Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2022

Often, the cause for diminished involvement is that the volunteer experience isn’t quite what they expected. They appeal to those who may be interested in volunteering because they enjoy helping others or have a personal connection to the cause that the organization supports. Once a volunteer disengages, they rarely come back.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

This walkthrough isn’t just a cautionary tale—it’s a roadmap to ensuring your financial narrative remains clear, accurate, and reflective of your nonprofit’s integrity and mission. Financial statements must reflect the true nature of resources available. Let’s dive in! 5 Mistakes to Avoid 1.

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Whole Whale

MAY 17, 2023

They’re concerned that the nonprofit sector isn’t taking AI adoption seriously enough, and you know what? Nonprofit organizations don’t have a stellar record for adopting tech for impact (note to self, make sure our donation page is mobile-friendly). Each nonprofit needs to decide if and how they should adopt this tech.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 8, 2015

So, as I made my transition – keep in mind that I am still working a nonprofit, just a c4 instead of a c3 – the moment gave me reason to reflect upon the 10 years of experience I had at the Alliance and with colleagues across the country through the National Council of Nonprofits. I first tried to remember what it was like in 2005.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Proceeds benefit the Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit working to end the killing in America’s animal shelters through adoption, spay and neuter education, and no-kill initiatives. Vegan and cruelty-free, a portion of the profits are donated to various nonprofits and causes. 10) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

This change reflects a broader trend in nonprofits. These factors include past giving, donation capacity, and cause affinity. They may adopt new nonprofit marketing automation tools. But, the digital age has ushered in a new era, prompting a shift towards data-driven approaches. AI tools and predictive analytics are new.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 5, 2024

Adopt technologies that simplify collaboration and enhance communication , like board portals or other real-time tools. The more people know about your cause, the wider your net. Make the effort to make sure your board reflects a wide range of backgrounds and perspectives. Use board development programs. Celebrate diversity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2009

Photo by Sifter Last week, I had a fantastic conversation with the folks at EDF Innovation Exchange about transparency and social media adoption. Traynor's piece is a reflection on how network leadership is different from more traditional leadership skills for leading organizations.

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Greater Giving

OCTOBER 20, 2022

They want to know how their donation will directly further the cause, and that this gift will make a difference in achieving it. Lay out the fundraising goal for each of your initiatives, and include photos and videos that focus on the importance of the cause and how a gift will help create real change.

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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

Technology is something nonprofits want and often need, but typically aren’t prepared to adopt the latest and greatest with their budget. Adopting any new tech, in order to be successful with it, requires training, budget planning, and some supervision in the early days of implementation. Image courtesy of CauseView.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit the Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit working to end the killing in America’s animal shelters through adoption, spay and neuter education, and no-kill initiatives. Vegan and cruelty-free, a portion of the profits are donated to various nonprofits and causes. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2010

As an early adopter, I remember switching, despite how strange it felt. Yet, at the time, people were questioning “How could serious work ever be done using a pull down menus?&#. In many cases, the slow to change eventually adopt or they no longer remain relevant to their constituents, donors, or loose their edge.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 18, 2021

Just as the pandemic has accelerated the adoption of virtual volunteering year-round for many organizations – a strategy that has increased impact and made volunteering more accessible for many organizations for years – what innovations from our pandemic era days of service can fuel an evolved vision for days of service?

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Four Ways to Promote Healthy Risk-Taking: Open Communication: Nonprofit leaders can begin promoting healthy risk-taking by encouraging staff to embrace failure through safe discussions and reflection. Adopt the Failing Forward Mindset. After all, your nonprofit is raising money for a good cause, so you must be perfect, right?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2010

Here's some reflections: Thoughtful, Intentional Experiments Thoughtful experimentation is setting up a low-risk experiment with metrics to figure out what is and isn't working is a social media best practice. She calls it "joyful funeral" -- that you quickly say this didn't work, reflect on why, and move on.

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sgEngage

APRIL 26, 2024

Here are six best practices your nonprofit organization should adopt to increase collaboration and enhance its relationship with your audit firm. Use this evaluation to assess the effectiveness and efficiency of the audit, identify areas for improvement, and reflect on the audit process to better prepare for future audit engagements.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Every dollar counts in the fundraising world, so the free marketing that social media provides can be crucial to raising awareness for your cause without breaking your budget. You can also use tools to target specific audiences for your different campaigns, helping you ensure your reach the people most likely to support your cause.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

We adopted more automation in the loading, cleaning, and coding of data. During this time, we also introduced a new grant type called ‘pledges’ to coincide with a rising trend—funders making public promises (or pledges) to dedicate a certain (typically large) amount of resources to a given cause.

