Global Giving

JULY 25, 2017

That typically doesn’t yield a solution that’s sustainable, rather the project easily goes into disuse or is “developed and dumped.” In this case, the customer is a nonprofit, and it’s important to begin pro bono projects by taking a human-centered design approach to understand the context and need before diving into implementation.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Note: This is the seventh in a series of posts about the Nonprofit Web Design Process. Content for your website includes your headlines, body copy, photos, captions, graphics, videos, audio clips, etc. Quote from Kristina Halvorson) It’s an essential step in the Web Design process that’s often overlooked or skimped upon.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Why This Fundraising App Made Our List The Bloomerang app is designed to support donor management from wherever you are. Qgiv — Top Fundraising App for In-Person Giving Qgiv’s Virtual Terminal is a fundraising app specifically designed to help fundraisers record and accept donations on the go. The first is designed for event attendees.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 14, 2011

Flickr Photo by SMEX Beirut. I started work on the E-Mediat project over a year ago. The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology. The final phase is to design and facilitate in-country bootcamps with participants. (I’ll

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. This brilliant design allowed patrons to create new knowledge about the books in the library while only slightly adjusting their book-returning behavior. Or, so I thought.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 26, 2021

Yet many nonprofit leaders are intimidated by videos and more comfortable with traditional stories and photos to tell your organization’s stories. Photo or video montage: This is a popular type of fundraising video designed to tug at the heartstrings. Or is it a one-time project? In short, videos make an impression.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 12, 2013

Personas in the Design Process. My job at Blackbaud is to help nonprofits design things. Whether it’s a full-scale website, an event fundraising site, a donation form or a mobile email template, our design process usually goes something like this: Stakeholder Discovery. Visual Design. User Research. Build and QA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 19, 2013

Flickr Photo by Banana Custard. Co-authored by the Institute’s Executive Director John Esterle, Malka Kopell and Palma Strand, the article discusses a new project named “The Civity Networks Project,” a collaborative effort between the institute and the Silicon Valley Community. Identifying sources of discomfort will help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 19, 2010

Photo by Ben Golub. The controversy prompted some conference sponsors to consider hosting a forum to examine how these contests are designed and managed. Depending on the program design, participants may need time and support to mobilize their supporters. In addition, we know: These programs are difficult and resource intensive.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

Photo by Rennet Stowe That's the question that Stephen Downes raises after reading " Get Ready To Participate: Crowds and Governance" published on Henry Jenkins blog and written by Daren C. I don't think so, and I think that such projects express a misunderstanding of collective intelligence. Next Stop Design Process.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2016

According to Wikipedia, a wireframe is a “visual guide that represents the skeletal framework of a website” If you’re going through a design project, you’ll likely see wireframes after a user research phase and possibly a sitemap phase. Photos, which will likely be placeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Most users prefer to consume user generated content, by reading blog, watching videos, or browsing through photos. Open group blogs, photo pools, video collages and similar projects are also good examples of co-creation. However, just because everyone can become a creator doesn’t mean that everyone does.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2011

It outlines the steps of a technical volunteering project, from designing projects for technical volunteers to recruiting volunteers to managing a volunteer and closing out the project. Assigning volunteers to well-defined, time-bound projects helps keep both you and the volunteers on track.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2007

Flickr photo from Heipei. The Pew Internet and American Life project has released a meaty report about Internet use profiles and types. phase of the information society. Project conducted a survey designed to classify Americans into different. The advent of Web 2.0 participate in the commons of cyberspace ?

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Forum One

AUGUST 15, 2010

When you've thought through the benefits, obstacles, audiences, and timing for an online collaboration community project, you will need to determine how to deploy it. This technology selection and implementation phase can be daunting and complex. Designing and building a collaboration community is a rich and multi-layered experience.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 10, 2007

Recently, I’ve been grappling with the question of whether or not it is useful to create project-specific blogs for big museum initiatives during the development phase. For two years, I’ve been working on the same project at the Spy Museum. Why not create a blog with weekly (or so) informal posts about the growth of the project?

