Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 13, 2019

population — and what attention has been paid to American Muslims’ giving has been consumed with a fear of it possibly being linked to foreign terrorist networks. As the United States becomes an increasingly pluralistic nation, where do American Muslims fit into this statistic? Until recently, it was difficult to know.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In honor of World NGO Day on Thursday, February 27, Nonprofit Tech for Good will be presenting a free webinar covering the top 10 online communications and fundraising best practices for NGOs. The webinar will pay particular attention to how to effectively create visual media and blog content to distribute on social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2012

Once I recover from the journey, expect read reports about the Networked NGO in Rwanda and use of social media to support Women’s Rights organizations. Note from Beth: By the time you are reading, I’ll probably have been on a jet plane for far longer than I want to be and maybe have landed in Rwanda.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 12, 2015

The 32 nonprofits were bookmarked for a donation and selected because they were effective at grabbing my attention and sparking an inspiration to give through their tweets. The data will be used to compile a report about regional differences in how NGOs raise money online, use website and email communications, and embrace social media.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2011

Staff worried that the organization’s mission — empowering immigrants and low-income residents of Southern Chester County, Pennsylvania, to stay healthy, build strong families and lead productive and fulfilling lives — would receive less attention during this time-consuming move and IT migration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” You also need a method to get people’s attention – ringing chimes, clapping, or talking loudly. Just A Little Content To Get Started .

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Meet Bea Dominguez.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2016

Today online donations make up an average of 7-10% of an NGO’s annual budget and online giving continues to grow – and will continue grow – every year. NGOs should pay more attention to Gen X donors who donate an average of $465 annually. They are also the generation that volunteers the most. Use a premium donation service.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Not enough people really know what NGOs and nonprofits do for the world.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 8, 2024

Whether you’re a small community organization or a large international NGO, selecting the right technology is key for achieving fundraising success in 2024. With the growth of online spaces, storytelling is pivotal for cutting through the digital noise and captivating new donors’ attention.

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VisionLink

JANUARY 16, 2010

Haitian Timoun Foundation directly supports children in Haiti, and is focusing attention on Jacmel, another community suffering greatly from the earthquake. Save The Children has launched an emergency relief effort for Haiti to provide medical attention and clean water to children and families. Donate to the IRC Haiti Crisis Fund.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS). Install an SSL Certificate on your website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

New Orleans, LA: New Media Storytellers: How to get your audience to pay attention. Victoria, BC: NGO Summer Social. If you’re holding regular events gathering the #nptech community let me know and I’ll include you in the next community calendar! Tuesday, July 1, 2014. Thursday, July 3, 2014. Thursday, July 10, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

Writing a book required a much deeper level of focus and paying attention. Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012. This past year of writing the book “Measuring the Networked Nonprofit” with KD Paine and editor Bill Paarlberg, I got a taste of slowing down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2006

Licado, a Cambodian human rights NGO, has launched an awareness campaign to call attention to these abuses and garner support from the International community for the detainees by putting the Association for Freedom of Expression in Cambodia yellow ribbon on your website and link to this page. between Cambodia and Vietnam.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Another cloud story that has caught my attention this year are the welcome escalations of free cloud storage. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. We expect that Creative Cloud for Nonprofits will launch in early to mid 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2007

There is a very thoughtful post on the NTEN Blog called " Social Networking and Social Change " from Dan McQuillan, Amnesty It's hardly a surprise that large NGO's are starting to experiment with social networks, given the sheer numbers of people using them and their high media profile. Eight Steps To Succeeding in A Post Web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2006

I'm the moderator for the Flickr for Nonprofits Online Affinity Group over at NTEN and during a recent exchange about nonprofits using online photo and (video) contests to call attention to the causes, Cordellia and Susanne caught my attention. s attention on the web and do what we can to participate. Development Blogs

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 5, 2006

I.e. "Hey, idiot, get your head out of the digital sand and pay attention to things that matter." According to my colleague Rik Riel, this campaign is sponsored by the Spanish NGO Mensajeros de la Paz , which is leveraging various new media to draw attention to their work. Educate about your cause.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

