NTEN

MARCH 4, 2011

Gavin Clabaugh, Vice President and Chief Information Officer, Charles Stewart Mott Foundation I walked up the aisle, hat down, eyes shadowed. That's how many different laptops there were on display at my local Best Buy (not counting the Pommes de Cher ). On a laptop, it might be seen as yet another sign of the impending apocalypse.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

I just finished reading Kentaro Toyama’s new book, Geek Heresy, tackling the cult of technology as a cure-all for society’s ills. He’s a geek (former Microsoft Research guy) who is making the case that technology doesn’t make the kind of social impact it claims to deliver. Wishful thinking makes many people dream of quick fixes.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

TechSoup has a lot to offer foundations, but the majority of foundations don't know it! See what we can do for your foundation! Most TechSoup Products Are Now Open to Nonprofit Foundations. In 2012 , IT product donations started to open up to nonprofit foundations. New Dell discounted laptops.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2014

Technology can be a window to the outside world that gives these children back some of their freedom, and becomes a companion in the process. Brian Westerman and his wife Pepper created the Kosch-Westerman Foundation over two decades ago with the mission of connecting terminally ill children to their classrooms through technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Almost exactly two years ago, the One Laptop Per Child launched. So, the Sharing Foundation has continued to use our method of getting donated laptops in the US, refurbishing them, and getting them to Cambodia. Virginia Debolt who covers the technology beat at BlogHer has a great roundup of the reactions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

A few weeks ago, the San Francisco Public Library hosted an event with the Electronic Frontier Foundation , a nonprofit dedicated to fighting for citizen digital rights. Picture it: You're on public transit after a long work day and you accidentally leave your laptop behind. What if it ends up in the wrong hands?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2014

Technology has never been such a large part of how nonprofits accomplish their goals and make an impact with their programs as it is now. Tech Impact offers a complete IT support solution to nonprofits that includes a live help desk, proactive maintenance (desktops, laptops and servers), unlimited support tickets, and more.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Some nonprofits have begun to lay a foundation for their mobile communications strategies. Foursquare does have a mobile website ( m.foursquare.com ) for laptop users, but the best way to experience Foursquare is on a smartphone. The technology does not yet exactly match the needs of the nonprofit sector, but its close.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

This morning Liz Karlin, who works at the Packard Foundation in Grant Operations , and I did a remote presentation for the Foundation Financial Officers Group on Organizational Change and Social Media Policy development. Avoiding Technology and Presentation Fail. Financial Officers Group.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The ‘unprecedented year’ may be why foundations were so busy in 2020 and beyond, but it doesn’t change the fact that they were busy. Both giving to foundations and grantmaking grew – giving by almost 18% since 2018 and grantmaking by 17% over 2019. Giving by foundations reached an all-time high in 2020.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 18, 2013

Donate Now Technology :: Featured in the navigation bar is a “Donate Now” link. The technology to accept donations online was launched in the late 90′s, but it wasn’t until 2008 that nonprofits began to experience significant dollars raised online primarily thanks to the rise of e-newsletters and social media.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

10 Ways to Change the World Through Social Media - Max Gladwell has a guest post at Mashable: "Our children will inherit a world profoundly changed by the combination of technology and humanity that is social media. They’ll take for granted that their voices can be heard and that a social movement can be launched from their laptop.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 22, 2013

Through organizations like Tech Impact and TechSoup , these online services are being offered at a significant discount to nonprofits, charities, libraries, and private foundations. Thin clients can provide the same experience as a desktop by leveraging technology known as a virtual desktop. Plus, this trend is accelerating.

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Achieve

JANUARY 18, 2023

Instead of booking a venue or top-tier entertainment, your nonprofit simply needs a solid technology foundation to get started. . For instance, attendees might hop between their email tab and your event, or even close their laptop screen altogether if your virtual event isn’t engaging enough. . According to.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 23, 2012

Contrary to its title, the last four chapters of Social Media for Social Good: A How-To Guide for Nonprofits are dedicated to mobile technology and mobile fundraising. That said, below is an excerpt from Chapter 10: Group Text Messaging and Text-to-Give Technology. 11 Group Text Messaging Best Practices for Nonprofits.

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MARCH 30, 2022

Carolyn is a major gift fundraiser and nonprofit communications expert who uses technology to amplify her impact and do more with less. NTEN: Nonprofit Technology Network is focused on helping nonprofit staff adopt new technologies in their chosen areas of expertise, and to thrive by doing so. Meet Carolyn Appleton!