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Candid

JUNE 16, 2022

The reality that vulnerable communities who are often most impacted by the effects of climate change are also the communities least responsible for causing it makes the unfairness of this lack of support particularly glaring. . In essence it’s a tiny slice of a tiny slice. But it doesn’t have to be this way. Not reinventing the wheel.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. The reach, impression, and even engagement metrics provided by the top social networks on organic posts are often inflated and not a true reflection of the power (or lack of power) of your pages and profiles.

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Givinga

JANUARY 26, 2021

We’ve seen many examples of companies searching for and implementing new ways to give over the last year, and here are some of our insights that reflect what we’ve learned about how to respond to a pandemic, how COVID-19 led to innovation, and how companies can adapt and prepare. Rallying around a cause – with options.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2008

I've been a little shell shocked for the past few days, but wanted to share this reflection and analysis of the Gnomedex fundraising experiment. The secret sauce to success for nonprofits and social media is reflecting in action. A= Action M0= Monitor RE= Reflection on results - rinse and repeat. I'm going to call it AMORE.

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Media Cause

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Any event that you have set up will need to be updated to reflect the migration. Explore alternative platforms Adopting a new platform can be challenging for any business and even harder for a nonprofit organization; taking the time to set up, learn and troubleshoot can be stressful.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

This event focuses on Causes , an application for supporting and fundraising for organizations by individuals, groups and even the organizations themselves. Administrators of Causes accounts on MySpace received a notice via email stating, “Thank you for the work you’ve done on Causes on MySpace.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2009

Brian Reich, Guest Post: The Challenge of Communicating In A Connected Society (and what that means to Facebook Causes). The top ranked content was on strategy including metrics, adoption, and overall strategy. Facebook and video are also topics of interest to my audience.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 17, 2024

Supporters won’t read your blog just because they have a relationship with your nonprofit—they want to engage with informative, interesting content that actively furthers their understanding of your cause. To understand your audience’s interests, create audience personas. These are fictional representations of different audience segments.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Cause Focus Area – What is the focus of the organization (e.g., What are the biggest barriers to our adoption of benchmarking? The “current state” responses above reflect the complexity and history of the social good sector. organizational size, revenue model, mission delivery model, cause focus).

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 29, 2021

This past year’s social justice movement has caused many organizations to take a leap and highlight their key values for society to take notice of and support. Understanding and adopting terms, ideas, and beliefs as an organization puts everyone on the same page. Reflect on past efforts. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Givinga

DECEMBER 29, 2020

When philanthropy is made easier, more individuals can contribute and, collectively, our impact on important causes is magnified. These tools will also become tied into a company’s commitment to solve longer range and systemic “cause areas” through designated programs and calls to action. Giving and Technology Embrace.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit the Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit working to end the killing in America’s animal shelters through adoption, spay and neuter education, and no-kill initiatives. Vegan and cruelty-free, a portion of the profits are donated to various nonprofits and causes. 6) Field Museum Store :: store.fieldmuseum.org.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 23, 2009

Reflections on America’s Giving Challenge - Did you follow or participate in the America's Giving Challenge from the Case Foundation? "The research presented in this report reflects the attitudes and experiences of Giving Challenge participants, from cause champions to individual donors to nonprofit leaders.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 15, 2016

in 2009 to understand how and why millennials do what they do with causes, there was one question advisors, practitioners and it seemed like everyone wanted to know –. Given this, it’s not surprising that every cause marketer or corporate social responsibility professional is scratching their head as they try to reach this important group.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2023

1,071 fundraising professionals were surveyed at small and medium-sized nonprofits supporting a variety of causes. Current budget numbers reflect your existing program commitments, not your aspirational ones. Both ask supporters to text a designated keyword to contribute to a certain cause.

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2022

Poor data health can at minimum cause a donor request to be returned undeliverable, wasting time and money. At worst, bad data can obscure your organization’s impact and cause you to lose funding. Defining Common Automation Terms for Nonprofits. Automation. Understanding Automation is Key to Your Nonprofit’s Growth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

In the book, we also talk about technology wellness in the nonprofit workplace, but I have been looking forward to an opportunity to go deeper on how teams of people in nonprofits can avoid technology overload caused by collaboration platforms and process. Adopt Good Practices Around Team Emails. This blog post shares some thoughts.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 27, 2023

Volunteers who feel valued will talk about your nonprofit in the community as if they’re part of the team and speak up about why your cause is important. They spend their Saturday at Adoption Day at a shelter because they love dogs and want them all to find loving homes. Use a photo that reflects the heart of your organization’s work.

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