Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

This change reflects a broader trend in nonprofits. In summary, AI’s role in fundraising initiatives goes far beyond automation. For instance, Keela’s Smart Asks for Donation tool offers advanced features designed to leverage data analytics for personalized donation requests. Nonprofits can embrace AI.

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Top Nonprofits

MARCH 16, 2022

Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand. Once you’ve determined if your website needs to be reexamined, review the best nonprofit websites available once more, using their design as inspiration for your new and improved website. Your website doesn’t reflect your current brand. Your site doesn’t engage your audience.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 22, 2023

Creating Your Online Store Setting up an online store with Flipcause starts by designing the storefront and choosing products that reflect your nonprofit and its mission. In summary, Flipcause offers a comprehensive, user-friendly suite of tools that can help any nonprofit launch an online store without any IT background.

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Qgiv

APRIL 26, 2021

The base categories for auctions can now be deleted, and any changes to the name or position of a category in your auction settings will be reflected in Givi. With this new feature, you can add social icons to your auction event pages and designate an image and description for Facebook sharing.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

Allen’s GTD methodology is based on the idea that our brains are not designed to store information. Reflect : Once a week, take some time to reflect on your progress and make any necessary adjustments to your system. Instead, we should capture all of our tasks and ideas in a system, and then process them at a later time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2015

Grantees, Experts, and Partners at the end of the Brainerd Foundation’s 21st Century Advocacy Design Lab. What if they used a design thinking process to not only get feedback from grantees but as a way to develop a more agile way of working? Why Use One? Networked Leadership : Jodie Tonita, Social Transformation Project.

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VQ Strategies

JANUARY 18, 2021

Day, designated as a National Day of Service, I was interviewed by Meghan McCarty Carino for National Public Radio about how organizations have adjusted their MLK Day of Service plans given the pandemic. I encourage you to read both Jerome’s and Jayne’s posts as any summary I could provide here would not do them justice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” There are different ways to design a participatory workshop. It is also important to design a similar process for each small group to work through.

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NonProfit Hub

JUNE 29, 2021

Designated Funds: Funds donated or granted for a specific purpose. Unless the designation is lifted by the giver, these funds need to be tracked separately to ensure they are used for their intended purpose. Funding that is not designated is commonly considered part of an organization’s general operating fund or budget. .

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Making things clear and easy to understand is crucial and the look and design of something can gain or lose someone’s respect and interest quickly. Logos with the right coloring and fresh design increase respect and help your cause stand out on collateral, social media, and other marketing opportunities. In Summary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2014

As a trainer and facilitator who works with nonprofit organizations and staffers, you have to be obsessed with learning theory to design and deliver effective instruction, have productive meetings, or embark on your own self-directed learning path. Training Design' Here’s some examples.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2008

Some participated in the formal experiment I designed which involved a quick knowledge sharing task. There was also a bit of reflection to identify how to efficiently use FriendFeed and determine its value to nonprofit. Here's a summary of some of the topics and discussions that took place in the NpTech FriendFeed Room.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2008

The workshop design looks at how to considering the role and activity of the technology stewards in authentic situations as well as exploring the uses of social technologies to stay in touch as well as for sustained inquiry. The participants will write up some more formal reflections towards the end of this week.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 28, 2011

On July 28th, I'll feature links and summaries to some of the best submissions. I hope you'll submit your post for consideration! Whether I'm talking with a nonprofit staffer, or a fellow nonprofit consultant, the topic of time always comes up.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2007

The Nonprofit Blog Exchange celebrates its second year anniversary and reflects on activities to date. Fundraising and Philanthropy There was lots of praise about Amy Luckey of Blueprint Research and Design's recent article called " Grantmaking 2.0: It went right into the SlideShare NpTech Group ! Powered by ScribeFire.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

" and reflecting on a recent article in Wired. a leading provider of software and related services designed specifically for nonprofit organizations, has announced that it has acquired privately-owned eTapestry, based in Indianapolis, Indiana. And Congrats to Michele Murrain for joinging NTEN board !). Blackbaud, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 19, 2013

After I wrote up this summary on my blog, How To Get Started Thinking About Online Peer Learning Communities for Nonprofit Professionals , Mitch offered to write a guest post reflecting on peer learning online and online communities. Online Communities: Are Best Practices Still Best Practices?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2007

" (At first, I thought the title might refer to Electric Sheep Company , a big player in virtual worlds, and that it would lead to some more reflections on the MacArthur Foundation's recent Philanthropy Event in Second Life. The essay has nothing to do with virtual worlds or interface design. It's a must-read.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2008

There are two focus areas -- design and writing. She also happens to be a web designer who works with typepad! I need to come up with a sketch of the new information design: Think about the sidebar in layers so there is less scrolling. What's your advice about improving your blog design or writing? Set context.

