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7 tips for preparing your nonprofit for a move to new software

EveryAction

Implementing more modern tools—especially major software, such as customer relationship management (CRM) or fundraising software—can provide your organization with new efficiencies and new capabilities to improve fundraising , marketing, volunteer management, and ultimately do even more to power your purpose.

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Ushahidi Wins MacArthur Award: Changing the World One Map at a Time

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In early 2008, villages and cities across Kenya were ravaged with violence following the disputed re-election of the sitting Kenyan president. They couldn’t solve the humanitarian crisis, but they could build a tool that could shine a light on human rights violations, bringing much-needed attention and support to developing emergencies.

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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet. Executives were terrified by the legal implications of using social networking tools. Yes, yes… I know. Your nonprofit has no budget for it.

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Great reads from around the web on February 23rd

Amy Sample Ward

While some introduced alternative philosophies for measuring the nuances tied to social media, others wondered aloud whether ROI simply wasn’t necessary as the tools and methodologies for analyzing yields didn’t yet exist. . "Over the years, Social Media experts attempted to redefine ROI for a new era of influence.

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Announcing Our Second Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Supporting Small-Scale Farmers Globally

Saleforce Nonprofit

Here’s a summary of a few of the top ideas: AgriTextBot Info Hub: A tool for farmers that responds to localized questions and provides up-to-date, real-time information on topics from market pricing to weather indicators and farming support, through a guided conversation and accessible via a feature phone. These ideas are just the start.

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How do you keep up?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

August 5, 2008 I have been thinking for the last few days about what it means to “keep up&# with the technology field, particularly ‘net technology. I’m in an active phase right now (hence, the comment)! When I’m making my best efforts to try to keep up, I do it in waves, like so many other things I do.

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Fight Colorectal Cancer: A Rebranding Tale

Judi Sohn

Summary: Out with the old: In with the new: We're still in the honeymoon phase, just thrilled the new look is finally "out there" and is well-received. But I want to be clear: Is this something you can do with free tools in your spare time? Overall, the experience has been positive. It's a statement.

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