Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

He helps women-led communications teams free up their time and lock down WordPress from getting hacked. Enable Media Replace – easily replace an image or file without having to delete, rename, and re-upload to the Media Library. By Chuck Spidell , a Nonprofit WordPress Security Expert with ILLUSIO.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured IT to further their missions. By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children. Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. But her mother had seen the benefits of computerized communication by watching her husband. Get Your Story Up On the Local Impact Map. The nonprofit provides laptops, tablet computers, training, and other technology resources to elderly people.

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VQ Strategies

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Designed to assist and support an organization (and most commonly hospitals, museums, libraries, and arts organizations), these groups historically focus on raising funds, sometimes manage the volunteer corps, and nearly always maintain their own governance system. Mapping the Change. This is where collaboration is especially crucial.

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sgEngage

APRIL 18, 2022

In this guide, we’ll cover the top four best practices to enhance your healthcare organization’s website: Map and optimize the user journey. Optimizing your healthcare organization or hospital’s website design ensures patients and community members can find the information they need quickly and without hassle. Prioritize accessibility.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what lots of nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured-IT to further their missions. By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children. More Stories, Let's Add Yours.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Event management: Plan, communicate and take registrations for your events. You can communicate with tech vendors or departments from the app for a built-in record. A branded app can contain useful information such as the schedule, room numbers, floor maps, networking opportunities and wayfinders.

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Forum One

AUGUST 31, 2023

The app includes journals and trackers to allow parents to record important information about their journey, a glossary of commonly used terms, a community and resource library, a directory of NICU family support partners, a postpartum checkup, and more.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2016

We've covered bar charts, line charts, scatter plots, and maps in Beyond the Pie Chart. If you have more than six proportions to communicate, consider a bar chart. Overlay pies on maps. Using pie charts on this map shows the distribution of oil rigs on land versus offshore in Europe. When to Use a Pie Chart.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m in Austin, TX, today engaging with librarians, digital curators, and technologists working at the nexus of communities and knowledge at the Electronic Resources and Libraries annual conference. Libraries: The Oldest New Frontier for Innovation. Why Community? So, why community?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 27, 2013

Digital and mobile communications are changing the rules about social networks, intellectual property, and the availability of big data, with an overall blurring of the boundaries between state, for-profits, and nonprofits. To explain our approach, let’s look at Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with print disabilities.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

Aly Sterling Philanthropy explains that nonprofit strategic planning is the process of aligning your organization’s goals with your values to provide a dynamic performance map for the future. Consider hosting a fundraising training session or providing a resource library for your board members so they’re aligned on best practices.

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 22, 2018

At first, I was getting occasional errors like, “Unfortunately, Google Maps has stopped working.” Even stranger, they no longer showed up in the Google Play library of apps I’d previously installed. I recently had to perform a factory reset on my year-old Samsung S7. Here’s my tale: The Ugly.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 29, 2022

While read-a-thons are a great fundraising idea for nonprofits of all kinds, they’re the perfect fundraiser for schools, libraries, and education nonprofit organizations. Unlike a fun run or a 5K fundraiser, you don’t need to map out a racecourse or organize volunteers to man your event. Why should you host a read-a-thon?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2013

Access to quality research provides nonprofits and libraries the ability to improve services, strengthen funding proposals, and share knowledge within the field. How can IssueLab help nonprofits and libraries? Mapping Philanthropy: How to Use Data Visualization to Do Good. Join our free webinar on Friday, January 18 at 11 a.m.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2012

Stay in constant communication with your team by adding smartphones to your nonprofit’s or library’s toolkit. Bing Maps: a mobile app for finding locations, mapping directions, and predicting traffic conditions; it can also integrate with other online services to overlay data on top of maps.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

The framework is based on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, mapped to an organization’s hierarchy of needs: • Level 1: Functioning Factor – Do people have what they need to do their job? Leadership training on communications styles. Create a leadership library of nonprofit books for staff to check out and read.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

We use mobile apps to capture memories, keep track of tasks, entertain ourselves, and communicate. But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Range is a map-based app that shows where youth can get free summer meals.