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Nonprofits Source

JANUARY 8, 2024

If your nonprofit is in the early phases of a capital campaign, you may be wondering exactly how long this period should last. The quiet phase of your nonprofit’s capital campaign should last as long as you need in order to be ready for a public campaign kickoff, which can vary widely from organization to organization.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

I wrote The Participatory Museum in response to this energy--to put together case studies in the context of a design framework so we could talk as a field about what works and why. A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. What''s the biggest obstacle to more of these projects happening?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

According to the Open Data Project , of the 89% of nonprofits worldwide that use social media in their digital marketing and fundraising strategy, 75% of those use Instagram. 1) Maximize your Instagram Profile Photo and Bio. First, make sure that your nonprofit uses a well-designed, visually-striking profile photo a.k.a.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

With an effective and sustainable nonprofit fundraising campaign, charities have the potential to engage broad audiences and increase their impact as their funding grows. Sustainable fundraising practices can help you grow, ensure long-term support, and even aid larger projects like funding research. Develop a Strategy. Be sure to: .

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 25, 2011

I wrote The Participatory Museum in response to this energy--to put together case studies in the context of a design framework so we could talk as a field about what works and why. A lot of these projects are about getting people to be more social and active in museums. What's the biggest obstacle to more of these projects happening?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2005

HTML code doesn't phase me as I've had over ten years playing with it, but it seemed like a lot of extra work (find the image url you like, cut and and paste it into the tag, and if the size isn't write -you're out of luck). I was amazed to find some photos on my hard-drive that I had totally forgotten! (Or all from one interface.

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BoardAssist

DECEMBER 15, 2014

Too much design makes it much less personal. Describe your project as “innovative,” trailblazing ” or “groundbreaking ,” and your work as “ wide-ranging , or extensive.”. Artwork: 80%; photos: 75%; headlines: 56%; captions: 29%, and very little text! (~Tom Donors will give more if they can designate their gift in some way.

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Kindful

MARCH 4, 2021

We know this well, as thousands of nonprofits and social good projects have used CauseVox’s digital fundraising platform to raise millions online, especially through virtual fundraising events in the last year. Fundraise for a specific project. Fundraise for a specific project. Host a social media challenge.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 16, 2008

This post provides an overview of the project, what makes it stand out, and some analysis of the strategic implications. The in-house team for Click included two curators, one interpreter, one artist/designer, and two web developers, but the person managing the whole project (Shelley Bernstein) is from Information Systems, not curatorial.

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Forj

AUGUST 12, 2021

Course authoring software platforms empower learning professionals, often alongside content development experts, to author, design, and assemble eLearning courses for learners. For more robust courses, it’s likely that the scale of the project outpaces the expertise of your team. What is course authoring software?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

The Climate Reality Bot is designed to educate supporters and build the organization’s email list for action alerts. Designed with ChatFuel , it is a simple bot, using close-ended options to funnel supporters to different options on the lower rungs of the ladder of engagement. Climate Reality Bot. Engage and Educate. Momconnect.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

Over the next five weeks, we're going to be sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. Each week, come back to this post for new resources on a different topic relating to web design. Photo: Joe Athialy , CC license. Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website.

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Tech Soup

MAY 17, 2011

Over the next five weeks, we're going to be sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. Each week, come back to this post for new resources on a different topic relating to web design. Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website. Week 1: The Basics.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

Over the next five weeks, we're going to be sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. Each week, come back to this post for new resources on a different topic relating to web design. Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website. Week 1: The Basics.

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Websites Open Source Library Analytics 48

Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

Over the next five weeks, we're going to be sharing a variety of resources on web design and development for nonprofits and public libraries. Each week, come back to this post for new resources on a different topic relating to web design. Photo: Joe Athialy , CC license. Think of it as Spring Cleaning for your website.

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Websites Library Phase Guidelines 44

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2011

It helps me to understand the questions, concerns, and everyday context of many nonprofits that want to embrace emerging media like social or mobile and to design and build peer exchange programs or Train-the-Trainers programs. It looks at communications in three phases with each having specific metrics. Simply repeat it.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 24, 2010

I couldn't drop the project for months or abandon it entirely. But those sections were the ones with which I needed the most outside help, because I had a hard time being objective about the content (these were mostly sections discussing projects I worked on directly). This became particularly clear when it came to the cover design.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 13, 2010

I talked with Sarah Rich , one of the project’s instigators and staff members, to learn more about 48 Hour Magazine and its implications for other participatory media projects. You had a huge response to this project. Beyond the excitement and buzz factor, what’s the value of doing this project so fast?

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Non Profit Quarterly

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Reich: Right now, in Silicon Valley with Big Tech, we’re in the kind of late-teenager phase of development, where technologists have become fully aware of all of their power. You need to have that built into your design process. They’re exploring the different ways that they can unleash their agency in the world. And I said, “Really?

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