Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

A related, but slightly different and less recognized issue, is the fact that people with disabilities such as blindness often have limited access to printed materials, even if they are well-educated. There is enormous potential for finding cross-cultural solutions to issues of disability and print access. Bookshare managers.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

Prioritize accessibility. Often, these visitors are in a rush or feeling stressed, so it’s your job to ensure that your website is easily accessible. Consider your own user pathways and design your site to facilitate a faster transfer of information. Prioritize accessibility. Use a continuous improvement approach.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2020

Make sure you can customize and embed your donation form within your website so that supporters have easy access. While your traditional events are likely on a pause right now, your nonprofit should still have effective event management tools to facilitate registration and other related processes. Is your website accessible to all?

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Use this template to facilitate the persona creation process: This template offers space to add demographic and behavioral information about your personas and strategize your intended messaging. Make your content inclusive and accessible. For example, let’s say you create a persona for your younger supporters. Tell compelling stories.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

While lockdowns and stay at home orders are in place, virtual events are the best alternative to postponing or canceling an event altogether. Are you promoting cutting edge technologies in a physical trade show supported by access to virtual trade show elements? . Long term goals? Choose the right event technology.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 4, 2020

It’s time to up your virtual facilitation and convening skills. Since those days, I have continued to hone my virtual facilitation skills to design and deliver effective virtual meetings and trainings. As nonprofits are impacted by the CoronaVirus and need more virtual meeting skills, I’d like to share what I have learned.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Donate buttons can also be easily implemented and Facebook facilitates other ways their users can show non-monetary support through drives, volunteering and crisis response. . Can Facebook fundraising and Peer-to-Peer Platforms work together?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

The World Health Organization says this theme “serves as a powerful call to action and reminder that there is an alternative to suicide and that through our actions, we can encourage hope and strengthen prevention.” The 2023 theme follows the triennial theme established in 2021: “Creating Hope Through Action.”

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Blue Avocado

JANUARY 23, 2024

1 While all of these are useful tools for program development and planning, there is another strategy that provides consistent access to community input while also routinely building a supportive foundation from diverse, innovative ideas: the creation of strong advisory committees. What are advisory committees?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 28, 2023

A nonprofit CRM helps you keep all this information organized and easily accessible. Bloomerang gives users access to a dashboard that actively tracks your retention rate to keep it top of mind for your entire team. Prospect research software like DonorSearch to access additional donor insights.

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Forj

APRIL 22, 2021

Easily replaced with free or lower-cost alternatives. Subscription models , also called membership-based models, describe those in which members receive access to your entire eLearning library in exchange for a monthly, quarterly, or even annual fee. It allows members to access a wide breadth of eLearning courses at a lower cost.

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

Of course, you should include: The appropriate contact person’s full name A phone number An email address The address of your organization’s offices Your member may already know how to access your team, but there’s no harm in going over these necessary details once more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2015

The proposed session title “ Go Reboot Yourself: Get A Grip on Tech ” and I hope to be co-facilitating with Aliza Sherman, a web and social mobile pioneer whose work helped shape the early new media industry.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

Follow accessibility guidelines such as ensuring sufficient contrast between text and background colors, adding alternative text to images, putting captions on videos, and making it possible to navigate the site with keyboard controls. This way, site visitors can access your donation form from any page in just one click.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 5, 2020

Virtual fundraising has become more accessible and intuitive than ever before thanks to the extensive internet and the wide variety of donation tools available. If you don’t want to reserve an entire page for your mission statement, prominently including it on your “About Us” page, homepage, or in your header/footer is a good alternative.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 16, 2023

By giving supporters a way to connect with other like-minded supporters and your nonprofit’s staff, you can facilitate community and deep relationships at these events. Link to the online waiver in social media posts, marketing emails, and on your website to ensure interested supporters have access to it before the event.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2023

Types of fundraising software to consider When you think about fundraising software, you probably first think of online donation platforms that allow nonprofits to facilitate online gifts. Accessible , with high-contrast colors, alternative text for images, and clearly labeled form fields.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 26, 2014

One of their main challenges is that they do not have adequate access to educational materials that are necessary to learn and succeed in school. Accessible ebooks and Bookshare have helped sixth grader Kevin Leong overcome his reading challenges.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Organization Mission: The California State Parks Foundation delivers innovative solutions for an excellent park system by facilitating park improvements, inspiring stewardship, supporting partners, advocating for sound policies, and connecting people to 280 state parks to enjoy now and for generations to come. Instagram: @energyleaders.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 23, 2023

