Tech Soup

APRIL 13, 2012

In a time when climate change and developing the green economy are somewhat passé, nonprofits have not given up on the mission. Find out how they're greening the planet and using the leanest greenest IT possible. They have no infrastructure beyond that, which is why cloud computing is regarded as green IT.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 26, 2017

It’s an age-old question: just what is something really worth if you can get it for free? For WordPress users—or indeed for anyone running or owning a website—this question comes up a lot. This means site seals, green address bars etc., Should you use free plugins or paid versions? What about web hosting?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Using TechSoup products or educational resources to stay GREEN ? to any or all of these questions, we want to hear how TechSoup products or educational resources are helping your organization keep our planet a little bit healthier. Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Are you … A U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Using TechSoup products or educational resources to stay GREEN ? to any or all of these questions, we want to hear how TechSoup products or educational resources are helping your organization keep our planet a little bit healthier. Not sure which products from TechSoup qualify as "green tech"? Are you … A U.S.

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CauseVox

JANUARY 23, 2024

FAQ Page: Ever had burning questions about a cause? It’s your go-to resource, answering common questions about your mission, fundraising initiatives, fund usage, and impact. Once given the green light, fundraisers can join the page or be placed there by admins. That’s where the FAQ page comes in handy.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Donor Management No question about tools gets asked more than, “What should I use for donor management?”. Little Green Light is one of the most popular platforms in the marketplace for small nonprofits. But, make no mistake, where Little Green Light wins is on price. Choose a processor that plays well with your CRM.

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Pamela Grow

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Use the following tips to do this: Keep questions to a minimum. If you’re not sure how to tell when some questions are too much, try filling out the form yourself! Matching gifts solution: Over 26 million individuals work for companies with matching gift programs, but $4-7 billion goes unclaimed in matching gifts each year.

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Classy

MARCH 29, 2021

Companies are no longer content to do well. At Classy, we believe that a company will find its greatest success by marrying purpose and profit. Social responsibility, beyond driving a social movement and building a more inclusive and sustainable economy, also benefits companies in their recruiting and consumer marketing efforts.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The key to successful fundraising is asking smarter questions. We’re here to talk about “Raising More Money By Asking and Answering Better Questions.” There’s also a Q&A box specifically, your questions might be a little more visible there if you use that one. We’ll take questions at the end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Aligning with a cause is a great way for a for-profit company to both raise its profile while doing something good for society at large. Nonprofits need to consider, should we partner with companies? Meaning that all three must figure in to what the company does to be an authentic and generous corporate citizen. If so, how?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2014

You've heard of the Incredible Hulk and Green Lantern. But you've probably never heard of this green superhero. He is one of the most knowledgeable people in the industry now because of his strong interest in refurbishers (he invariably questions everyone he meets, exhaustively). Refurbishing can also be lucrative.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

There’s no question that the Internet has evolved significantly over the past 26 years. Soon,ECO,GREEN, and.NGO, among countless others, will be introduced into our lexicon, expanding our surfing – and outreach – options in infinitely new ways. million non-governmental organizations (NGOs) and companies worldwide.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Without proper “education,” landing an interview let alone a job working in digital marketing was a pipedream—I found myself stuck, making minimum wage, wearing a well-known green apron simply for the health benefits. That is a loaded question so I’ll opt out for something with a little more structure—what did the RiseUP Fellowship teach me?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 26, 2011

We also work with food service companies, retailers and wholesalers, chefs and restaurateurs to encourage them to make the switch to sustainable seafood. It’s won awards from Treehugger.com as the “Best of Green in Food and Health” and is cited regularly in mainstream and new media as a trusted source for sustainable seafood information.

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Association Analytics

APRIL 26, 2023

Guy Raz, the host of one of my favorite podcasts, How I Built This , always asks the question “How much of your success do you attribute to luck, or just hard work?” This is for all the inquiring minds curious about how and why some of the top talent landed together at Association Analytics (A2), or anyone who just wants to hear a fun story.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 16, 2014

" I tweeted that question, along with Lucy Bernholz, who was wondering whether anyone from the philanthropic sector was attending. Sharing companies/platforms are just one place alternatives abound and money is flowing and good is getting done. Why aren't THEY here?" My tweet was met with silence.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Says Giller, “Our theory of change is engaging users around content that shows how being green can reshape our world can empower personal behavior change and ultimately impact society at large. grist.org also asks about whether a story has inspired them to pursue an issue by contacting a company or local official. What do you measure?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2010

