Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2019

So how can nonprofits use this powerful tool to build their movements, advance their causes, and raise money for their organizations? . In August 2018, Erin Turner, Product Manager for YouTube Giving, announced that they are rolling out a new suite of fundraising tools for nonprofits , including: Fundraisers. Community fundraisers.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

For our client All In , a campaign uplifting proven solutions to homelessness in San Francisco, we’re using supporter surveys to inform the content for a neighborhood resource guide intended to foster community leadership. . And they certainly don’t want problems that seem insurmountable like sexual violence or homelessness.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

reaching our goal of $5,000 will help us provide 1,000 meals to the homeless.) Consider Boosting Your Posts Facebook and Twitter give users incredibly powerful tools to target audiences with advertisements. Nonprofits can take advantage of these tools to find new donors and encourage existing donors to give more.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 24, 2023

Supporter self-service tools Technology allows you to decentralize parts of your operations and put more power in your supporters’ hands. Self-service tools let your donors manage various parts of their engagement, such as how often they give, what activities they want to participate in, and how they prefer to be contacted.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

However, datamaking has added power because it can beused to deepen strategic social processes of foundation-funded change. The following image conveys what this looked like in practice for the same cultural intermediary that used the matrix tool above. These are opportunities for meaning making.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

2) 29% of donors worldwide say that social media is the tool that most inspires them to give, however, email is a close second at 27%. Of all social media worldwide, Facebook dominates and its new fundraising tools will likely transform global giving. In third place is an organization’s website at 18%. Australia & Oceania.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

But first, you need to build a solid foundation so your nonprofit will thrive, not struggle. Think about your audience as someone who doesn’t know anything about food insecurity, homelessness, first generation college students, or animal abuse. Build a solid foundation. Avoid jargon, acronyms and insider talk.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. The team also noted that many tools exist today yet have difficulty scaling beyond a specific community or organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2017

To hear more from some of the people L4G-participating organizations are listening to, please see our short video highlighting the feedback efforts at Our House , which serves homeless families in Little Rock, Ark. Both the nonprofit and its clients are excited about the benefits of speaking up, being heard, and making changes for the better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2006

Last week I wrote about a virtual homeless teenager in Second Life who raising awareness of the plight of homeless teens in Spain. 1 text or phone entrance fee go to help The Foyer Foundation , a nonprofit that works with homeless young people. tools to he word through the gaming community by using Digg.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

Foundation and corporate giving are also projected to increase. I may want to help end homelessness, but not have a clue how to make a difference on a scale that moves the needle. to raise $1), business and/or foundation grants ($0.20 In fact, charitable giving is expected to increase 4.1% and +11.9%). This is good news.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 24, 2020

For decades, storied independent organizations like the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation and the W.K. Kellogg Foundation have worked alongside newer philanthropies like the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation to improve health through strategic grantmaking. Strategic Grantmaking Allows Hospitals To…. by number of hospitals).

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BoardAssist

JULY 8, 2014

On the other hand, a homeless shelter cannot turn away the needy when the building becomes full. For the homeless shelter, the number of clients is too variable to form the basis of a budget. The homeless shelter budgets expenses by analyzing historical trends and relying on expert predictions of future trends.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

For example, our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Access to nutritious food is foundational to a healthy, thriving community and society. Director, Food Initiative, The Rockefeller Foundation.

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Qgiv

MARCH 31, 2021

To pull off a peer-to-peer campaign, you’re likely going to need dedicated fundraising tools. Qgiv offers a peer-to-peer solution with customizable fundraising pages, gamification tools, and data analytics abilities. Faith-based Organizations And Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. Increase awareness on relevant issues. Pre-planning.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 29, 2017

Its mentorship helps prevent its clients from re-entering the foster and judicial system or repeating poverty and homelessness cycles. Though it faces many challenges in providing students with real, relevant work tools and skills, its staff is relieved, knowing that its systems and data are protected. spanhidden.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In their upcoming webinar, Powered by Pro Bono 101 , the Taproot Foundation will show you how to harness the power of pro bono services to help your organization do everything from build a website to update your brand strategy and develop strong strategic plans. Register now! Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2014

charities are devoted to the work of human services like providing food to the hungry, shelter to the homeless, care to the sick, and legal aid to the dispossessed. Foundations are increasingly calling for this type of measurement, but baseline measurements on the state of a community’s needs before providing services is difficult.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

