Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 3: World Wildlife Day — #WorldWildlifeDay. 8: International Women’s Day — #IWD19. 30: Earth Hour — #EarthHour.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. With the goal of promoting braille literacy, this landmark meeting brought together braille experts from around the world to Perkins’ campus in Watertown, Massachusetts. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask.

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sgEngage

MARCH 8, 2023

Connect the dots and remind supporters that libraries promote literacy by offering free access to literature for all community members. Set Your Fundraising Goal Use data from past campaigns to establish your fundraising goal and identify potential donors.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 27, 2012

1 This study, Financial Literacy and Knowledge in the Nonprofit Sector (PDF) , "engaged a random sample of primarily human service nonprofits, as well as health, civic, environmental, arts, and education nonprofits." Sources: ^ [1] " Financial Literacy for the Long Term ," Philanthropy Matters, Vol. Interestingly, 60.7%

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Neon CRM

JUNE 16, 2023

Many of today’s nonprofits have a lot of data on constituents but few strategies for what to do with it. The donor data you have is only as good as how it’s organized. Nonprofit database segmentation allows you to structure your data to support reporting, personalization, and overall engagement.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 23, 2012

I first became interested in the topic after reading David Shenk’s “ Data Smog ” in 1998 using the metaphor of environmental problems to talk about the dangers of having too much online information, primarily email. To increase digital literacy of our communities with good digital literacy skills.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 16, 2011

TechSoup recently completed a data center move of more than 100 servers and 25 networking devices. During the move, techsoup.org was unavailable — but our stalwart Client Services team was not. Ever helpful, the team got on board to roll up their sleeves and pitch in at San Francisco Bay Area nonprofits that had big volunteer jobs.

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BoardAssist

JULY 19, 2017

Maybe he is a public school teacher who develops an after-school literacy program for under-served children in his community. Someone who can gather data on best practices at the fifty other after-school literacy programs in New York? Most nonprofits are started by someone with a dream to make the world a better place.

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NTEN

JUNE 13, 2014

First off, in terms of metrics, you need to be very clear in your own mind as to what the exact intended end use of that data will be. Can you offer any advice for finding, gathering, or sourcing good data to inform their strategies? Data lcs Leadership leading change summit matt groch Strategy'

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

This blog originally appeared on the Huffington Post In December 1981 soldiers of the Salvadoran Army’s Atlacatl Battalion entered the village of El Mozote, where they murdered hundreds of men, women and children. He went on to become Benetech’s Vice President of Human Rights and led our human rights work for nine years.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

On September 11, despite having reunited several families, the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children had a list of 1,600 children listed as missing by their parents, or who were seeking their families. If you want to see the data historically, be sure to visit the site and press “Play&# on the map.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

A number of nonprofit organizations are promoting Valentine's Day giving opportunities, here's a few: A Day for Hearts is an opportunity to raise awareness about congenital heart defects, a lethal constellation of birth defects of the heart that affect millions of newborn infants and children worldwide.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Children love it. The intruder was able to get names, addresses, genders, birth dates, and even photos of children — more than six million children. Privacy and Security.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Segmenting data, what does that mean and what are some of the ways we might do that. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems. We can’t go into what data systems or, you know, what fields to use until we know, “What do we want to track?”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 12, 2008

How do increase internet literacy with communities? Use this to communicate with your children. Can you pull data in and data out easily. If there is what should it be? What technologies do you need to encourage user-generated content on video? What are the best examples of social networking use? Are you using your phone?

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CauseVox

NOVEMBER 9, 2023

To do this, you’ll need data. You could use surveys, interviews, or even study your past campaign performance data to identify patterns. Engaging Success Stories: Visual storytelling elements like images or videos of children reading, accompanied by their success stories, are placed where they’re easy to find.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Based on pre-pandemic estimates and additional post-pandemic data, the report, The Education Finance Playbook (29 pages, PDF), found that current aid to education globally totals some $16 billion annually—a figure that has been trending down—while at least $75 billion a year is needed. Currently, the numbers just don’t add up.

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Neon CRM

JULY 20, 2023

For example, say you wanted to run a capital campaign to buy a new building for your literacy organization; your feasibility study process might look like this: Define your goal: Your project aims to raise $300,000 to purchase a new building to hold a library. You would collect all this information into a survey or report to compare later.

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Museum 2.0

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Both of these designers presented compelling images and evidence from exhibit work and child development experts about the idea that you can make sophisticated, muted exhibits that help children slow down, focus, and enjoy themselves with interactive content.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

One of my business visits was to a long-standing social enterprise partner of ours, Digital Divide Data in Vientiane, Laos. I wrote about that visit in my last blog post: Digital Divide Data: our Partner in Laos. Their goal is to help protect vulnerable children.

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