Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2014

As my colleague Ale noted in her post a few days ago, the 2014 digital storytelling contest and event series (now called Storymakers ) has arrived! All of these events lead to the open challenge ( starting August 26 ) to submit your organization's or cause's digital story to be among the contenders for $13,000 in cash prizes and more.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and #GivingTuesday launched #MyGivingStory – a social media campaign and contest that asks people around country to tell their giving stories: to whom they give and why it is meaningful to them. The call for submissions opens today, November 2, 2015 , and runs through November 24.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JUNE 29, 2022

Baird/Sullivan : In cultures dominated by fear, silence and compliance become the norms rather than clear communication and open debate. In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 22, 2009

India Social Entrepreneurship Journey, February 2010 Contest - Please support me! Part of my role as the Global Community Development Manager at NetSquared is to support and grow our offline organizers from around the world. We now have over 50 cities globally hosting monthly events with many more getting started.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Baird/Sullivan : In cultures dominated by fear, silence and compliance become the norms rather than clear communication and open debate. In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 16, 2023

Baird/Sullivan : In cultures dominated by fear, silence and compliance become the norms rather than clear communication and open debate. In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 4, 2022

Baird/Sullivan : In cultures dominated by fear, silence and compliance become the norms rather than clear communication and open debate. In fear cultures, poor ideas aren’t contested, bad news isn’t communicated, and information and resources are hoarded, which can all lead to a negative death spiral.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 15, 2017

To make the process extra fun and to make your posters extra eye-catching, consider having a poster design contest. You could have a potluck dinner and open it up to the public and have your staff and employees invite friends. If every volunteer asks a friend who asks another friend, your reach will grow exponentially.

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Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 11, 2011

They are going to give five organizations 5,000 responses each (these could be divided up into multiple questions or used all for one), for free, with just two stipulations: You can only use global or national surveys (not local). You have to share what you learn! That’s it! Share Your Questions to Win.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. You can look at #sfaddis to see what they did recently from Addis Ababa in Ethiopia. Topic: Community Building, of course! Location: Launch the chat here (not live until the chat starts).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2009

While I was offline today enjoying Mother's Day and the beautiful weather (as much as I could with seasonal allergies), Target launched its version of an online contest. on Facebook, Network for Good, Global Giving and Parade Magazine in 2007. This contest was based on the total amount raised.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2016

Our contest begins today, August 29, 2016, and closes September 11, 2016. Sponsored by TechSoup Global (" Sponsor "), 435 Brannan St., Challenge submission opens August 29, 2016 at 8:00:01 a.m. The grand prize will be a $500 Amazon gift certificate, with five honorable mentions receiving $100 gift certificates.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

section of TechSoup.org we launched a contest last month for great digital inclusion stories. Many students in the town did not have Internet access at home, so the library found the money and opened on Sundays to provide their nine public access computers and five tablets to the kids. To kick off our new success stories.

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Forum One

OCTOBER 12, 2010

Surowiecki’s talk, drawing on his 2005 book , was about the surprising value of crowd-based judgments, from guessing the numbers of jelly beans in a jar, to mapping Martian craters , to open contests like the DARPA Grand Challenge for driverless vehicles. Use competitions and contests to generate new ideas from new audiences.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2012

The contest runs from August 29 until noon EDT on September 10, and hopes to uncover new ways of using mobile as a social engagement tool. This is the third and final installment of the challenge, which seeks to encourage media innovation, and is open to innovators in all industries and countries.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 16, 2021

Consider adding trivia contests, virtual scavenger hunts, escape rooms, polls, and even traditional board games to your event agenda. Open a viral lounge or breakout rooms so those who don’t necessarily want to take a break from the screen have something to do. Set up your virtual space to create the best possible audience experience.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 23, 2010

There’s been an exciting development in online collaboration this month with GSA’s launch of Challenge.gov – a platform for Federal agencies to conduct challenges and contests. Online contests are not completely new, to be sure. As of September 18, the count of open challenges was: 10: NASA.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

To enter the contest, just answer a few questions on our “Success Stories” submission page ! The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. The LIM reaches TechSoup’s global network of resources that spans over 80 countries. What’s next?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

Foundations are beginning to open themselves up as never before, and we want to be a leader in that movement.”. The global reach of the recession hurts exporting states like Oregon more than other states. And now they are up to something again: MMT is looking for a million dollar idea to support!

