Whole Whale

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

The goal of the Request for Proposal (RFP) is to present your development project (or any project, really) in the context of your organization and larger goals. The RFP will outline the purpose of your website; the need, timing, and overview of the project, site features, and other requirements for applicants.

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Cloud 4 Good

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Without a second thought, Apsona jumped right in and implemented code that allowed us to customize the appearance of the date/time fields within the merge doc template. We spent about six weeks with Apsona building and testing to complete the project. In search of a timely solution, Cloud for Good reached out to the Apsona team.

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Vermont Nonprofit Doc Application 101

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

You can use a calendar, whiteboard, Excel sheet , Word or Google Doc, or other resource to do this. If you get stuck or decide you want someone to drive this project for you, I’m here to help. For some organizations, this may result in more than one donor communication in each month, and that’s OK. Create your bundling plan. .

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

You've heard about some time-saving free Google Docs templates that can save time for non-profits creating documents, spreadsheets and presentations – but did you know Microsoft.com has a bundle of free Office Suite templates that are designed especially for non-profits? read more ).

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 3, 2020

Document sharing and collaborating tools, such as Google docs. Project management tools, such as Asana. Here are some examples of essential tools for communication and collaboration: Web-based video conferencing tools, such as Zoom. Team collaboration tools, such as Confluence. Document signature tools, such as DocuSign and SignNow.

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Virtual Associations Practice Tips 78

Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

With Google Workspace you get: Gmail, Chat, Calendar, Drive, Docs, Sheets, Forms, and many more tools, all for just $6 a month. You may feel like you are doing everything yourself, but at some point you will be collaborating with others on documents, and you will need Docs and Sheets. And, it’s free! Grab it here. Grant Searching .

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Tools Nonprofit Doc Google 105

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2011

Docs are like super-simple wikis, and probably the most truly collaborative aspect of a Facebook group. Docs live in a designated place within your group and are therefore not as subject to the news feed, which is more timely. Docs are great for posting information that you plan to come back to again and again.

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Wild Apricot

JUNE 11, 2010

Tags: Non-profit technology nptech office collaboration Microsoft online storage project management PowerPoint application.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 12, 2011

What’s also very close to the center is my project management tool, Redmine. (I’m It works for multiple projects. 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.

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sgEngage

JUNE 14, 2022

Traci Holinger, data and software administrator at Regis Jesuit High School, will showcase the custom insights she built to help guide the school’s direction on student support, teacher mentoring, student body inclusion (by gender, ethnicity, and religion), student engagement (in clubs, retreats, immersions, and athletics), and tuition projections.

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Conference Guide Blackbaud Student 83

ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 25, 2021

The Council for Certification in Volunteer Administration is a partner in the research, and we refer to the project as TEVA, short for Technology Evolution in Volunteer Administration. For the past year, I have been studying how volunteer managers (in nonprofits and government) have approached various technologies during the pandemic.

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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 Themes.

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Marketing Resource Doc Strategy 39

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 19, 2023

We’ve grouped these solutions into the following categories: Donor Management Fundraising Project Management Communication Design Forms Marketing Events Website Content Management System As you assess each option, keep in mind that seemingly “free” platforms may still come with costs. transaction fee per donation.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Having documentation available for a new leader can often be as effective of a training tool as in-person guidance. . Consider using tools like Vimeo or Loom to do on-screen recordings for practical tasks and instructions. Best of all?

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Leadership Practice Nonprofit License 81

Bloomerang

DECEMBER 5, 2022

Love this email the fabulous Alice Ferris got from Ten Oaks Project. Create a “Subject lines” google doc with them and add in your highest performing subject lines (psst, I do this too and I have 384 subject lines in mine). In the end I reviewed 200 Giving Tuesday emails. . Alice, help get 4 more kids to camp! always works best.

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email Giving Homeless Nebraska 82

Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2014

According to the Project VRM wiki: "VRM tools provide customers with both independence from vendors and better means for engaging vendors. Doc Searls on VRM. To get a better sense of VRM in context of nonprofits, we spoke with one of the movement's volunteers, Doc Searls. VRM: A Quick Explainer.

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Relationship Management Doc Wiki 55

NTEN

JUNE 20, 2011

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. Some of what they used Google Docs for included: A new form for supporters to sign up for various Missions.

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Case Study Tools Studies Community 80

Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 27, 2013

Finally, we might devise an editorial calendar for the project, assigning content owners, due dates and recommendations for updating the content pre- and post-launch. Messaging hierarchy – Word doc or PowerPoint deck. Page Description Diagrams – Word doc. Editorial Calendar – spreadsheet or Word doc. Deliverables.

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NTEN

AUGUST 5, 2014

Toms Aguilar , Progressive Technology Project; Yee Won Chong , Fundraising Consultant; Nadia Khastagir , Design Action Collective; and Chris Tuttle , Tuttle Communications. On day 2, I was part of the Visual Communications panel with four panelists (some you might recognize from the NTEN Community!): Here''s what they said.

