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Supercharge Your Intern Program: 18 Proven Assignment Ideas Across Marketing, Data, & More

Whole Whale

This is especially easy if WordPress or another simple CMS is being used. Business challenge Challenge interns to create a 10 page presentation that researches an existing problem in the company and pitch practical solutions. The right intern can bring an outsider’s eye to organizing and filing rooms like this.

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Breaking Down UX, Design & Tech Silos Through Component-Based Design

Forum One

When designing and developing a website or application, a challenge is that roles and tasks can often operate in silos. To tackle this challenge, we recently piloted a new component-based design approach that prioritizes real-time collaboration. In WordPress, that’s the Block Editor. In Drupal 8+, that’s Layout Builder.

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The Ultimate Checklist to Choose a Web Vendor

Care2

Many nonprofits who are going through a website redesign on a tight budget want to know the best ways to find and hire a web vendor, especially ones that will understand their goals and challenges. What technologies (platforms like WordPress or Drupal and development environments like Ruby or PHP) do they have experience with?

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20+ Nonprofit Tools You Need to Get Your New Nonprofit Up and Running

Get Fully Funded

Building an organization from the ground up is a challenge, but with the right nonprofit tools, the heavy lifting gets easier. Cloud storage: For file sharing and storage, you can start with Drive through Google Workspace, so all documents can be stored in a convenient, accessible place. Some tools are free, at least to start.

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Goodbye Microsoft…

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But, I realized that I had somewhat of a challenge on my hands. They have a site, with the URL: [link] which is a link to a windows.exe file, which is a simple, sweet Debian installer. Changing one file (/etc/apt/sources.list) and running a few commands, should do the trick. Linux is supposed to be easy to install and use.

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Last minute tidbits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Many nonprofits have Linux file servers in their back offices. I’ve got a number of ideas up my sleeve for next year for this blog, one of which is to take up the challenge that Beth mentioned , and do 100 posts on something. This was to appease the European Commission. OpenOffice.org is coming closer to doing PDF import.

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Nonprofit Web Design: 3 Common Challenges & Solutions

Connection Cafe

Nonprofit fundraising and development is hard work, especially amid all of the challenges that have been thrown our way over the past year. Let’s walk through three of the most common web design challenges for nonprofits and how to start addressing them: A lack of engagement from users. Challenge 1: A Lack of Engagement from Users.

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