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2020

Approximately 70% of large corporations already have an EAF in place and those that do not are turning to third party nonprofits like e4e Relief and/or local community foundations to distribute charitable funds directly to employees. Qualified teachers are also struggling to deliver content virtually with little to no technological training.

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Tech Soup

JULY 9, 2010

For three days in New York City we experimented with new types of social media integration with Corporation for National and Community Service (CNCS for short, which runs the AmeriCorps programs) and the Points of Light Foundation 's National Conference on Volunteerism and Service.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2013

Jeff Hancock has been working with technology both from the developer or technical standpoint and as a business manager for. technology since 2000, when he helped establish the San Diego Futures. Foundation. One organization that showcases this approach is the San Diego Futures Foundation (SDFF). more than 20 years.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2017

You can learn the foundations of creating your design brand guidelines in this free webinar with brand design pros on March 7. As technology changes rapidly, libraries and librarians are working hard to keep up with digital security issues to better protect the privacy of their users. Building a Strong Brand for Your Organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2011

After triple checking to ensure you have your iPad, mobile phone, laptop, and all of your respective chargers in tow — you board a flight, land in a new city, and head straight for the convention center. This past June, the Case Foundation , Achieve , and JGA teamed up for a little virtual experiment of our own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

This post is brief re-cap about what I learned about technology innovation investments to develop new social media platforms and apps for the Arab World. N2VLabs provides support for the best of the best Arabia geeks who have a promising technology idea or social platform. What Happens at n2vlabs.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 5, 2008

I set up both on my laptop, and tried out some really simply app development. Then, you build forms and such using the schema as a foundation. The approaches are similar and different to each other. They both use the MVC pattern, and both use object oriented PHP, which is great.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 15, 2013

After she co-founded the Foundation For Friends of Nature in Bolivia, a million acres of natural habitat were put in to public trust. Places like TechSoup and the National Cristina Foundation put out the word that donated computers were badly needed in Louisiana, and they came by the truckload. Nancy Jo recalls that it was a mess.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2014

Welcome to TechSoup's September 2014 nonprofit technology news. Juice jacking is a data theft practice you may not have heard about yet: Public charging stations can be configured by bad guys to read the data on your phone or laptop and also upload malware when you charge your device. USB Condom is its official name.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 1, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. lack of time and not seeing the value of social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 25, 2012

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. The Importance of Energizers Throughout.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. A grant from Lannan Foundation allowed Braided River to donate 10,000 copies of the book to libraries and indigenous communities across the country. Braided River received a Dell Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection. spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

MAY 18, 2015

A grant from the Campion Foundation provided 7,000 books at cost to advocacy groups. A grant from Lannan Foundation allowed Braided River to donate 10,000 copies of the book to libraries and indigenous communities across the country. Braided River received a Dell Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2014

I also use LastPass Premium on both my laptop and my cellphone for easy and secure password management. " I would add that HTTPs Everywhere was created by two nonprofits: The Tor Project and the Electronic Frontier Foundation. I turn off my laptop when not in active use, and don’t stay logged in generally."

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

Even before our current health situation arose , technology has been the leading method of engaging employees in today’s society. SIFMA Foundation – InvestWrite : This is o ne of the easiest ways to support financial education from the comfort of your home or office, completely online, and credited with 2.5

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas? You are funded to do this by a US foundation. You have a great staff, but they are not sophisticated in the use of technology tools. Mobile phones. Wikis/Blogs.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

It's the definite article that causes problems, implying there's an easy way to think about the issues surrounding the inequitable access to technology -- and perhaps an easy solution. Under the guise of non-profitability hundreds of millions of these laptops will be flogged off to our governments. The digital divide doesn't exist.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

HART needed a technology solution that would allow it to go from a staff of 5 to 50 people — without having to pay additional costs or have extra maintenance. Executive director Julie Lyles Carr says: "Anything that helps get the message out through technology is so important." " The Kosch-Westerman Foundation.

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NTEN

JANUARY 3, 2012

flickr: valleygirl_tka A while back, with the generous support of the Knight Foundation, a group of Nonprofit CTOs gathered in Miami to discuss the day-to-day challenges of nonprofit technology, share their success stories, and brainstorm solutions. We'll be posting highlights from this meeting of the minds on the NTEN blog.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The winner will be announced at the next Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in April 2012. About the Prize. Past Winners.

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