Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

Microsoft's HelpBridge is a free app available on all the major mobile platforms that connects you with friends and family during a disaster such as an earthquake or a hurricane. It also lets you discover and donate to organizations involved in disaster response work, and find opportunities to volunteer. Start using the app.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 13, 2023

Evaluate New Initiatives Strategic risk is a different story. Everyone who participated was an experienced risk manager and offered advice for how association leaders could help themselves and their volunteers to become more comfortable with uncertainty. Volunteers enjoy being responsible for bringing innovation forward.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 29, 2023

Many people all over the world face different challenges and problems. These issues include climate-related disasters, diseases, poverty, and other problems that present major roadblocks to peace and prosperity. Then, we’ll review how your organization can promote volunteerism in your community and manage volunteers effectively.

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Nonprofits Source

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Individuals want to make a difference, and their employers can play an impactful role in that. That’s why 71% of employees say it’s imperative that their employer supports giving and volunteering. Year-round CSR strategies enable companies to make an enduring difference in their communities and for the causes they support.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Covid-19 has completely readjusted how we all think about our day-to-day lives, including how we give back and make a difference in our communities. With this in mind, employee engagement professionals transitioned their volunteer events into a virtual setting with little to no experience beforehand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2024

Highlights from Microsoft’s Nonprofit Sector Research on AI Devi kicked off by sharing a sentiment analysis from a recent survey of nonprofit leaders that fall into one of two different perceptions: comfort and concern. Use Cases We discussed different use cases beyond productivity for writing tasks and processing email.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Volunteers sit outside grocery stores, ringing bells and encouraging shoppers to donate to their cause. In this blog, I will share how you can use your head and heart to inform your giving and to ensure your donations make a difference. Giving Season has arrived. Companies advertise their year-end fundraising drives.

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Ashish: 108 ideaspace has been working with different AMS solutions for the last decade. We have seen other AMS systems where different clients are on different versions of the software and that is a recipe for disaster.”. “Once implemented, Nimble AMS would be the last AMS an association will ever need.”.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 5, 2024

With how many staff, volunteers, and locations. But donors are going to be more passionate about the difference they can make today , not the length of time your organization has been making a difference. The same holds true if you survived a natural disaster such as a fire, earthquake, tornado, hurricane, or tsunami.

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Volunteer Hub

OCTOBER 20, 2020

Donner Sang Compter Lebanon has quickly adopted VolunteerHub, as its volunteer management solution of choice, and is using the software to pump hope and compassion within the community. Volunteers as donors and helpers come not asking anything in return. The need for strategic volunteer management.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

It can be tough to know how to move forward since your donors have different communication goals than your nonprofit. The two organizations are partners that share the same cause – fighting hunger – yet they have different philosophies and audiences, leading them to pursue different approaches with fundraising and communications.

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NonProfit Hub

APRIL 28, 2017

National Volunteer Week 2017 has come to an end, but treating your volunteers well should be a priority each and every one of the other 51 weeks. In celebration of National Volunteer Week, we compiled our top five tips to motivate your volunteers and keep them coming back. No one is making them volunteer (usually).

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

The most common topic of discussion in meetings lately and the theme of many sessions during this unusual fall conference season is the need to advocate for volunteer engagement as a strategy to help sustain organizations during these challenging times. Clearly, our need to advocate for volunteer engagement is more vital than ever.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is. The American Red Cross is now looking into how best to give the public an increased role in disaster response. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Or, perhaps there is a backlogged idea of gathering your volunteers for a small appreciation event that an intern can help arrange. Internal documentation and program FAQ Have your intern interview the major departments and create a master FAQ and document that explains the different acronyms and concepts that outsiders may not know.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

What Are the Different Types of Corporate Giving? More volunteer sign-ups. Certain corporate giving programs like volunteer grants encourage employees to volunteer with nonprofits. As a result, nonprofits not only earn money from the volunteer grants but also gain a new base of dedicated volunteers.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

Disaster Relief Of A Different Kind - West Virginia Headline News and Talk Radio : Seventeen West Virginia Office of Technology employees are working long hours in Louisiana lending an IT helping hand following what Hurricane Isaac left behind.

