Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2015

I'm thrilled to say that one of our winning 2015 Green Tech Success Story Contest submissions is TechSoup member Cary Creative Center , or "C3," an organization working to save materials from the landfill by turning them into beautiful art. Images: Cary Creative Center. Creative Reuse: A Universal Language.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The World Wildlife Fund uses the juxtaposition of images to create a story of how human actions and decisions have endangered wildlife. Images are extremely powerful in evoking emotions and can be more persuasive than text alone. The medium of choice for millennials and Generation Z are videos and images.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

There’s both an art and science to effectively using social media and by implementing the best practices below your NGO’s ability to reach a global audience is significantly increased. Finally, learning how to convert quotes and stats into images or embedding them on photos will make your NGO even more successful on social media.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. The suite includes Adobe Illustrator for vector graphics, Photoshop for image enhancement, InDesign for desktop publishing and page layout, plus many additional programs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

Braided River combines the arts of photography and literature to create books, media campaigns, and museum exhibits about preserving North America's wild places. The suite includes Adobe Illustrator for vector graphics, Photoshop for image enhancement, InDesign for desktop publishing and page layout, plus many additional programs.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

This is a time of accessible AI—anyone with an internet connection can use state-of-the-art tools to help with tasks like brainstorming ideas, generating art, and drafting documents. Even large tech companies have had trouble with AI bias, such as Amazon’s controversial hiring AI. AI often amplifies those biases.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 16, 2016

People with liberal arts degrees can inadvertently find themselves in tech support and/or management roles in an organization. While I'm sure your organization has never made a major tech purchase decision because you "have a volunteer/consultant who knows it," it's possible that a sticker price of free ("Free!")

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2023

CauseVox’s New Site Editor allows you to craft your perfect page without any design or tech experience and elevate your visual storytelling. You can add images, videos, text and forms to better engage with your supporters, donors, and volunteers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 22, 2021

Morehouse Uses Tech to Transform Its Fundraising. Morehouse University , the only historically Black liberal arts college in the U.S. On Giving Tuesday 2020, the new tech platform by Salesforce allowed the advancement team to greatly improve its efficiency and data reporting speed.“It

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Tech Soup

JUNE 21, 2015

Formed in response to the growing employment and economic barriers that plague the transgender (sometimes called "trans") community, Trans*H4ck is a series of hackathons that bring visibility to trans entrepreneurs and innovators while developing new and useful open-source tech products that benefit the trans community.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: 2015 Tech Impact Awards Luncheon. Civic Tech: A Presentation and Hack Night Collaboration Evening. Hamra, Lebanon: ARTECHA: Art and Technology Hackathon.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

When they arrive at the location, players see an image of a Pokémon overlaid onto the real world that they can then collect. We can point to ways that tech is taking us further away from that goal, but the unique qualities of augmented reality as a medium make it particularly well-suited to ignite positive change. Register today!

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

We believe that NGOs learn best from each other, so NetSquared provides a platform where we can come together face to face to share technology tips and create a community of practice around tech for good. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 8, 2021

1) Master the art of Plain Language. . Ensure that your landing page generates an effective title and promo image on social media. Those who register and attend all three webinars in the series will earn a Certificate in Digital Marketing & Fundraising from Nonprofit Tech for Good. Thank you and Happy New Year!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2006

Unger (an artist who makes art to pay for his tech habit.) -- Anyway his site is called typepadhacks.org which collects useful hacks for extending the capabilities of TypePad blogs, provides a user forum for issues related to TypePad, and organizes users into a to lobby Six Apart for features. Found via We 2.0

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 18, 2011

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Subscribe :: Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Dipity :: dipity.com. e-Newsletter.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. Image 1: Hart for Animals. Image 2 : Pressmaster / Shutterstock. Image 3: Braided River. Image 4: Legacy of Hope Austin.

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NTEN

AUGUST 28, 2014

As we all know, the nonprofit tech community is loaded with smart and thoughtful organizers who give their time and efforts to help the rest of us do the good work we do. We recognize NTEN’s 501 Tech Clubs (local in-person groups) and Communities of Practice (CoPs) (online affinity groups) organizers are one clever and innovative bunch!

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Twenty Hats

JANUARY 12, 2021

Smithsonian Associates (SA) , which annually presents 700+ classes and other educational and entertaining programs, made a hard fast pivot in June 2020, when it began to present all of its lectures and art courses as livestreamed programs on Zoom. The images chronicle what the volunteers have been doing with all this time on their hands.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 16, 2012

Like most new social networking sites and tech start-ups, there is no Charity, Nonprofits, or Causes category – those will likely be added later when they see the rush of nonprofits signing up and using their site. Only add your location if you are a location-based nonprofit, such as a museum, zoo, performing arts venue, etc.:

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NTEN

OCTOBER 25, 2013

A monthly roundup of our favorite nonprofit tech resources and other goodies. When everyone''s favorite spam twitter account revealed itself to be an art project, there was a little but of uproar. Which brings up an interesting question: Can spam be art? What would tech support look like for other things that stopped working?

