Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2021

5) Collaborate with your surrounding community. Follow the lead of this executive director who launched her two-person nonprofit team into the limelight simply by joining in on the community conversation. 6) Secure matching gifts for your next fundraising campaign.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 21, 2022

Find businesses that are a good match for your mission, and propose a mutually beneficial collaboration. Even videos shot on a smartphone can movingly capture how your nonprofit impacts your community. Ideally you can use a video production service in your community. And creating compelling videos doesn’t have to be expensive.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One area with a potential high risk of over-reliance on AI tools is internal collaboration and communication. We know from workplace research that having a strong sense of community and connection with workplace peers has many benefits to well-being, including mental health. Here are the core elements: Redefining “productivity.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

Startup nonprofits, nonprofit newbies, umbrella organizations, community foundations, mentors… there are a lot of ways people may think about or refer to fiscal sponsorships, even if they’re unfamiliar with the term “fiscal sponsorship.” Put simply, fiscal sponsorship is an alternative method to obtaining tax-exempt status.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 24, 2022

They welcome collaboration … but they also make decisions and move forward, rather [than] acting from a place of fear of hurting others’ feelings. ”. If anyone and everyone is accepted, is it clear that the volunteers are even part of a community? An alternative is to focus instead on being accessible.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Glenn Stein, a community organizer who wound up as “the guy in charge of computers” before founding Byte Back, started the organization in collaboration with his friend Barbara Altman. Glenn Stein became became the go-to guy for computer setup and issues while he was working as a community organizer. Background.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 20, 2018

Because marketing departments live, eat, and breathe data; most marketing departments expend significant time and resources on analyzing clinical, population, customer satisfaction, and community awareness data. They routinely survey physicians, patients, employees, and community members on a variety of issues. Not necessarily.

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Whole Whale

MAY 31, 2023

Provide Alternative Text for Images Include descriptive alternative text (alt text) for images in your emails. A nonprofit organization that provides accessibility resources and training, and collaborates with communities to raise awareness and improve skills around digital accessibility. Knowbility, Inc. :

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2015

" Equal Access Through Online Collaboration. The organization also uses GoToMeeting for collaboration with people from across the country, who use this tool to work together on education issues in their own communities, spreading the New Heights education method beyond the Ohio area. Well, that's why.

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Candid

JANUARY 24, 2022

According to the Disability Language Style Guide from the National Center on Disability and Journalism, differently-abled is a term that grew out of the 1990s as an alternative to words like “disabled,” “handicapped,” and others. Differently-abled. Does that/this make sense? By asking your audience, co-workers, etc.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 27, 2010

I decided it was time to do a roundup of the discussion and collaboration alternatives that exist at this point. It’s quite a powerful tool, and has everything you’d want in a private social media site – friending, profiles, groups, collaboration tools, etc. 8) Diaspora: Diaspora is a Facebook alternative.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 13, 2022

Designers from around the world presented work inspired by issues in their community and the world. Another approach, design critiques, is a collaborative environment for designers, developers, strategists, and stakeholders to review ideas and iterate on solutions. The show was astounding.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

During September, the International Association for Suicide Prevention (IASP) collaborates with the World Health Organization (WHO) and the World Federation for Mental Health (WFMH) to host World Suicide Prevention Day on September 10 with National Suicide Prevention Week being recognized in the week around September 10.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 21, 2022

Here are 6 significant ways companies can support your organization: Credibility: when individual donors see companies supporting you, that raises your credibility and connection to the community. What do you get out of this collaboration, besides a foot in the door with a company and the opportunity to grow a relationship with them?

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Qgiv

MARCH 12, 2024

This practice helps businesses cement stronger relationships with the communities they serve. With corporate philanthropy, companies and nonprofits can collaborate and build lasting partnerships to create a positive impact on their community. Building partnerships. Improved reputation and brand image. Tax benefits.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 7, 2014

58% of Americans now own smart phones, and this number is only expected to continue to grow with the advent of cheap alternatives. However, there has been some push back from the community, claiming the technology is too young, and the investment from the nonprofit sector would be too great.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 5, 2022

As one of America’s go-to outdoor apparel brands, the company encourages each employee to be an earthkeeper, a term that encapsulates Timberland’s three core values: creating responsible products, protecting the outdoors, and serving communities around the world. Purpose-Driven Companies use a Purpose Mindset to Advance Measurable Goals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2014

Can cities and sharing companies strike pro-active data sharing deals that protect users privacy, inform public policy, and benefit communities – without going to court? Alternative Currency Donations. What do we see emerging? Here’s one small example. and expected to be rolled out to cities around the world.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Since then, Stacey has become an indispensable member of our staff, leading our community programs and inspiring us to think in new ways about how we can build social capital in our community. I chose to focus my thesis on Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 18, 2021

On the positive side, they are an effective device to raise the profile of volunteering in our communities. What tools and resources can we provide so that they are comfortable explaining the challenges that large group projects may pose, sharing impactful alternatives that may look different, and even saying no?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Alternative Supports (<1 percent). Collaborative Partnerships and Community Support (5 percent). Willingness to collaborate with other funders, infomediaries, and product providers in finding shared technology solutions that ease nonprofits’ burden. Project Demographics/Orientation/Status (2 percent).

