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Inspire a New Generation of Donors: Text-to-Give for Nonprofits

The Modern Nonprofit

Disaster Relief Efforts In times of natural disasters or emergencies, nonprofits can quickly rally support using text-to-give as a rapid response tool for gathering donations. The key is to ensure the audience is well-informed on how to use the system and is motivated by the cause or event’s purpose.

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We identified two potential challenges for foundations to make use of this data: The data itself can be biased because it comes from a sampling of people who use social media or what some called a “self-selection bias,” so the data may not be representative of a total population – only specific locations or demographics.

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Twitter and Nonprofits

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

But right now, at this moment, twitter’s demographic is both tiny and highly nonrepresentative of the population of the world. If your organization’s mission will be greatly benefited by making connections with the twitter demographic then, yeah, twitter makes tons of sense. And so what on earth does that really mean?

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How to Set Up Bitcoin for Your Nonprofit

Tech Soup

Some nonprofit organizations are adopting Bitcoin as a tool to target specific demographics, specifically constituents who are more tech-minded. Bitcoin's instant transfers can make an immediate difference in funding the efforts of nonprofits with very time-sensitive missions, such as disaster relief. " Early Adopters.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

This virtual desktop solution connects to a nonprofit or school’s existing computer system very quickly and allows older computers to run Windows 7 and Windows applications as well as new PCs. Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. is another one I’m watching. The nonprofit refurbisher.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

In 2006, BlogAds broke down the reader demographics even more: The median political blog reader is a 43 year old man with an annual family income of $80,000. Use Your Nonprofit Blog to Report Back From an Event, Trip or Disaster Do you have staff or constituents going to a conference that your supporters would be interested in hearing about?

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UNICEF Shares How You Can Support India Today Amidst the COVID-19 Surge

Saleforce Nonprofit

Indirectly, many children’s lives are impacted as more households get pushed into poverty, schools are closed, and strained health systems and by disruptions to life-saving health care like immunizations. Thus, they remain vulnerable and face the grim possibility of being the only ones that may remain susceptible to COVID-19 infection.

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