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. These folks do astonishing work. And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Her newest book, the story of a Brazilian diplomat who worked for the United Nations for 34 years, has inspired an upcoming documentary and feature film. PhilanTopic included the book on its list of Best Philanthropy-Related Books of 2008. This was probably the book that moved me the most in 2008. books 2008 activist nonprofit

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Top Nonprofits

AUGUST 17, 2021

Yes, the same sector which works tirelessly toward ending injustices, breaking down barriers and fighting for equality. The Bayer Center for Nonprofit Management’s “74% Project” has found that a woman working for a nonprofit is making even less than the national average, at only 75 cents on the dollar.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 2, 2008

We're half way through 2008, so I thought I'd share how mine are going, and check in on yours. Challenge for the rest of 2008: I'm feeling a bit discouraged about what feels like a lack of progress in the situation. Challenge for rest of 2008: I only have 6 more interviews for 2008. My resolutions were to: 1.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Achieve leverages technology in everything it does to cost-effectively help the nonprofit organizations it works with. Q: What types of organizations do you work with?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2013

In the early part of 2000, I was working for a large engineering company, SAIC , when I was approached by two coworkers about setting up a technology nonprofit. It sounded like an interesting and worthy project, and I figured I could set it up quickly and then return to technical project management and business development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2008

Does your work and interests include how information and communication technology (ICTs) can be used to promote social change? Do you use or champion innovative uses of ICTs to work or network more efficiently? Do you work in an organization whose mission includes social or economic development? The Women???s

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Michelle, the consultant March 27, 2008 Someone mentioned to me that from what I write on my blog, she wouldn’t know what it is that I actually do in my consulting work. Gotta work on that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2007

Chronicle of Philanthropy has a roundup of predictions for 2008 from. " Lucy Bernholz points to an NY Times editorial on embedded giving with a prediction about what will continue to work best with giving to charity. And finally, Chris Brogan focused on needs for 2008. What are the nptech social media needs for 2008?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 9, 2007

You deserve to be proud of this work! 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 at 11:01 am Congratulations! 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Beth Kanter 10.12.07 at 11:01 am Congratulations! Excellent resource.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Reflection and Evaluation March 10, 2008 Michele Martin, one of my fave bloggers, has a great post today on Reflective Practice. Unfortunately, none of them had an answer to that question.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

By bringing together the expertise of leaders from across sectors with the power of Salesforce technology and pro bono talent, this Impact Lab will aim to generate shareable insights and create a solution that supports the work of small-scale farmers in enabling them to make proactive, informed decisions. Why Small-Scale Farmers?

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NetWits

JANUARY 11, 2011

Causes was the very first application built to work with Facebook a few short years ago and now they’ve seen 30 Million dollars raised for 27,000 non-profits. Their goal is to make it to find the issues and organization you care about, follow the latest news and updates, support their work with your time, money and skills.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

Here are the results for the 2008 Innovator Awards: Advocacy campaign or program Honorable Mention: National Parks Conservation Association Winner: Freepress for their StopBigMedia.com campaign Over 200,000 comments sent to the FCC and Senate and overturned and FCC ruling to block monopolies in media companies. Komen for the Cure race.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 10, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My Theory of Practice July 10, 2008 I finally had the reason to begin to more completely articulate my theory of practice. This theory includes the following elements that I think are key to my work: Listening.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants July 27, 2008 This week, it is my pleasure to host the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. at 1:15 pm links for 2008-07-28 - Kevin Bondelli’s Youth Vote Blog 07.28.08

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

Here at Qgiv we have dozens of incredible women to celebrate and recognize—their achievements and hard work have helped advance us as a tech company in the nonprofit sector. Qgiv: How did you end up working in the tech industry? It was my first big project. Qgiv: How did you end up working in the tech industry?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

One foundation that has been a committed supporter of our work is the Lavelle Fund for the Blind. Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s We think it?s shovel-ready?

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2009

As part of Federal stimulus spending, we think the government should expand funding for a very innovative online database project that will help with this transition, a project started at Los Alamos National Laboratory and called the ? Global Energy Observatory ? We think GEO should be funded because: it?s We think it?s shovel-ready?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 23, 2008

April 23, 2008 NTEN is doing some great work getting information about the use of different kinds of tools in the sector, and how people are using them. Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Rate your CMS! and how they like them.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 30, 2007

But, I have been following Michele Martin’s work on The Bamboo Project Blog with some interest. My advising practice is much more about educating and helping people with concrete technology tools, and concrete projects. There are a few pieces to that challenge I might take up, on occasion. One of them, I’ll do now.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

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’ve been helping a client hire a temporary project manager, and so in the interview process one of the questions I ask is how people keep up with change in the field.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants April 14, 2008 I like hosting the Carnival of Nonprofit Consultants. And I get to highlight the work of some of my favorite bloggers, too.

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Care2

OCTOBER 7, 2008

The idea was that thefederal agency would work with Care2 to build support for the International Year of the Reef 2008. Great work. October 7, 2008 | Paul Greenberg Copyright © 2008, Care2.com October 7, 2008 | Paul Greenberg Copyright © 2008, Care2.com All rights reserved.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 22, 2008

September 22, 2008 I changed my Word Press theme, mostly because I was getting a bit tired of the old one, and wanted something really simple. I’d been working with Drupal for NOSI (we’ve had the site in Drupal for a while now,) but I’d never installed and configured and messed with Drupal from scratch, so I did that.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology What I’m up to these days January 29, 2008 As you might have noticed, my blogging has diminished a bit. I love this work. It feels quite good, actually. And, I get to be agnostic.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Success is the predictable result of hard work, patience, sacrifice, and learning put into practice. And CROS Ministries’ (CROS) hard work and business decisions in 2020 helped pave the way to their incredible fundraising successes. But CROS was determined to identify both vendors and have them working alongside their team quickly.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 4, 2007

It seems to me that they could learn from the other successful projects out there – the really successful projects are supported by a wide variety of methods, whether it be a support model, a nonprofit foundation model, a hosted model, and others. I couldn’t figure out whether the project was dead or not.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

I’ve followed and supported the work of Peter Deitz and Social Actions ever since hearing about his passion and ideas a few years ago. The Social Actions project began in 2006. There wasn’t much scalability in the way I was pursuing the project. A few years ago, we had just a handful of pioneering platforms in microphilanthropy.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Please take the NOSI survey January 7, 2008 In my work with NOSI (the Nonprofit Open Source Initiative,) I’ve become really interested in how FOSS is used in nonprofit organizations.

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DECEMBER 20, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Last minute tidbits December 20, 2007 This will be my last post of 2007 – I’m taking some days off from work and blogging, and won’t return until the beginning of the year. This is great news.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started. Samasource connected us with Daproim in Nairobi to proofread books for our Bookshare project. Daproim worked with TechnoServe and developed soft skills training modules for students who stuck with the work after an initial period. No problem!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 12, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology My iPhone 3G August 12, 2008 I once joined the “iPhone non-buyers&# group on Facebook. In general, the phone actually works quite well. I swore up and down I wouldn’t get one.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 8, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Update on social network portability January 8, 2008 Last week, I covered the Richard Scoble dust-up.

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FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) XChat is one of quite a few IRC clients. I use IRC every day.

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