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. The LIM reaches TechSoup’s global network of resources that spans over 80 countries. Although there is only one winner in this contest, there are certainly no losers. Interesting proposition. What’s next?

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For your nonprofit, this means the holiday season opens the door to opportunities for fundraising success— and there’s no better way to kick off this successful year-end fundraising push than to participate in Giving Tuesday ! Plus, it helps to show that you’re participating in this global movement of generosity! Request Demo.

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Qgiv

JUNE 10, 2022

Based on this philosophy, Cora makes it her business to open doors to a path of continual success for companies of all sizes. This year, market research predicts that digital’s share of total advertising spend will near 50% globally, and soon digital ad spending will surpass traditional mediums. Social media contests.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Using Instagram to create videos is simple : just open the app on your smartphone or tablet, click to record a 15-second video, then customize the look of your video using Instagram's menu of filters (see image at right). Help , a nonprofit dedicated to helping other nonprofits tell their stories through film and video. Storymakers 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

The final program is done through a combination of an open submission and voting process. The panel picker process has opened – so you can vote for the panels you think are worthy of being on the program until August 27th. Online contests that award dollars to nonprofit causes are here to stay. How much do we share?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Photo by Global Fund for Children. And don’t forget, The 5th Annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards is now open for submissions from members of the YouTube Nonprofit Program until March 2nd. Note from Beth: After you read this guest post, you’ll have lots of great tips for your nonprofit’s video.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2008

I celebrated with a flickr photo birthday card remix contest. This year I'm gonna celebrate by trying to get 51 people to donate $10 in 51 hours to the Sharing Foundation's America's Giving Challenge over at Global Giving. Those are some kids from the Sharing Foundation's Roteang Orphanage, opened in 2000. Think we can do it?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2020

According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 27% of online donors say that email is the tool that most inspires them to give (social media 29%, 18% website, 12% print). With the rise in cybercrime and email phishing, today’s email users do not trust BCC emails, especially those with attachments, and they will not open them.

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NTEN

MARCH 29, 2012

The Science Fair opens at 3 pm in the Grand Ballroom, check out the full exhibitor list on myNTC. CDS Global. In celebration of our 40th birthday on April 1, 2012, CDS Global is bringing the party to NTC 2012! The Engage Group Visit us at Booth #36 and enter our contest to see how big of a bubble gum bubble you can blow.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

With the global financial crisis at its peak and a recession looming, many nonprofit managers are probably asking themselves, "How will my nonprofit raise money next year?" In this medium, openness, responsiveness, and inquisitiveness serve your cause well. Another approach to the online contest phenomenon is to run your own.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context — as you can see in the picture below. It reaches our global network resources and, combined with TechSoup.org, has over 5 million annual site visits. Challenge submission opens April 17, 2014 at 8:00:01 a.m.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context as you can see in the picture below. It reaches our global network resources and, combined with TechSoup.org, has over 5 million annual site visits. Challenge submission opens July 1, 2014 at 8:00:01 a.m.

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NTEN

MAY 4, 2009

At NTEN, we are all practical dreamers, we're open and authentic with one another, and we hold each other accountable. In the case of Daniel Ben-Horin, the 2009 recipient and co-CEO of Techsoup Global , it's both. Of course, we wish we could recognize ALL the deserving folks out there, but here are the highlights from this year: .

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Connection Cafe

MAY 8, 2017

According to the Global NGO Online Technology Report , Millennials are most inspired to give by social media. Hold contests. Create contests that reward fundraising activity. Once imported, fundraisers can keep track of which contacts who have donated, not opened the email , forwarded the email, etc.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2014

The winning story will be featured as our "story of the month," and will be published on TechSoup.org, which projects to our global network and averages five million views a year! Sponsored by TechSoup Global (" Sponsor "), 435 Brannan St., Challenge submission opens October 8, 2014 at 8:00:01 a.m.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Locate the right person in HR and conduct an open exploratory to discover how CSR can support and collaborate with HR. Produce an annual event that is really unique, fun and engaging, and designed to raises money – be creative, such as a cooking contest or talent show. HR can also provide advice on conducting employee surveys.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 15, 2017

We have a special contest give-away in store at this year's Nonprofit Technology Conference: a free year-long subscription of Adobe Creative Cloud. Sponsored by TechSoup Global, 435 Brannan St., Stop By and Visit Us — Booth 217. Washington DC, here we come! We may even have some of our super cool swag left to give away.

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