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Bonterra

AUGUST 15, 2022

Bonterra Homepage bonterra_admin Mon, 08/15/2022 - 16:44 The Bonterra Difference We enable social good organizations with the best-in-class software they need to drive impact. Find your product Supporter Engagement Unite volunteers, advocates, and voters with integrated tools designed to inspire and ignite action.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Today, people of color and low-income communities are more likely to be impacted by natural disasters, live close to hazardous waste, and die of environmental causes. His work with the NAACP has helped him view the world differently and enabled him to think outside of the box to create innovative ways to create long-term solutions. “I

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

When donating, 100% of your gift will go toward the disaster relief operation you choose. Donate here to help them make a difference. SPCA Florida has created a relief fund to support the volunteers they’ve deployed from the Florida State Animal Response Coalition to help animals in need. Donate here to provide support.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Today, we are able to offer four different payment methods online and we’re working with different providers to offer the best success rate possible to our donors (>90%). The top three causes are medical expenses (25%), start-up costs for a social enterprise (25%), and disaster relief (23%). 93% regularly vote.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 23, 2024

It’s draining when a nonprofit asks and asks and asks some more for you to give money, buy an event ticket, donate stuff, volunteer, and so on – especially when they aren’t giving you any feel-good stuff in between. Believe their small donation doesn’t make any difference. Think you don’t appreciate their contribution.

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Double the Donation

MAY 25, 2021

Benevity’s platform helps companies find volunteer opportunities, set up and run volunteer grant programs, manage matching gifts and payroll donations, and more. YourCause is a top corporate giving software solution for managing workplace giving, employee volunteering, grants, and more. Learn more about Benevity!

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

In other words, plan ahead to send several variations of your appeal targeted to donors who identify in different ways. If they’re on your board, a direct service volunteer, a parent, subscriber, patient, alum, or you-name-it, if you can acknowledge that connection in your appeal you should. Also segment by donation amount.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 30, 2023

Many of their partnerships respond to food insecurity concerns and disaster relief efforts. Founder John van Hengel developed the concept of food banking when he was a soup kitchen volunteer. In every shared resource, they aim not just to make a difference, but to make a lasting impact.” “We We are actively feeding America!”

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 28, 2020

COVID-19 is forcing nonprofits to think differently about engaging supporters. sign up) to ask for donations (see our “No Money, More Problems” webinar for how), or host fundraising-specific events like multi-day virtual galas with different speakers, trainings on best virtual fundraising practices and webinars with donor special guests.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

Focus on building relationships first, fundraising is different to begging, you must offer value to the person giving. Matt first learned about crowdfunding when he was raising funds to volunteer in Southeast Asia in 2012. The top three causes are medical expenses (54%), disaster relief (12%), and education costs (12%).

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NetWits

JULY 6, 2011

It’s really no different than real life in that people want to get to know who you are, what you stand for, how you’re changing the world and what they can get by connecting with you. The social Web is no different. Twitter is different than Facebook, and Facebook is different than LinkedIn. Say thank you.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

They have workers and volunteers, sometimes literally, on the front lines to both provide immediate support, and to learn more about the problem they are trying to solve, and who they are solving it for. This open-source, accessible solution enables workers and volunteers to collect data wherever they need to go. DV: I agree.

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Allegiance Group

APRIL 23, 2024

In fact, political fundraising is like disaster relief. But you may need to think differently about the timing of your campaigns. If you send a message congratulating the winning candidate, you risk alienating all those donors and volunteers who supported the losing side. People support your mission for a variety of reasons.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 30, 2021

Fearing the sky was falling, they thought people would hunker down and fundraising would be a disaster. Others shifted differently, adapting their messaging and redoubling their fundraising efforts. Even better, pick different strategies to use across multiple channels (e.g., What did you do? How did it affect your bottom line?

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Bonterra

APRIL 13, 2024

Having alternate approvers within the workflow has also made such a difference for our team. To support international causes, like disaster relief, Bonterra partners with a leading marketplace of vetted nonprofits, the Charities Aid Foundation. Does Bonterra’s grants management software support international programs?

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Bonterra

APRIL 10, 2024

Our system allows you to develop a number of different assessments, surveys, screenings, etc. Bonterra Impact Management takes comprehensive measures to ensure that data is kept safe, confidential, and recoverable in the case of a disaster. They are updated any time there is a change in regulations or policy.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

The real-time web has also revolutionized the way we support local communities in disaster. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. People believe in their contributions.

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Qgiv

JULY 14, 2021

Mary Sumners, Vice President of Annual Giving, Kennari Consulting – Mary’s areas of expertise include annual giving strategies, capital campaign management, and board and volunteer committee support. Setting it too low can lead to frustration for staff and volunteers when it needs to be increased later.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 27, 2011

The blogger, Katie Hawkes, had written this post encouraging our audience to be optimistic about volunteering. When you engage in social media marketing, your nonprofit needs to be aware that it's an incredibly different jungle out there. I know you keep getting a barrage of advice and articles that say, "Social media is different!

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

Volunteer grants: 63 million Americans (25% of the adult population) donate to worthy causes non-monetarily by volunteering their time, talents, and energy. Companies can support their employees’ volunteer efforts by donating a set amount of money per hour through a volunteer grant. Employees value workplaces that give.

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