Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

If your nonprofit has yet to start a blog or already blogs but struggles with ideas for fresh content, then hopefully the 11 blog content ideas listed below will help. Organizational updates can also include announcements of conferences or fund-raisers, staff changes, or any recent awards or accolades your nonprofit has received.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Your vision for your new organization probably includes vibrant programs, happy donors, tons of community support, and the opportunity to change lives. If you want to increase capacity, open another shelter so more people in need of shelter will be able to find a bed, work closely with existing shelters to understand demand.

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NTEN

JUNE 16, 2021

This guidance allows us to remain open to change and improving as we grow alongside our local, regional, and global communities. Together we identified goals and ideas that each department can work towards in the next fiscal year. NTEN was named as one of the 100 Best Green Workplaces in Oregon for 2021.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

So many wonderful ideas, and I shared a few below. A few offered solid concrete suggestions that take the big idea of "advocacy" and make it concrete, like list wages on hiring requests and refusing to use unpaid interns. (I walking meetings to open up our lungs and our thinking). 1x1 time is critical.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

I asked for some recommendations on Twitter for the best practical sources for change management. Joitske recommend Learning To Change. She also pointed me to an older post on her blog about one of theories of change in the book based on thinking styles. People change if things are appealing and inspiring to them.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 19, 2013

and she’s well underway bringing positive change to many more communities. Her success fighting against a plan to build a waste transfer station in Hunts Point and then spearheading the South Bronx’s first open-waterfront park in more than 60 years was a turning point.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

When the lockdown happened, we found ourselves momentarily in the air, waiting for our parachutes to open. Leading up to Passover, staffers who had never once written for our website were coming up with ideas and writing content for the holiday. Change Course. Keep on asking. The time isn’t always right, unfortunately.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2012

I did a mini-workshop on networked leadership and culture change to support these transformations. The project is a hyperlocal source of information about living green–powered by network of environmental activists, nonprofits, and grassroots organizations. Cara talked about the network formation phase of the project.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

MAY 18, 2020

On the bright-side, if you are open about the areas of your campaign you wish to improve, people are likely to suggest ideas, helping you become more eco-friendly and connect with your supporters at the same time. Use Green Energy. Green Online Marketing . Of course, going paperless is key, but it’s not perfect.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2013

The conference was framed around the question: Given the convergence of networks and big data and the need for more innovation, what evaluation methods should be used to evaluate social change outcomes along side traditional methods? These methods included: Developmental Evaluation , Shared Measurement , and Big Data. Degree of uncertainty.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 28, 2009

And frustrating challenges like fighting off big oil’s influence on the ever delayed climate change bill otherwise known as Waxman Markey. There have the been the well discussed successes like DonorsChoose and Lil Green Patch. Creating open communities with old siloed corporate structures. Going back to the climate change bill.

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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. The striking thing: open source software wasn’t on their list. And that’s because in the enterprise world, for the most part, open source software is a given part of the mix. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 24, 2007

Read more about it from Green Miles blog and a summary of reactions from other nonprofits here. The MacArthur Foundation's Digital Media and Learning Competition includes a "Knowledge-networking" category designed to take good ideas and circulates them widely, taking full advantage of the Web's potential for collaborative thinking.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 30, 2008

Amy Sample Ward let’s us know how to give green. David is always a great source for thoughtful insights about open source. I love Holly’s approach to technology. Amy is a great source for nptech tips of all types. David Geilhufe ponders how technology solutions split communities, and issues of a lack of strategic vision.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

NpTech Conversations Convio Opens Up API Jason at DIA summarizes the posts and the bigs news in the nptech field this last week - Convio Releases An Open API. This one of the ideas that David Weinberger touches on in Everything Is Misc. Tools and Strategy Google Earth for Green Activism. Convio or Causes? And if Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

Recently, I’ve been reading the ideas from The Presencing Institute (PI), an action-research community that “creates social technologies, builds capacities, and generates holding spaces for profound societal renewal.” The formula for a successful change process is not “form follows function,” but “form follows consciousness.”

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

Nonprofits, schools, churches, and many other organizations were forced to get creative to come up with fundraising ideas during COVID. When the pandemic first started, who could’ve guessed that it would change the way many nonprofits fundraise forever? Basic COVID-Friendly Fundraising Ideas. Online fundraisers. Read-a-thon.

