Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. . Most projects require partnerships to access both technical ability and sector expertise. For organizations, the guidelines include: .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Google.Org is giving away $25 million to humanitarian projects that use Google’s machine learning technology. We’ve already seen AI’s potential to transform our own products and benefit the world through applications like flood forecasting or monitoring whale species. Does it require that applicants use Google AI tools ?

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Nonprofits Source

OCTOBER 2, 2023

Businesses can sponsor your organization’s events to help cover these costs and ensure more of your event revenue goes directly toward your projects and programs. Google Google.org is Google’s philanthropic arm that details the company’s charitable projects, from pro bono work to cybersecurity efforts to fighting climate change.

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MAY 25, 2023

Further, funders disincentivize risk when they require lengthy applications and reports that may not always showcase reality or the organization’s ability to create impact. Many funders want to wait to see how new models, programs, and leaders will perform, and they often require other funders to buy in before they will.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Or, nonprofits will spend several thousand dollars hiring a grantwriting consultant and experience mixed results (where they fail to secure a grant). They might even win grants but don’t fully understand exactly what their consultant has done for them. Think of your programs in projects. Ask for your board or community’s help.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Or, nonprofits will spend several thousand dollars hiring a grantwriting consultant and experience mixed results (where they fail to secure a grant). They might even win grants but don’t fully understand exactly what their consultant has done for them. Think of your programs in projects. Ask for your board or community’s help.

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FEBRUARY 10, 2022

Coming into the association space as a developer eventually shifted into combining my technical skills with my people and business understanding and becoming an Applications Analyst and several other roles. Amy Bell, Manager, Implementation Consultant?? . Fun fact about Dave. I love going on cruises (seven so far and one upcoming).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Most grant writers just start with long responses to grant applications, instead of first setting up their own plan. This is the easiest way forward as you will have an immediate template for your grant project. The reason is that research anchors and validates the entire reason for your project. This is a must.

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Global Giving

JULY 25, 2017

That typically doesn’t yield a solution that’s sustainable, rather the project easily goes into disuse or is “developed and dumped.” In this case, the customer is a nonprofit, and it’s important to begin pro bono projects by taking a human-centered design approach to understand the context and need before diving into implementation.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Leads World Central Kitchen’s emergency and disaster relief efforts and long-term impact projects . The Trevor Project. Personally focused on positioning The Trevor Project to serve more young people than the 20,000 youth served today. The Investment Integration Project, Impact Alpha. World Central Kitchen. Sam Dorison.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 19, 2022

With fiscal sponsorship, individuals and organizations can bypass the complicated 501(c)(3) application process, saving time, money, and a lot of effort. This nonprofit becomes what’s known as a “fiscal sponsor” for the new organization, project, or program, lending their tax-exempt status in the process. .

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

As open source software moves more and more into the application layer, it is increasingly relevant to nonprofits. Open source projects are now prominent players in middle layer. More recently, open source development has moved into the application layer. Commercialization of open source projects is another important trend.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. They do a lot of really great consulting and placement if that is something that is of a need from you. Brian: Let’s go. .

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 5, 2021

Cloud for Good is seeking experienced technology professionals to lead Salesforce.com implementation projects with nonprofit organizations or higher education institutions. They will also have strong consulting skills, such as project and time management and collaboration.

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JULY 8, 2021

At Web Courseworks, we specialize in both learning management systems (LMSs) equipped with assessment authoring tools and providing consulting services to help professional, medical, and trade associations create top-tier eLearning experiences for their members. Work with an eLearning consultant.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2011

This is a summary of my notes and take-aways from the small group discussion on the Boston Youth Sports Initiative with Roberto Cremonini with Cremonini Consulting (formerly with Barr Foundation, funder of project) and Chris Lynch with Squash Busters (formerly with the Initiative). The message was that the network was open to everyone.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

Tim says: If all OpenSocial does is allow developers to port their applications more easily from one social network to another, that’s a big win for the developer, as they get to shop their application to users of every participating social network. We don’t want to have the same application on multiple social networks.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

If you're trying launch a project, like a community center or a film festival, KickStarter or Indiegogo might be the way to go. The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 18, 2021

It may be older, smaller, a different model, and less-than-perfect. Sometimes service-based businesses will donate the labor for a project and give you the materials at cost. Attribute the gift to the appropriate campaign, project, or program, if applicable. Encourage the donor to consult their tax professional.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The cloud refers to a number of different technical components -- from applications to databases to server virtualization to web services. Visit the Google Apps marketplace for a good view of hundreds of applications doing a myriad of things from email to accounting to project management. Reliance on third party(ies).

