Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2012

As traffic continues to grow , new tools and functionality are added almost daily. Like Twitter, you have to post or share content frequently to get exposure in the feed since there is no Edgerank-like algorithm to filter out (boring) posts/tweets. Children’s National Medical Center. Acción contra el Hambre.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 30, 2012

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Almost half the world’s children now live in urban areas; the report calls for greater emphasis on identifying and meeting their needs. .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

Tech solutions combined with forward-thinking, inspired, and innovative community leaders like Gita Rampersad, vice president of healthcare partnerships and nutrition at Feeding America, and Dr. Kyla Johnson-Trammell, superintendent of Oakland Unified School District (OUSD), offer a model for how to tackle complex issues.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2023

People have different values (some want to help children; others animals; others education, the environment, the arts… and so on). What might feed their souls, build social capital, enable people to connect and help them stay in contact? You just need to offer the opportunities, and the tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

With all the new tools out there to experiment with, why would individuals and brands want to start over on site with a bad brand name and tainted history? To me, this a colossal, baffling mistake on the part of Myspace. It’s these nonprofits that bravely took the leap: Muchos kudos to the Myspace pioneers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 7, 2011

Children’s Medical Center of Dayton :: m.childrensdayton.org. Feeding America :: m.feedingamerica.org. Save the Children:: m.savethechildren.org. Webinar: How Nonprofits Can Successfully Utilize Mobile Social Networking Tools and Location-Based Communities. British Museum :: m.britishmuseum.org.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Strength-Based Messaging: A Powerful Tool Thankfully, in recent years, new and long overdue attention has been focused on changing the way we build our donor relationships. The building blocks you use—stories and pictures—must be authentic, resonant, and relevant to your donors.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

I’ve been following the work of Rob and his team closely as they have shown not just interest, but passion and intent for engaging with the community at large to create a tool that meets the needs of nonprofit organizations and keeps us involved in making the tool better and better. It works similarly to your Facebook feed.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 31, 2023

How to Use Donor Data to Hone Your Messaging If you use a donor management system like Neon CRM, you can use the tools in your account to segment your audience and send them even more relevant messaging. If you’re looking for a way to connect with them, try reaching out to them through their mailboxes, over the phone, and face-to-face.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 14, 2014

” This is the advice that Carolyn Miles of Save the Children offered. Show Their Impact: After they have been using social, so how their presence is reaching a different audience. Using a tool like Twiangulate, you can easily see the overlap of followers and reach for the CEO and the organization’s branded account.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

With so many tools available, it’s easy enough to start an online fundraiser. If you’re trying to feed children in Africa, show a photo or clip of those kids. Schedule and Send: Use every online tool available to you to support your campaign. But it’s not a “build it and they will come” situation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 7, 2011

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). The most touching piece of this campaign is the ability to read and share a constantly changing selection of stories and anecdotes from the children themselves."

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 10, 2021

For generations, parents and their children have responded to the needs of neighbors, organizations, and their community by rolling up their sleeves and working together. Check out our “ Transforming Days of Service into Ongoing Engagement ” tool and other templates to help you plan. Remember, a family can be many things.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 6, 2021

Our clients are amazing: they’re feeding people, caring for animals, curing diseases, preserving land and art and literature. People donate toys, clothing, and other gifts, and parents can come through and choose what they think their children would enjoy. Abby Jarvis: Ask your donors where they like to learn about what you’re up to!

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2023

To ensure that your money is going to the right places, use tools like Charity Navigator , Candid (formerly GuideStar) ,and TEOS (tax-exempt organization search) to evaluate the legitimacy and impact of the organizations you’re donating to before you give. Donate here to provide support. You can donate and sign up to volunteer here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2009

Bethany Deines and Besty Woods from the The Children's Medical Center of Dayton, Ohio were the lucky winners. We don't like to stream content on our Facebook Page or Twitter feed. We, Dayton Children’s, knew we HAD to be involved with social media and just started doing it - that’s how you learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Take for example, how Bruce Lesley from First Focus uses Twitter to establish authority as a content curator on children welfare issues. There has been an explosion of tools and it can get overwhelming. Don’t worry about the getting into new tools quite yet. The Three S’s of Content Curation: Seek, Sense, Share.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Of course, we have large Brazilian NGOs and international organizations with a strong presence here in Brazil and they’re by far what most people trust and see on their Instagram feed. 9% have donated directly to an organization using Facebook Fundraising Tools. 47% of donors in Brazil volunteer. 47% attend fundraising events.

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Classy

APRIL 29, 2021

Feeding America. Designs and launches new initiatives, drives organizational strategy, and helps chart the future of Feeding America. Shriners Hospital for Children. The organization works to provide donors and the charities they love with tools, ratings, and information needed for informed decisions and investments .

