Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2017

Published by M+R and NTEN. 2015 Text Donation Study :: Download. Published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Published by the Lily Family School of Philanthropy. 2016 Nonprofit Benchmarks Study :: Download. Giving USA 2016 :: Download. Published by the Giving USA Foundation. Published by Abila.

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 10, 2012

There were signs of life out there in our community nonetheless, which we've wrangled together to help you get back into the swing of things. NTEN is excited to announce that we have teamed up with the Integrated Marketing Advisory Board (IMAB) ! For better or worse, it was not a zombie apocolypse, but rather a quiet holiday week.

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APRIL 2, 2012

NTEN members are even using The Hunger Games buzz to educate about real world food and water issues. Think you can tell the difference between real life and the scary scenarios presented in The Hunger Games? Speaking of NTEN member discounts, you can also register for Interop Las Vegas at a special NTEN price!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 11, 2008

Maybe the love of your life is allergic to roses or maybe he or she is trying to drop a few pounds, so chocolates (even if they are fair trade chocolates ) may not fly. What about making a donation to a charity in honor the special someone in your life. Do you have a special techie in your life who works for a nonprofit?

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Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2014

After Jason Shim won the 2014 NTEN Award in March, I thought I’d have a look to see why Amy Sample Ward and company thought so highly of him. One thing I’ve noticed about the NTEN award winners is their restless knowledge sharing in an array of subjects all over the place – not just in their own organizations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

View more presentations from Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project. Disparate marketing channels complicates the life of the average NPO today. She is also the Membership Director at NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network. That’s why we started the Donate Movement.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2012

For my first session, I attended "Building & Sustaining Relationships with the Next Generation" with Holly Ross of NTEN. When it comes to donations, we're currently thinking about a few generations. They don't necessarily donate in the same way that they first engage with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 22, 2010

Google and Microsoft sent me mobile phones in response to my complaints about the Apple iPhone in-app donation policy. If you skip that, your mobile tactics won’t yield much impact or learning. What we witnessed over a year ago with SMS donations to the Haiti disaster is not going to be the norm for nonprofits.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 22, 2011

Read the complete issue of NTEN's new quarterly journal for nonprofit leaders by subscribing to the journal for free! ] But when it comes to running a big fundraising campaign, good planning doesn’t just improve your quality of life – it improves the bottom line. Should you put an entire donation form inside a homepage lightbox?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

These events are fiscally sponsored by NTEN and Microsoft and TechSoup is a partner in helping support the event. Chelsea left us with some helpful advice for social media and life: don’t strive for perfection; you have 30 or 40 chances to make a first impression. Approximately $300 billion is donated by individuals in the U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 23, 2011

Howard Gardner has dedicated his life work to this Theory of Multiple Intelligences. Yet, many conference panels are designed to accommodate only one or two styles of learning and go shallow instead of going deep. That’s the questions I asked myself as I designed my panel for the NTEN’s annual conference, the NTC.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2009

Yes, it might be surprising, but I got a friendly email from fellow NTEN Board Member Steve McLaughlin, who also happens to be head of all things internet (more formally, Director, Internet Solutions) at Blackbaud. There were a lot of things you could do, including accept donations, track personal donation pages, and the like.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2008

Some of the best grassroots fundraising for projects in developing countries take the form of clothing donation campaigns. Last summer, as part of a campaign I did to support the Cambodian bloggers summit, I got many donations of technology t-shirts. Mothers for Africa is running an underwear donation drive.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

These questions are almost always programmatic in nature, and rarely about donating, volunteering, or otherwise helping you out. Show them how they – through being your friend -- can look out for someone else or change someone’s life for the better, even if only in a small way. Ask them to donate $50 towards a specific campaign.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Based on my informal assessment of attitudes and interest in the NTEN community about open source software, I think there's a significant and growing number of folks and organizations who are either interested in, already using, or even evangelizing open source solutions. Tags: dave greenberg NPTech NTEN Open Source IT Staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

We embed the product donation with a connection to the community and capacity building.&#. Horin also said that other partners in the TechSoup Global network responded to requests for donations and assistance. Microsoft’s Social Entrepreneurs: A New Approach To Employees Making A Difference.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

Nonprofits around the globe are using online games not to only educate the public, but to get donations and supporters – and even help find cures for diseases. Purpose: Bringing the cause to life. DISNEY PROJECT GREEN: Play games, donate points and help a charity win $100,000. Casey Golden, CEO, Small Act. They already are.