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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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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The cloud refers to a number of different technical components -- from applications to databases to server virtualization to web services. Visit the Google Apps marketplace for a good view of hundreds of applications doing a myriad of things from email to accounting to project management. Reliance on third party(ies).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 15, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Speaking too soon April 15, 2007 I’ve been doing a lot of thinking since I wrote my post, a few weeks ago , saying I was done with technology consulting. At first, I liked it a lot.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

The bottom line: We've consulted with cryptographers and studied the Martus code, and we do not believe that there is a weakness affecting Martus users. The way this flaw emerged has motivated us to review Martus's security model, and we are pleased with how well it has stood up. What exactly is the problem? How did this happen?

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 31, 2022

The Principal Consultant is part of a newly formed team called Delivery Excellence in our Services Practice. The initial focus will be on Project and Program Management. The focus of the role is defining and enabling excellence across delivery at Cloud for Good. Successful candidates will be highly experienced in delivering Salesforce?solutions

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

If you're trying launch a project, like a community center or a film festival, KickStarter or Indiegogo might be the way to go. The Scoop: Perhaps one of the most buzzed about crowdfunding platforms, Kickstarter is a way to fund projects. If a project succeeds, Kickstarter will charge a 5% fee to the funds collected.

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DipJar

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

For instance, you’ll create a sustainable fundraising model and have reliable funding coming in throughout the year that you can put toward various budgeting needs. Korri Piper, Sales and Marketing Consultant & Director of Vendor Relationships at ShopRaise. Diversifying your nonprofit’s revenue streams comes with several benefits.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 8, 2019

As a results consultant I had the pleasure of working with the SEFCU team to design a measurement framework that enabled SEFCU to become more targeted and specific about how they wanted to invest their human and financial capital to ultimately be able to demonstrate their success toward their end desired result of “measuring lives improved”.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The Cloud for Good Principal Consultant, Digital is responsible for leading Salesforce Marketing Cloud or Pardot implementation projects, driving services team enablement, and contributing to pre-sales and sales support for potential clients. Coaching and mentoring junior consultants working on the same team/vertical? .

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 15, 2007

It allows you to access 16 entities within the Kintera application, including lots of data about contacts, plus data about appointments and tasks. One of my favorite quotes in the Connect documentation is this one: “As long as you can invoke the API over HTTP, your application can be Microsoft, HP, IBM, Novell, Oracle, even Sun-based.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 15, 2022

Cloud for Good is seeking experienced technology professionals to lead Salesforce implementation projects with nonprofit organizations or higher education institutions. They will also have strong consulting skills, such as project and time management and collaboration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 8, 2007

But it’s only been in the last few years that mega storage, and mega processing power were available to organizations to power big web applications and the like. It wasn’t so long after that that virtual hosting companies became ubiquitous, and affordable for nonprofits.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

The developers of each project have completely different sets of assumptions about what the right way to do things is, and completely different philosophies and ethos when it comes to building interfaces and functionality. It’s a good checklist that lists the most common attack vectors for web applications these days.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

I’m a social scientist by passion, but a fundraising consultant and executive by trade. Weave in stories that are connected to the podcast and I’m going to share some model language for you. . So here’s a model for how you can establish common ground. . So, yes, this podcast … this podcast, oh, man.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 1, 2007

Any application written for OpenSocial will work on any partner social network – any OpenSocial “container&#. Facebook has quite the motivation to keep people on Facebook, and keep the eyeballs there, because of their revenue model, which is ad-based. And the language of these APIs are standard HTML and Javascript.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 29, 2007

Which, of course, has been an issue for me for a long time – lack of open source alternatives in the "vertical" application spaces – case management, etc. An older woman of color noted that a lot of the problems that open source developers were solving weren’t problems that communities faced.

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