Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

All nonprofit social media campaigns – even those of large, well-funded organizations – can be improved upon. Not even large, well-funded nonprofits are doing all ten. This is Social Media 101, but a best practice still not widely adopted by most small nonprofits. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

That said, if Snapchat has longevity the early adopters will be rewarded and Snapchat is trying to make their app more marketing friendly, but if your nonprofit is just getting started on Snapchat , you should have reasonable expectations of low ROI. Nonprofit social media managers live, work, and play social media 24/7.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

For example, the International Fund for Animal Welfare shared the good news that zero rhinos were poached in 2020. It’s for this reason that nonprofits have been slow to adopt LinkedIn Ads. Breaking news that communicates the story of your mission and programs. 4) Experiment with LinkedIn Ads (maybe).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Today online donations make up an average of 7-10% of an NGO’s annual budget and online giving continues to grow – and will continue grow – every year. Be an early adopter! The webinar content below was presented by Heather Mansfield on October 11, 2016 to 1,807 nonprofit staff. Launch a crowdfunding campaign.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance. Make sure you know what minimum wage laws provide.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. David Wilcox shares an example of growing divided in the UK nonprofit sector between "traditional" online communities (listservs) and those who are adopting Web2.0 More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 6, 2007

See also the post on TechSoup, " How to Fund and Cost ICT ," a publication from the ICTHUB. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. An excellent slide show about the issues in wiki adoption within the organization.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Harvard Business School professor Clayton Christensen set forth the “Innovator’s Dilemma” which states that companies that have accomplished great change are reluctant to adopt the next disruptive innovation because of its impact on the existing successful business.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org. We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. I just had a chance to chat with Dr. Tom Musili who runs that incredible NGO to find out what all they’re doing to bring the knowledge economy to school children and electronics recycling to Africa. What the heck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

One of the examples was from an Indian NGO “ Clothes Box Foundation ” that collects donations of clothing for those living in poverty. marniethedog , a 12 year old senior dog who was adopted, but diagnosed with an illness that made her head tilt. . ”FB can be a catalyst and lever to tackle wicked problems.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

The participants, most of them women, are exposed to a variety of tech tools, which are easy to adopt and help in organizing community activities, such as: messaging via cell phones, mapping tools, remote conferencing, arranging meetings for large groups, social networking, and more.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

While we had a decade to adjust to websites being important, we’ve had a lot less time to figure out social media, and even less time to adopt a mobile first world. Today, your next door neighbor is seen as just as credible a source of information as an academic, government, business or even an NGO.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

We have raised funds for many hundreds of nonprofits by mail, and dozens online – a total exceeding half a billion dollars, largely in the form of small gifts. That the total funds raised by U.S. If the age is rising, your adoption of new channels must show a corresponding increase. So I do know whereof I write.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. So I always share this cartoon from Beth Kanter’s blog, if your cat adoption numbers are tanking, it doesn’t matter if you’re going viral on YouTube. Not for me.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Barclays Bank analyst Ben Reitzes forecasts a 6 percent year-over-year decline in the sales of PCs due to increasing adoption of tablet computers and smartphones.

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