When it comes to the following payment types, a payment processor is required in order to facilitate a secure transaction: Credit and debit cards: This is the most common digital payment method, allowing donors to use their cards for one-time or recurring donations. Some downsides include potentially higher fees and slower payouts.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Follow accessibility guidelines. High contrast, alternative text, and closed captions ensure that there are no barriers for people with disabilities. . Your supporters are increasingly accessing websites from their smartphones and tablets, meaning it’s important to optimize your site for those platforms. Payment facilitators.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2013

On December 17 at 6:30 pm, I am facilitating a discussion and presenting at one of Scoop.It’s “ Lean Content ” events in San Francisco. Critical thinking is the process we use to reflect on, access and judge the assumptions underlying our ideas or other people’s ideas. What would be an alternative?

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Having access to donor data is important for learning donor habits and increasing donor retention. Make sure you provide an easy way to access the information they’re looking for. Alternatively, you could put together a donor appreciation event that focuses more on thanking and recognizing donors and less on fundraising. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

For the networked nonprofit workshops I facilitate, I’ve developed a maturity of practice assessment called “ Crawl, Walk, Run, Fly ” which gives me a detailed understanding of where the organization is in its practice. It is also important to target the right level of authority. Development. I do this all the time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

Workplace flexibility creates a need for better skills in facilitating virtual meetings and hybrid meetings where some participants are in the room and others participate are using audio-only or video conferencing platform. That’s why I’ve added a new workshop on running and facilitating effective virtual meetings.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 14, 2021

Alternatively, for-profit organizations can generally choose how they want to distribute work across their team and whether they want to see certain projects through or wrap them up before completion. Larger organizations may have a volunteer coordinator or manager on staff whose role is to facilitate the volunteer program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

provocative questions, offers an alternative view, and helps facilitate fresh insights or alternative sources of information or expertise." When do you as the wiki facilitator get out of the way? However, we may be thinking of about it slightly different - a facilitative curator versus community driven curation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2015

Alternatively, there may bean emphasis on collecting more data than is necessary, but no one relates it to decision making. access to resources and training). It’s on the agenda at Do Good Data Conference later this month (I’m co-facilitating the ending plenary). one to five years) and what success will look like.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 4, 2017

Luckily, planning a fundraising auction is more affordable and manageable than ever before, making these events an accessible option for more nonprofits. Additionally, you’ll have a holistic picture of your event that’s universally accessible across your team, which will reduce errors and oversights in planning. “How?”

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Forj

JULY 8, 2021

Alternatively, this could be an open-ended assessment in which the learner is asked to write about their conclusions. Give learners access to their answers. If you have any multiple choice or more formal assessments, try to give learners access to their answers alongside their scores. Proctoring high-stakes exams.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

From bringing in revenue to connecting with constituents, the right technology can save your team time and help you facilitate a better donor experience. In today’s world, nonprofits rely on their technology to help bring them closer to their goals.

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 23, 2014

They were “preaching the museum gospel” in NYC via alternative tours at The Metropolitan Museum of Art. I want to help people find interactive and accessible points of entry and give them the tools to curate their own experience during every museum visit. Dinosaurs seem pretty accessible.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 24, 2009

You will have to fill out a form, as if you were registering for a live webcast, to access the video. Give voice to new and alternative actors. Some factors she feels can support social innovations' success are: Engaging the crowd and using the wisdom of the crowds to facilitate innovations coming through the pipeline.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

This is crucial if we all believe in "A Book in Every Child's Hand" and consequently, it implies the need to create alternate channels of creating and reaching books to children. Inviting people to remix/repurpose our content : As a publisher, we have a lot of content available which we want people to access as easily as possible.

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EveryAction

JUNE 20, 2023

We also recently made enhancements to our OpenVPB phone bank organizing tool to allow users to set a default script and up to four alternate scripts for their phone banks. Q: What are you doing to invest in accessibility as you grow and scale?

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Forum One

AUGUST 17, 2009

Before the event we used the Knowledge Garage to share document resources with participants, promote discussions and idea sharing, and to facilitate online connections so participants could better connect with each other when the Summit began. Knowing your audience: what they want to get out of the online portion of the event (e.g.

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