Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

By Alan Tyson , CEO of DATABASICS – a software product that enables nonprofits to report, approve, and track employee hours, activities, and spending from anywhere, something that is especially important in an increasingly decentralized environment. 4) Internal Communications Tools. 5 Online Calendar.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

People impacted by the grants typically have no say in who gets the funding, for what, how much, and for how long. It can perhaps best be described by the slogan of the global disability rights movement: “nothing about us without us.”. Committees tend to be smaller groups of selected representatives who review and decide on grants.

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Candid

MAY 9, 2023

foundations steadily decreased their support of HBCUs, in terms of both percentage of total giving and grant dollars awarded. Across 18 years, while foundations increased their overall giving by 124%, grant dollars to HBCUs declined by 30%. The number of large foundations awarding grants to HBCUs also decreased during this time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

Note from Beth: George Weiner from Whole Whale wrote this insightful piece about the Google Ad Grant program. Help I Just Lost My Google Ad Grant – Guest Post by George Weiner. The title of this article is becoming more frequently used by the roughly 35,000 nonprofit recipients of the popular Google Ad Grant.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

This led to the creation of the free Demographics API and grants management system (GMS) integrations. Ultimately, all our partners share the belief that by standardizing demographic data collection through Candid nonprofit profiles, the granting process becomes quicker and easier for both funders and nonprofits.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis has shined a spotlight on the value of philanthropy and, for this reason, many foundation representatives believe society at large will expect philanthropy to address global distress in the future. In addition to addressing the inequality gap, ensuring global equitable access to COVID-19 has become a moral responsibility.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 6, 2022

Yesterday, June 5, was World Environment Day. Funders are seeing this challenge and answering the call, using their influence to not just support the sector’s own path to net zero, but also increase the capacity of the sector to drive an equitable transition to net zero globally. Want to get involved in World Environment Day?

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Candid

MARCH 1, 2023

We then kicked off a conversation with early Demographics via Candid partners Satonya Fair of PEAK Grantmaking , Grant Elliot of Foundant Technologies , Dawn Stone of Center for Nonprofit Management , and Michael Wright of Charles Stewart Mott Foundation to discuss their first-hand experiences collaborating with Candid on this initiative.

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Candid

AUGUST 29, 2023

Anyone can and will burn out if they are placed in an environment with too many demands and not enough resources. The global shifts and crises of the last few years have exacerbated these issues. On top of a deadly global health crisis, COVID-era job insecurity increased stress for many. Also consider easing demands (e.g.,

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Our intention is to understand whether grants have had the impact we envisioned. At the global Disability Rights Fund (DRF), for example, the first MEL framework was developed at a gathering of staff, advisors, and donors—the majority of whom were activists with disabilities from the Global South.

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 29, 2021

To achieve our mission, we partner with diverse allies around the world to drive positive change across global supply chains and in many of our most critically important natural landscapes. . Our grant management procedures and contract approvals have been shortened tremendously, and the whole process has just been streamlined.” .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 22, 2022

These programs, which include car emissions repair or vehicle replacement and access to utility debt relief assistance and home energy efficiency incentives, offer cost savings and have a positive impact on the environment. Plant-for-the-Planet’s projects are highly local, with global impact.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In this session, Laura MacDonald, Chair of the Giving USA Foundation and Founder of Benefactor Group, will discuss data and trends from 2020, a year in which the environment for giving was certainly uncommon. Each year, the nonprofit sector receives extensive data describing philanthropy in the United States. billion capital campaign.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 15, 2021

For nonprofits and education institutions, data represents donors, grants, volunteers, students, faculty, staff, and the impact they are driving. In the global shift to digital over the past year, there’s now more data to protect and manage. We found the right partnership with the AWS nonprofit team and Salesforce.

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sgEngage

JUNE 20, 2023

With such high stakes and near-constant evolution, decision makers need to be confident on compliance basics to ensure you’re asking the right questions of your vendors and counting on them to deliver the partnership that today’s complex compliance environment requires of you. Here are 5 key questions to get you started.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). It’s a highly recognized organisation that traditionally gets funded through institutional grants. Giving Trends in Mexico: 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. ?

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NTEN

JANUARY 26, 2021

A once-in-a-lifetime pandemic and a global economic recession have made nonprofit services an essential lifeline for millions of people. In this environment, nonprofits can optimize their approach to time and expense management to maximize efficiency, enhance transparency, and demonstrate value at every level. Demonstrate Donor Impact.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 17, 2022

You’ve read about participatory grantmaking—and maybe even heard about other organizations using this model to distribute control of their funding strategy and grants decisions to the communities they serve. Your leadership may set some parameters or fixed criteria around grantmaking goals, grant use, or eligibility.