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Forum One

MAY 30, 2024

Once you’ve begun to understand your audiences needs, the next step is to start communicating trust effectively. Trust is the bedrock of any mission-driven organization, and effective communication is key to building and maintaining that trust. Watch the webinar. And are you paying attention to all the right cues?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

There are more places than ever to get free images that are entirely OK for you to use for your communications. Here are 10 sources for images you can freely use on your website or other communications channels. I like this resource for maps, flags, and people photos. image visual communication digital storytelling website'

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 25, 2008

maps and Yahoo! If the fantasy sports staff never interact with the maps staff, how will they align what common user actions (e.g. If the fantasy sports staff have come up with a great way to rate other members of the community, why should the restaurant review staff design their own rating system? The first is consistency.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

to see if your nonprofit, charity, foundation, or public library is eligible for the new Office. Bing Maps (Excel 2013) helps you use location data from a given column in Excel 2013 and plot it on a Bing Map. Apps for Office. Bing Dictionary (Word 2013) is not your traditional online dictionary.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 15, 2010

Kerri Karvetski points to this article about the important differences between Facebook and Twitter, and reminds nonprofit communicators to understand what this means for their advocacy efforts. We love Geo Locating and Mapping! Blackbaud 's Amy Braiterman had a blog post that made the RT (that's re-tweeting) rounds this week.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

That doesn’t mean organizations sit back, relinquish all responsibility and control, and wait for the community to take action. The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! They have to let the community drive. As an example, let’s think about a community library.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 23, 2009

Attention 501(c)(3) nonprofits and libraries in U.S. CitySoft - web-based operations, communications, and fundraising management. ESRI (not available in Puerto Rico) – mapping software. Territories of A merican Samoa, Guam, Puerto Rico, Federated States of Micronesia, Northern Mariana Islands, U.S. Virgin Islands!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2013

A powerful image can instantly communicate your organization's message on your website or blog. This newly updated image- and video-editing bundle runs on Windows machines or Macs, and is now available to eligible nonprofits, charities, and public libraries through TechSoup. Choosing the Right Software. When to Go Pro.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

Data Collecting and Mapping. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. Like the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project , buyout data is displayed on a map of the city so that city officials and housing organizations can identify and respond to buyout trends.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2013

You can use Huddle to share and edit documents, manage projects and tasks, and communicate with your staff with whiteboards and discussion threads. A smartphone is the perfect traveling companion: it provides directions, maps, apps, Internet connectivity, and more. When you're out of the office, communication is key.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 19, 2013

We mapped out the process we would use to promote Donate Your Brain opportunities. And might it be worth it for your nonprofit, library or other mission-based organization? We developed a web page describing the program , which involved drafting, discussing, and finalizing content. But is that time and effort worth it for TechSoup?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 11, 2013

A powerful image can instantly communicate your organization's message on your website or blog. This newly updated image- and video-editing bundle runs on Windows machines or Macs, and is now available to eligible nonprofits, charities, and public libraries through TechSoup. Choosing the Right Software. When to Go Pro.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Google Docs , Google Groups , and Google Maps are also very well-known and widely used.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

We use apps to capture memories, keep track of tasks, entertain ourselves, and communicate. But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems?

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications. They use data visualization and sharing tools like Swivel , Widgenie , Many Eyes , Google Maps , Google Motion Charts , APIs and more to make their data more available and more compelling. Maps, for example, are a global contextualizer -- everyone can personally relate to mapped data.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re just starting on your fundraising journey or a seasoned fundraising professional, these free resources will help you fill up your team’s digital library! Social media and email marketing resources and templates can help you transform your mass communications into personalized donor engagements. Nonprofit Library.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

You’ve read articles about up-and-coming communications channels and whether you should incorporate them into your nonprofit outreach strategy. Map out the basic arc of your story. Before you get lost in the details of your nonprofit’s story, map out its basic arc. Create a content library.

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