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sgEngage
MARCH 19, 2024
Our recent eBook, Nonprofit Expert Insights: Culture of Innovation, shared tips, tricks, and experiences from 11 industry experts across the global nonprofit space. In fact, most innovation projects fail. Ultimately, you will be able to strengthen the impact your mission has on the people and communities you serve. Click here.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
DECEMBER 13, 2014
You can also download his new, and free, eBook , Trusted Leadership Advisor , when you subscribe for free to his website. This week, Nathan kindly shared more about his eBook and leadership in general. What inspired you to write the ebook? Who is your target reader for the ebook? Do you have another ebook in the works?
sgEngage
OCTOBER 12, 2023
Congratulations to the school webmasters and the Blackbaud web developers who worked on these projects! eBook How to Design the Best Private School Website Download Now The post 3 Blackbaud School Websites Win 2023 WebAwards first appeared on The ENGAGE Blog.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 9, 2018
The miracle of ebooks What if we had the ability to overcome these accessibility barriers, barriers that affect most of humanity, not just people with identified disabilities, wouldn’t we have the moral obligation to act? We can use the same ebook file to deliver the content ten different ways. We can do better!
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 23, 2023
However, the best starting point might be to engage with projects that spark joy. To get started, download NFPs.AI’s Introduction to AI for Nonprofits eBook. Each of these tools could be the subject of its own article, and the internet abounds with resources on how to utilise them. Image created using DALLE 3 through ChatGPT
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 29, 2018
Born Accessible: Working with publishers to ensure that any new ebook is accessible to people who read differently - with the goal of one day making Bookshare obsolete. Helped environmental leaders design, manage, monitor, and evaluate global conservation projects and campaigns with the first open source conservation project management tool.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 28, 2014
He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ). Overseeing the Accessibility Metadata Project , with which we led a collaborative effort to develop standards for accessibility metadata.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 20, 2013
And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. After talking me out of calling it Bookster, he explained how the DAISY format would be ideal for our new Bookshare project, that he had made sure that it would work well for ebooks like the ones we were hoping to provide.
Pamela Grow
MARCH 6, 2024
Every day you sit down to begin working on a project. Perhaps it’s your first donor newsletter. Or an invitation to your organization’s latest event. Or maybe you’ve finally decided to work on your email welcome series. And she publishes a bi-weekly newsletter that I never miss (and never fail to learn a thing or two from).
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 10, 2014
It became a burden to his family and caregivers to constantly drop what they were doing to turn a page, so he began seeking out ebooks. It also demonstrates how each ebook that is added to the Bookshare collection is a brick in our members’ foundation of independence and inclusion. Eventually he had to ask others to turn pages for him.
Bloomerang
MAY 19, 2023
In other words, let’s look at the readiness to apply for grants and readiness to manage grant projects. Readiness to manage : In order to manage a grant project, you need to have a certain level of infrastructure in place. Maximize the Lifetime Value of Your Donor Database Get the eBook Part 2.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 5, 2015
Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects. These projects ended up becoming successful and found sustainable funding streams, allowing the innovation to go to scale without needing continued funding from Lavelle.
Candid
SEPTEMBER 27, 2023
The Ask: How to Ask for Support for Your Nonprofit Cause, Creative Project, or Business Venture by Laura Fredricks. We invite you to browse our free, public collection of eBooks and audiobooks on nonprofit leadership, fundraising, operations, and many related topics all year round. The hardest part of fundraising is making the ask.
Connection Cafe
JUNE 7, 2017
In this fundraising eBook, you’ll learn from these 10 experts: Pamela Barden , CFRE, Consultant, PJ Barden Inc. Jann Schultz, Senior Director of Individual Giving, Project HOPE. Download: npEXPERTS – Fundraising Matters: Building a Culture of Philanthropy. Cheryl Contee , CEO, Fission Strategy , and Co-Founder, Attentive.ly.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 3, 2011
Bookshare is dramatically exceeding its five-year collection and member targets at the close of the fourth year of our Bookshare for Education (B4E) project funded by the U.S. Through the LIT project, we’re adding many new innovations to the groundwork laid by the B4E project, with a focus on three core areas: content, tools, and utilization.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 7, 2012
People with print disabilities around the world have a right to high-quality ebooks that they can read with assistive technology. These ebooks can quickly be turned into Braille, large print or be read aloud by a synthetic voice synthesizer. These texts will be available in early 2012.?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 3, 2013
The increasing focus on digital content, rather than its printed form, and the shift to electronic distribution of ebooks pave new avenues for removing the barriers to accessibility. At Benetech, we want to ensure that in this brave new world of digital content, braille is as available as any other ebook format to those who want it.
AFP Blog
JANUARY 15, 2015
[eBook] Private School Digital Insight: Enhancing Web Navigation and the Rise of Responsive Design | npENGAGE : "About a year ago we came up with the idea for an ambitious project to help us better understand the state of private school web navigation, and how schools are responding to the demands of web usability, responsive web design and more.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 15, 2012
Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.
Saleforce Nonprofit
OCTOBER 26, 2021
Every year, it spends over €30 million to further this aim by building social inclusion programmes and campaigns for small-scale, community-led projects in the Netherlands and the Dutch islands of the Caribbean, and providing opportunities for them to learn from each other. Bringing People Together. A Critical Supporting Role.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
As I was thinking about this, it became clear that now is the time to look beyond the tools for social change that we’ve built and consider the frameworks that guide us in moving them forward and in identifying the next projects to work on. We are always exploring new projects with the hope of launching a new product each year.
Bloomerang
JULY 9, 2021
How might this cash projection inform some decisions during the first half of the year? Download our Do’s and Don’ts of Getting Boards to Fundraise eBook to review why your board isn’t fundraising, and how to fix it this other form of nonprofit board engagement. Just a few graphs make a big difference.
