Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2015

On this 10th anniversary of the Hurricane Katrina disaster, we polled a variety of smart NPtech cognoscenti on the single most important thing charities need to do to prepare for a disaster. Then the key disaster preparedness concern becomes communication, not system and data preservation. Here's what they said.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 7, 2012

If your nonprofit has yet to start a blog or already blogs but struggles with ideas for fresh content, then hopefully the 11 blog content ideas listed below will help. Still, understand that the more good, high-quality content your nonprofit blog publishes, the higher your ROI. That said, mix it up! A first-person voice is best.

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TechImpact

DECEMBER 23, 2013

According to the DEC (disaster emergency committee) , a UK based coalition made up of 14 charities who band together in times of crisis, 6 million british pounds were raised via mobile donations after the Philippines was rocked by the typhoon that occurred earlier this year. Make sure your mobile site is optimized for multiple platforms.

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Greater Giving

JANUARY 4, 2024

It serves as a dynamic platform that harnesses the collective generosity of people to address pressing needs, support meaningful projects, and uplift communities in need. It’s a platform to share your story and connect with a broader audience.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 13, 2022

With the right text-to-give platform, your nonprofit will be able to quickly access any funds donated. However, in general, the text-to-give process looks like the following: With your text-to-give platform, you’ll set up a shortened phone number, known as a shortcode. They should receive an email confirmation of their donation.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 23, 2024

In fact, political fundraising is like disaster relief. Changes in Advertising Policies One important effect of political fundraising to note is its impact on advertising policies, particularly on social media platforms. We’ll also outline some ways you can use the election to connect more deeply with your constituents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2018

Mark Zuckerberg’s recently announced that Facebook’s News Feed will be veering away from branded content to prioritize content posted by personal accounts. Just do it in a video format that is suited for that platform. ShelterBox USA had a very busy year, due to the sheer number of natural disasters that struck in 2017.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 9, 2020

Perhaps my favorite, the partnership between Sweetgreen (a popular organic restaurant) and World Central Kitchen (an organization that provides meals in the wake of natural disasters) fed frontline medical personnel and vulnerable communities through COVID-19. Livestreaming is also an area to explore in 2021 given the trends we saw this year.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 27, 2011

Social media in disaster response. How to make quality content on Twitter. Last week, I had the opportunity to present at the 2011 Volunteer Management for Nonprofits Conference here in New York. There are so many resources out there that hopefully this list will help filter and curate for you! Journalists using social media in Egypt.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

Nimble AMS is built on the Salesforce platform, and Salesforce has created the site trust.salesforce.com to provide live status details on its service availability, performance, security, privacy and compliance. The Salesforce platform supports all of these best practices and more. What to know. 2 Best practices for data security.

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

If you are using an e mployee e ngagement platform , you a l ready have the means to bring people together. The one commonality that most disasters have is that it creates a scenario of a sharp, unanticipated rise in community needs, a sharp drop in the resources and capabilities of the community to meet its needs, or even both.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 25, 2020

When many businesses sent their employees to work from home earlier this year, IT organizations that had already moved most of their operations to the cloud spent less time worrying about application performance, capacity management, and disaster recovery than organizations with on-premises software and data centers. Related content.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2020

Event planners should consider: Investing in a Virtual Events Platform. Planning a virtual event is the way to go these days and with the right platform , this move can have a real positive impact on your audience and your revenues. These platforms can also serve as a bit of a hub for registered attendees.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

By: Rakesh Bharania, Director, Humanitarian Impact Data, Salesforce.org and Alex Parker, Senior Platform Architect, Salesforce.org. Here are some tips for finding and managing that user data and content. Senior Platform Architect, Salesforce.org. Alex Parker is Senior Platform Architect with Salesforce.org. Alex Parker.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Candid’s GuideStar platform includes over 2.7 Additionally, Candid publishes regular reports on relevant sector issues , such as the Advancing Human Rights report , Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report , and Philanthropy and Covid-19 report. GuideStar . million nonprofits.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

DREAM also hosts its annual report on Issu, a great third-party platform for a well-designed digital reading experience. There are two fundamental things we love about ICA Fund Good Job’s annual report : The table of contents and the graphics. ICA Fund Good Jobs. We also love the evolving design for each year’s report.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 14, 2020

Once you have these questions answered, you can begin to look for venues, plan out content, choose a virtual event platform, and develop the event agenda. . But it also means a virtual events platform. With the right platform, you can merge the event components with ease. Can integrate with social media platforms.

