Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

This is the eighth post in a blog and webinar series called 101 Digital Marketing Best Practices for Nonprofits , written and presented by Heather Mansfield. Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Related Webinar: Social Media Best Practices for Nonprofits. LinkedIn Pages.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

Last week I was in Chicago to facilitate a session about leadership and social media as part of Knight Digital Media Center’s Digital Strategy for Community Foundations and Nonprofits. The themes we will cover are: Why 1 Tweet by Nonprofit CEO is Worth More Than 1,000 Staff: Benefits, Challenges, Solutions. Model the Model.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Before the COVID-19 pandemic hit, Venture2Impact (V2I) — a nonprofit organization based in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada — had a business model that was entirely based on global travel. This concept addresses the needs of nonprofits for continued support, training, mentorship, and engagement with their communities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

The Great Recession and its aftermath have forced nonprofits to seek out new and different ways to address their challenges. In order to make change that is sustainable and scalable, additional funding sources need to be considered to help nonprofits achieve their core missions. Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. There are many ways your nonprofit can test the AI waters , h owever, in this post, we’re focusing on how you can use AI to improve your organization’s written content. Until I tried it.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

We hear from folks all the time who are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, especially fundraising ideas for a new nonprofit. Sometimes when people are looking for new fundraising ideas for nonprofits, they’re looking for a quick solution to solve their funding problems. Broken Model #1: Self Pay.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 19, 2021

Like the stickers are for food delivery, the trust as a service model is a great opportunity for most businesses today. The model is defined by two mains steps. Historically, the trust as a service model has been used to grow businesses, get new customers, and set industry service/safety standards.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Adaptive learning models can empower teachers to customize instruction for each student’s needs, and students can even personalize a digital tutoring experience. Imagine a coach using an AI to generate a detailed analysis of your best athletes’ movements to help other students learn, model, and improve their own techniques.

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Forum One

JANUARY 17, 2024

Here’s what we’re seeing as the biggest priorities for our partners across the nonprofit and government space to address this year. Adopt an AI strategy There’s no denying it: Artificial Intelligence (AI) is happening. Forum One’s 2024 commitments Of course, we’re not just here to tell you what to focus on: we’re here to help!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2014

I love teaching (and learning) and it was a pleasure to work with students, nonprofits, and faculty. I also learned a lot working along side Nancy Smyth , Dean of the School of Social Work. Here’s a few frameworks and techniques I learned first hand from Nancy as she accompanied me to the sessions I was leading.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 1, 2022

posted by Nathan Bezzant Fall 2021 Alumnus, ASU Master of Nonprofit Leadership and Management. The International Society for Third Sector Research published a recent paper that summarizes why nonprofit leaders must use technology to connect with stakeholders in the emerging digital, civil society. Illustration by Yuxin Qin.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Learning Analytics comes from a report about the impact of emerging technologies for practitioners in a field. That sounds like the title of a report that NTEN might produce that surveys the technology landscape and nonprofit usage and provides an overview of what technologies nonprofits should be looking at in the next 1-5 years.

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Judi Sohn

JULY 3, 2011

I maintain that not only is it for the better, but that nonprofits that communicate well already had it figured out. Established social sharing model (blogs, Twitter, Facebook, Foursquare, etc.): Nonprofits are all about segmenting our communications and getting to know our constituency so we can serve them better.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 23, 2022

In this 60-minute webinar you will learn: Common automation opportunities for nonprofits How to approach full-system automation Examples of CauseVox automations Why it is important to adopt a continuous improvement model for automation. This session will also feature a live Q&A and be recorded for on-demand viewing.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 3, 2022

Salesforce.org’s second annual Nonprofit Summit, held earlier this month, attracted over 6,500 attendees from 100 countries. Those who tuned in to the virtual event were treated to conversations with some incredible headliners, and heard nonprofit customers share their technology impact stories. .

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Did you also know that 49% of nonprofit employees expect cost cuts this year and 54% of nonprofit leaders have implemented changes to organizational goals and activities? . Now more than ever, it’s vital for nonprofits to diversify their funding sources. Why grants are important to nonprofits. Let’s dig in!

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Did you also know that 49% of nonprofit employees expect cost cuts this year and 54% of nonprofit leaders have implemented changes to organizational goals and activities? . Now more than ever, it’s vital for nonprofits to diversify their funding sources. Why grants are important to nonprofits. Let’s dig in!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For education institutions, nonprofits, and for-profit companies alike, 2022 will be about bold actions and investments that will result in long-term impact and success in the era ahead. Business Model Innovation. Lifelong Learning to Lifelong Relationships. Learner-Centric Impact. Greater Competition for Students.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 19, 2021

It is no secret that the mission-driven nonprofit workforce often leads with the scarcity mindset. Some days the world really is on fire, and the nonprofit sector is charged with directly responding to physical, financial, and human resources even in precedented times. . Enter #SelfCare assumptions. Flexibility as a form of wellness.

