Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 8, 2008

The China Braille Press was another impressive visit. Not only do they produce Braille in quantity, but the Press is also developing affordable technology for blind people such as screenreaders and talking ebook players. The software they use was apparently written at the Press.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

3: World Press Freedom Day — #WorldPressFreedomDay. 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits is a blog and webinar series on website design, email marketing, online fundraising, and social media best practices for nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. 7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

Two of our most used service design activities are ecosystem mapping and service blueprinting. We conducted interviews with internal stakeholders—anyone who had a hand in content development, from ideation to pressing publish in their website CMS. This allowed us to clearly identify bottlenecks and areas for improvement.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2022

3: World Press Freedom Day — #WorldPressFreedomDay. 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits is a blog and webinar series on website design, email marketing, online fundraising, and social media best practices for nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. 3: Good Deeds Day — #GoodDeedsDay.

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Qgiv

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Qgiv Conference is one of Qgiv’s many initiatives designed to provide nonprofit professionals with exceptional fundraising tools and learning opportunities. To learn more about Qgiv Conference 2024, read the full press release or go to the conference website by clicking the links below.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Using AI to Guide a Career Path in Government Streamlining an Ecosystem of Sites Design for Impact Making Data Accessible Engaging Events In 2023, we successfully hosted our second annual Digital Impact Summit along with a series of insightful webinars. Here are a select few that our readers most visited.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 24, 2023

Qgiv Conference is one of Qgiv’s many initiatives designed to provide nonprofit professionals with exceptional fundraising tools and learning opportunities. To learn more about Qgiv Conference 2023, read the full press release by clicking the link below.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 4, 2023

Visit the USPS store to choose a design that matches your mission. Optimize Your Design Your design doesn’t need to be fancy. At a minimum, make sure your designer: Uses 1-inch margins and 14-point type in the body text. Exports non-variable pieces (envelopes and page 2 of your letter) to press-quality print PDFs.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

3: World Press Freedom Day — #WorldPressFreedomDay. 101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits is a year-long blog and webinar series on website design, email marketing, online fundraising, and social media best practices for nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. 11: Good Deeds Day — #GoodDeedsDay.

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Forum One

MARCH 5, 2024

Read the press release: Smithsonian American Women’s History Museum Celebrates Women’s History Month 2024 With Inaugural Digital Exhibition and New Initiatives January 30, 2024 News Release. Curators narrate each of the five stories alongside an introduction narrated by actress, designer, and producer Rosario Dawson.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

News articles on your website can serve the same function as blog posts on your website provided they are dated and written like a blog post, not a press release. Blog Design Best Practices. Second, search engines are consistently searching the web to index fresh content. 1) Understand and embrace modern blogging.

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Fundraising IQ is a collection of AI, machine learning, and data science tools designed to empower nonprofits and fundraisers to maximize their impact by simplifying day-to-day tasks. To learn more , check out our full press release below or request a demo to see how your organization can use AI and machine learning to meet your goals.

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Charity Village

APRIL 20, 2022

Designed to spotlight the most pressing issues of our day, raise funds, and provide highly educational content about a wide range of causes, Unite for Change is a new online destination […]. The post CanadaHelps launches a new cause-based donation program called Unite for Change appeared first on CharityVillage.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 22, 2024

This effort has been made even more pressing in light of the COVID-19 pandemic. This series of playbooks is designed to provide specific, actionable steps to enhance citywide volunteer engagement strategies, either as a response to support from leadership or as a way to further make the case to leadership by demonstrating the benefits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2013

With the launch of new a LinkedIn Groups design , the company resolved one of its most pressing problems – LinkedIn Group spam. The new design, however, requires people to participate if they want their discussions to get noticed.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 6, 2022

In 2022, Qgiv will continue to prioritize assisting nonprofits with virtual fundraising by making the following enhancements: A new peer-to-peer registration experience designed to increase event registrations and participant engagement. Click the link below to read our full year in review press release.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 18, 2022

Enhancements to Qgiv’s peer-to-peer platform are designed to boost registrant numbers and dollars raised in a peer-to-peer campaign. Enhancements to the Qgiv peer-to-peer platform apply modern design best practices to eliminate unnecessary registration steps and maximize conversions. “24% Read the Press Release.

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The MatrixFiles

DECEMBER 15, 2022

This could be a template for your: newsletter, PowerPoint presentations, meeting pages, PDFs, press releases, or social media posts. Little tweaks like this can make a big difference, and good designers should be able to do this work fairly quickly. Refresh the most visited page on your website.

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Pamela Grow

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

But that was before John Lepp’s brilliant Creative Deviations available from Hilborn’s Civil Sector Press. Train Your Board gives you the tools and I’m thrilled to report that it’s been reprinted and can now be found at Hilborn’s Civil Sector Press. Storytelling in the Digital Age: A Guide for Nonprofits.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

DECEMBER 5, 2023

It offers proven, actionable approaches for any company, organization, or community to navigate through that entity’s most pressing challenges. Another way to put that is no matter who we elect (or appoint, or hire) their brilliance will never be enough to solve our most pressing problems.

