Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 11, 2012

To follow up on Monday’s post about why nonprofits should consider hiring a social media manger , below is an excerpt from Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits that helps further explore the time commitment necessary to create and sustain a comprehensive social media stategy for your nonprofit.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Software solutions keep the nonprofit sector in motion. 67% of nonprofits use a constituent relationship management system (CRM) to track donations and manage supporter communications. However, many nonprofits operate with tight budgets. However, many nonprofits operate with tight budgets.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. 11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits. That said, below is an excerpt from Chapter 10: Group Text Messaging and Text-to-Give Technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2010

The talk: My talk may not be as easily captured in the slides as some of my other talks are since this was a smaller group and I had the time to dive into each example and discuss it with the participants, instead of a more traditional presentation. Hint: click through to view the slides on SlideShare.net to see speaking notes.).

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 13, 2021

If you feel like you have too much to do and aren’t getting enough done, you need to increase your nonprofit productivity. With the right tools and processes, you will accomplish more in less time, feel less burned out, and have time and energy to strengthen your nonprofit by planning for the future. How many to-do lists? That’s right.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2017

Capacity building includes both money (grants), consultants/technical assistance, peer learning/communities of practice, and collaboration. As a trainer and facilitator, the work I do with organizations and networks, often on behalf of a foundation for its grantees, is capacity building. Presentation slides.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The following is an excerpt from Chapter 1 of the newly released book Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits. 11 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits. If your nonprofit requires more than two or three pieces of information to subscribe to your e-newsletter, you will lose many potential subscribers.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 2, 2011

CTK Foundation Grant Award: Social Media, Technology, and Poetry for the Soul | Community Organizer 2.0 – "I was contacted by my colleague John Haydon last week to write about an interesting foundation grant challenge by the CTK Foundation. Is your organization considered a content curator?

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 4, 2013

Growing your email list is core to any nonprofit’s email marketing strategy. Now if you’re like most nonprofits, you probably find email acquisition (like donor acquisition ) to be challenging. If you visit the websites of most nonprofits, you will find a critical piece missing in their list-building strategy.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2019

You can use those figures to market and communicate with donors, foundations, other nonprofits and the rest of the community. The National Council of Nonprofits suggests five steps that make up what it calls “outcomes measurement” or “performance management”: 1. Communicate what you’re learning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. The camp was organized by Thai Fund Foundation in partnership with Opendream , , Thai Netizen Network , Frontier Foundation and Tactical Technology Collective. Henry Khu (@HenryKhu) May 7, 2013.

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JULY 30, 2012

Today, I have the honor of doing a session at The Allstate Foundation ‘s 60th Anniversary Executive Summit (hashtag #60summit ) where I’ll be talking about leading nonprofits with a network mindset. Social media presents incredible opportunities for nonprofits, both large and small.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 11, 2010

An open letter to companies planning online communities | Community Building – I love this "open letter" from Martin Reed at CommunitySpark – it touches on so many "cultural" and infrastructure needs that organizations should think about BEFORE creating an online community space.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

I’ll be participating in the session, as part of the context setting by giving an overview of themes in my book, “ Measuring the Networked Nonprofit ,” co-author with measurement guru KD Paine. This comes from my first book, ” The Networked Nonprofit ,” co-authored with Alison Fine. Radio Bilingue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Drew Bernard has a review of a new guide by the good folks at Tactical Technology Collective called " Visualizing Information for Advocacy " Nonprofits are from Mars, Designers/Techies are from Venus from the alldaybuffet describes some classic communications issues between nonprofits, designers, and technology staff.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Just want to let you all know that we are recording this session, and we’ll be sending out the slides as well as the recording later on this afternoon. That’s awesome, really involved in their nonprofit leadership program, which is really cool. So I know you got some slides to pull up but the floor is yours.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2009

Last Monday I attended my colleague, Susan Tenby's panel presentation, Building and Sustaining Vibrant Online Communities at the Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC). Slides and resources from the panel can be found here. Speakers: Scott Moore, Charles and Helen Schwab Foundation. Peggy Duvette, WiserEarth.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

You see, your annual fundraising plan is a treasure map that leads you to the exact activities that will raise the most money for your nonprofit over the course of the coming year. A nonprofit I work with has tried several different campaigns on Valentine’s Day, and they always fail to ignite. Just do it! Set an Impact Goal.