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Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

When MySpace and Friendster first came on the scene opening the door to Web 2, nonprofits couldn’t fathom that one day they would be hiring for “Social Media Managers”. A couple of decades later a quick search on Idealist.org turns up over 2000 current jobs and tons of nonprofit social media professionals on networks like Nonprofit.ist.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

Allison Fine, my co-author for the Networked Nonprofit , and I are actively researching the use of AI for Good, in particular to scale giving and to spread generosity. What about your nonprofit? Want to better understand the use cases for AI and nonprofits in fundraising, programs, and other areas? AI4GOOD NONPROFIT READS.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

Nonprofits collect and generate vast amounts of data, ranging from individual donors’ contact information to program outcomes, but they often struggle with organizing and utilizing the information effectively. This is why data warehouses can have such a significant impact on nonprofits. We’ll cover: What is a Nonprofit Data Warehouse?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 27, 2014

About a year ago, Mario Marino reached out to me and several colleagues with some provocative questions about e-learning in the nonprofit sector. Mario and his colleague, Katie Paris explained that this was part of a landscape or mapping process that they were doing to get an understanding of the e-learning space.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

Before the American Library Association’s Annual Conference , I had the privilege of taking a tour of the shoe retailer’s main office to see what libraries and nonprofits could learn from the company. Pursue growth and learning. What do you think of the Zappos model? Embrace and drive change. Key Takeaways.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 21, 2023

However, with the rise of ChatGPT in early 2023, there has been more buzz surrounding AI than ever before, especially in the nonprofit sector. Amidst all of this confusing discourse, nonprofits are looking for ways to keep up with new technological trends, maintain trust with their communities, and fundraise more effectively.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Finding that perfect balance of power and productivity is one of the most common challenges that nonprofit leaders face. . The board governance model is one of four primary nonprofit governance models. An organization transitions into a “governing board” model when an ED is hired.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Its mission is to enlist recovering warriors in a therapeutic mission of learning to train service dogs for fellow vets. In the traditional service dog model, one dog would go to one vet. In the traditional service dog model, one dog would go to one vet. A noble and laudable effort. . Oh, and they have a puppy cam !

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

I’m constantly impressed with how the participants in the Salesforce.org Partner Network drive success for our nonprofit and education customers, and the Unite Partner Summit is no exception. They would rather share and learn with and from their competitors than let that happen! Adopt Radical Empathy with Terri Givens.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 2, 2019

I left private legal practice for nonprofit fundraising to get away from the less relational aspects of the service provider-client relationship. Steep billing rates, adversarial positions, and dense subject matter hindered my ability to be really great at my job, so I turned to more mission-driven work in the nonprofit sector.

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Network for Good

MAY 14, 2021

Adopt a Subscription Giving mindset. Retention on subscription platforms, on average, is 70% while standard nonprofit donor retention was 43% in 2019. If Netflix can achieve a 90% retention rate through a subscription-based model, why can’t your organization do the same through telling stories about the good work you do?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2014

Before the American Library Association’s Annual Conference , I had the privilege of taking a tour of the shoe retailer’s main office to see what libraries and nonprofits could learn from the company. Pursue growth and learning. What do you think of the Zappos model? Embrace and drive change. Key Takeaways.

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sgEngage

MAY 25, 2023

In a sector that is so risk-averse—afraid of change, reluctant to explore new ideas, and adopt new practices—why do we rely on super risky problem-solving skills? Nonprofits show and share what worked, usually with tidy stories and charts. Next, funders stunt risk with their beloved wait-and-see approach.

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Candid

DECEMBER 14, 2023

There’s a sentence that every communications professional at a nonprofit has heard (and if you’re like me, dreads): “We need a toolkit for that launch.” Why it doesn’t work In nonprofits, marketing, communications, and fundraising functions often overlap. This created a model for an email campaign any partner could follow.

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sgEngage

APRIL 19, 2023

The second wave, however—coming after the launch of Google’s Bard and Microsoft Bing—has resonated more broadly and has implications and potential applications for nonprofit organizations. For this post we’ll highlight a few examples from our own experimentation, explaining what we see going on and what we’ve learned.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Allison Fine and I have been looking at artificial intelligence, nonprofits, and philanthropy. I was really excited to discover research on artificial intelligence that intersects with my work on nonprofit workplace wellbeing ( The Happy Healthy Nonprofit ). Chronic Homelessness Artificial Intelligence model (CHAI) .

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 5, 2019

It’s much easier to learn something completely new than to unlearn an old habit. It’s why children are taught essential functions at an early age: they haven’t yet learned the wrong way to do things. It’s a horrible way to think, especially considering the nonprofit sector’s undying turnover problem. Just ask any parent.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It is one thing to adopt certain principles for how you will navigate change personally, but things get even more complicated and interesting when you are navigating change management as a unit, group, family, or organization. According to the ADJAR Model, there are three phases to change. So, how can we strategically navigate change?

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