Free film screening of No Visible Trauma
Charity Village
JUNE 14, 2023
Story Money Impact is presenting a free screening of the film No Visible Trauma on Saturday, July 8th at 7:00 pm at the Hot Docs Cinema in Toronto.
[WEBINAR] Fundraising Appeal Throwdown
CauseVox
SEPTEMBER 28, 2021
We’ll be keeping an eye out for: Eye-catching language that draws donors in Stories that work well in fundraising appeals to drive gifts Effective calls to action to convert donors + more! It can be in a google doc or on a live campaign site. Don’t miss out! Save your seat today for the free webinar.
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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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We Can’t Ignore a Good Story
Achieve
JUNE 3, 2014
My bet is someone was telling you a good story. Contrary to a widespread assumption about documentaries, impactful docs are not about causes, issues or historical facts. We’ve grown up with platforms to connect with others, new ways to discover and share stories, and a global consciousness that is unprecedented. Before forming.
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#DontTrainOnMe: Are you Polluting your LLM Brand?
Whole Whale
JANUARY 17, 2024
Challenge : What is the common thread between these stories? Special thanks to Eric Antebi from the California Health Care Foundation for this one Bigger is Different The high-level lesson across these stories is that bigger is different and that data/plastic from the past doesn’t just disappear.
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How to Bundle Your Nonprofit’s Donor Communications
Bloomerang
NOVEMBER 18, 2021
You can use a calendar, whiteboard, Excel sheet , Word or Google Doc, or other resource to do this. Topics, stories, and resources for each donor communication. Just go with whatever helps you organize all of the donor communications, when you plan to mail them, and how they tie in together. Create your bundling plan. .
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What Can Apsona Do for Nonprofits?
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. Success Story: Leveraging Salesforce CRM for the University of Vermont Office of Research. The post What Can Apsona Do for Nonprofits?
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Making Facebook Groups Rock for Nonprofits – Guest Post by Miriam Brosseau
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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Twitter Hacking and Cloud Security
Robert Weiner
JULY 23, 2009
The front-page headlines read " Hacker steals Twitter's confidential documents ," but the real story isn't about Twitter — it's that the stolen documents were stored online, "in the cloud." Do they do that with their employees' Google Doc passwords? Does anyone think to disable those employees' access to docs in the cloud?
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The Ultimate Nonprofit RFP Guide
Whole Whale
FEBRUARY 2, 2023
There is no one-size-fits-all RFP, but that doesn’t mean that organizations shouldn’t feel the need to write their life story — especially if it is a small project. We recommend creating an excel doc to track the bids and give grades across desired criteria for each vendor. Here are the 4 stages of writing an effective RFP.
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Building Stronger Online Communities Without Losing Your Sanity
Amy Sample Ward
APRIL 2, 2010
Here’s the catch: we may be presenting and leading the discussion, but we know you all have some terrific experiences, examples, and stories to share. We are all really looking forward to this discussion and hope that be creating the google doc ahead of time we can let the community build a resource far better than we could have alone.
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Nonprofit Leadership Transition: Best Practices
NonProfit Hub
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Plus, you probably want to own your story. A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Details like the timeline for the transition and any interim changes or responsibility shifts can help portray stability and ease any stress or apprehension felt as a result of the transition.
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The Best Giving Tuesday Email Subject Lines Of 2022
Bloomerang
DECEMBER 5, 2022
Esther’s story ( why should I care enough to open this? 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). My comments are in parenthesis and italics. . Giving Tuesday ( yes this was an actual subject line! ) . Doing great so far!
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Join Our 2016 Digital Storytelling Challenge!
Tech Soup
MARCH 21, 2016
Good stories power fundraising and marketing. For nonprofits interested in solving a particular problem, stories can help others quickly understand and connect with the organizations' mission. Check out the moving, powerful stories that were submitted. Social movements are powered by advocates sharing their stories.
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Join Our 2016 Digital Storytelling Challenge!
Tech Soup
MARCH 21, 2016
Good stories power fundraising and marketing. For nonprofits interested in solving a particular problem, stories can help others quickly understand and connect with the organizations' mission. Check out the moving, powerful stories that were submitted. Social movements are powered by advocates sharing their stories.
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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. Like Seema, I've been looking for ways to increase active resistance of racism, hate, and bigotry--both as an individual and as the leader of a museum.