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Communication email Marketing Reflection 94

NTEN

JANUARY 14, 2013

The social media team includes the Deputy Director, the Special Projects Director, the Social Media Manager, the social media consultant, summer interns, and an outside content development consultant. Ongoing conversations in the Cloud The team accesses a shared Google Drive (formerly Google Docs) folder.

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Social Media Collaboration Org Media 96

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MAY 3, 2009

It’s quite good, and there are some useful docs to see it at work on the CiviCRM wiki. I also dug into some of the internals and code of CiviCRM, and feel better equipped to start contributing more than ideas and feedback to the project. I also learned about CiviCase, which is actually present in 2.2.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 21, 2022

They may designate the gift toward a specific program or project in your nonprofit, or they may leave it to you to use as needed, which is my favorite! Don’t worry about providing legal language or sample docs because your donors already have their own attorney who will take care of all the verbiage and paperwork.

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Giving Gift Donor Doc 64

Robert Weiner

JULY 10, 2012

The current software does not interface with our current/new technical environment (MS-Exchange and Office, or Google g-mail, calendar, docs, etc.). But a big part of the analysis has to be “who’s the project sponsor?” This is an area of new or expanded emphasis for us. We cannot interface with other desired applications.

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Database ROI Donor Listserv 181

NTEN

APRIL 21, 2012

We had a lackluster year, with fewer projects and volunteers than ever before. We're still not sure what the right way forward is - more straight up service projects, back to the one on one consults? #NTCFail 3: Day of Service. What we WILL do is make this an issue we can discuss as a community when NTC planning picks up this summer.

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Badge NTC Doc Lecture 92

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

TechSoup Brasil is a project of Associação Telecentro de Informação e Negócios (ATN). He is also currently the country manager for the One Laptop per Child Project. Google Docs , Google Groups , and Google Maps are also very well-known and widely used.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

If you’re smart and build revenue projections into your plan, you’ll have a good idea of cash flow for the year. For example, a new project provides grocery store gift cards to college students coping with food insecurity. A Google Doc or Sheet is a great place to start, because you can collaborate with your team.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 21, 2021

A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Having documentation available for a new leader can often be as effective of a training tool as in-person guidance. . Consider using tools like Vimeo or Loom to do on-screen recordings for practical tasks and instructions. Best of all?

Leadership 41

Leadership Practice Nonprofit License 41

Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2012

David Evan Harris , Founder and Executive Director of the Global Lives Project. Starting a Collaborative Project. Bramley spoke to getting a project off the ground, which can be difficult because of the many pieces that go into creating a video. The Story of the Global Lives Project. Building a Team.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2015

So when I heard about a collaborative project between nonprofits, city agencies, and the local library happening in my own backyard (almost literally!), A Nonprofit-Driven Community Project. The project was spearheaded by Real Options for City Kids (ROCK) , a neighborhood nonprofit and TechSoup member.

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Guide Resource San Francisco Community 36

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. Respect Network is a global initiative for advocating privacy online. Using Web Pal.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Before kicking off your project, consider the following: . Executive sponsorship is key throughout the project but especially at g o -l ive. If/when you experience any post go-live blues, seeing how much you’ve accomplished since starting the project can be just the positive motivation needed. . Pre go-live training .

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Learning Strategy Training Train 45

Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2009

Kevin warns of a newly discovered security weakness in Google Docs. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Elliot asks what your nonprofit can learn from the YMCA about IT alignment. Robert considers a study that asks whether first-time online donors become recurring donors.

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Global Doc Library Reflection 43

Kindful

MARCH 16, 2021

What it does: Gmail, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Drive, Google Meet— Google Workspace is a collection of Google productivity tools that help your team collaborate efficiently. Collaborate on grant applications or annual reports using Google Docs. Free and affordable productivity software. Google Workspace.

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NTEN

JUNE 28, 2012

Check out all the awesome resources, opportunities, and summer learning programs on the docket for this summer: Superstar member Heidi Massey created this handy Google Doc full of free/low cost tech resources for nonprofits. We're looking for a project that fuels social change through technology. The best part about it?

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New York City Learning Miami New York 56

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2011

We wrote a sweetness in front of an office for a friend grieving the death of his child, in front of our doc's office saying thanks for being such a great healer, and loud praise for the librarians at the library. What was truly cool was how long some of the messages lasted - in some cases, weeks!

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Fun Doc Blogher Teen 74

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2012

From a GreenTech perspective, we mean something specific: a succession of online sessions over time that allow people to communicate and work together on long-term or shared projects, often by developing common work-plans, documents, presentations, meeting notes, and other work products that all participants can use whenever and wherever they want.

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NTEN

MARCH 30, 2011

My weeks are all about writing, communicating with clients, staying in touch with project teams, being able to touch lightly many things, bear down and provide assistance on a few, all while keeping tons of things secure and backed-up. Now an entire team can enjoy continuous synchronization of a folder (and sub-folders) for a project.

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