Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Building an organization from the ground up is a challenge, but with the right nonprofit tools, the heavy lifting gets easier. There are SO MANY nonprofit tools out there, all promising to make your work easier as you grow your new nonprofit. The key is to find the right tool for the right task. . Some cost a little.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

I joined Google+ a few months ago as an individual, but it hasn’t been until the recent launch of Google+ Pages that I began investing time in the exploring the Google+ community and tool set. It’s a new tool, a tad complex (but smart and solid), and we’re all still figuring it out. No worries. Debra Askanase.

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Volunteer Hub

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

It begins with a thorough qualification process during the sales phase, aimed at determining if the software is the best fit for your organization and your specific use case. Personalized Onboarding Onboarding is one of the most important steps in successfully adopting volunteer management software.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 4, 2024

Here are the top three grantmaking tools to use in place of foundationConnect: Track, manage, and deliver funding programs — all in one place Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking is designed to maximize your impact. Now it’s your turn to adopt the best new grantmaking tool available — Salesforce Nonprofit Cloud for Grantmaking.

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Candid

AUGUST 18, 2021

It’s been a big buzzword for years now, but AI has moved beyond buzzword status—it’s an accessible and increasingly common tool for nonprofits. The most user-friendly AI tools will provide these insights in the form of predictive scores and rank metrics. How Nonprofits Use AI. How Nonprofits Don’t Use AI.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 29, 2022

Mindset: A Critical Tool in Your Implementation Toolbox. For most organizations, the ideal implementation timeline is around 90 days, split more or less evenly among three phases: Preparation and planning (days 1–30). Are they comfortable using new tools? Significant change requires significant planning.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

Venture 2 Impact leveraged technology to continue providing nonprofit partners and volunteers around the world with necessary tools and training to advance their mission despite challenges created by the pandemic. Upon further refinement, we crafted a phased approach for implementation to support V2I in their execution.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2022

A CRM strategy includes a combination of clearly defined strategies connected to specific goals that are delivered by the most effective tools available. Specifying this vision is essential as an organization grows, often adopting new strategies as well as additional staff, volunteers, and supporters. So what is a CRM strategy?

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Global Giving

JULY 25, 2017

That’s why the VMware Foundation and Taproot Foundation partnered on a paper titled Transforming Technology Pro Bono—to advance this conversation and ultimately to help accelerate the adoption of transformational technology in the social sector. The key is that it’s in phases: Discover, Design, Implement, and Maintain.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 8, 2011

My guess is that 99.99% of nonprofits (or more) have not yet been invited to beta test Google+ ( sign up here ), but if you are a regular reader of Mashable, TechCrunch, or The Next Web, you might be feeling like your missing out on the fruits of being an early adopter (before the site is even out of beta – craziness!). Sign up here !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 2, 2019

About two in five nonprofits (42 percent) report researching AI but less than a third (28 percent) said that AI is either deployed, in the implementation phase, or experimental. The survey will be implemented regularly to benchmark adoption of AI. How can we predict events, behavior, or market dynamics? The author, Sema K.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Here’s how Solis views the three phases of where we’ve been and where we’re headed: BC = Before COVID. Now the only thing normal about the phase we’re in is everyone is in this same transitional space, focused on politics, new social behaviors, and the associated socioeconomics. Think back to how different things were.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 28, 2023

As we move forward into the next phase of our organization’s growth, I wanted to take a moment to share my vision for our fundraising efforts and the critical role that each of you plays in achieving our goals. Communicate these expectations regularly, and track progress through periodic updates and check-ins.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 15, 2024

This initial phase of research can give you and your direct mail fundraising partners a better idea of what your organization is working with, what the broader market of supporters value, and how you can stand out against peer organizations. While adding QR codes is by no means a new trend, more organizations continue to adopt this strategy.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet. Executives were terrified by the legal implications of using social networking tools. Yes, yes… I know. Your nonprofit has no budget for it.

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Media Cause

JUNE 10, 2021

The powerhouse social media platform is expanding even more, and in this new phase, they are gearing up to rival Clubhouse. FB also announced other audio features that are coming soon — podcast listening, soundbite functionality, and discovery tools. Account Strategist . Are you a healthcare or medical relief organization?

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Forum One

DECEMBER 15, 2021

There are several ways we approach accessibility at Forum One that all organizations, of any size, can adopt or adapt. Web accessibility isn’t just about ensuring a public-facing website is accessible, but also intranets, internal digital tools, documents, videos, processes, and the information people need to do their jobs.