In their upcoming webinar, Powered by Pro Bono 101 , the Taproot Foundation will show you how to harness the power of pro bono services to help your organization do everything from build a website to update your brand strategy and develop strong strategic plans. Register now! Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 23, 2018

They’re great tools—don’t get me wrong—but a grant can’t be your silver bullet. For example, a foundation might only be willing to consider nonprofits that engage in youth education, or workforce development, or homelessness eradication. And, almost always, grants are the driving force of that frustration and tedium.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

They may not want to give you a grant if they see your animal welfare nonprofit is living off of your adoption fees or your homeless shelter is solely running on a large government grant. If you’re applying for grants (or planning to apply soon), funders want to see that your nonprofit is stable and well managed. See how that works?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2011

I’ve had a lot of experience with online contests, both as a participant (winner) and working two reflection papers for the Case Foundation ‘s America’s Giving Challenge. NStreet Village : N Street Village is a community of empowerment and recovery for homeless and low-income women in Washington, D.C.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2012

The report captures a conundrum in measuring social change movements or networked approaches. Outcomes for “ wicked problems ” can be easily counted – policies passed, housing the homeless, educating children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

I heard about tools for building campaigns and aggregating citizen science data I wouldn’t have discovered at an ocean-themed event because they’re not being applied to coastal problems just yet. Kate Wing, Program Officer at the Gordon & Betty Moore Foundation. That’s how I ended up at PdF. Also, there’s mild profanity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. Michelle, was a participant in the Measuring Networked Nonprofit peer learning groups supported through my work as Visiting Scholar at the Packard Foundation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

Prashant and his co-founders identified a need for local data about buildings and real estate in Detroit and discovered that the city was under-resourced when it came to the technical tools needed to collect it. The app also has a built-in survey tool as another means of collecting data. Helpful Tools. Referral Services.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

It was filmed on location outside our free medical clinic for the homeless in the heart of Melbourne. " Our first place video for 2012 was by Columbus, Ohio based Dave Thomas Foundation. “Storytelling is critical to the work of the Dave Thomas Foundation for Adoption. Their newest video is called Youth Voices.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 9, 2014

One of which we partnered with Be a Leader Foundation and Duncan Family Farms on Cesar Chavez Day. We have chosen to do something about the challenges our world faces, by joining Public Allies and serving those experiencing homelessness, who have a severe mental illness, who are on a limited income or who have physical disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2010

The workshop was presented by the Colorado Association of Funders and the Colorado Nonprofit Association and sponsored by Gill Foundation , Gay & Lesbian Fund for Colorado , The Colorado Health Foundation , and The Colorado Trust. Colorado Project. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. The Colorado Trust blog has notes here.).

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems. But just saying, “We helped 20 people who are homeless,” does not provide context.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Your online donation tool is one of the quickest and easiest ways for supporters to give to your cause. Leverages common tools. For instance, top nonprofits will now accept debit cards, credit cards, electronic checks, and even tools like Apple Pay or Venmo. Take Advantage Of Video Conferencing And Streaming Tools.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

One great example of this is the Free Teacher Market from the Polk Education Foundation. The Polk Education Foundation created this fundraising campaign to meet the unique needs of their students and teachers in Polk County, FL, which already offers free breakfast and lunch to every student in the county. Text m essage marketing.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

MANNA was founded by volunteers so volunteerism is one of the foundations that makes our organization what it is today.”. With the support of volunteers, we are able to effectively engage with individuals experiencing homelessness in D.C. Our organization loves VolunteerHub and the new version has made the tool even better.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2012

This bold project is incubated by Ocean Conservancy , and made possible by grants from the Waitt Foundation and other donors. The tools we use to do this work are not immediately obvious. We’re repurposing a commercial tool to monitor an issue, but using it in a very different way. What is Big Listening?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 7, 2019

The matching gift search tool informs the donor about the necessary forms required by their employer. Community organizations (animal shelters, homeless shelters, child welfare, etc.). Without this foundation, you will not have the proper knowledge and direction you need to best pursue matching gifts at your organization.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 30, 2016

Additionally, you have crowdfunding platforms popping up left and right, giving individuals more opportunities to create their own fundraising pages and events without needing a nonprofit to provide fundraising tools. So what’s a fundraiser to do? And, why do we continue to focus on the traditional events in this new world?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 6, 2014

If you have gifts from both the Golf Tournament and the Phone-a-thon given in support of the Clothes For The Homeless program, for example, there’s no need to worry about spending “golf tournament dollars” versus spending “phone-a-thon dollars” – as long as the donor designation is fulfilled, those monies can be pooled.

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