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Neon CRM

SEPTEMBER 21, 2023

There are so many different kinds of nonprofit event ideas out there! With those factors in mind, we’ve put together a list of 52 nonprofit event ideas to help serve as a “vision board” for your organization’s next event. How do you choose just one? We’ve broken them down into six major categories.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Temra Costa's book, Farmer Jane: Women Changing the Way We Eat features the stories of over 30 women and how they are changing our food system for the better as farmers, educators, mothers, chefs, businesswomen, and policy wonks. Our conversation began with my asking Temra, "How are women changing the way we eat?" They traveled.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Opening Exercise. We were asked to brainstorm ideas in each category, jotting down notes on the post it notes and adding to the wall. a) Green: Great things you’ve heard of, or done yourself. You can have participants work individually, writing down their ideas on sticky notes and putting on the wall and then discuss.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

AUGUST 13, 2008

I “live the open source lifestyle.&# This news is so old it’s embarrassing – NPR opened up their content API. A new site was launched called “ Green Nonprofits.&# I was profiled on Linux.com. That’s kinda fun! That must have been before the iPhone. This blog is rated 8.2 Way to go, NPR!

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 9, 2007

As I mentioned last week, I'll be speaking about blogging at the Writing for Change Conference in San Francisco this month. In the interview transcript below, Elizabeth talks about the conference and offers tips for writers who want to write for change. And being green is also part of saving the planet, saving the earth.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

I’ve been facilitating design labs for nonprofits and foundations, and continue to be excited about them because it is a way to generate feedback and ideas that can improve a strategy or program in service of the participants being served. How do we leverage the “rain” of culture change?3. Why Use One?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 30, 2008

If there is one link, one phrase, one idea that piques my interest, I follow that person. I'm cool with you using Twitter to let me know about new blog posts, exhibits, programs, or changes to your hours. I don't feel, as Tyler Green does , that an art museum MUST tweet about art. Thanks for the idea, Shelley.)

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 16, 2018

It’s time for a frank discussion on the role each and every one of us—from leadership to board, database managers to finance teams—can and must play to foster an open, innovative culture of philanthropy. If you’d like a quick rundown of the topics covered, we’ve compiled the biggest ideas from the panel discussion. War child UK.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 27, 2009

Try changing out the organization name and key staff names to match your organization’s information and give it a try! Go to your Netvibes page, and hit the green “add content&# button in the upper left of the screen. You have a few other options when setting up the Google Alert. About Net2 Think Tank.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

She is the co-founder and co-director of Women's Global Green Action Network , a nonprofit that cultivates global partnerships of grassroots women environmental leaders by providing access to communication tools, support services and networking capabilities. Below is a transcript of an interview with her from the Big Vision Podcast.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 24, 2012

It is not that they do not have ideas, but rather, that they need to feel safe in putting their ideas on the table. However, the majority of the elders (all men) were frozen in place by fear and resisted change that did not conform to their worldview or their traditional role as decision-makers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2010

I also recommend listening to a podcast interview with Safran Foer on Vegan.com The Green Collar Economy: How One Solution Can Fix Our Two Biggest Problems by Van Jones Van Jones was talking about "green jobs" way before it became a buzzword. I was particularly interested in the idea that what women are looking for is, "a two-for-one.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

These groundbreaking partnerships with business continue, but EDF has established a network approach to scaling behavior change in businesses. As David Witzel observed during our conversation, "A problem-solving network is the only way we scale rapidly and effect change with limited resources." Leadership and culture are important.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 26, 2010

The idea of collaboration in this sense can manifest in many ways: adapting strategies to work collaboratively, leveraging platforms that allow for collaboration across organizational lines, creating new and larger demand for open products and services. Why do you think your session topic is important for nonprofits to address?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 10, 2023

If you’re going to invest in something like a new piece of technology, you need a clear idea of how that tech is going to help you deliver on your mission. While Kindful is a popular CRM with many small nonprofits, that acquisition could mean changes on the horizon for the system. Click on this image to take the quiz!

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 5, 2008

Although many of the ideas on the lists help people in need, or have a light impact on the planet, most of the ideas are objects to purchase. The family opened the boxes in order, by size. When she opened the tiny little box, glued inside the lid was a piece of paper that unfolded, like a fortune cookie fortune.

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BoardAssist

OCTOBER 18, 2018

Reading and understanding these reports can be difficult for many board members, but there is so much important information there that great board members must learn to understand them so they can be real agents of change on the boards they join. That way, readers can get an idea of the magnitude of the change.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 6, 2009

Convio and Social Actions worked together to launch the Change the Web Challenge. The Change the Web Challenge invites you to answer the question: How would YOU connect all the ways to take action to the millions of people who browse the web everyday? What a great team-building and healthy idea!

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NTEN

MARCH 16, 2011

This opening reception provides an opportunity to network with nptech professionals while checking out nearly 100 exhibirors showing off their latest and greatest offerings to the nonprofit sector. It's also the setting for the conference's Opening Reception. Just slide open the 3” widescreen to show your videos instantly to friends.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 15, 2009

For a couple of years my wife and I have had a wacky idea: chickens in the backyard. The idea of knowing where our food came from also appeals to us. When faced with a question on chicken care, I flipped open the netbook and my wife referenced 2 books she purchased. All information is not online. Yelp, you ask?

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