Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters. The Web and how people use it is transforming quickly. How about your nonprofit?

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NetWits

MAY 15, 2012

The largest online gift received in 2011 was $260,000 – more than two-and-a-half times 2010′s largest gift. With that type of growth you’d be silly not to spend time focusing on improving your organizations online fundraising program. Adopt characteristics that work well for them and watch your online fundraising take off.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

That said, I am a firm believer that a mobile website is the building block upon which to center your other mobile campaigns, but since January 2010 when I first featured 10 Nonprofit Mobile Websites , there hasn’t been much progress made. Mobile Technology for Nonprofit Organizations LinkedIn Group.

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NTEN

JULY 27, 2011

One of the things we're tracking in NTEN's annual Nonprofit IT Staffing and Spending report is where IT is located within organizations -- as in, where the primary IT staff are in the organizational structure. So these numbers beg the questions: Just how important is organizational structure to organizational technology adoption?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

If your nonprofit is experimenting with text-to-give, text alerts and/or smartphone Apps (or planning to), then launching a mobile website is something your organization should seriously consider. Over the last month I have subscribed to receive text alerts from 10 organizations. Nonprofit Text Messaging Benchmarks 2010.

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NetWits

JULY 9, 2012

No matter how well an organization is doing with its online fundraising, it will eventually hit plateaus and declines. Turning periods of low online income into more profitable times is a skill that will keep your organization afloat during both foreseen and unforeseen dips. Turn One-Time Donors Into Regulars.

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NetWits

JANUARY 25, 2010

Did you know that activists on your nonprofit’s email list are seven times more likely to donate money to your organization than non-activists are? Make sure you start 2010 off right by adopting the latest best practices for online advocacy as a proven strategy to recruit and retain donors, while advancing your mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 26, 2009

2010 is going to be the year that the large national and international nonprofits launch iPhone Apps. Over time, design and functionality will likely improve significantly, but if you want to be a very early adopter and wow the world with your cutting edge adoption of the Mobile Web, then Sweb Apps is for you. . Very expensive.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 19, 2010

Notes: In June 2010: 253,360 new users joined in Romania – Coming in 3rd in the world for adoption for the month. In July 2010: 1,555,360 total number of users in Romania. Not the best scenario for a campaigner or organizer, but it is the reality. Has your organization campaigned specifically on facebook?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 28, 2017

Stakeholders should be asking how do we identify effective practices throughout the organization and how do we improve organizational effectiveness to achieve greater impact? What is considered effective should advance the organizations mission and goals to achieve greater impact.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 18, 2009

Every year we survey the nonprofit technology community (via our members, program participants, and other like-communities) to learn two main things: How are WE doing , as an organization, to make your work easier, and your mission a little closer?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

If your organization is one that hosts or attends a lot of events (galas, silent auctions, walkathons, protests, conferences, etc.) In this competitive fundraising climate, donor convenience and on-the-spot fundraising may be just what your organization needs to stand out from the rest.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 11, 2013

Since then, the site has slowly developed its page content, and nonprofits have caught on, using the site to promote their organizations by gaining individual followers and joining LinkedIn Groups. In July, however, LinkedIn released new updates that can benefit nonprofit organizations especially. What has been your experience?

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NTEN

JULY 12, 2011

According to Daum's 2010 survey of 500 Korean nonprofits, text messaging is a widely-adopted communications channel for nonprofit PR purposes, while few Korean nonprofits are using social networks for that purpose. But this alone suggests that the adoption is likely very small.* nonprofits is really a "?". nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2014

It was created in 2010 and purchased by Facebook in 2012 (more history here ). It is superb for visual storytelling about your organization, its stakeholders, and results. Also, here’s a post I wrote about how early adopter nonprofits have used Instagram for contests. As of March, 2014 Instagram has 200 million users.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Subscribe to receive text alerts from the early adopters in the nonprofit sector. I have always been an advocate of following, liking, and subscribing to the large organizations who are known for being early adopters. WWF Mobile. WWF Desktop.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2017

NPR is apologizing for a miss-post or what every social media who manages an organization’s social media presences dreads – posting something on the brand’s social media account that was intended for your personal account. Animal welfare organizations and zoos went wild. The response?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2007

I happen to think that unless an organization has deeply invested in developing custom Access databases, there aren’t too many reasons left not to switch to OpenOffice.org. IBM’s reputation is bound to help increase adoption of OpenOffice.org. Outside of the US, OpenOffice.org adoption is growing fast.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