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NetWits

JUNE 20, 2012

Social media has revolutionized the way tech savvy arts and cultural organizations communicate. Their Facebook page features images, events, videos, polls, a map and even their gift shop. These unique perspectives are a great way to highlight those who are the most important part of your organization – your customers.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

Ever wanted to discover the art of transmedia? Victoria, Canada: The Art of Transmedia Storytelling: Creating Story Worlds Across Platforms. Naples, FL: NFN4Good Tech Club for SWFL. Baltimore, MD: March Tech & Social Change Meetup. Image: Chrispine Ochieng Okumu. Don’t be shy - come join us! See you soon!

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2019

American Airlines is often credited with pioneering dynamic pricing , and it continues to remain popular tool in the tech-driven transportation service. The Art Institute of Chicago was a pioneer in this regard: In 2015 and 2016, the Institute employed a sophisticated attendance model to test the effect of smaller exhibits on attendance.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2015

" Enchantment: The Art of Changing Hearts, Minds, and Actions by Guy Kawasaki — Former apple evangelist Guy Kawasaki illuminates the art of persuasion. Leana Mayzlina, digital inclusion campaign manager, told me: "Last year, I bought a copy of Visualising Information for Advocacy , put together by Tactical Tech.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2011

A great source for images for your nonprofit’s website, blog, e-newsletter, and social networking profiles. This website allows users to build visually appealing interactive timelines using video, audio, images, location, social media, and timestamps. Creative Commons on Flickr :: flickr.com/creativecommons. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2017

According to the report, overall giving to K through 12 education and arts and culture sectors grew the most in 2016. Image 1 : Farknot Architect / Shutterstock. Image 2 : Blackbaud. #GivingTuesday online donations were up 20 percent in 2016. Nearly 17 percent of online donations were made on a mobile device in 2016.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

Get hands-on help at a social media surgery, or learn about databases at a meetup or discover the top tech trends of 2014 at one of our panel discussions. Toronto, Canada: Tech Planning for 2014: Trends and Best Practices. Naples, FL: NFN4Good Tech Club for SWFL. Net2 Burlington Puts Vermont on the Map of Emerging Tech Cities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2011

QR Codes are two-dimensional bar code images that when scanned by a camera on a smartphone open a link to a website, send a SMS, or dial a phone number. For art walks. If you haven’t noticed QR Codes yet, after you read this post and browse the QR Codes on Flickr you’re going to start to seeing them everywhere. At airports.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

David Wilcox just posted a terrific wrap-up of our Social by Social game’s newest iteration, played at this week’s London Net Tuesday: Full size image here. each card had a image, a brief description, and budget of one, two or three points. groups formed around the issues, and developed ideas for project.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #11: Azureus February 15, 2008 Azureus (now called Azureus Vuze) is the best bittorrent client I have ever used. It’s quite amazing. It’s got a lot under the hood.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 26, 2015

Vancouver-based Art for Impact is a nonprofit that celebrates the power of art for social change. Art for Impact staff members used CiviCRM to improve their event planning process by selling tickets and creating an organized mailing list for distributions. Image 1 : Blended Images / Shutterstock. Image 2: CiviCRM.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Even if you aren’t a coding master or tech wiz, your nonprofit can still design a website full of personality and passion. With a custom theme, you won’t need to compromise on your brand image or redesign core assets like your logo around what your pre-built theme can handle. But don’t let this intimidate you!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. GIMP is a very full-featured image manipulation program.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 11, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits June 11, 2008 The Tides Foundation is accepting applications for the 2008 Antonio Pizzigati prize , a $10,000 annual award for outstanding contributions to software in the public interest. You go girl!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

Establishing small goals like raising $3,000 for an arts program. The Red Cross art department created cute, funny thank-you graphics to send. Image 1 : Giving Tuesday / Some rights reserved. Image 2: Giving Tuesday. Image 3: American Red Cross. Dress for Success's Giving Shoes Day.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2014

Baltimore, MD: February Tech & Social Change - Social Media Analytics. Victoria, Canada: The Art of Transmedia Storytelling: Creating Story Worlds Across Platforms. Get realistic tech trends and best practices for 2014 from NetSquared Toronto. Image: Nisha Virdi. Wednesday, February 5. Thursday, February 6.

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