Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 30, 2023

Campaign Monitor reports that emails with storytelling content have a 26% higher click-through rate than those without, indicating that storytelling captures readers’ attention and prompts action. 6) Improved Email Response Rates: Nonprofits using storytelling in their email campaigns experience better response rates.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

As a long-time advocate for a global copyright exception and the founder of Benetech—which I started twenty-five years ago in order to make technology tools to address the needs of people with print disabilities—I was thrilled to become an active player in global diplomacy and witness the adoption and signing of this landmark Treaty.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Each year, the nonprofit sector receives extensive data describing philanthropy in the United States. The firm she established has served more than 200 clients, ranging from big ten universities and global NGOs to start-up community organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. That said, it’s important to understand that the type of content that performs best on LinkedIn is a bit different than Facebook and more similar to Twitter. LinkedIn Pages.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

Presented by The Webby Awards, The Anthem Awards honor the purpose & mission-driven work of people, companies, and organizations worldwide by amplifying the voices that spark global change. This was a one-of-a-kind project, which started with the build team and ended up on support.

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Qgiv

APRIL 9, 2024

Infact, there are over 308 million social media users in the United States alone. Your organization’s social media strategy should be a carefully structured plan with SMART goals, posting frequency, key dates (like an awareness month tied to your mission), and content guidelines for posts. Engagement.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. This adaptability isn’t just for people with disabilities: personalized content helps everyone. For the content of books, this flexibility is expressed in ideas like public domain, when the copyright owned by the author or publisher ends at some point.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

For starters, it closely follows the Chafee Amendment , which is the copyright exception that has made Bookshare possible in the United States. We were worried that a bad treaty might even negatively affect our ability to serve our users in the United States.

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AccelEvents

JULY 19, 2020

For the United States and much of the world, many elements of ‘normal’ life remain on hold. Because people do not have to travel to attend, you should be scaling the event for a more global audience. Consider reaching out to speakers and presenters outside the United States to capture a global perspective on your event theme.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 25, 2013

We’re operating at the forefront of copyright limitations and exceptions, both in the United States and globally. We’re deep believers in the benefits of openness, which means we publish open source software and create open content under Creative Commons licenses. from the majority of IP owners we approach. What’s next?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2013

There’s both an art and science to effectively using social media and by implementing the best practices below your NGO’s ability to reach a global audience is significantly increased. TechSoup Global :: techsoupglobal.org. . 1) Tell your NGOs’ story in photo essay format. Mashable :: mashable.com. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

The treaty does a lot of things, but let me highlight a few: • A global norm that there be copyright exceptions that allow for the making of accessible versions of copyrighted works for free on a nonprofit basis by a broad range of people or organizations, without having to get permission from the rightsholders.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The non-partisan organization, Issue Voter, uses user-generated content on social media for its #WhyIVote campaign to raise awareness about the importance of voting and motivate others to vote. Another benefit of having a user-generated storytelling campaign is the vast amount of digital assets you can collect from the campaign.

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Achieve

MARCH 1, 2024

Podcasts are growing increasingly popular, with over 5 million podcasts globally and about 464 million listeners worldwide. The latter number is predicted to reach almost 505 million by the end of the year, with over 100 million active listeners in the United States alone. Plan your content strategy.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

Our experience successfully building Bookshare under the United States copyright exception, which has no such commercial availability limitation, informs this strong opinion. As Bookshare, we believe we can find money to extend the availability of our collection globally to the poor. Richer countries like the U.S.,

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AccelEvents

JULY 19, 2020

For the United States and much of the world, many elements of ‘normal’ life remain on hold. Because people do not have to travel to attend, you should be scaling the event for a more global audience. Consider reaching out to speakers and presenters outside the United States to capture a global perspective on your event theme.

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Forum One

JUNE 9, 2021

Forum One received 10 awards in eight categories in this year’s awards for Canopus (platinum), Centauri (gold), and Arcturus (rose gold) across the categories of environmental awareness, cultural, art, health care services, associations, branded content, and website redesign. 2021 State of Babies Yearbook (Zero to Three).

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Top Nonprofits

DECEMBER 6, 2021

The firm she established has served more than 200 clients, ranging from big ten universities and global NGOs to start-up community organizations. Benefactor Group is currently working with arts, culture, and educational institutions; human service organizations; the faith community; and others working to improve the quality of life.