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Forum One

MAY 27, 2021

The digital storytelling approach powerfully illustrates all that NRDC has accomplished—from landmark legislation to practical changes that benefit the environment and local communities every day—to inspire audiences to support its work into the future and continue to grow its impact. The Vilcek Foundation. Excellence – Website for Art.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

There are also research reports , events, fellowships, and bootcamps , and an annual AI4Good Global Summit. The Google AI Impact Challenge attracted 2,602 applications from six continents and 119 countries, with projects addressing a wide range of issue areas, from education to the environment. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Tell us how you would strengthen our team, and the global cause of human rights. Perform a little bit of GNU/Linux system administration.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 5, 2022

With a DAF established at a public charity like a community foundation, the donor can contribute cryptocurrency to the fund tax-free and direct grants to any nonprofit organization. How does cryptocurrency impact the environment?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 18, 2012

The Foundation Center and TechSoup Global have announced a new strategic alliance ! and, increasingly, global grantmakers and their grants. About Our Alliance. The Foundation Center knows that collaboration with other organizations is the most effective way to meet the needs of the social sector. and around the world.

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Everyaction

JUNE 6, 2018

GLSEN (pronounced "glisten") is a the leading national education organization that works to transform K-12 schools into safe and affirming environments and ensure that LGBTQ students are able to learn and grow in a school environment free from bullying and harassment. Gill Foundation The.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

I mean if we’re going to learn in public, it better be a collegial and supportive environment. If learning in public means showing our vulnerabilities – be it less than primped up data sets or underperforming grant investments – then the risk of the ‘gotcha’ environment must be tempered down.

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NetWits

JUNE 9, 2011

Will funding come in the form of grants, traditional event revenue, donations, or something more radical? This stems from the idea that for-profits should be engaging and giving back to their local communities, the environment, and to social causes. 3) The Shift in Donor Attitudes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Such action, the Court decided, didn’t constitute copyright infringement because it was fair use , that is, a limitation and exception to the exclusive rights granted by copyright law to the author of a creative work. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative. of America v.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 19, 2021

Still, with cases on the rise, mutations popping up, and a post-holiday wave, organizations across sectors are preparing for at least several more months of quarantines, safety measures, and virtual work environments. The work isn’t done yet, but as grants run out, they’re harder to renew in a changed economic climate.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 28, 2020

Creating these relationships in a remote or virtual environment was once thought to be impossible. Billion was awarded globally for COVID-19 related needs. Community foundations awarded more grants than any other grantmaker type (49 percent of total awards) . Let’s look at how that breaks down: . 7 billion .

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Getting started: The nonprofit tools you need to set up shop and grow your organization TechSoup is a global nonprofit organization that offers discounts and technology solutions as well as IT consulting and courses to nonprofits. Grant Searching . Finding grant opportunities is an important activity for all nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 9, 2010

Green Gifts by the Natural Resources Defense Council: From Green Energy Boosts to Buffalo Babysitting gifts, the NRDC has a launched a new Green Gifts Online Catalog featuring over 40 gifts that help protect the environment and wildlife. Mission : Empowering entrepreneurs through Microcredit & Microfinance to help End Global Poverty.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

I find the most effective way to engage the private sector is to connect, company to company, in a non-competitive environment. At the same time, we must shift our understanding of nature from something that is free and taken for granted to something we must replenish. We have to act now.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Has your mission pivoted due to a global or local event? They could be helpful in finding new ways to talk about your mission in your fundraising appeals, grant proposals, and more. Have you narrowed or expanded your mission? Have you limited or expanded your service area? Are you working with new demographics?

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Candid

APRIL 22, 2021

Tracy Kaufman Programs Manager, Northeast “Hollywood movies on global pandemics never address product access, but this was the Funding Information Network (FIN) team’s vital mission in March.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

We have everything from: Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants/ @CASEAdvance. Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising & Grants / #CPI2018 / @NorCalGrant. Fundraising & Grants. Fundraising& Grants / @GCIRtweets. Fundraising& Grants. Fundraising & Grants.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 15, 2010

“Our funds have helped make Oregonians healthier and better educated, provided greater access to social services and the arts and culture, strengthened the nonprofit sector and improved the environment for all who live and visit here.”. This is the first time the foundation has asked for broad and direct public input in its grants process.

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