Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 2, 2015

The Internet was primarily a desktop PC or laptop experience and reading news and sending and receiving email accounted for the majority of time spent online. And yet despite limited budgets, the early adopter nonprofits began using responsive web design in 2012 in order to adapt quickly to the new realities of Internet browsing.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 29, 2023

If the donor’s gift was used to buy laptops, a photo of students on the new laptops will hit the right note. Thanks to you, these dogs will be protected as they wait to be adopted and go to their forever homes. Photo or video of how their gift is being used. You are a hero for making sure these dogs will not have to suffer!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2014

ABCS, with offices across the state and operations in Mexico, offers counseling and pregnancy services, classes on budgeting and personal finance, and foster care services, and also works with the state of Arizona to facilitate adoptions, among other things. A parenting class offered by ABCS, by Debbie Gillmore.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 14, 2010

While some nonprofits have been early adopters of Twitter Apps, the vast majority are not. 12seconds : 12seconds allows users to easily record videos with your laptop camera or cellphone, and then upload them to your 12 seconds video channel in order to easily post them to Twitter. They may not even know the tools exist.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Participants take part from anywhere using a cell phone or laptop to connect to the event. Sometimes, you can get away with just a laptop with a webcam for a simple live-streaming event. First, what is a virtual fundraiser? A virtual fundraiser is a fundraising event that is held exclusively online.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 15, 2021

Create an annual budget and work with your Board to adopt the budget. How about the laptop you purchased for work? Present the recommended process to the Board, so they can adopt a reimbursement policy. If you don’t have a budget, well, that’s your first assignment. Examine the revenue side of your budget.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 11, 2014

Global Internet adoption growth is actually slowing compared to previous years. The user base for laptops is 789 million, and an additional 743 million for desktop computers. The latest edition has lots of NPTech insights. Here's what I found: Internet growth: 2.6 The worldwide user base is 439 million.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2014

The walking at work trend is being more broadly adopted by senior managers, in part because leaders want to get some distance from their always on work styles, with all of the demands of smartphones and laptops. And perhaps because of that, walking meetings are common in Silicon Valley as this article points out.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

The current technology of live-streaming on the Web has been around for a few years, but only recently with the launch of smartphone Apps that convert phones into video cameras and social media integration, has the technology started to reach mass adoption by Web users ( its up 600% in the last year !). Experiment with me!

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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. Thousands of times.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2010

FrontlineSMS is an award-winning free, open source software that turns a laptop and a mobile phone into a central communications hub. Many small to medium-sized nonprofits can not afford these vendors, but at least through tools like TextMarks and FrontlineSMS, they can at least be early adopters.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Check out the Homeward Pet Adoption Center for an example of a well-designed, streamlined donation form: The form provides an opportunity to contribute a recurring gift as well as several suggested donation amounts right off the bat. Offer a few donation increments for supporters to choose from. Mobile-friendly formatting.

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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. He also set up a script that triggered the print function from his phone to his laptop. He printed photos posted on Instagram to document a large gathering in Sweden.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

SDFF partnered with Cox Communications to develop a low-cost Internet solution and eliminate the barriers that kept families from adopting broadband at home. The NTIA Toolkit provides several examples of organizations like SDFF that have pioneered, developed, and adopted the successful model.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

The robust smartphones of the near future will likely use a combination of mobile apps and cloud apps and because we'll dock them so much with our laptops, we'll begin using those types of applications much more on our computers as well. The near future is looking to be even more mobile with more fully integrated technologies.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 3, 2016

Most of the processing power needed to run cloud-based applications is online rather than on an individual computer or on-site server; therefore, your data can be viewed as quickly on a hundred-dollar desktop as on a high-end laptop. The second most important driver for cloud adoption by nonprofits is the potential cost savings.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 28, 2013

During the intervening two years, we have entered the “post-PC” era in which laptop and desktop computers are being superseded by tablets, phones and other mobile devices. As adoption of mobile devices increases for both work and pleasure, IT will no longer be dominated by PCs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2009

Their sub-$400 prices don't hurt the nonprofit as much as a normal laptop. In addition, as organizations adopt more Web-deployed technologies like CRM or document sharing, this may seem like a viable option. However, I'd caution nonprofits on the following points when adopting netbooks in their organizations: read more.

