Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 16, 2011

I spent today at day 1 of the TechSoup Global Summit in Mountain View with two hundred and forty people who work in the TechSoup Global Network around the world, plus other stakeholders. I’ve been involved with TechSoup/Netsquared Network since its inception back six years ago and so it is nice to be part of the narrative arc.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 22, 2022

Among other things, it requires new models of collaboration, which is why several leading organizations recently came together to rethink core assumptions about how to address global hunger, with the audacious goal of ending chronic hunger in our lifetimes. Ending hunger requires changing political, economic, and social power structures.

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sgEngage

JULY 13, 2021

Information Architecture (IA) is the structural design of a website. Understanding how constituents would organize your content gives clear insights into the best structure. Once you have your site in place, you can assess how well the structure is working by conducting usability tests and analyzing Google Analytics data.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. It required more structure, planning because of the risk associated with failure. The presentation is here.

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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. Overcome Inertia Innovation can be stifled by thorough approval cycles, long hierarchical structures, and outdated attitudes, often prevalent in nonprofits. Click here.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 26, 2023

Globally, eight in 10 employees are not engaged or are actively disengaged at work: in the U.S., As has been written about repeatedly, t he COVID-19 pandemic caused an awakening that shocked the world — a structural change in how and where people work and live. and global productivity will go up or down. 90% of U.S.

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Candid

APRIL 25, 2024

Other funding initiatives to combat misinformation include the Global Fact Check Fund at the Poynter Institute. In its first round of funding, announced in July 2023, it awarded grants to 35 organizations serving 45 countries to help fact-checking organizations scale or upgrade their online presence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 22, 2020

Sample Google Drive Structure Available for Download. About the author: Annisa Wanat has 20+ years global experience in the public and nonprofit sectors, with a focus on analyzing new situations and mentoring groups to create locally relevant solutions to strength communities, organizations and institutions. 3) Conserve Resources.

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Candid

MARCH 6, 2023

These movements typically don’t start with a structured entity, but with inspired individuals who see what needs to change in their communities and decide to act on it. Their development was shepherded by one of the largest, most global organizations out there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations need to have structures and policies to support and enhance an individuals work/life balance and enable healthy technology use habits including a right to disconnect from the workplace. Organizations should commit to not using AI for the purpose of driving workers to higher levels of productivity at the cost of well-being.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Stripe Best for: Nonprofits looking to easily accept global payments and access instant payouts if needed. That’s because some fee structures work better for different-sized organizations. Carefully assess your nonprofit’s needs and compare fee structures to find the right fit for your fundraising efforts.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

How these changes impact the way employees work, the way managers lead, and how organizations are structured. Morgan explains that the five primary trends shaping the future of work are: New behaviors Technology Millennials Mobility Globalization Furthermore, future managers, explains, Morgan must: Be a leader. Follow from the front.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

This is the problem that Foundation Center, GlobalGiving, GuideStar, and TechSoup have set out to solve by creating BRIDGE (Basic Registry of Identified Global Entities). Funded by Google Inc., Expect More Innovation.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

APRIL 18, 2020

How these changes impact the way employees work, the way managers lead, and how organizations are structured. Morgan explains that the five primary trends shaping the future of work are: New behaviors Technology Millennials Mobility Globalization Furthermore, future managers, explains, Morgan must: Be a leader. Follow from the front.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

I recently spoke with Alice Loy, co-founder of the Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship. This post originally appeared at TechSoup for Libraries. GCCE and the New Mexico State Library are partners in Fast-Forward New Mexico (FFNM), a BTOP-funded project.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Globally, nonprofits store their data inside software applications and platforms, small and large. Many of these factors are beyond nonprofits’ ability and the global impact economy to influence. This doesn’t serve nonprofits at scale, given all the potential platform ecosystems nonprofits could use globally.

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Givinga

MAY 25, 2021

million global charities, automate tax incentives and rewards of charitable giving, and deliver donations fast and transparently. Givinga brings a more modern, proactive approach to global charity vetting and faster payment processing. Our Philantech cloud is available to partners through a SaaS licensing structure.