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How to Keep Your Virtual Meetings on Track, Inclusive, and Engaging
Top Nonprofits
AUGUST 3, 2021
I’m sure we each have stories like this. I had asked my contact whether participants were comfortable using Zoom with Google Docs. By now, most of us have heard about the lawyer who couldn’t turn his cat “filter” off on a Zoom court hearing, so that he appeared in virtual court as a cat. Reading these comments, I felt terrible.
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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. He suggested telling a story through your email marketing, and sending three informational emails for every one ask. Avoid using ‘click here’ in your email copy.
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Tech Soup
JULY 23, 2009
The front-page headlines read " Hacker steals Twitter's confidential documents ," but the real story isn't about Twitter — it's that the stolen documents were stored online, "in the cloud." Do they do that with their employees' Google Doc passwords? Does anyone think to disable those employees' access to docs in the cloud?
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Nonprofit Leadership Transition: Best Practices
NonProfit Hub
SEPTEMBER 21, 2021
Plus, you probably want to own your story. A Google doc or Trello board can be great for organizing project-based work or listing duties. Details like the timeline for the transition and any interim changes or responsibility shifts can help portray stability and ease any stress or apprehension felt as a result of the transition.
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Create an Online Donation Receipt that Leads to More Donations
Get Fully Funded
MAY 29, 2023
I was part of this success story!” If the donor’s gift was used for food for a pantry, a video of a volunteer filling bags with tomato soup, saltines, and other staples will tell the story without having to find a pantry guest willing to be filmed. A well-written receipt is not just about a tax record. I made that gift!
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Reflections from #MFOM14: Email Marketing, Fundraising, and Visual Communications
NTEN
AUGUST 5, 2014
The last time I was in Baltimore was in 2007, with Amnesty International at their regional conference, attending as a bright-eyed student organizer trying to learn how to more effectively spread the good word of social justice and human rights (the story of how I got involved in nonprofit marketing!). Here''s what they said.
Case Study: Tools for Community Engagement
NTEN
JUNE 20, 2011
Stacey does feel that it's a useful and simple tool that can help spread your story, but had there not been volunteers in the public relations industry involved in the group, she may not have made the time to use the platform. When it came to blogger outreach, a Google Doc was the preferred and successful tool.
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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere
Tech Soup
JULY 24, 2012
Get inspired with these digital storytelling examples: raising awareness of homelessness and sharing indigenous stories online. The Canadian technology battle continues with head-to-head reviews of document collaboration solutions, Microsoft Skydrive and Google Docs. Pacific time. TechSoup Canada. From TechSoup for Libraries.
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Vote Today, Watch on Thanksgiving: 2009 CNN Heroes
Have Fun - Do Good
NOVEMBER 18, 2009
You can watch videos about each hero, and learn more about their stories on the 2009 CNN Heroes voting page. Personally, I voted for Betty Makoni (pictured left), because I was moved when I read her story in Paola Gianturco's book, Women Who Light the Dark , and when I heard her story again while interviewing Paola for the Big Vision Podcast.
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Tech Soup
MAY 9, 2012
A production grid is easy to produce in a collaborative tool like Google Docs and is easily shared via email or file sharing. The Story of the Global Lives Project. Harris rounded out the conversation on collaborative storytelling by sharing the story of the Global Lives Project. Building a Team.
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10 Tips for Starting a Virtual Social Change Book Club
Have Fun - Do Good
DECEMBER 14, 2010
Start a Google Doc where people can add ideas for future books 10. Read a few pages/the first chapter of the book before you choose it. Be conscience of page count. Everyone is busy (: Choose books that are available as e-books, for people who prefer to read on their Kindle, iPad, etc. Keep asking people if they'd like to join.
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How Cell Phones and Tablets Enable Telework
Tech Soup
APRIL 25, 2014
In our recent stories on how TechSoup employees are using apps , we found an incredible array of work-related things people are doing on their phones. Google Drive Mobile is a free app for viewing and editing Google Docs on an Android phone or tablet.
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DIY Community Engagement Metrics
Amy Sample Ward
JANUARY 20, 2011
This template, like the others, is available at that link as a public google doc that you can save and reuse. With high turn out at events, yet volunteer numbers dropping, we hope to highlight volunteer opportunities and stories of volunteers at the next few events to measure impact.
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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
JULY 14, 2010
Training could also be done virtually with videos or through shared docs on a wiki. And volunteers could have the opportunity to share the organization’s story through their personal networks. In a networked nonprofit, VCs could partner new volunteers with experienced volunteers to save time in orientation. Do you have one?
