Doc Seaman Amateur Sport Grants now open for applications
Charity Village
OCTOBER 26, 2023
The Calgary Foundation‘s 2023 Doc Seaman Amateur Sports Program is now open. The grant request deadline is noon on November 15 of each year.
Open Source vs. Proprietary: Desktop Productivity
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MARCH 7, 2011
I’ve been using this tool since it actually was StarOffice, more than 10 years ago, when it was first open sourced by Sun in 2000. (funnily enough, for both packages, the executable is still called ‘soffice’ – for ‘Star Office.’). The database has not come anywhere near the functionality of Access.
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Get Organized and Increase Your Nonprofit Productivity
Get Fully Funded
JULY 13, 2021
Here are some of my favorite tools and how I use them to stay organized and be productive: Google Workspace, formerly known as G Suite: I cannot imagine a more important set of tools for nonprofit productivity than these free tools from Google: Google Docs , Google Sheets , Google Forms , Google Slides , and Google Calendar.
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Platforms break open!
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 15, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open! Open has 3 components, APIs, Database Connectors, and Extensions. Bottom line: Kintera takes some important steps to open up their application. You make your own conclusions.
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100 Smartsheet: Frustrated with online project management no longer
Judi Sohn
JULY 21, 2013
Why aren’t you just using Google Docs?” ” Yes, some of what we’re doing in Smartsheet could be done in Google Docs. It’s an Excel/Google Doc-like online app that generates spreadsheets that are more dynamic than just rows & columns. Right now we have 389 active sheets in our Team account.
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Nonprofit Volunteer Management: Three Tips to Increase and Maintain Engagement
Nonprofit Tech for Good
AUGUST 29, 2022
Create opportunities to ask open-ended questions to continue learning about their skills and interests and ask for feedback within your communications to improve your programs. Open communication will help build long-lasting relationships with volunteers. It can increase productivity and speed.
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Platforms break open, part II
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
OCTOBER 18, 2007
Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Platforms break open, part II October 18, 2007 The dust is settling. Methinks vendors in this space still just don’t grok, really, what “open&# means. I have a few comments. He’s right.
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The Best Giving Tuesday Email Subject Lines Of 2022
Bloomerang
DECEMBER 5, 2022
If your emails didn’t get opened there’s one thing to blame: your subject line. Personalization in the subject line will boost your open rate and tangible offers like ‘get 4 more kids to camp!’ Flattery and personalization go a long way to boosting open rates! . Personalization will get your emails opened! Mine too. .
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AI Prompts to Jumpstart Your End-of-Year Fundraising
sgEngage
AUGUST 22, 2023
So, it begins… your year-end-campaign message writing session: You stare at the blank page, open last year’s materials for inspiration, type a few sentences… delete them. You open LinkedIn to see if any other organizations you respect have shared new messages (“Am I already late to the game?”)
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More online than local: Why I love Google Docs
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
OCTOBER 11, 2006
I'm finding it very annoying to having to open an attached document from email, save it to my hard drive, and work with track changes or comments though. So, I've used wikispaces, pbwiki, socialtext, jotspot, and writely (now google docs). You can easilyl collaborate with spreadsheets and docs. The formatting is great.
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How Purchase Cards Simplify Nonprofit Accounting
sgEngage
JUNE 15, 2023
Adding Security with Purchase Cards Many business professionals rely on Google Docs or Excel for their purchasing and expense tracking. This opens the door for a conversation about special rates or custom discounts with that vendor. These may be your tried-and-true business office tools as well, but how protected is that information?
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Beth’s Surprise Party: A Case Study in Crowdsourced Action
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 12, 2010
First, we created an open Google Doc where we put in the introduction language, so anyone that clicked through from someone’s blog or Twitter post would have context about what was happening (and included a numbered list up to 53, so people could easily see where to add their name and blog address). Some tweeted.
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Vote for the Winners of the 2014 DoGooder Video Awards!
NTEN
FEBRUARY 26, 2014
Public voting is open through March 10th, 2014. It was a difficult task, but the DoGooder Team have chosen the finalists- and now it’s up to the public to choose the winners! Visit the contest site today and cast your vote! Voting is easy; you simply select your choice in each category. Individuals can vote once per day.
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Promevo gPanel: Google Apps management without tears
Judi Sohn
AUGUST 25, 2010
For Google Apps administrators, the offerings in the Google Apps Marketplace seems to be a lot of 3rd party tools that pull in gApps data (Docs, Calendar, etc.) Administrators can't open private documents from gPanel, which is just fine. to make it easier to work within the 3rd party tool's own environment. they stare blankly.
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Nonprofit Leadership Transition: Best Practices
NonProfit Hub
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
If you’re not sure how much time to provide, consider these conservative timelines: Creating a posting for the open position | 1 Week. Posting the open position | 1 – 2 Months. A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Interviewing/Reference Checks | 1 – 3 Months.
