Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

A tech “discovery” is the initial, independent phase of a technology project where key analysis, design and planning are performed BEFORE a buy or build decision is made. Through a well-designed, human-centered technology discovery, you can make growth and innovation an everyday reality.

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NetWits

APRIL 23, 2012

New ideas, a fresh design, new technology and a renewed focus on your online presence – all factors that drive peoples excitement. Audience analysis. Here are four steps you can take to ensure you perform proper audience analysis: 1. Design Your Website Based on Common Tasks. It’s a chance to start fresh.

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sgEngage

MARCH 7, 2024

Ensuring compliance and accuracy in your financial reporting involves several key actions: Regularly review the latest guidelines and summaries provided by authoritative bodies on revenue recognition of grants and contracts. As the leader of a nonprofit, you must stay on top of updated standards or hire an accountant who does.

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Nucleus

OCTOBER 1, 2020

The Nucleus data analytics platform has two dedicated and ready-to-use packages for precisely these types of analysis: Learning Management and Certifications. Nucleus was designed specifically to bring all this data together and provide effortless, browsable exploration and insights to everyone on staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2014

I’ll be sharing my best tips and secrets for designing and delivering training for nonprofit professionals that get results. And, if you are attending NTEN’s Nonprofit Technology in March, join me, John Kenyon, Andrea Barry, and Cindy Leonard for a session on designing effective technology training.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JANUARY 2, 2024

” Analysis : This testimonial emphasizes the donor’s personal connection and satisfaction with the results of their contributions, highlighting the organization’s effectiveness and transparency. This might involve setting up a database or a designated section on your organization’s internal server.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 18, 2023

It’s also going to lower the entry bar to data analysis, giving everyone in your organization the ability to make better decisions on the fly. It’ll also give Salesforce users a way to complete tasks that were once beyond their technical, design or analytical capabilities. AI capabilities designed specifically for your organization.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

How rigorous or complex should the analysis of impact data be? Mobile Pathways designed a survey to assess their beneficiaries’ feedback about the mode of information dissemination that was most helpful to them. How closely should they track those changes? Decision-making based on performance and financial management. Market forces.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

Accountants Content moderators Legal Assistants Proofreaders Entry-level stock traders Transcribers Graphic designers, where creativity isn’t a priority Customer service representatives Soldiers Writers, where quantity is a greater concern than quality I reviewed several of these lists. Don’t waste valuable brain power.

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CauseVox

MARCH 1, 2023

Standard chatbots, on the other hand, are mainly designed to be used for external facing activities like customer support. Review and refine: ChatGPT isn’t going to get it 100% right. Be sure to review (and fact-check) what’s put out and polish as needed. Be specific!

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Language Generation Nonprofit Social Media 93

CauseVox

MAY 9, 2023

You still have to review and edit what ChatGPT has created, but it will save you loads of time on the initial draft. Firstly, it has the capacity to write emails that are specifically designed to engage your community, incorporating best practices picked up from its deep learning. We’ll show an example of this in the next section.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 29, 2009

This is a post to help me identify what I don't know about social network analysis and mapping tools with the hope that you'll fill in the gaps in the comments. How would you describe Virgin America in social networking analysis and mapping terminology? . I flew back from DC last night on Virgin America. Source: Monitor Institute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One? Notes from the presentations as well as photos can be found here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

I’m co-facilitating a session on Nonprofit Training Design and Delivery with colleagues John Kenyon, Andrea Berry, and Cindy Leonard at the NTEN Nonprofit Technology Conference on Friday March 14th at 10:30 am! If you think of your training as making a soup, your participant survey is like the food critic’s review of the soup.

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Evaluation Training Train Tips 128

Connection Cafe

MAY 15, 2014

I recently published the last post in my series about the nonprofit web design process and thought it would be helpful to have a final summary for the entire series. Analytics data as User Research : Timeframe for which to review analytics data and some specific research questions to drive data analysis. User Research.

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Forum One

APRIL 23, 2024

By exporting data, users can maintain access to historical comparisons and enable future analysis. How to Use Query Explorer Query Explorer is specifically designed for UA data, though you can also use it for GA4 data. Segments (optional): Isolate specific groups of users or sessions within your data for more targeted analysis.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2023

A national panel of judges was engaged in reviewing all entries based on creativity, quality, message effectiveness, consumer appeal, graphic design, and overall impact. Compass is an app designed to support parents in their journey from pregnancy through postpartum by providing answers, resources, and compassion at every step.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 2, 2022

The content in Issue Lab is designed to help social sector professionals with common, daily tasks. Filtering on an issue combined with document types such as "evaluation", "literature review", or "case study" will likely yield on-target results. Every published work in the collection is tagged to at least one of 35 issue areas.

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Lesson Learning Case Study Phase 59

NetWits

APRIL 5, 2013

Increase Your Email Revenue by 20% on December 31st – Interesting review of how testing your year-end email timing and frequency led to a bump in year-end fundraising. The Obama Way to Getting More Results From Email Marketing – An analysis of the Obama campaign’s email messaging and seven ways to get more from email.