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NTEN

MAY 2, 2012

Reflections from 12NTC Panel on Data Visualization , Beth Kanter. Reflections from NTC Plenary Panel on Innovation , Beth Kanter. Fresh from NTC 2012: Web Design Sessions Digest , Katya Issaeva. Reflecting on the #12NTC Nonprofit Technology Conference , Lauren Girardin. Shai's #12NTC Summary , Shai Coggins.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2016

Designing and facilitating training (not matter the topic) is one of my passions and why I blog about it on a regular basis. The photograph above documents a creative stretch break from a recent Leadership Training I designed and co-facilitated at the Americans for the Arts Conference. Photo: Americans for the Arts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2007

Organizing a community and serving it well has a lot of dimensions poorly reflected in webstats alone. He summarizes his organization's experience with the plone community and larger reflections about the complimentary strengths and differences between nonprofits and open source communities. My favorite phrase is "The code isn???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 13, 2018

Then you reflect on the difference in creative energy – typically yes and has more of it. Hal Gregersen, executive director of the MIT Leadership Center and author of the forthcoming book, Questions Are the Answer , has this useful article about designing better brainstorming questions. Send out a summary of the ideas generated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2017

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? Team members reflect on their own remote working experiences and use that insight to create a shared charter for your nonprofit. PRIORITIES.

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Gyrus

SEPTEMBER 1, 2016

Instructional designers have been trying for years to come up with the perfect teachings for organizational entities, with learnings ranging from electronic, social, micro, mobile, instructor-led, and blended. In summary, coaching is a unique value added concept to a learning and development program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

It will be interesting to see how this evolves given the technology platform came before the social design , but as online community pundits note, web2.0 Some reflections about the newest web2.0 If you are interested in community plumbing, here's rough diagram , although it might have changed since a few days ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2011

Here’s a summary: There was a range of practice for using data and measurement to improve social media and demonstrate impact: Crawl. Does not have a reflection process for analyzing success or failure to take into next use or campaign. A streamlined and well designed dashboard. Does not know where to start.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 30, 2018

Here’s a quick list of key information you’ll need to include on your Form 990 that should help you with budgeting moving forward: A concise summary of your mission. Take a minute to reflect on your accomplishments and give yourself a pat on the back (literally or figuratively). (Friendly reminder: tax season is upon us!)

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Money Nonprofit Google Marketing 51

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2013

Here is a summary of the stories and what people learned from the experience: Events. However, don’t be afraid to try something new, look at both the positive outcomes and reflect on how to do it better the next time around. Don’t try to do something like this along, build a support system to help.

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Qgiv

JUNE 23, 2021

Your website needs to reflect your nonprofit in an intuitive way, and it should be easily updated to support future campaigns and fundraising efforts. . Prevent donors from having to enter the same data more than once with good form design ! Reflect your nonprofit’s unique brand. Optimize your online donation form.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

More daunting is designing valid control group social research, which compares measurable differences between people receiving services and those that are not. Only 45 percent of respondents said they knew how well their programs were working, and only about 42 percent felt that their evaluations accurately reflected their impact.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Extra credit if you read the Our Museum evaluation (or its summary ) as well. The evaluation additionally called out some faulty assumptions in program design about leadership and staff continuity throughout the multi-year process. In summary: read the report. I strongly recommend you read the report.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2011

He didn’t do the “sage of the stage&# thing, he gave ample opportunities for the audience digest the ideas he shared as well as engage them in conversation. Alison Carl White from NPower Seattle has a good summary on her blog. It’s a design challenge.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 19, 2023

They provide a user-friendly interface with simple editing tools and pre-designed templates. With other builders, a nonprofit might have to adapt features designed for traditional for-profit businesses. Design Flexibility: Choose builders offering a diverse range of templates, customizable themes, and design elements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

I’ve been cheering GiveMN for four years now and every year they graciously agree to do a reflection post on how it all went and what they learned. Our friends at Fast Horse posted a nice summary here. But for now, let’s hear from the Grandfather of all Giving Days – GiveMN.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 14, 2012

You can read the summary of how the free agent community came together to self-organize and create a public action as well as a full report of the lessons learned and reflections on the #TakeBackThePink campaign in this public google doc. and Facebook, plus Stephanie’s graphic design expertise. Observations & Reflections.

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Forj

JULY 22, 2021

The organization created a very detailed RFP, according to Hope, and this was because they made an enterprise-level investment in online learning strategy and designed backwards from their goals. We subscribe to this idea that if you are organized within, your influence is reflected outside of your organization.

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