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4 Resources to Transform Your Nonprofit’s Marketing Strategy
NonProfit Hub
JULY 17, 2017
Google Docs. At first glance, you might overlook Google Docs as too simplistic, but the built-in brochure, project proposal and newsletter templates give you endless possibilities. All these free tools are available through Google Docs. WordPress.org offers free themes uploaded by the open-source community that you can use.
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‘Why don’t you have a nonprofit data management plan?’ Q&A with Debbie Snyder and Gary Carr
3rd Sector Labs
APRIL 23, 2014
We opened with a short audience survey about nonprofit data management. The most popular is Facebook – https://developers.facebook.com/docs/facebook-login/permissions/. For example, I would expect lower email open rates for a donor acquisition campaign that is targeting a high percentage of first time contacts (e.g.
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Reviewing Tweetnotes from The Extraordinaries
Amy Sample Ward
MAY 23, 2010
You can see the embeded versions of the tool on my blog here and here , or you can see examples on the original site for the SXSWi session, Net2 Open Space session, Community Building session, or the Online Campaigning session. I also think it can be better! Here’s my list of things I like and things I hope can be improved.
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Tools I use: basic workflow
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
APRIL 12, 2011
And, it’s open source, and isn’t even that hard to get set up and running. And, like all consultants, workflow involves documents and spreadsheets, and for that I mostly use LibreOffice , although sometimes using Google Docs makes sense for collaboration. It works for multiple projects. Evernote rocks my world.
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Guest Post by Seema Rao: How Museums Can Resist Racism and Oppression
Museum 2.0
AUGUST 16, 2017
Seema and I have started an open google doc to assemble ideas for specific things museums and museum professionals can do to resist oppression. please add yours to our open google doc. Please check it out, add to it, and join us in taking action. There is a simple binary: chosen action (1) or choosing inaction (0).
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13 Tasks to Do Right Now to Plan for Fundraising Success
Get Fully Funded
NOVEMBER 15, 2021
Get a legal pad and a pen or pull up a Google Doc or a Word Doc. You have to give yourself a chance to think bigger, find more opportunities, and open up to new possibilities. It’s too easy to drop parts of your imaginary plan, shift others, and back off your goals because you don’t feel like following through.
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If you're a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome
Judi Sohn
JUNE 6, 2011
You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. Click "tab" to open a new window that logs you right in. Force.com Utility Belt - This extension, developed by Jeff Douglas at Appirio , is a Salesforce developer manual in a click. Apex, Visualforce documentation.it's all there.
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Nonprofit Engagement: Why Website Logins Matter
NetWits
JUNE 6, 2011
Think about the websites you most visit: Facebook , Google’s Gmail , Calendars and Docs , Yahoo , Netflix , NYTimes , Friendster –what, you don’t use Friendster anymore? Well, my point is that all of these sites have user logins.
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Vote for these SXSW Nonprofit Panels
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 27, 2012
What’s Up Doc? ” That panel marked the beginning of my friendship and collaboration with KD Paine which lead to our book, which is going to be entertaining and practical look at how to measure all things networked nonprofit. New Tools for Digital Justice - [link] – coordinated by Mike Medow.
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The Advantages Of Online Strategic Planning
fusionSpan
DECEMBER 8, 2021
So for some groups Zoom and a google doc, and the occasional Jamboard, will be a perfect match. Something as simple as asking them to open a google doc and write their name at the top of the document. You want people focused on their strategic conversation not struggling to make the tool work.
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Recap: Community Organizing Tools from the Experts
NTEN
AUGUST 28, 2014
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Nonprofit Leadership Transition: Best Practices
NonProfit Hub
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
If you’re not sure how much time to provide, consider these conservative timelines: Creating a posting for the open position | 1 Week. Posting the open position | 1 – 2 Months. A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Interviewing/Reference Checks | 1 – 3 Months.
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41 Andy Carvin Opens The Kimono At NPR on Social Media
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
FEBRUARY 17, 2007
This video of Doc Searls talks about two of the competing metaphors that exist on the Internet - the static Web vs. the dynamic Web. This video of David Weinberger makes the case for NPR to trust the public when it comes to uploading user-generating content and discerning the differences between NPR content and user content.
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Robert Weiner
MARCH 5, 2010
gSyncIt can get my notes into Google Docs, but those don't sync with the Pre and I don't want to have to get Internet access just to read or write a note. Also, gSyncIt also brought my Google Docs into my Outlook Notes, which wasn't good. But even better is that Palm left the system open for developers to tweak. Notes: Evernote.
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Tech Across Your Org: Social Media Collaboration Across the NYC Elder Abuse Center
NTEN
JANUARY 14, 2013
As Cara Kenien, the Center’s Social Media Manager told me, “Risa is so open to delegating and readjusting as needed and finding ways to share responsibilities, which is why we are so collaborative.” Ongoing conversations in the Cloud The team accesses a shared Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) folder.