JD Lasica took detailed notes on the case studies we looked at to ponder that question. JD countered in a comment suggesting that a CSR effort that goes to a company's core mission is more genuine than a tack-on cause marketing campaign that serves as a one-off publicity stunt. It's a form of marketing.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

Each time period offers five trivia questions and a countdown timer. In this game, you match two tiles and then have to answer a trivia question correctly to progress. If you answer incorrectly, you have to rematch the tiles and answer another trivia question on the same issue. Save the Bay: Battle for the Bay.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

It takes your company investing in you and your work to give you a small percentage of time in your day, week, or month. There were many questions, but they ultimately supported my ideas with a green light to start hiring immediately. The daily needs outweigh the big picture. Where We Are Now.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2015

MWC generally also has a strong showing of green technology, and this year's show was no exception. Internet.org has teamed up with mobile hardware and software companies to cut the cost of Internet services on mobile phones in the developing world. Are smartphones really the best way to bridge the digital divide?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 27, 2009

Community IT Innovators (CITI) is an employee-owned company committed to helping social mission organizations effectively use technology. Check out this video answering just that question from ZDNet and this article from TechSoup called Virtualization 101 for more. What is virtualizatioin, you ask?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

No, there are scores of companies building and selling systems today that deliver very real value via the real-time web. Here's our list of ten cool companies or services that make use of real-time web in what they do: 10. There are many different real-time search engines that approach search in many different ways. Real-Time Sharing.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Host a pub-style quiz for your community and include some questions about your mission as a fun way to share your organization’s impact. Put on some Irish music and work with a local dance company to show off some Irish Riverdance for a more festive celebration. Pub quiz Everyone loves a bit of trivia!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2011

Imagine a QR code that instantly makes the person scanning it a fan of a brand, company, or personality on Facebook without ever typing a URL. As SFGMC continues to “go green,&# we have for the first time made our concert program available on line pre-show. NTEN has published a useful quick “What’s This?

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 27, 2015

One of the book's most compelling lessons for me was why it's so important to tell your customers your company's origin story. Fleming explains that it's critical that you build a rich and complex backstory about your company for your customers. So, as you share your story, answer these questions: Who started the company?

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 10, 2023

Impact Nonprofit Donor Databases: The Ultimate Guide 35 min read Read Now The Five Best CRMs for Small Nonprofits Our team has reviewed the available options and determined that the following five systems are the best options for small nonprofits: Neon CRM Bloomerang Little Green Light Network for Good Excel or Google Sheets 1.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

We engage any and all high-tech companies that may be interested in donating or discounting their software, hardware, tech support, or cloud services. The briefing was called "Turning E-Waste into Green." in which 400 computer refurbishers exchange information, talk shop, ask technical questions, and debate issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2009

Green-print thinking. For a couple of reasons: IT departments want to protect the security of the company's system, Boards fear that will not be able to contain openness and transparency once people are encouraged to write blogs, collaborate on wikis, etc. . * Blue-print thinking. Red-print thinking. People change if they learn.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2009

It is a flow chart that calculates business performance taking into account not only whether the company had a profit, but whether that profit was good enough relative to the assets it took to generate it. They are saying that you need to measure value and that it value doesn't necessarily translate into dollars.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2011

Care2 provides visitors to their site green-living advice and the opportunity to act on behalf of the causes they care most about. A for-profit company, whose practices conflicted with Care2’s stance on the environment, once approached the leadership at Care2 for a sponsorship opportunity.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

But most importantly, I want to recommend and encourage all of you to chat in your questions and comments throughout the next hour or so. But keep the questions coming. But the other question that they have to really think through is, well, what can we do? I think that’s a loaded question. So don’t be shy.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2011

And so the question of ownership of devices like mobile phones and tablet computers and control over their use becomes very important. The most dramatic example of this that I’ve found is a news story by National Public Radio entitled Wipeout: When Your Company Kills Your iPhone.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2018

That's the question we've been grappling with as we start the OF/BY/FOR ALL initiative. Eventually, we may build a certification program, like LEED for green buildings, or B Corps for social enterprise. How do you build a movement for institutional change?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 25, 2008

Hat tip to Echoing Green for the link). His "question of the week" is, Do colleges and society need to incentivize public service and nonprofit work after college? The New York Times recently published an article, Big Paycheck or Service? I'm wondering, is there is a medium ground between the big paycheck and service?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2009

Along with Kathy Reich and Stephanie McAuliffe , we got to ask many questions about their network. Blurring the lines between internal/external: What does modeling transparent behavior actually look like on the ground? For one thing, the line between internal and external discussions is thin.

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