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Tech Soup

JULY 14, 2021

Perhaps lesser known is Caravan Studios , a division of TechSoup, which designs technology solutions to help nonprofits address some of their most pressing problems.

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2024

Among the funders for its first local chapter, Press Forward Chicago , were the Democracy Fund and the Chicago Community Trust, demonstrating the intersectional nature of local news funding. In Sacramento, California, the James B. Other funding initiatives to combat misinformation include the Global Fact Check Fund at the Poynter Institute.

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Candid

JULY 9, 2021

University of Oregon receives second $500 million gift for the Phil and Penny Knight Campus for Accelerating Scientific Impact." University of Oregon press release 07/06/2021. What would take other institutions decades to achieve is happening here in just a matter of years.".

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The MatrixFiles

MARCH 22, 2021

Here’s a simple sign-up journey: Member is already logged in, goes to the sign-up form, presses the Subscribe button next to the newsletters of her choice, and gets a thank you pop-up. Individual navigates to the sign-up page, presses Subscribe. Here’s a not so simple sign-up journey. User is taken to a login page.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 8, 2019

At the time, many brick and mortar businesses and commercial properties lacked accommodations such as wheelchair ramps, handrails, and designated parking for those with disabilities. But here’s the rub: ADA went into effect in 1990, long before the internet and digital marketplace became ubiquitous with everyday life. Keep reading.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 24, 2023

We’re happy to unveil Qgiv’s new Event Management software—tools designed to help nonprofits streamline event check-in and increase registrations, attendance, and giving at events. Read the Press Release Request a Demo The post Qgiv Launches New Event Management Software for Nonprofits appeared first on Qgiv Blog.

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.orgSource

JANUARY 9, 2023

Feature new directors prominently throughout your social media platforms and send press releases to their local publications and news outlets. But an endless Zoom call where talking heads deliver reams of forgettable information is not an introduction designed to whet appetites. Board service is an honor and a privilege.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 3, 2022

As a celebration of the magazine’s 100th anniversary, this new book covers a broad range of management topics, including: Disruptive Innovation Design Thinking Emotional Intelligence Racial Equality At Work Persuasion Leading With Authenticity Leading Change Communication When Harvard Business Review first rolled off the presses a century ago, it became (..)

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Kindful

APRIL 8, 2021

While it seems that some nonprofits have the luxury of being a household name or are always in the press, this just isn’t the case for the majority of us. Huge organizations have huge teams and designated employees just for nonprofit public relations and outreach, media connections, and communications. Reaching out to press.

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AFP Blog

JUNE 25, 2014

Foundation Center - Press Release - Foundation Center Launches GrantCraft Makeover : Foundation Center Launches GrantCraft Makeover Intuitive Design Is Hallmark of Global Community of Learning for Philanthropy New York, NY — June 25, 2014.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 29, 2023

As a celebration of the magazine’s 100th anniversary, this new book covers a broad range of management topics, including: Disruptive Innovation Design Thinking Emotional Intelligence Racial Equality At Work Persuasion Leading With Authenticity Leading Change Communication When Harvard Business Review first rolled off the presses a century ago, it became (..)

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 10, 2022

Our nonprofit Trailblazers know better than anyone how to rise to the occasion of the world’s most pressing issues and how important relationships and reliance on community can be. So we’re excited to invite you to the second day of programming, designed for networking, hands-on training, and deep-dive workshops.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

From our Product team’s commitment to designing easy-to-use fundraising technology, all the way to our Customer Experience team’s dedication to live and unlimited support, we continuously strive to deliver high quality fundraising software that empowers our nonprofit clients.”. Read Press Release. Read Qgiv Reviews on G2.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 26, 2023

Asking nonprofits to create a survey and email language to collect demographic data places an extra burden on their already limited time and resources.    As a nonprofit ourselves, we understand that staff are always hard-pressed for time.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Smart innovators, like King, begin with a prototype, a product with just enough features to be attractive, allowing customer response to guide the final design. This methodology can be used to quickly answer critical questions surrounding any pressing issue. This often means recalibrating to meet evolving conditions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

As a human-centered designer and innovator, Amy believes in the power of design and technology to create positive change in the world. At Salesforce.org, her team leads Impact Labs and Open Source Commons to foster community collaboration and inspire innovation on the world’s most pressing challenges.

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Media Cause

OCTOBER 7, 2021

If your advocacy goal is to get a bill passed, plan for posts when a bill is introduced, create posts if the bill gets any press mentions and do another push when the bill is about to go to vote. Not every advocacy issue becomes a trending topic, so it’s important to create relevancy whenever possible.

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