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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. Benevity provides companies with a one-stop shop for global employee engagement, featuring all international organizations vetted by GlobalGiving. API For Employee Giving.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

Instagram’s new algorithm will require top-notch visual and video content which most small nonprofits will struggle to create and curate. It should be published in a largish font, have plenty of visual content, and a clear call-to-action. An algorithm is necessary to weed out boring content from the Facebook News Feed, but 1%?

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Cloud 4 Good

AUGUST 16, 2022

Its award-winning multiplatform content reaches more than 50 million people each month across a variety of channels including websites, newsletters, social media, podcasts, and print. 5000 list, produced every year since 1982, analyzes company data to recognize the fastest-growing privately held businesses in the United States.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

The goal of the Treaty is to make a copyright exception for the blind and other people with disabilities that stop them from reading print, and to make import and export of accessible content legal. Don’t create a global Swiss registry of nonprofit organizations qualified to use exceptions. So, in the U.S.,

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

The City Health Dashboard ’s goal is to improve the health and well-being of people in communities throughout the United States. Climatelinks is a global knowledge portal for USAID staff, implementing partners, and the broader community working at the intersection of climate change and international development.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

The City Health Dashboard ’s goal is to improve the health and well-being of people in communities throughout the United States. Climatelinks is a global knowledge portal for USAID staff, implementing partners, and the broader community working at the intersection of climate change and international development.

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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 can use GlobalGiving’s free charity API to access our portfolio of more than 5,000 projects in 160+ countries, including the United States, and put choice in their users’ hands.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. This is important here in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2016

What content they read or watch. and globally. We have seen this problem here in the United States and around the world. With access to the information collected by a person’s smartphone, it’s probably straightforward to figure out everything important about that person. Who they love. What religion they profess.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities. These are the digital locks that make it hard to copy digital content. Here’s our laymen’s take on the major provisions of the Treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

For on January 17, 1984, the Supreme Court of the United States ruled that consumers could tape their favorite TV shows and watch them later without the copyright holder’s consent. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative. copyright law.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Many small NGOs are also unaware of the services and resources offered to the NGO community by TechSoup Global , SANGONeT , NASSCOM Foundation , Meedan , and FrontlineSMS. In the United States this is called fiscal sponsorship. To effectively raise money online, NGOs need a website that makes a good first impression.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 3, 2020

In the United States, Mardi Gras and spring break are also viewed as super-spreading incidents. But, as the stay at home orders that were in place at the onset of this global pandemic are being lifted, social distancing orders remain in place for the foreseeable future. Connecting Local Events.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI) NTI Nuclear Security Index (NTI Index) is the preeminent global data resource on nuclear security, assessing countries’ progress, highlighting security gaps, and recommending actions for governments to better protect nuclear materials and build an effective global security architecture.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 5, 2009

If the question at hand was a global treaty setting “fair use” as a global norm, I would expect the same objections. The reason there’s a global book famine is because the money to do this voluntarily, and do it for each and every country over and over again, doesn’t exist and will not exist in the foreseeable future.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 23, 2023

The top 30 peer-to-peer fundraising programs in the United States raised an astonishing $1.05 Ensure your peer-to-peer platform integrates with your other nonprofit software , like your donor database and content management system. billion in 2022. Is your nonprofit prepared to make the most of this opportunity?

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 19, 2018

Otherwise known as the Global Day of Giving, #GivingTuesday is celebrated on the Tuesday following Thanksgiving (in the United States). Repurpose #GivingTuesday content that has performed well for your organization in past years or leverage toolkits like the ones below: Giving Tuesday 2018 Resources. GivingTuesday.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

This conference showcased the impressive work of the participant NGOs as well as introduced to them more advanced social media topics such as content curation, measurement, and integrated content strategy. 83% of participants are applying their social media skills to engage local and global communities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2012

Here are the key takeaways from a discussion with Danielle Brigida (National Wildlife Federation), Carie Lewis (The Humane Society of the United States), Alison Carlman (Global Giving) and Alison McQuade (EMILY’s List). That can help inform the content you post going forward. Influence the decision makers.

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