It doesn’t matter whether your non-profit is in the vanguard or late adopters, the best ideas will win. Your 300-word essay should briefly explain what the designated organization does and the challenges it faces. Generate interest in your organization’s social issue agenda in the absence of a “media worthy” disaster.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 5, 2022

In 2010, the Coalition of Communities of Color (CCC) released a study defining the disparities facing communities of color in Portland. In support of the Teacher Development Initiatives, helping K-12 educators teach and adopt proficiency practices in the classroom. Richards, Executive Director of the James F. and Marion L.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

Over the last decade nonprofit communicators have been perfecting e-newsletters to drive traffic to their organization’s website, blog, Facebook Page, etc. It is especially popular with grassroots organizations in the developing world because it is free and does not require an Internet connection.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 25, 2021

The series includes short, digestible how-to videos for open source Nonprofit Cloud products, including Nonprofit Success Pack (NPSP) , Program Management Module (PMM), Outbound Funds Module (OFM) , and Volunteers for Salesforce (V4S), making adoption easier for nonprofit customers. About the Author. Cori O’Brien.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 11, 2018

Within the sector itself exist organizations that are run with the precision of any Fortune 500 company. But, charitable organizations in general are thought to be lagging behind their for-profit cousins in some of the more basic areas of organizational operations necessary to grow and maintain healthy enterprises.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2012

I love this new video from the Case Foundation about the power of social media for social change. The numbers illustrate how far the field has come in adopting social media, although not 100% adoption. The video reminded me of the classic video, “ The Machine is US/ing Us.” ” I often used [.]

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 12, 2012

And since nonprofit services are almost always provided and organized by people, these challenges and conditions affect organizations’ human resource practices — sometimes dramatically. However, this was far more likely to be the case in larger organizations. Click here to fill out our Nonprofit Compensation and Benefits survey!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 7, 2007

Earlier this week, ISO, the International Organization for Standardization, rejected Microsoft’s bid to fast-track OOXML ( Office Open XML ) to standard status. What this means is that MS will have to take all of the varied input from the ISO bodies, and go through a second vote early next year. (If In fact, that is far from the case.)

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Care2

JUNE 27, 2011

The network suffered a bad year in 2010 which saw it lose a lot of ground , and become relegated to a second tier network behind Facebook, YouTube and LinkedIn in user visits. Here are applicable pointers for those wondering whether to adopt Twitter in their online strategy. Let's be clear. Twitter does work for some nonprofits.

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Gyrus

MAY 12, 2016

Almost two-thirds of Americans are predicted to own a smartphone by 2017, more than a threefold increase since 2010. A report by the Rapid Learning institute emphasized that the majority of learners prefer short- e-learning courses, something that their organization is still trying to focus. According to a survey by eMarketer, 59.3

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 20, 2007

How do you go about finding out whether it’s the right software, and whether the project has a healthy community, since you don’t want to adopt a project that doesn’t? Or you’re just curious about projects you’ve heard about. Check out the website.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 22, 2012

So … when the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (SOX) was adopted by Congress in 2002, there just wasn’t much history to help nonprofits understand its impact – on them. Table 1: SOX Provisions Relevant to Nonprofit Organizations 2. Source: Adapted from Nezhina and Brudney, 2010. Nezhina of DePaul University and Jeffrey L.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). It may be time to rethink how these important social organizations are funded. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 6, 2012

TechSoup Sweden's Andreas Ericsson shared a cool weekend project on TechSoup's Digital Engagement forum that any organization can adopt for their next event. The Swedish donation program was launched in May 2010. He printed photos posted on Instagram to document a large gathering in Sweden.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. Only a handful of the bigger and established NGOs have adopted cloud technologies.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 5, 2008

And, in a bigger picture way, how important do you think it is for people who work with nonprofit organizations on technology issues to keep up? On the other hand, the day to day reality of nonprofits is that they AREN’T generally ready to adopt more cutting edge technologies. How do you keep up? We’re just not there yet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I couldn’t help but also think how powerful it would be if an organization like the Case Foundation hosted a convening of those involved with various giving days and challenges to share best practices and learning, perhaps leading to something even global. Internal social media coordination, organization and planning.

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Care2

JANUARY 8, 2010

Did you know that activists on your nonprofit’s email list are seven times more likely to donate money to your organization than non-activists are? Make sure you start 2010 off right by adopting the latest best practices for online advocacy as a proven strategy to recruit and retain donors, while advancing your mission.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 14, 2012

In April of 2011, a story broke regarding The Central Asia Institute, a nonprofit organization. The Central Asia Institute is only one nonprofit organization that has fallen from grace due to poor nonprofit governance. Boards continue to adopt conflict-of-interest policies, whistleblower, and document-retention policies.

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