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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations
Get Fully Funded
MAY 29, 2023
If you send an email with a boring subject line , it probably won’t even get opened. Subject lines with questions have higher open rates. An opening sentence that hooks the reader. Check out this video for tips on writing the best opening sentence you can. You could go with, Do you know you are a hero? It’s just too dull.
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The Best Donation Platforms for Nonprofits
Whole Whale
OCTOBER 13, 2020
transaction Setup Fee: $0 Commitment: None Integration: Salesforce, MailChimp, Eventbrite, Optimizely, Google Analytics, Google Docs, HubSpot, Insightly, Stripe. Transaction Fee: 0% Setup Fee: $0 Commitment: 12-month, annual subscriptions Integration: Blackbaud, Salesforce, (plus, an open API for proprietary donor management systems).
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Thoughts from EMSA 2010
NetWits
NOVEMBER 21, 2010
Consider using a free online tool such as Google Docs and/or Google Calendar to plan when emails/communications will be sent. This becomes easier if you start to look at what types of information your constituents are opening in your email newsletters. Avoid using ‘click here’ in your email copy.
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Grab This Fundraising Plan Template for New Nonprofits
Get Fully Funded
JANUARY 1, 2024
Having an open call for donations just to help your organization may work a few years down the road once you’ve developed a strong support base, but as a new nonprofit it won’t garner much results. This includes rent/facility costs, payroll, admin, fundraising, phones, and any other expenses you need to keep the organization’s doors open.
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Join Our 2016 Digital Storytelling Challenge!
Tech Soup
MARCH 21, 2016
April 4, 2016 — Storymakers contest opens and new educational curriculum on digital storytelling launches. May 3 – 4, 2016 — Around-the-world Twitter chat (sign up in this Google doc ). April 5, 2016 — Storymakers 2016 #NPTechChat with our partners, the United Nations Foundation and +Social Good.
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If you’re a Salesforce user, 3 great reasons to use Google Chrome
Judi Sohn
JUNE 6, 2011
You can browse or search the docs from the little drop-down window. Click “tab&# to open a new window that logs you right in. Force.com Utility Belt – This extension, developed by Jeff Douglas at Appirio , is a Salesforce developer manual in a click. Apex, Visualforce documentation…it’s all there.
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Tidbits
Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology
MAY 19, 2008
It does make me think a lot about this whole space, and wonder if the fast moving train of Salesforce, and the slower moving trains of the open source alternatives, are beginning to bear down on the old guard, and how they will respond to them (or not, which would spell doom.) And yeah after reading the docs, I agree, it’s bad.
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5 Apps Doing Good for the World
Care2
JUNE 30, 2012
I’d like to see this opened for all nonprofits to add themselves as beneficiaries. If your in that camp it’s likely you are using Google Drive, Google’s document collaboration tool and its replacement for Google Docs. As more people begin using the app, the community has more leverage to attract further sponsorship.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 21, 2007
Maybe open Social Graphs will help ? Laura Whitehead of Laura's Notebook highly recommends the recent CommonCraft video on Google Docs in Plain English. OpenSource and Software Communities Jon Stahl has a thoughtful essay on Nonprofits, Open Source and Leadership. Here's a growing list.
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Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement
NTEN
JUNE 20, 2011
Two or three years ago, you could have a conversation out in the open and have people organically join in. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool. Epic Change used four planning tools, but much of the work was really in just two: a private Facebook group and Google Docs.
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80 Free Tools for Keeping Website Trackers at Bay
Tech Soup
JULY 7, 2014
" Doc Searls, the author of "The Intention Economy" and the current lead of ProjectVRM at the Berkman Center for Internet & Society, delivered the keynote at the event. When you open a new tab in Chrome, you'll see a page with your most frequently visited sites (like the vanilla version of Chrome) and an odometer.
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Chromebook for Nonprofits: Are Web Apps All You Need?
Tech Soup
AUGUST 23, 2011
The first time you open a Chromebook, it's a disorienting experience. I use Google Docs , Zoho Writer , and Office Web Apps. For many people, being able to use Google Docs offline would make a huge difference in the viability of Chromebook. That's an exciting prospect for any nonprofit, but is it really feasible?
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DIY Community Engagement Metrics
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2011
Again, this conversation can be really eye-opening as a part of building the community map, but also as far as encouraging dialogue within your organization and providing clarity around the organizational goals and the way they play out with the community engagement. New grants or new programs. There will probably be a lot of things to list.
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Tech Soup
MARCH 21, 2016
April 4, 2016 — Storymakers contest opens and new educational curriculum on digital storytelling launches. May 3 – 4, 2016 — Around-the-world Twitter chat (sign up in this Google doc ). Our campaign focus will include these key dates and will begin at NTC 2016: DoGooder campaign partners announce winners at NTC 2016.
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