Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2011

You're absolutely right that information quality comes from people and that data's fitness for a particular purpose is very contextual. They are especially in need of big picture information that will help guide their response to do the most good with the resources employed. Let’s call our example professional Captain Lopez.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 21, 2014

These “4 A’s” just might be your nonprofit’s new way of planning your data management. Data management can be a tedious, difficult process. Nonprofits are often inexperienced, ill-equipped, or poorly staffed before taking on major data gathering and parsing undertakings. Accumulate.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 3, 2024

By Stephanie Wallace , Marketing Specialist, Keela – a complete software solution for nonprofits looking to grow revenue, centralize and manage data, and deepen donor engagement. By automating tasks and centralizing data, these tools have saved organizations time and resources.

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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. In recent years, the international humanitarian community has responded with a number of data protection guidance documents, such as those from USAID , ICRC , OCHA , and the Harvard Humanitarian Initiative.

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 15, 2022

You may not realize it, but you are sitting on a treasure trove of data in your AMS. Your AMS focuses more on current and past data, however with analytics, you can use this data, and data from your other source systems, to be more forward-thinking. Data Integration. Why analytics? Analytics tell you the “why.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

By Rob Leighton , Executive Director and Founder at iMission Institute – a social sector marketing agency and technology consulting firm specializing in helping nonprofits raise more money, fire up engagement, and streamline work. Data capabilities: Learn what metrics the tool can track, along with reporting functionality.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

These are strategies that allow associations to see a real-time picture of their members’ needs.” Roy Chomko, CEO of Adage Technologies, credits a book with helping his business to run more smoothly. The concepts can range from technology tools, to work environment and process improvement, but the request must be specific.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

We sometimes forget that IT stands for Information Technology. As a society, we have become obsessed with the “Technology” half the tools and devices that infiltrate our lives—and with producing, updating, and controlling these devices. Why pay attention to data? Data is valuable! Data gives us context.

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Media Cause

JUNE 8, 2023

Our team compiled data best practices for your nonprofit’s success when using Salesforce. Data plays a pivotal role in empowering nonprofits, especially when it comes to understanding and managing donor and supporter relationships. You can untangle this and prevent it from happening again using data best practices.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 1, 2021

There are a number of trends worth exploring: Technology that fuels data-driven storytelling. Our work with the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) shows the power of harnessing data for impact storytelling. With real-time data, SEIU has been able to show potential funders the efficacy of the program.

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Kindful

MARCH 25, 2021

No matter the strategy, the best way to optimize your donor communication processes is to leverage donor data. Your donor data should play a key role in your communication strategy, helping you create targeted content and personal experiences for recipients. You’ll be exploring: What type of donor data should you collect?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

By Brian Greenwald , Nonprofit Superfan at Generate_Impact – a human-centered technology services company focused solely on celebrating and serving humanitarian, social impact, sustainability and for-profit-for-good organizations and causes. < The first thing to accept about any technology project is that it’s not really about technology.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 26, 2022

No matter if your organization is large or small, learning to use data effectively is your most powerful method to improve prospect identification for major giving. Understanding Benchmark Data. The broadest industry benchmarking data is a good place to start. This is where more focused data comes into play.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2021

Most of the illegal content reported to NCMEC’s CyberTipline was found by technology designed to detect previously identified child sexual exploitation materials (CSEM) in the form of photos and videos. In 2020, 65.4 The Responsibility of Tech Companies.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Featuring 40% more compensation data compared to last year’s report on 14 top leadership positions—including CEO, CFO, and more. Following frustrating pandemic-related delays, the IRS released around a million Form 990 files in May 2023, providing crucial data to offer a more complete picture of nonprofit compensation.

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sgEngage

MARCH 15, 2024

There is no one-size-fits-all approach to measuring performance, but every successful fundraising team should have the ability to assess and refine its data. The goal is then to turn those data insights into actionable tasks. Your team can decide which data points and KPIs matter most to your strategy and your mission.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2021

By Brian Greenwald , Nonprofit Superfan at Generate_Impact – a human-centered technology services company focused solely on celebrating and serving humanitarian, social impact and sustainability organizations and causes. Navigating a product and technology landscape that is growing and changing by the minute is not easy for anyone.

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NonProfit PRO

AUGUST 19, 2021

It's important to get an overall picture of how your constituents interact with your organization and vice versa, as well as gather and analyze data about past peer-to-peer campaigns and events.

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Nimble AMS

JUNE 22, 2023

But before you can move ahead in your search, evaluation, purchase, and implementation of new AMS technology, you still need one thing: board approval. Most of your board members will look at the big picture and need to know how the AMS investment will help the entire organization. You know it. Others at your association know it.

