Pamela Grow

OCTOBER 25, 2023

And, with donations declining across the board for the first time in five years, organizations need to pay attention to the concerns of their donors now more than ever. Read on for our explanation of how silent auction software can help your nonprofit go green with successful, sustainable fundraisers. But the benefits don’t end there!

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

But meetings are a part of any nonprofit, and you need a tool to gather everyone or some meeting participants virtually. With your website up and running, you can turn your attention to email marketing, keeping supporters informed about your work through email. But, make no mistake, where Little Green Light wins is on price.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Auctioneers have to capture the audience’s attention with eye-catching items that spark bidding wars. Food and beverage items are a great way to capture the attention of the foodies in your nonprofit’s audience. Therefore, we recommend no more than 12-15 items to ensure you hold your audience’s attention.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 12, 2022

Kindful acts as the engagement platform that you need to capture the attention of your supporters and take action to develop deeper relationships. You can invite your donors to a hybrid or virtual event, encourage them to bid on items, and pull reports to better understand how each attendee interacted with your organization during the event.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2007

There’s some great stuff there, like virtualization, social software, green IT, etc. It is nice to see that “Green IT &# tops Gartner’s list. I really do hope that the CIOs of the world pay attention. { I think sometimes, interesting things come out of that watching.

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NTEN

JULY 1, 2009

Disruptive Technology #1: Virtualization. . There are lots of benefits to virtualization, chief among them, the power savings. Virtualization helps reduce the number of servers used, decreasing power consumption. AND, it's the green thing to do. The real fun begins with desktop virtualization. Make Al Gore proud!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2013

The Flipped Classroom is mindset that directs attention away from teachers and puts it squarely on the students and their learning. It’s being done in elementary, high schools, and colleges. While there is no one right way to use the technique, what would customarily be defined as homework (problem sets, essay writing, etc.)

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Local gardening experts can have the chance to demonstrate their green thumb and teach others in workshops that cover topics such as organic gardening, composting, or urban gardening. This spring fundraising idea benefits both your cause and the dogs getting some extra attention. 49 Online Fundraising Ideas to Help You Raise More.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 2, 2010

It is definitely a task to decide which social media platforms should demand your attention and energy. It's like placing a thumbtack on a virtual GPS map so everyone knows where you are and where you have been. Author: Josh Shepherd. It's not easy to keep up with all the changes in social media. Let me know what you think!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2007

.  I don't think anyone is profiting from this action, but hopefully it draws attention.    And, of course, finding a cure for breast cancer takes more than virtual pink ribbons and color schemes for your blog.  So, if pink or red are not your colors, what about green? 

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2006

By day I'm a principal at Green Machine PR , a marketing and public relations firm that specializes in high tech and green tech. I owe the CivicSpace community for this fortuitous virtual meeting. You have to have a job to pay the bills and you have to pay attention to your kids so they don't grow up to be psycho killers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

This piece is part of an occasional series we do at GreenTech to profile leaders in the Green IT field. publication, Green IT For Dummies. There are now many general books on green IT, but Green IT For Dummies remains one of the most readable and practical introductions to the field for people in small and medium sized offices.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Green Technology. This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. Another cloud story that has caught my attention this year are the welcome escalations of free cloud storage.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Here's a set of best practices for Green Activism with Google Earth. JournaMarketing tells us why it isn't important to get every blogger's attention online. Technovist tells us how to be a green blogger and Emily's World gives a great list of environmental blogs.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

It allows you to introduce yourself and only then engage the visitor in a virtual conversation with an ask, be it to donate, sign-up for our newsletter, register for an event, volunteer, or use your resources. . You have a limited amount of attention from a visitor. Why (should I be interested)?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 3, 2009

As Valera Maltoni wrote in her post about ten tips for building movements, “ make advocates feel like rock stars - give people your attention. His answer, " There are many ways, but we do spend a great deal of time sending virtual birthday cards to folks." He is a member of the national CIO 4 Good and Green IT Consortium Groups in DC.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

In addition to rising temperatures, green leaves, and seasonal allergies, March usually heralds the beginning of the spring fundraising season. And if you’re wanting to keep your next event entirely virtual due to COVID-19, check out these virtual fundraising ideas ! But you know what’s as important as great planning?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2007

We then flew virtually up the Los Gatos Creek canyon: past their homes and their children's schools along our steep and narrow mountain roads that would be burdened with a dozen/day 90,000 lb. Full disclosure: I am NetSquared's Community Builder. Google Earth Outreach nonprofit mapping nptech net2 activism

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Classy

JULY 13, 2021

At the 2021 Collaborative: Virtual Sessions , our annual nonprofit conference, over 7,000 people from across the world came together to learn how to advance their mission within the social sector. By Alison Green and Jerry Hauser. Use the advice in this book to make sure your cause and ideas grab people’s attention and never let go.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

According to Peter Schwartz, Co-founder and Chairman of the Global Business Network “ by focusing its patience, capital, and attention on the links between technology and international development, philanthropy will change not just lives but the very context in which the field of philanthropy operates.”

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 8, 2021

Your attention-grabbing auction items will have your guests tripping over themselves to place bids, so make the bidding process as efficient as possible. Rather than saying “Score a weekend getaway to wine country,” try calling attention to specific elements of the trip. In your videos, remember to describe your items in detail.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

I’m going to start sipping my green tea, like you said. We are competing for attention at a level we have never seen in our lifetimes. There are more people attending their virtual “put a face on it” experience than they ever had coming into their healing center. So I’m going to pipe down.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 8, 2023

Donor databases like Little Green Light , Bloomerang , and Kindful do so much more than just track donations. Or does it need the attention and skill of a professional? Outsourcing tasks to a virtual assistant or contract employee might be good options too if you have the funds to pay them. Can a volunteer do the job?

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Gyrus

JULY 26, 2016

As we embark hundreds of years down the road from some of these grand musings and green field possibilities, it is important to look back and evaluate what we as humans have actually accomplished. Cars are beginning to drive themselves, and augmented reality and viable virtual reality is beginning to make its way into our lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 9, 2016

One key idea in the infographic is the fractured nature of the modern attention span. So, how can you design those face-to-face experiences so they are more micro? Awareness or Attention Training – How to keep your focus, especially when you are working on online. The idea is micro-content and micro-exercises or mini-sessions.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

There’s less personal contact, more virtual communication, and there are consequences for this. The question here is, how often do you actually meet with donors in person or perhaps virtually on Zoom for any reason? So Fraser Green, great fundraiser in Canada who was working for an organization, left it. But essentially.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 28, 2021

People move fast when browsing the internet, and few visitors will give a website more than a few seconds to catch their attention. Strong nonprofit website design catches visitors’ attention, but not every method for attracting your visitors’ eyes is a good idea. Pay attention to hierarchy. Do a 5 second test. Color contrast.

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