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Care2

OCTOBER 2, 2013

Last month we provided 11 tips to make your life easier when planning a conference. Then, just ask for a small cash donation in appreciation for the volunteers who take care of packing their items. Pre-scheduled tweets will make your life much easier at the event itself. A policy and procedure manual will be a big help in this.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. The European Court of Justice has taken a landmark decision to reverse this fact of modern life. Image five: NTEN. They’re calling it The Fog.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Burlington, Vermont: Work Life Balance — Integrate Renewal into Your Busy Day. Lira, Uganda: How NGOs Can Benefit from Microsoft Donations. Image 1 : NTEN / CC BY-NC-SA.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

advocacy action or donation)? email signup, contact us, donation, petition, etc.), Make your life easier: remember that Facebook fans, for example, tend to respond best when presented with FB-focused calls-to-action. Tags: jeff patrick Newsletter NPTech NTEN Social Media Web Sites Communications.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

In the US, the Chicago and Portland groups visited their local Microsoft stores to learn how to leverage the Office 365 donation. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and HandsOn Tech. Milton, Massachusetts: Giving Nonprofit Life Seminar.

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NTEN

JUNE 18, 2009

and Trackable (of 60 people who opened the email, 25 clicked to the donate page and 12 donated). Real-life Examples. We also ask for feedback on our donation forms and other web communications. We exceeded our goal and raised more in online donations than we had in all of 2006. How did we do it? Lessons learned?

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

the largest spreadsheet I have ever seen in my life. As a resource developer, I could not efficiently track year to year donations or identify that one of our graduates could have been a potential donor. Not to mention tracking all their donations, preferred days and time to volunteer, and program attendance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 28, 2007

There is also a groundswell of support all over the Internet, from bloggers ( one blog at a time ) Facebook , Flickr , Online Petitions , mobile phones , and Second Life. LolNptech commentary about a recent NTEN Discuss List thread. So, while it may very difficult to find Internet content from Burma, it is getting onto the Internet.

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

The reason sms may be better for activism vs donation is that there isn't as much transparency about how you're impacting the world. Mobile Giving Trust and donations were huge in the Millennial Donor Report. Ensure your donation forms are optimized for mobile. You must segment your channels of asking. Find a trusted partner!

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 9, 2010

How likely is someone in Generation X going to donate to my organization? In today's NTEN NTC session "The Generational Divide of American Giving" Andrew Magnuson and Matthew Mielcarek, Nonprofit Consultants, discussed the recent research published by Convio , Edge Research and SeaChange Strategies on the Next Generation of American Giving.

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NTEN

JANUARY 6, 2011

It's about creating authentic, meaningful relationships that drive actions benefitting your organization: getting more members, volunteers, and donations. Savvy nonprofiteers know it's about much more than that.

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NTEN

MARCH 26, 2009

While online fundraising continues to be a growth engine for many nonprofit organizations, the data -- real and anecdotal -- shows that engaging constituents through an integrated, multi-channel approach provides the greatest return over the life of most supporters. Know your audience and their needs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Laura Quinn in her introductory post on the Open Content for Nonprofits NTEN Affinity group points to an article. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. If you're lucky enough to be getting a tax refund, why not donate to a good cause?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 20, 2007

" And finally, are cat lovers only to be found in Second Life ? NTEN is offering a Webinar on Google Aps. NTEN posts about screencast about GoogleAps and SalesForce Integration for nonprofits. Too bad Apple isn't donating them to nonprofits! I really need a vacation. Ruby Sinreich just got back from a trip to London.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 12, 2016

Maddie Grant, founding partner at Culture That Works and NTEN board member. There's NPR's Serial or Chicago Public Media's This American Life and Radiolab. It doesn't have to be a big donate button. Did they make a donation? The panelists included. Dale Pfeifer, CEO of GoodWorld. Did they sign a petition?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 22, 2011

Last week was the 2011 Nonprofit Technology Conference and not only did I have the pleasure of presenting a couple sessions, it was also my first NTC as a staffer, as I joined NTEN earlier this month. But, it’s just to say that you are in it just like the community is, and not everything we try in life works smoothly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

The HSUS newest campaign is geared towards helping the 1,300 chimps still condemned to life in research labs across the country. NTEN's Call for NTC Sessions - Deadline October 24th. Every time you get a question right the advertisers donate 10 grains of rice. Want to get started in Second Life, check out.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

We decided to donate and became evangelical on our social networks to spread awareness. As we know now, the outcome of the case was not what we wanted, but we really tried to create impact – and we know that going forward (as a family), we'll be close to AI's mission for life.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 15, 2022

If you can demonstrate to someone how this will improve their life, make their job easier, and serve their needs, they can start getting excited about new opportunities and be on board to move forward, and ready to break the status quo. Increase in single donations. Increase in recurring donations. Is it to serve more people?

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