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NTEN

AUGUST 10, 2009

As part of our agenda planning process for the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference , we hosted a community planning call this past Friday. Communications Makeoever: Take an organization, review their communications strategy and make it over in light of new technologies. Tags: 10NTC community NPTech NTEN. " IT Track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2014

The toolkit was designed through a collaboration between a European agency ( STBY ) and an Indian agency ( Quicksand ), it was commissioned by Nesta and the Rockefeller Foundation , who together saw a gap in the support for innovation provided to the development community. Look at both the detail and the big picture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 9, 2009

This morning Peggy Duvette and Angus Parker from WiserEarth spent some time at the Foundation sharing their experiences in building successful online communities of action and networks of networks on the WiserEarth online platform. Peggy and Angus shared some tips for online community building. These include: What are your goals?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 18, 2022

In order to maximize their donation potential, nonprofits could embrace creative, diverse fundraising alternatives to monetary contributions. Offering the option to donate in-kind resources opens up the opportunity for the entire community to participate in your organization’s mission, regardless of how much money they have.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

They allow you to collaborate with others so you won’t waste time sending Word docs and Excel spreadsheets back and forth while tracking versions. Trello: If you are addicted to sticky notes, Trello might be the perfect tool for managing your to-do list and collaborating with team members on tasks and projects that must get done.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

I’ve been following the work of Rob and his team closely as they have shown not just interest, but passion and intent for engaging with the community at large to create a tool that meets the needs of nonprofit organizations and keeps us involved in making the tool better and better.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

Sharing companies/platforms are just one place alternatives abound and money is flowing and good is getting done. In some models, it's not sharing that's taking place at all; it's renting a commodity owned by the community, rather than owned by the company. Where Nonprofits Fit in the Sharing Economy.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. You can collaborate with your Board and other team members using Google Docs and Google Sheets and then store the final product in Drive. Ask before signing up!

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Museum 2.0

JULY 26, 2010

Community science workshops. In the past, I've highlighted a few--like 826 Valencia and the Denver Community Museum --that I think have already influenced the way many traditional cultural organization do business. Elsewhere Collaborative (Greensboro, NC). Skill-sharing free schools. PieLab (Greensboro, AL).

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NTEN

JULY 11, 2011

In an ever-changing world of social media and web collaboration, tools for user interaction and engagement are becoming increasingly prevalent. These accounts allow users to make themselves visible to the site’s community while helping the organization to transition constituents from passive visitors to engaged participants.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

Twenty years ago, I was privileged to serve as a senior consultant and trainer with the newly created Center for Corporate Community Relations at Boston College (now the Center for Corporate Citizenship). In the two decades that have elapsed, the scope and texture of corporate social responsibility (CSR) have evolved dramatically.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

After our last Nonprofits Live event on gaming, our social media team received many questions and requests — many of you in the TechSoup community are excited about the future of creating games for nonprofit causes! community. (BJ). TechSoup community can save 10% with the code TECHSOUP here: [link]. How to Design.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2011

I had a chance to collaborate with every type of art form, arts management programs, arts education, and individual artists. I learned an incredible amount from collaborating with arts teachers. In the early days, the nonprofit technology community was a small community of that was generously shared its knowledge and skills. (The

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 2, 2013

The more people your programs at public schools are able to reach, the better it is for your community and your organization. So, go out into the community and educate parents and kids about what you're doing and what you'll be offering to them. Be flexible. When you're on your own turf, you get to call all the shots. Get another!

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2013

Luckily NTEN members never cease to contribute their wealth of knowledge to the nonprofit tech community. Idealware expressed their disappointment and points to some alternatives to Google Reader to consider. Doing the Unstuck Part 2 addresses smart ways collaboration can be full of rewards, not conflict.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

Featuring a lively mix of nonprofit technology guests sharing their unique perspectives on ways to harness the power of gaming as a catalyst for good, you'll hear how some organizations are using games as a platform for teaching leadership skills, problem solving, and global community building to youth. Expert Guests.

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