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27 Recommended Affordable or Free Nonprofit Software Tools
Bloomerang
DECEMBER 19, 2023
Client success story: We’ve seen plenty of examples of organizations that have switched from free fundraising solutions to Bloomerang and experienced a boost to their fundraising and donor management strategies. View Bloomerang’s customer results page for more success stories from organizations that have made the switch to Bloomerang.
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Creating a Community Resource Guide for Visitacion Valley
Tech Soup
AUGUST 14, 2015
To collect and organize data, the team members used Google docs and Google forms. Inspired by ROCK's story? One of the most difficult tasks was getting these agencies and organizations to actually call back! Technology and Volunteers Make It Happen. How to Spearhead Your Own Community Guide. Designate a lead person or organization.
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Agents of Change: Fostering Freedom & Independence through Nonprofit Activism & Social Impact
The Modern Nonprofit
JULY 4, 2023
Organizations like Doc Ellis Foundation works to hold law enforcement accountable and offers financial support to families, ensuring they receive the required resources when reporting a missing person.
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Museum 2.0
MARCH 17, 2020
The shared google doc of closures blew up around Thursday afternoon, and in looking at it, I thought, maybe for the first time in my career, we are saving lives. I’m mostly telling that part of the story to set up this statement of gratitude. The social media folks were in full-on energizer bunny mode behind the scenes.
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How Game On Cancer Cracked the Code on Engaging Physicians and Cancer Survivors
Connection Cafe
JANUARY 21, 2020
We started with a nomination packet for each doc that included a personalized “MVP Trading Card.” Thoughtful stewardship of these new donors will include personalized thank you notes from their physician, a campaign celebration card announcing our grand total, and shared impact stories. Post Game .
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31 Free And Affordable Software Options For Nonprofits On A Budget
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. Disconnected data can cause you to miss the full story of your donors.
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What are your best tips for wiki adoption for new users?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 27, 2008
Watford Gap : wiki adoption tip - everyone in the org can share thier stories and buildup a collaborative picture of what they do - any good? Kalabird we used google docs wiki-like platform to build our new website's copy decks and implementation plan. I'd borrow, steal & give credit. i.e. Can you email me the job desc?
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Museum Work Today: All the Feels All the Time
Museum 2.0
MARCH 24, 2020
Keep up the story and make it personal. Let’s make the doc a living document to help us make informed decisions. Is there a good comprehensive google doc, growing list of museums that are closed, closing programs, etc? #museumsocial — Brendan Ciecko (@brendanciecko) March 21, 2020 2. Be the look so many dads are on FB.
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Advocacy Policy, Part Two - And Why Now is an Especially Good Time to Create One
Museum 2.0
APRIL 19, 2016
We champion causes through the partnerships we build, the programs we offer, and the stories we tell. We reviewed a handful of existing policies from other institutions (local and national, museums and not), discussed their attributes, and started drafting/stealing/reworking with a Google doc. We only met once in person.
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20 Reflections from Networked Nonprofit Workshop for 300 People
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 27, 2010
It has a lot of features , but most importantly it grabs hashtags or keywords from Twitter (and Facebook) and dumps into a google doc spreadsheet with other data points. What Powers Learning: Sharing Experiences and Stories With Peers. My Zoetica colleague, Kami Huyse , suggested a tool called rowfeeder.
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Why You Need to Care About Documentaries in 2022
Association TV
JANUARY 25, 2022
News outlets ran stories on the doc and its exposé. You can watch a film like Blackfish and feel sad for a little while after you turn it off, then forget about it and go about your life. But millions of people didn’t. Folks flocked social media where they discussed, debated and cried out in protest.
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With Liberty, and Information, For All?
NTEN
FEBRUARY 18, 2009
Even simple tools like Google Docs means your organization can report real time data, online, anytime. How do we turn all those spreadsheets into the pictures and maps that clearly tell our story in an instant? So far, the Recovery.org site only features the standard " Share Your Story " feature. You can do it, too!
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How Documentaries Engage Entirely New Audiences For Maximum Impact
Association TV
JANUARY 25, 2022
News outlets ran stories on the doc and its exposé. You can watch a film like Blackfish and feel sad for a little while after you turn it off, then forget about it and go about your life. But millions of people didn’t. Folks flocked social media where they discussed, debated and cried out in protest.
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How Documentaries Engage Entirely New Audiences For Maximum Impact
Association TV
JANUARY 25, 2022
News outlets ran stories on the doc and its exposé. You can watch a film like Blackfish and feel sad for a little while after you turn it off, then forget about it and go about your life. But millions of people didn’t. Folks flocked social media where they discussed, debated and cried out in protest.
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