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DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

Many nonprofits have relied on technology as a crucial aspect of standing out from the crowd, connecting with donors, and raising the needed donations to further their cause. That’s where a nonprofit technology assessment comes into play. That’s where a nonprofit technology assessment comes into play. So, let’s dive in!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 4, 2019

Kayla Matthews is a researcher, writer and blogger covering topics related to technology, smart gadgets, the future of work and personal productivity. Fundraising is and will always be a necessity for nonprofit organizations, but times have changed — and so has the technology. Augmented and Virtual Reality. Microsoft Hololens.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 28, 2020

As COVID accelerates innovative uses of AI in many areas, we are also seeing more development of AI-powered data mapping tools for philanthropic advising and to support donor investment decisions. The technology helps donors make investments that yield the highest impact or strategic system change. Source: GiveDirectly Facebook Page.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 8, 2020

In the Journal of Nonprofit Management and Leadership, Seung-Chul Yoo and Minette Drumwright provided data from 2017 indicating that “…86 percent of U.S. While the majority of nonprofits are using technology to increase donations, it is not always being utilized efficiently and successfully. Add interactivity to donor messages.

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Forum One

MAY 13, 2021

In this post, we focus on the processes and technology of migrating your government services to digital. Are you using disconnected tools that require you to piece together data from different sources? Or do you have to sometimes search to figure out which data is correct? Choosing the right technology.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

Each year your association rush es to collect last-minute data to keep your members and stakeholders updated on your accomplishments. Technology t ips to elevat e your annual report ing process . Look for the following technology options: . Ask if any will submit a story or picture to showcase their success.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 21, 2021

The concept of ‘data-driven’ nonprofits is still as valid as ever. The challenge that nonprofits in 2021 are facing is that while data is great and all, there is just so much of it and it all comes at you, nonstop, from so many places. The 3 Cs of Nonprofit Data Integrity. You Want Your Data Current. And 2020 didn’t help.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 22, 2024

Digital empathy brings soft skills like compassion, respect, thoughtfulness, and kindness into technology and the design process. We need to design technology around their needs and aspirations, not our own.” “It’s not enough to just build cool technology. . How do you put emotion into data?

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Candid

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

For background, SOC 2 is a framework for organizations offering information and technology services (e.g., software, business intelligence, data storage, financial reporting) to ensure they can operate smoothly. Always keep an eye on the big picture The final lesson we learned is the importance of seeing the big picture.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 23, 2024

It goes beyond data storage; it’s about transforming data into intelligence that helps to inform and enhance fundraising strategies. Strengthening donor relationships through technology At its core, successful fundraising hinges on robust donor relationships. CRM data empowers you to base every decision on solid evidence.

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Association Analytics

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

Before we dive in, we want you to start thinking of data as one of your most important assets. Of course, they are valuable assets, but data is, too. Let’s build your business case to make data analytics a top priority: 1. Start by assessing and documenting the current state of your data. What do you think about our data?

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Forum One

JULY 18, 2023

Most nonprofits and government agencies utilize the cloud in some capacity – from website hosting to software to data storage. What reports or analyses are you running on your data? What goals do you have for data and operations that you haven’t yet achieved? What cloud services are you already using?

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 3, 2021

But before you can move ahead in your search, evaluation, purchase, and implementation of new technology, you still need one thing: board approval. . Gaining board approval for a new technology investment requires you to make a strong business case. Others at your association know it.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

In February 2023, we officially launched Demographics via Candid , an initiative that empowers nonprofits to share their demographic data one time, through the Candid profile, where it can be accessed and reused by funders and other stakeholders across the field. It’s where these needs diverge with other priorities that can be challenging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2021

There is a fundraising software that will help your staff manage fundraising campaigns and donor data efficiently and engage and grow your donor base. Goals can include: Gain insight into donor data through reporting and data analytics. Enhance online fundraising by offering monthly giving and crowdfunding.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The odd thing about living through a technological revolution is you think it’s just another Tuesday. These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing. The hype is problematic, but the revolution is real. But things forever changed when OpenAI released version 3.5 We didn’t ask.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Nonprofits use this data to personalize outreach and engagement efforts. It’s not just about storing donor data; it’s about unlocking the potential of that data to drive fundraising strategies. The data a CRM captures can inform the timing, messaging, and audience for fundraising campaigns.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

To efficiently provide this information, nonprofits need detailed financial records and real-time data to help gauge their progress towards their financial goals on both a monthly and annual basis and meet reporting guidelines. Access one set of data in the format you need as often as you need. Automate, simplify grant compliance. ?Access

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