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Feed people? Start with your startup costs: Registering as a 501(c)3 with the IRS and with your state, subscribing to cloud-based software such as accounting, donor management, and other tools, hiring legal support or other experts, and leasing a facility, if necessary. Everyone starts a nonprofit to make a difference.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 5, 2012

Armed with his advice and resources which includes a simple graphic template, some good photos, a good tagline, and a tool like photoshop, your organization can create a respectable DYI cover image in less than an hour. After reading his post, I thought it was so useful, I invited him to share it as a guest post. Full Mock-Up Template.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. I’ll keep an eye on the Twitter feed as well. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems. You can tweet us.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

In the comments to our last post, Jon from Ushahidi said "If a tool's fitness cannot be absolute, then neither can it's fallibility." Thus the correlation between the SMS feed and the building damage is an artifact or spurious correlation. So, we’re speaking up. And, that the correlation they found was useful.

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Media Cause

MARCH 4, 2022

The idea was the same as what we did in kindergarten as children: cut out images from magazines and assemble them into a new layout. Throughout his class, Carson repeatedly talks about using one’s intuition as a design tool. In some ways, they each feed into each other.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2011

Twitter, Facebook, Flickr) I love "reading" my feed of stories told through images each day The Instagram community has grown quickly. Once it's available for Android , I think it will be a fabulous storytelling tool for nonprofits. Once it's available for Android , I think it will be a fabulous storytelling tool for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2006

" The idea was to create a list of tools that could be used in the areas of contact management, technology assessment, information aggregators, productivity, research, etc. The question was - are there some no-brainer tools that you would recommend to client that didn't require a huge overhead of planning time, investment, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2013

The best social tools and techniques that leaders themselves and their organization can use to get results. In earlier post where I profile Udi Ofer, Executive Director of the ACLU-NJ and how he uses social media and mobile tools for leadership of his organization, several nonprofit leaders offered their views and tips.

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Socialbrite

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

Army Reserve Puerto Rico, reads a book to children during a storytime event. Storytelling is a powerful tool. So instead of just saying, “Your donation will help feed one person for six months,” share how an individual was helped by people’s donations. Army 2nd Lt. Monserrate Vergara from the 1st Mission Support Command, U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 4, 2012

In January of this year, nonprofit organization Invisible Children released “Kony 2012,” a video about Joseph Kony. Use free online tools. There are a few tools at your disposal that are both free and useful. Another useful tool is Google Alerts. posted by Carly Rowe , Social Media Specialist.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2013

So while the developed world spends on a new party outfit or the latest toys for their children, a small portion of that can go to feed. TechSoup is not affiliated with AmazonSmile, but TechSoup does offer discounts for a variety of other donation and fundraising tools. attempt to alter shopping behavior. Tried and True Concept.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

That means fewer children fed, fewer endangered species protected, or fewer beds for your shelter. This means it can feed more children, protect more endangered species, or find more beds for people in need. Buying a new server or upgrading your operating systems? Better technology means a nonprofit operates more efficiently.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 11, 2016

I was out hiking in the Santa Cruz Mountains this weekend, sans wifi, so I was not paying attention to it until I got home and saw mentions of it in my Facebook feed from technology observers like Jeremiah Owyang and Robert Scoble. Safety concerns for younger children , especially unsupervised have reported in the media.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 5, 2012

You have cash in your pocket so you pay her ticket rather than see her struggle down six flights of stairs with two children, a pushchair and several bags of shopping. I know what it's like to go shopping with children" you say. Social media is one tool that makes it easy for us to do that. Her gratitude is disconcerting.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2009

MySpace was designed to be a marketing tool. To Write Love on Her Arms and Invisible Children are two of the most well-known nonprofits that came out of MySpace. Their tool sets are completely different and as well as their purpose. The tool set is astounding. So, my Ode to MySpace: 1. MySpace is amazing.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

In 2007, the popular Free Rice online game used quiz-style vocabulary building game that rewarded correct answers with ten grains per bowl to feed hungry children. I have seen hundreds of ideas for new tools and technologies designed to help raise money for charities, none of which ever lived up to the billing. Feeding America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 30, 2010

Many years ago before the digital cameras and children, my husband used to spend many hours combining two past times: birding and photography. I scan through my listening post (blog feeds and keyword searches) and daily email subscriptions looking for patterns. Black-Crowned Night Heron. This is the listening and scanning I do.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 14, 2010

That means I am very comfortable with all sorts of cloud-based tools and I like to tinker with new stuff. We have two children that I try not to talk about too much in open public spaces like this. You can subscribe to the site via RSS , but when I post it does automatically feed out to Twitter and Facebook. Check us out.

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