Massachusetts from 2003-2007 he looked through binders full of women to find qualified women candidates to serve in his cabinet. But things got even more interesting when Romney began discussing women's issues and in particular fair pay.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

Through TechSoup Japan, KnK received a donation of 15 Microsoft Office 2007 licenses and Adobe Creative Suite Design Premium. Having the new software helped the office to run more efficiently and to create beautifully designed posters, brochures, catalogs, and especially web pages. I especially like Outlook 2007.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

Earthkeeping starts with the people who design, make, and market Timberland products. In 2007, the company accelerated efforts to reduce waste and use fewer chemicals through its first fully sustainable product line, the earthkeeper’s boot, setting sustainable standards that have expanded to Timberland’s entire footwear line.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In June 2007, Apple launched the iPhone, and in subsequent years we saw the rise of apps as a competing method to websites for how people interact with organizations. GA4 is designed to be far less reliant on cookies, using AI and data modeling to help fill the gaps in data caused by privacy restrictions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2011

Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!).

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2016

When a well-designed mobile application is published, staying connected creates an endless amount of possibilities and the exciting part for nonprofits is to keep the content new and fresh. Gamification is a great motivator when research, information technology, and graphic design- all align. Target Audience. Player Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2014

Dave Gray : Dave Gray is a guru on the topics of design, innovation, culture and change. After Jane’s keynote, Harold lead a master class with practical exercises on how to “learn the new” or manage/design and use a professional learning network.

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