Qgiv
MARCH 19, 2024
Project updates. These events also serve as a good time for your donors to learn more about the projects they support from your organization and receive updates from your team members leading the specific projects they contributed to. Future projects. Learn how you can increase donor retention with this eBook.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 23, 2014
We believe that all ebooks should be fully accessible, so that a person with a disability can effectively use the exact same ebook that somebody without a disability gets on their Kindle or iPad. These Labs supporters make it possible for us to explore many new Labs project ideas, looking for the next great social enterprise.
Robert Weiner
JUNE 3, 2010
AFP's Fundraising Effectiveness Project: [link]. Ebook: [link]. Here they are, with links: Donor Retention. The Agitator’s post “No New Donors! [link]. Attracting New Donors. “Homer Simpson for Nonprofits: The Truth about How People Really Think and What It Means for Promoting Your Cause.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
Many of our projects turn on legal questions, and our attorneys are a core part of figuring out solutions that will have real positive impact on society. Right now, we have multiple law school clinics that would love to tackle new projects with us, projects we actually have but lack the bandwidth to pursue.
Qgiv
AUGUST 12, 2021
To raise additional funds for a construction project, PJCC created a peer-to-peer fundraising campaign with Qgiv’s tools. eBook: Find & Engage Your P2Peeps. This free eBook will help you find new peer-to-peer fundraisers to support your mission! As they’ve grown, their fundraising needs have grown as well.
Greater Giving
AUGUST 24, 2022
Transitioning traditional Silent Auctions into Mobile friendly online bidding , integrating Text to Donate , and creating Project Websites sparked lively conversation during the APEX 2022 Conference. Make sure you check out our Auction Games Ebooks for more great ideas to incorporate into your next event.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 16, 2014
He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. Within a short period, SocialCoding4Good has gone from a Labs pilot project to a growing community driving social impact. billion poor and unbanked.
Saleforce Nonprofit
JULY 16, 2021
Much like any new project or renovation, a transition to Salesforce could have you thinking about the various pros and cons of making this change. Much like any new project or renovation, a transition to Salesforce could have you thinking about the various pros and cons of making this change. Get a 360-Degree View of Constituents.
Bloomerang
DECEMBER 13, 2022
For as long as the Fundraising Effectiveness Project has measured nonprofit donor retention it has been abysmal. Learn more in my free Donor Thank You Calls eBook + Script. Donor Negative ACTIONS. People give. Then, more often than not, they stop. Research shows donors who are called renew at higher levels than those who are not.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 15, 2012
" Get the free ebook "The State of Event Marketing" at: [link]. Upgrading Voter Registration – "Approximately 24 million active voter registrations in the United States are no longer valid or have significant inaccuracies, according to the Pew Center on the States. ."
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 16, 2011
This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. The initial part of the project was to do a detailed survey of existing assistive technology products, to get a baseline for current support for accessible graphics.
NTEN
APRIL 7, 2015
Sixteen nonprofit tech experts (including NTEN Members: Jeff Shuck , David Neff , Donna Wilkins , Frank Barry , and NTEN''s Amy Sample Ward ) share their ideas and fundraising best practices in Blackbaud ''s new free ebook, The Future of Fundraising. Direct service can teach you a lot about digital strategy. Save the Date!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 3, 2016
Under our copyright exception, we simply buy a copy of the needed print book, scan it using optical character recognition, and create an accessible ebook. Our experience in the United States has shown that economically empowered people with disabilities tend to be voracious readers and active purchasers of accessible audio books and ebooks.
Bloomerang
DECEMBER 13, 2021
Keep in mind that, per the Fundraising Effectiveness Project , ongoing donors renew at a much higher rate (60%) than first-time donors (19%). Download our Year-End Fundraising eBook for more year-end fundraising tips! For example, you may want to target donors who gave more than $100, $250, $500, or $1,000 in the past. .
Qgiv
JULY 30, 2021
You can also use this dashboard to track your current campaign’s success and easily build a to-do list to better manage your project and various tasks. . eBook: Find & Engage Your P2Peeps. Using an interactive dashboard, review your donor retention rate and suggestions from Bloomerang to improvement it.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 8, 2015
Our Bookshare service is the world’s largest online library of accessible ebooks for people with disabilities, serving over 350,000 users in 60 countries.
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
After all, in the world of eBooks, ten years is pretty old! Looking Ahead In October, we began another five year project with OSEP to keep offering free Bookshare services to students. As we get older, some of us like to increase the length and number of celebrations for our own birthdays, so why not apply this to Bookshare too?
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 20, 2015
Samasource connected us with Daproim in Nairobi to proofread books for our Bookshare project. We use digital ebooks at Bookshare’s core, which can easily be turned into braille, large print or digital audio (using synthetic speech technology). In 2008, we were the first customer of Samasource as they were getting started.
BoardAssist
JULY 18, 2017
If you are a skilled writer then why not spend some time writing your very own charity eBook? You can sell this online to raise awareness and use the profits to raise money for vital projects. If you have a charity blog, then you can use this to promote or sell your ebook. Post previews and excerpts.
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 9, 2009
." Join in: Transitions Online bridgecamp, Riga 5th & 6th February - This is a great opportunity to join Dan McQuillan in Riga to help the local community with social media projects. Check it out! A Crash Course in Comments - Great ideas about commenting on blogs from Chris Brogan: "If comments matter to you, read on.
Connection Cafe
SEPTEMBER 12, 2019
Blackbaud Institute: The Connected Office eBook. The Executive Coach Project Report by Compass Point. Subscribe to the podcast on iTunes , Stitcher or your preferred streaming service for future episodes! Listen Now: Resources: Marc Pitman. The Wake Up Call leadership research.
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