Candid

JANUARY 25, 2024

Last year, we shared our crowdsourced list of red flags that funders look for in grant proposals—the things that immediately reveal the weak points in an application and raise questions about the organization’s credibility. Not surprisingly, the question we got most in response to that article was: What are green flags for funders?

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Greater Giving

MAY 14, 2024

Create Detailed Call Sheets For each contact, create a call sheet that includes: Name Spouse’s name (if applicable) Phone number Email address Number of years of donation Space for notes This is a perfect opportunity to update your database and remove outdated information. These stories become valuable assets for your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 28, 2008

Chris Brogan reminded us that he declared today as World Comment Day. He describes this as a move away from hunting and gathering and into "relationship agriculture" - information grows in our flow applications instead of us spending hours hunting it down. Well, off to comment on some blogs. What are the gains?

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Candid

AUGUST 22, 2023

As these technologies mature, so do their applications. A glimpse into AI at Candid When considering the applications of AI and machine learning at Candid, we keep the following questions in mind: Does this application help our staff do their work more effectively?

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Media Cause

JUNE 27, 2023

Leverage Trends When Applicable (Or Create Your Own!) Because your paid social efforts are running on social platforms, your target audience can react, like, comment and share your ads. For example, someone could leave a comment asking for clarification about an upcoming event you’re marketing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 19, 2018

App-based push notifications send users a notification from an installed application, most commonly on a mobile device.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

GWU Hospital used an alternate volunteer logistics management system that unfortunately fell short ” commented Gini Douglas, the supervisor of the volunteer program. Our processes, applications, communication, volunteer onboarding, and scheduling were all manual and extremely time-consuming.” Please let us know in the comments below.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 18, 2023

Nonprofits needed more streamlined applications and processes to get resources out the door and trust from grantmakers that they could do more and better work with fewer limitations. I have felt the frustration of completing horribly constructed online grant applications and experienced the exhilaration of being awarded significant funds.

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Candid

JULY 5, 2022

Like independent foundations, several commented that although total grant amounts increased, their payout remained the same or decreased due to growth in assets.? . We are hoping there is a continuation for philanthropic organizations to simplify their processes and applications, be nimble, and to put less of a burden on the grantee.

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DNL OmniMedia

APRIL 26, 2024

Double the Donation’s guide to nonprofit marketing recommends using this opportunity to interact with supporters by responding to their comments and messages and gathering feedback on their experiences with your nonprofit. Fill out and submit your application. Once verified, you can fill out an application for the Google Ad Grant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 2, 2008

  It solves the problem of monitoring blog comments where people specifically mention you.     People can make comments about you on other blogs and if you only track links from blog posts, you won't see it.     BackType lets you find, follow and share comments from across the web.

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The Modern Nonprofit

JUNE 8, 2021

You will need to do your research and gather the correct facts and figures pertaining to your work in order to make an informed case for your application. Using this research to tell an impressionable story, you can create a convincing grant application that will get your nonprofit the resources it needs.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 13, 2014

Let us know in the comment section below. You may argue that there are plenty of effective third party applications that offer this feature. Your hands are not tied when sharing links on Facebook as you might be with other social media applications. How does your nonprofit best utilize Facebook? Scheduling posts. Pin to the top.

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Neon CRM

MAY 12, 2023

To keep your members excited about your organization, you probably pull out all the stops, from reeling them in with a positive application experience to keeping them engaged throughout their membership. At this point, it’s important not to forget the other most crucial step to membership renewal: The membership application form!

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2011

How many fans have commented on our Page updates? What were the top three days for post comments within a specific time period? Understanding how to update your Page with content that gets likes and comments is a challenge for all nonprofits. How many specific comments did our content receive in this specific time period?

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 11, 2011

Last week, I had a lot of fun test-driving Qriously , a new application that replaces advertisements on smart phones with questions, creating real-time feedback about the topics you are interested in. So, as a way of opening up the possibilities and participation, I’m asking that organizations “submit&# via the comments.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 6, 2007

Threads is an online media album that allows people to make audio or text comments and embed those comments on the Slide Show. You can also leave a comment in the slide show or set one up yourself. This application makes it so easy to create slide shows, that maybe this will pave the way for more peer learning in multimedia.

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Candid

JULY 19, 2023

We opened our application process to any local nonprofit serving children and families.” “We Please share your ideas in the comment section below.  We gave more especially to underserved and low-income populations.” Our thanks to the foundations that participated in this year’s Foundation Giving Forecast Survey.