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NTEN

AUGUST 12, 2011

Luckily, our members take the time to share their knowledge, experience, and resources with the nonprofit community. Marion Conway loves blogging, is great at it, and really wants to encourage nonprofits to blog. To facilitate nonprofit blogging, she recently laid out an awesome strategy for getting started. Funding I.T.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 18, 2012

Note from Beth : In March, I had the pleasure of co-presenting at the GEO Conference (Grantmakers for Effective Organizations) with Kathy Reich, Director, Organizational Effectiveness Program at the Packard Foundation and Jared Raynor, Director of Evaluation at TCC Group, that helped OE analyze its “goldmine” of grantee data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Listening for Nonprofits in a Digital World View more presentations from kanter. As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. Our session covered: Why listening offers value.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2010

As part of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation, I’ve had the honor to facilitate training workshops at grantee’s conference. I just returned from doing Networked Nonprofit and Social Media workshops at the National Summer Learning Association’s Conference in Indianapolis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 9, 2009

Compasspoint Workshop Slides - Beta. Last week, I had the opportunity facilitate a " Social Media Strategy Map " workshop for over 100 Bay Area nonprofits. The workshop was hosted by Compasspoint , with support from the Lucile and David Packard Foundation. View more presentations from kanter.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2011

Nonprofit organizations across the country have raised more than $100 million in three years using Charity Dynamics' boundless fundraising solutions. Using multiple platforms can deepen relationships with your community, according to Jeff Sterns. Check out the slides and recording of his well-received presentation !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2009

The survey polled 978 nonprofit professionals about their organizations’ use of commercial social networking sites (e.g. Facebook), as well as their own hosted social networking communities. The survey provides us with a baseline of social network use by nonprofits. There was also a webinar presentation of the results.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Using a live streaming application called "Live Stream," conference organizers of the Governor's Nonprofit Leadership Conference in Texas are hoping to draw in an online audience into the discussion about social innovation. As a presenter, you have more to think about beyond creating beautiful slides and practicing your verbal delivery.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

So if you have to leave early or maybe you get interrupted, or you just want to review the content later on, maybe share it with a friend or a colleague you’ll be able to do that because I’m going to send you the recording also going to send out the slides. And we provide program management services to other nonprofits.

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Judi Sohn

OCTOBER 29, 2010

This year, there were enough nonprofit organizations already on Common Ground to warrant a session or two aimed at users, rather than just to sell existing Convio clients to the application as was found at previous Summits. Pay special attention to the free and discounted for nonprofits sections.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 29, 2008

On a related note, see Allison Fine's Social Citizen's Report commissioned by the Case Foundation. What's the nonprofit chatter that is happening right now on Twitter? Despite a DOS attack this week on SlideShare, a couple of nonprofit techies managed to upload slide shows. A Practical Guide to Using Web 2.0 And if you???re

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NTEN

JANUARY 15, 2010

Speaking of Idealware , as a fellow Mainah , I really appreciated Laura Quinn 's "snow shoveling" and nonprofit IT planning metaphor. Want a way to make sure your nonprofit organization is represented -- artistically, that is? Robert Weiner has been documenting this type of SPAM and sharing with the community since 2008.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

He founded Shabakat Al Ordon , the first networked nonprofit that I discovered in the Middle East and that provides youth ICT training 300 communities in Jordan. I go through my slides and think will this metaphor or idea translate to this cultural context. I’ll be sharing blog posts about my experience here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 8, 2009

Readers from nonprofits who wanted to a chance to win a copy of the book had to leave a comment saying how they were using Twitter and how they hoped to improve their results. I try to send out at least one per day, usually an update of our latest blog posts, podcasts, or news about Cleveland/the nonprofit field.

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NTEN

MARCH 24, 2015

These socks were made for walkin'' The 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin, TX was a-mazing! We ate BBQ by the pound , celebrated inspiring campaigns and community members , rode around on Segways , and did a lot of photoshopping. Of course, we learned and shared a ton too. Did we miss anything? 1? - ??? ???? ????),

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 21, 2010

I've been involved with teaching and learning technology for nonprofits since 1993 when I worked for the New York Foundation for the Arts' online network for artists, Arts Wire. And, many of our community members were just learning too. . And then immediately create instructional materials and trainings for the community.

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NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

With a sell-out crowd coming to DC for the Nonprofit Technology Conference , we bet some of you are excited enough that you're looking for even more you can do! Thanks to Verizon Foundation, many nonprofits will be able to attend Innogive’s Mobile Giving Applied. To get this special offer register now and use code GIVE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Organizers in local community own the agenda. Some of the lessons learned include: -Could have provided the Netsquared community with more tools to do their work like listserves, web sites, etc. Not that they thought they would fail, but just didn’t have foundation to scale. The presentation is here.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2011

Ami Dar , founder of Idealist.org , reflects on the lessons he learned over the last 15 years in the foreword for the new book Nonprofit Management 101: A Complete and Practical Guide for Leaders and Professionals. Check out the slides and highlights from @fdncenter ! Check out the slides and highlights from @fdncenter !

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