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Rate email Ideas Trend 235

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

Scientist / Data Analysis Engineer / General Techie Want to help save the world with your code? We're Benetech's Human Rights Data Analysis Group, and we're hiring right now ! This technology and analysis is used by truth commissions, international criminal tribunals, and non-governmental human rights organizations around the world.

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Analysis Statistics Chart Language 150

Qgiv

DECEMBER 7, 2022

Strengthen Transparency and Communication: Documenting moves management within your donor database and reviewing the plans regularly can strengthen transparency and communication with fundraising staff. Are there existing moves management coding in place that needs to be reviewed or realigned? Getting Started. Step 5: Train Your Team.

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DNL OmniMedia

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

It’s a comprehensive, cloud-based solution designed to help nonprofits manage their operations more effectively and advance their mission-driven work. After up to three rounds of review, feedback, and revisions, it’s time to move your organization’s data over to its new home.

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Consultant Nonprofit Integration Review 52

DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 1, 2024

It’s designed to consolidate and integrate data from various sources, including CRM systems, fundraising software, financial databases, program management tools, and more. Instead of manually consolidating data from across sources, you can instead have it all stored and standardized in one place to streamline analysis and interpretation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 25, 2014

Earlier this month I was lucky enough to attend the CATechFest in LA designed and expertly facilitated by Aspiration. You can do a whole network analysis. Using the analysis steps below, it can help you be more intentional with online networking, learning, and building thought leadership. Organization. Hierarchical Position.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 11, 2020

For the general public, the designation “nonprofit” is often correlated with donations. Nonprofit entities will now be required to review the terms of all their contracts to determine whether they need to apply the new revenue recognition standard. You must perform an analysis by reviewing the contract terms to make this determination.

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Government Nonprofit Analysis Adopt 52

Candid

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As we review the latest data for 2020, though, we’ve realized that we have little chance of ever fully understanding philanthropy’s response to one of the most serious global crises of our lifetimes. . First, it’s important to note that this analysis is based on U.S. We start with a few caveats. The state of the data .

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Nonprofits Source

AUGUST 18, 2023

And we’ve compiled a list of matching gift software reviews from the leading provider, Double the Donation , for your benefit. A clean design and intuitive navigation empower your nonprofit team to efficiently manage matching gift opportunities with ease. And increase their matching gift revenue by over 61%!

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Forum One

JULY 13, 2022

Understanding the different needs of varied audiences has helped the City Health Dashboard team design storytelling products that ultimately make the Dashboard easier to use and more accessible to key populations. Design your data storytelling products. Understand your capacity. Commit to a schedule.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

To find a consultant whose services and methods align with your nonprofit’s needs, follow these steps: Review your needs. Review their proposals. Explore a few of our past web design projects. Typically, the building phase follows a few key steps: ​Design. Begin by defining your organization’s needs.

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

From recruitment and admissions to student success and reporting, the Salesforce.org Winter ’22 Education Cloud Release features a number of updates and optimizations designed to help make institution operations more efficient. Read on to learn more about how this release can positively impact your university. Education Data Architecture.

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Education Student Application Retention 59

ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 20, 2021

In 2018 analysis by Ben Gose , a reported 57% of nonprofits doubted their ability to continue meeting demand, motiving many nonprofit leaders to consider collaboration with other nonprofits and across sector lines in order to increase organizational capacity. Illustration by Yuxin Qin. Layer two begins with the implementation process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2013

This is a design aspect called “ Transformative Capacity Building ,” where a cohort of peer organizations come together to practice a skill and get better results. ” Here’s a methodology for doing an After Action Review, but it boils down to: Capture the lesson learned (big or small).

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Forum One

OCTOBER 13, 2022

Presenter(s): Amanda Halacy, Senior Strategist, Forum One; Julia Bradshaw , User Experience Design Lead , Forum One. In this session, we’ll discuss what inclusive research looks like and give you concrete tips for how you can ethically structure your research to ensure you’re designing impactful solutions for your audiences.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The thing that is prompting this post is the little storm about the security metric that we used to try and get a handle on the security of the 4 different systems we reviewed. This wasn’t designed to be an in-dept, complex analysis of security. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Why This Fundraising App Made Our List The Bloomerang app is designed to support donor management from wherever you are. Qgiv — Top Fundraising App for In-Person Giving Qgiv’s Virtual Terminal is a fundraising app specifically designed to help fundraisers record and accept donations on the go. The first is designed for event attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 6, 2014

As a trainer and subject matter expert, I fight a big battle when designing a workshop. Balancing the amount of content delivery with exercises and right sizing given the available time for the workshop. This where design thinking methods and innovation lab facilitation techniques can be helpful.

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Activities Active Activism Integration 105

Classy

JUNE 2, 2021

Through our analysis of nonprofit trends, we found seven key steps that successful nonprofits leverage to raise funds for their missions. . Reviewing their activity wall of donations to personally thank donors. Reviewing new donations that have the potential to become recurring gifts. Online Fundraising for the Modern Nonprofit.

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