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Foundation Grant Survey Award 98

NTEN

OCTOBER 31, 2008

ZDNet wrote up a great overview of the tool and its applications, and ReadWriteWeb also gave it a brief review. I'd love to hear comments about how you think you could use something like this in your work. I think Reframeit opens a lot of possibilities for advocacy and service groups -- and definitely for educational institutions.

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Whole Whale

JULY 17, 2020

There is one in private beta, but they’re no longer accepting applications from nonprofits to participate. In addition to keeping track of donations, you will also want to know who those donors are and how much they are donating to update your CRM , if applicable. Thank donors for their contributions by commenting on the payments!

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TechImpact

MARCH 10, 2014

Make sure that every field is filled in fully, include your nonprofit’s name everywhere it is applicable. Encourage your constituents, volunteers, donors, supporters, and employees to like comment, Retweet, and share your content on your blogs and social media feeds. Optimizing these profiles is key, as well. Knowledge is power.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 11, 2013

This level allows a user to customize certain functions allowing them to develop their own applications. This level of cloud computing means any internet-based software, application, and service. An application that is used so often many do not even know that it is run via cloud! Software as a Service (SaaS).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

Other web applications. Comparisons of open source vs. proprietary development environments (i.e. PHP vs.NET and that sort of thing.). Non-profit CRM (including “SaaS&# in the proprietary camp). CRM/ERP more generally. Document Management.

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NCE Social Media

JUNE 8, 2011

What’s also interesting is Google created a similar tool you could use on smartphones but opted to not release the application. Share your thoughts and comments about this new tool in our comments section.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 11, 2008

Quick definition Cloud computing is basically running applications on the web via “Software as a Service (SaaS)&#. That includes applications from Google Documents, to Salesforce.com, to Gliffy.com , (the service I used to create that graphic.) Also, you can access the applications anywhere you go.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 25, 2013

This is because many businesses are still using cloud computing for niche applications, and have not fully adopted the system. Let us know in the comment section below. Cloud computing use grew exponentially in 2013, and is expected to grow at a rapid pace for the next 5-10 years. Think differently.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

You can join the conversations in the comments, or click through to the original posts to find what others are saying. Gloria Huang, a Red Cross employee, mistakenly posted the comment to the wrong account through the online application HootSuite, which can support more than one Twitter account at the same time.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

The point here is to focus on your goals and then think about how the online application can help you achieve what mission. I’d love to hear your take on each of these in the comments. Next, focus on your goals – Are you trying to raise a million dollars or mobilize a group of offline volunteers?

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 18, 2011

In the midst of all this change, it’s easy to lose sight of the big picture and why you are using Facebook for your organization in the first place—instead, we focus on the particulars of how to use new tabs, plugins, or applications. You can now see beyond the Likes and comments on your page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2007

is a web-based digital photo sharing application that uses tags to facilitate finding people and photos. Leave a comment with a url! I'm excited that a few of us can meet face-to-face! Here's a few resources that might be of interest: How to do you explain flickr to those who haven't heard of it? It isn??????t

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2015

Eligible organizations can request the full Office for Mac suite or the individual Outlook or PowerPoint applications. New Features for All Applications in Office for Mac. User interface: The Office for Mac applications now have the familiar look and feel of Office for Windows. New Features in Word. New Features in Excel.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 14, 2014

Let us and other readers know in the comment section below. As applications continue to enhance our social media experience, the various platforms will invariably become more ingrained with our nonprofits. It is never too early to start planning for potential tech upgrades and switches for your nonprofit.

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Kindful

JULY 8, 2021

Lengthy cumbersome application processes that include multiple time-consuming rounds of presenting your case to funders. Drop it in the comments! . Grants can prove just as addictive and time-consuming. Over reliance on government funding . Want to learn more about the returns you get on your fundraising strategies?

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 31, 2009

A Wild Apricot reader left a comment on our post about how to publish your Facebook Page to Twitter, asking: “Is there an application out there to update a Facebook Fan Page’s status from Twitter?” Tags: Non-profit technology nptech Social networking Facebook Non-profit Communications Twitter application social media.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 21, 2007

November 21, 2007 Beth’s wonderful post about a decision tree for whether or not an organization should get into the social networking business had a link to a comment about OpenSocial. It seems to me that many organizations are going to have very similar needs in terms of kinds of applications. Anyone interested? That was all.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

You can read and comment on the original post here. —– There’s been some interesting discussion about Apple, donations and This American Life ’s iPhone application lately that I want to touch on. My latest Stanford Social Innovation Review opinion piece is up and copied below.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

OBS is an application-based program. Unlike other platforms covered here, Restream has social media features like broadcasting chats from social media into the stream, cross-platform chat, on-screen captions, and real-time comments. Open Broadcaster Software (OBS; Application-Based Program).

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