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NonProfit Hub

AUGUST 15, 2019

The platform provides a vast space for organizations of all sizes to reach people all over the world. An essential piece of any Facebook strategy is building a community to engage with the content you share. The algorithm differentiates Facebook from other platforms because the posts aren’t shown chronologically.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 1, 2017

A: As the original nonprofit crowdfunding platform, GlobalGiving has an extensive community of vetted global nonprofits and a trusted donation platform. And SDGfunders , a project of the Foundation Center, integrates projects that align with each of the Sustainable Development Goals into its philanthropy platform. API By Theme.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2020

Event planners should consider: Investing in a Virtual Events Platform. Planning a virtual event is the way to go these days and with the right platform , this move can have a real positive impact on your audience and your revenues. These platforms can also serve as a bit of a hub for registered attendees.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. Emergency relief Emergency or disaster relief volunteers come into play after a major, devastating event, such as an earthquake or hurricane.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 18, 2022

Compassion Services International (CSI) operates worldwide helping with medical missions, humanitarian aid, disaster relief, and education. To ensure that people can see your future content, invite them to like your page when you see that they liked your post. Watch the interview on demand here. About Compassion Services International.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2013

Over the years, I’ve attended events where a representatives from Facebook shared with nonprofits how to use the platform more effectively. ” The answer is always something along the lines of “We are giving the platform to nonprofits to use for free.” will not be shared with the nonprofit.

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Global Giving

AUGUST 21, 2018

A: Founded in 2002, GlobalGiving has an extensive community of vetted global nonprofits and a trusted donation platform. Companies have customers and employees who want to give to a good cause, but they often don’t want their customers and employees to have to become familiar with another platform or leave their own website.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2014

Shows from Scandal and 60 Minutes to NCIS and Game of Thrones know just the types of burning questions their viewers have, and the type of content that will get them to watch more and share more. As the progress meter advances, each new milestone could unlock a new piece of exclusive content on the blog. Show, Don't Tell.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

And if you’re a staff member in charge of producing content for your nonprofit, you know how time-consuming content creation can be. That’s why you have to plan ahead: A robust content plan will save you time—and brain space—and help you produce great nonprofit content while also tackling the rest of your mile-long to-do list.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2013

I predict that the majority of nonprofit organizations won’t raise very much money on Facebook unless your organization’s mission is to protect cute wildlife and animals, or works on disaster relief during a disaster. Here’s why: People Don’t Use Facebook to Donate Money.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2012

Windows Azure is an open and flexible cloud platform that enables you to quickly build, deploy and manage applications across a global network of Microsoft-managed datacenters. Disaster Planning: What Organizations Need to Know to Protect Their Tech. Disasters are often the times that communities most rely on the nonprofit sector.

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 6, 2018

Just look at how the #DeleteFacebook movement affected the social media platform membership in the wake of the Cambridge Analytica incident: A Top10VPN.com study revealed that the number of Canadian members dropped 175 percent in one month. Obviously, no nonprofit wants to flirt with disaster. Don’t take experience for granted.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 12, 2017

Photos, videos, selfies, and personal stories allow us to embed emotional content in fundraising campaigns. How can you obtain supporter-contributed content? For example, Children's National uses a platform that lets families raise funds for its cause. What tactics will push people to give (a match, or a deadline)?

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

The First Crowdfunding Platform for Nonprofit Technology Projects. The tech support nonprofit, TechBridge in Georgia, has launched the first crowdfunding platform for nonprofit technology projects. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2009

This site worked much like Katrina Aftermath , with aggregations of content generated by the public, news orgs and govt agencies. I've just come across another site/platform that is designed for aggregating information for emergencies and they have also established a Hurricane Ida Information Site.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2012

MiACLU.org is an online, Spanish-language platform created by the American Civil Liberties Union of Northern California, an organization well-known for its spirited defense of civil liberties (advocating free speech, marriage equality and immigrants’ rights, among other issues). MiACLU is a one-of-a-kind project born from this framework.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 16, 2012

Lasa, a UK-based technology and welfare charity (and content partner of TechSoup's), published a crowdsourced report on how charities and nonprofits can engage with technology to build a stronger connection with their constituents. Technology can help charities save money and time.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Do they rely on a larger cloud platform like Amazon? What servers and software it runs and what its arrangements are for disaster recovery. Ed Bott of ZDnet maintains that “if your data matters, you need a hybrid strategy, with local storage and local content creation and editing tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2010

For a couple of years, I’ve been an avid member of the Slideshare community, sharing, browsing, and collaborating on content and watching how nonprofits use the platform. My content on Slideshare can easily be published here on my blog or by anyone else anyplace else! I don’t have be a networked silo! (2)

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VisionLink

MAY 17, 2013

Here are some lessons learned about selecting a new solution and transferring your existing data to that new platform. Next time you consider moving to a more capable software platform, consider these 10 questions to help ensure that your decision will be the correct one, and your selection will not fail.

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