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BoardAssist

MARCH 10, 2015

A responsive website is one that, depending on the type of device a web visitor is accessing your site from, whether that be a smart phone, tablet, or laptop / desktop computer, the website functions and displays correctly. More emails are opened via mobile devices today than on traditional computing platforms like desktops and laptops.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2009

In early 2008, both Apple and Dell started shipping high-end laptops with SSDs only; others have followed suit since then. From Atwood's article: I was an early solid state (SSD) drive adopter with my last laptop purchase, and it was a profound disappointment. As Kevin points out in Should You Upgrade to Windows 7?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region. We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. He is also currently the country manager for the One Laptop per Child Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2007

I was reading the reactions to the Overbrook Foundation Report on Nonprofit Adoption of Web2.0 Nonprofit adoption is a stealth adoption approach: What has worked well is to start off with some PC 101 skills that simply speed up the inevitably slow laggard-laptops/desktops ??? Which reminds me I have to add the Khmer 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

100% of participants implement a process and write a social media policy that addresses organizational adoption issues. 100% of participants implement an action learning project that uses measurement to help improve their practice, share insights with peers, and identify opportunities to amplify each other’s voices through social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

And, between phones, tablets, e-readers, laptops, desktops, servers, routers … it’s an incredible amount of resource consumption and waste. That is a staggering amount of resources. So what to do?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

We discussed ways to initiate organizational change to be more open to social media adoption in the context of training and coaching. Lina Aleryani , Team Leader from Yemen, offered this reflection on her workshop blog during “laptop time.&#. What is in it for us? Leadership isn’t open. NGOS that work like fortresses.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

The average smartphone outperforms the laptop computer of the previous decade. It's true: the employees of tomorrow may not have laptops or PCs. The new realm of net-enabled personal communications devices will cut down on the need for many employees to have an expensive-to-maintain PC or laptop. What do you think?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. As smartphones mature, we’re doing more on them and less on our laptops. Tablet adoption is very brisk. That's around 1.3 billion of us doing it. Telework and the Polar Vortex.

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Tech Soup

JULY 6, 2015

In the last few years, national and international nonprofits have begun to adopt it as another channel that donors can use to contribute. " Early Adopters. Some nonprofit organizations are adopting Bitcoin as a tool to target specific demographics, specifically constituents who are more tech-minded. How did they adopt it?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 28, 2015

Since Windows 10 for PCs launched on July 29, 2015, adoption has been going at a pretty good clip. The fact that Windows 10 is a free upgrade for many users may account for much of the adoption. More than 90 percent of laptop and desktop PCs are running some version of Windows.

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Achieve

JUNE 3, 2019

The convenience of mobile giving methods has led many nonprofits to adopt them, and they’re only becoming more popular. An online giving page that’s mobile-responsive—that is, one that you can access and use as easily on a smartphone as on a desktop or laptop computer—is an essential step in providing your donors with mobile giving options.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

It’s likely that in years to come, tens of thousands of nonprofits will be sending text message donation reminders en masse on December 30, so now, before the law of diminishing returns begins to kick in, is a very good time to be an early adopter. Don’t Send More than Two or Three Text Messages per Month.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

We operate our Refurbished Computer Initiative , which provides reliable, warrantied desktop and laptop computers to U.S. I'd love to see this policy adopted in every country. nonprofits and libraries. Several of our global partners operate similar programs.

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Qgiv

MARCH 30, 2022

NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network is focused on helping nonprofit staff adopt new technologies in their chosen areas of expertise, and to thrive by doing so. And keep in mind: As a grant writer, you will need to focus and spend long stretches of time in a quiet environment working on your computer or laptop.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Adopt a Dog or Cat According to the Humane Society of the United States , as of October 2006, 6-8 million dogs and cats enter shelters, and 3-4 million dogs and cats are euthanized each year. Give a Child a Laptop, Get a Child a Laptop. Give a Child a Laptop, Get a Child a Laptop.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2009

This year, though, I'm trying to adopt a new way to be "green" in honor of dear, ole St. And I'm not just talking about finding a green-cased laptop but rather assessing how I'm using my own technology in more environmentally-friendly ways. I'm going to try to embrace some greener technologies.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2015

It's bafflingly unclear how the team cheer connects with partnerships and certainly has nothing to do with broadband adoption. Don't do this: Why this doesn't work: The floating laptop in white space doesn't help us understand what virtualization is (or how this laptop is managing to levitate on its own).

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Forum One

MARCH 16, 2010

Everywhere you go, people are nose down in their laptops and phones: while in sessions, while walking down the halls, and while on the panels. This leads to some valuable opportunities for product designers, who have often used SxSW to release their wares into this hungry ecosystem of early adopters.

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