As the scale of nonprofit losses from hacking becomes clear, #cybersecurity finally gets the attention & funding it needs. You are lucky if you get away without spending more than $50 – $60,000. Reach and Usefulness of Social Media Plateaus. Now that the hype and the newness of social media is wearing off, the reality is setting in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” The goal was to draw attention both online and on the ground to expected USDA standards for school snack foods.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 2, 2007

She has worked for that NGO for almost two years. There are some specific issues related to women that I'm not scared to speak my mind about this issue because I feel it is important to bring attention to it. photo by Oso Sopheap blogs at ifocus with the tagline ???three three dimensions of life.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2007

m supposed to be paying attention to.??? m supposed to be paying attention to.??? In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0 common struggle??? in understanding which tools are critically important to their work. ???I???m m in a perpetual state of anxiety about which tools I???m common struggle???

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. But sending out just one email on Giving Tuesday won’t be enough to garner the attention you need for a successful campaign. What organizations can participate, and how do we register? Build a series of emails before Giving Tuesday.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

AUGUST 7, 2006

I've also been exploring DesktopTwo - this application came to my attention via Emily Chang's eHub site. Blogging A couple sophisticated posts on the do's and don'ts of blogging came to my attention this week. And there is a lot to be said for free software that requires no installation. Take a look.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2007

Remember the homeless avatar in Second Life that got a lot of attention a few weeks back? As I've said elsewhere on this blog about Second Life, it isn't yet the best medium for fundraising, but to get attention for a cause and connect with people - there's some opportunity. I try base my opinions on research. The homeless.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

This is a similar challenge that ngo staffers may face in the US, but the difference is that a staff person the US is far more likely to own a personal laptop and enjoy an Internet connection (a high speed one) at home or a nearby coffee shop. It is going to be a creative challenge to do extensive blogging.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 22, 2007

There's an interesting idea for "emergency NGO in a box" in the notes about Disaster Management and Humanitarian Assistance Tools and an interview with Gregg Swanson of HumiNet by Britt Bravo from the Summit. The Summit runs until Saturday and the correspondent reports and notes are being filed.

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CauseVox

MAY 11, 2021

According to the Global NGO Technology Report, 94% of NGOs worldwide agree that social media is effective for creating online brand awareness. The only true currency on social media is trust and attention, and the only way to get it is through valuable communication that is craved – that people would miss if it went away.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Also see the Top Ten Flickr API Hacks and Top Ten Tips for Getting Attention on Flickr. see here ) In celebration of International Women's Day, Joe's Blog showcases some games that are designed to teach us about this issue, along with ways to support NGO's doing work in this area. here , using the ICT4peace tag.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

Once you’ve gotten your donor’s attention with a compelling story and shown them exactly how their money will be used, you need to make it as easy as possible for them to give. Both the letter and the envelope it arrives in can be designed to attract the donor’s attention. Or try a tool like Grammarly. Consider the design.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June. And he's come up with his plan, his social entrepreneurship plan, to bring attention to the refugee plight and also to contribute to rebuilding in Sudan. His dream was to go back to Sudan, and to contribute and help rebuild.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

The visual story of the Bhopal Medical Appeal was subsequently awarded a Getty Grant for Good in 2011 after winning the 2011 Focus for Humanity NGO Assignment Fellowship. Masi’s images of The Bhopal Medical Appeal were featured on the New York Times Lens Blog and TIME Photos. Photo by James Morgan on behalf of the World Wildlife Foundation.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. Now that we've made the argument that you should pay attention to women, how do you reach them? Women are engaged in their community.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

This is a guest post by Eamon Stack, CEO of ENCLUDE , which is TechSoup's NGO partner organization in Ireland. The quality and impact of the work at Foundation Nepal has attracted the attention of Irish Aid and many funders and they have grown to a staff of 8 in three years.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The fast fashion industry has been getting a lot of attention recently, with Stacey Dooley’s BBC documentary ‘Fashion’s Dirty Secrets’ , and the public is becoming more and more aware of the environmental (not to mention ethical) implications of cheap clothing. It’s a win-win for you and the planet. Our calculations.

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