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

This technology selection and implementation phase can be daunting and complex. Here are three broad approaches: Grab a free or cheap tool and get started fast. WARNING: using an inexpensive, easy-to-deploy tool does not mean you can skip or shortchange the strategy and planning phases outlined in the earlier posts in this series.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

New minor versions will continue to be released every six months (in June and December each year) with new features, following the cadence that began with Drupal 8’s adoption of semantic versioning. Automated tools to check for compatibility. It uses Drupal 9’s codebase rather than start with a new codebase altogether.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

New minor versions will continue to be released every six months (in June and December each year) with new features, following the cadence that began with Drupal 8’s adoption of semantic versioning. Automated tools to check for compatibility. It uses Drupal 9’s codebase rather than start with a new codebase altogether.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

But, try as we might, we couldn’t find any research that looked at arts groups’ adoption and attitudes toward digital and social media nationally that also asked all-important questions about how groups are measuring what they’re doing. Arts organizations are not alone in this. We opened up the survey to all arts organizations in August.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 3, 2012

Subscribe to receive text alerts from the early adopters in the nonprofit sector. I have always been an advocate of following, liking, and subscribing to the large organizations who are known for being early adopters. Here are 10 nonprofits currently using text alerts with links to their subscription pages.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The objective of this second phase was to develop UVM’s use of the Salesforce platform for their Office of the Vice President of Research (OVPR) and to UVM Extension , an outreach unit helping to improve the quality of life of Vermonters through research-based educational programs and practical information.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

With no pre-planning, quickly setting up an online donation tool certainly might be easy and quick. Transfer current data to your new donation processing tool. A critical leg of this journey includes the decision phase, where a donor commits their support to your organization. Integrate your processor with your donation page.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 11, 2016

Snapchat is making a concerted effort to increase its viability as a marketing and digital payment processing tool for brands and for those nonprofits that have the time and resources, early adoption would be a good bet. Do not make snap judgments about Snapchat.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 16, 2021

It also gives administrators the ability to automate their processes using point-and-click style tools like flow. Tal Frankfurt, CEO at Cloud for Good: Our customers adopt Salesforce for many reasons, and the ability to customize Salesforce for their needs is a key one. Customization is Critical.

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Greater Giving

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

The nonprofit fundraising calendar tends to go through phases of ups and downs. 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.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 18, 2023

But it is not just a new buzzword, a box to be checked, or even a singular phase in the grant cycle. However, in the push towards impact, philanthropy has adopted a laundry list of activities—landscape scans, focus groups, case studies, logic models—to help in figuring out what is important to know to “do good” better.

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Achieve

APRIL 4, 2017

From the qualitative methods phase of our research, we learned that millennials have adopted a view of activism that aligns with those negative descriptors, and to put it bluntly, they want nothing to do with it. Like generations past, millennials educate themselves on causes using the tools available to them.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 6, 2017

As Jeremiah points out, we are entering the next phase where robots, drones, bots, AI, and self-driving cars will have widespread adoption. Charity:Water created a bot called “ Walk with Yeshi ” as a donor engagement tool. And after that technology will be merged or implanted in humans.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Our latest Impact Lab cohort on climate justice built an open-source tool for climate community-based organizations to access grant funding more seamlessly with the Grants Content Kit. In the next phase, we will continue to work with the community to build out these ideas. These ideas are just the beginning. Melanie Calhoun.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Make it an indispensable tool for people with disabilities, their families, educators, rehab professionals and the assistive and mainstream technology industries. It’s not clear that money awards would be an important driver of this Phase: the gift of attention to the issue would be the main payoff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2013

There has been a couple of studies and workbooks that speak to the growing need for nonprofits to embrace the use of performance measurement data as a management tool. His work has sparked transformation for many of the country’s top nonprofit organizations. Thus, performance management was a way to drive activities, not results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2011

What is the key to a viral campaign which combines these outreach tools. We started off with the question of why nonprofits must attention to mobile and integrate it into their communications tool box. Already that morning, keynotes had give some powerful adoption statistics. QR codes via mobile.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 1, 2009

Many thanks to the Lead Sponsors who helped to make this report possible: PICnet , our Joomla sponsor; Phase 2 Technologies , our Drupal Sponsor; Jazkarta , our Plone sponsor; and Rad Campaigns, our WordPress sponsor. Tools Web 2.0 Tools Web Building Web Building. Want to know if these types of systems are right for you?

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The decision to move your disaster-allocated resources from relief and recovery to preparation and planning is never an easy one and will require moving in phases, tough decisions, and of course, planning. Compare your risk assessment and the insurance tool to see what areas of your company are at greatest risk.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

We're learning the power of information and are quickly developing the skills at adopting the tools to do it right. But we're also entering a new phase in the world of nonprofit technology. That's good. That's step one. We're all about to become data analysts, turning those statistics into intelligence.

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