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sgEngage

JUNE 20, 2023

Consumers globally are making more online payments than ever before. In the UK, many organizations are well-positioned on areas like data privacy, cybersecurity, and payments security, partly a result of stringent – arguably globally-leading – EU and UK laws. Here are 5 key questions to get you started.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 30, 2021

global disaster-related?philanthropy,?analyzing?funding upon 12 data sources, t he report documented $30 billion in private, public, corporate, and individual disaster-related giving to address major disasters and humanitarian crises that affected millions globally in 2019. In it, we examined?available?2019?data philanthropy,?analyzing?funding

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Also, data from the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report reveals that 45% of online donors worldwide are enrolled in a monthly giving program. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 33% of donors worldwide give tribute gifts. Launching a tribute giving program is worth the investment of your time.

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Forum One

MAY 19, 2022

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (WAAD)—a day to recognize and promote the importance of digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities and impairments. But if your content is too technical, complex, or poorly structured then it becomes a barrier between you and your audiences.

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.orgSource

MARCH 14, 2023

The abrupt switch to remote work was a global challenge. Now we’ve moved to a hybrid work structure, requiring that everyone be in office at least two days per week. But knowing that we were making a difference became a strong rallying cry.” Maintaining Community Association professionals at the Leadership ColLAB.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2022

In a recent webinar, Blackbaud’s VP of Global Social Responsibility Rachel Hutchisson talked with Chantal Forster, the executive director of the Technology Association of Grantmakers (TAG), about how the role of technology in today’s charitable organizations no longer hides behind a door marked “IT.”

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2021

Today is Global Accessibility Awareness Day (WAAD)—a day to recognize and promote the importance of digital access and inclusion for people with disabilities and impairments. But if your content is too technical, complex, or poorly structured then it becomes a barrier between you and your audiences.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

However, with global sea levels still rising rapidly , biodiversity declining at an alarming rate , and the world’s most vulnerable populations bearing the brunt of the climate crisis, it is clear that the efforts of dedicated environmental nonprofits alone are not enough. From nonprofits like 350.org With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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sgEngage

APRIL 2, 2024

Some solutions like Blackbaud Grantmaking even have a batch update tool that enables users to make global changes to a group of records. Be sure to save those query results so they can be reused, or even use an export tool if you need to share it with other users.

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Candid

APRIL 19, 2021

do not have access to the structural supports and opportunities needed to thrive. Brown, senior director community affairs, Georgia-Pacific; Atiba Mbiwan, president of the Zeist Foundation; and Neal Myrick, global head of the Tableau Foundation.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

This is totally the “how sausage and law are made” view, so don’t read this unless you want to know more about global accessibility in detail! The Stakeholders Platform and the TIGAR project were time-limited and needed to be replaced by a new structure. The view of the World Blind Union was that the rightsholders (i.e.,

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2022

Globally-minded giving – it’s a small world after all . The outpouring of support for Ukraine from the global crypto community is just one example of this global mindset. Belief in community-run/owned decentralized structures. Potentially anti-government, anti-bank, anti-censorship & anti-centralized authority

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sgEngage

AUGUST 9, 2022

Now that we are–unbelievably–at the two-and-a-half-year mark of the global pandemic, there has been some regression to our pre-COVID practices, and some foundations have settled back into status quo practices. We need to resist the urge to sit comfortably in the status quo and work to build more collaboration among grantmakers.

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Global Giving

JULY 25, 2017

Download “Transforming Technology Pro Bono: A Practical Approach to Engaging Technology Talent for Nonprofit Capacity Building” from VMware Foundation and Taproot Foundation to learn best practices in structuring a corporate pro bono technology project or program with a nonprofit partner. Download Now.

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Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. Clear goals and a detailed timeline will give the necessary direction and structure to your advocacy campaign.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Rolling with the punches has become a hallmark of fundraising over the last few years; riding the waves of pandemic, social unrest, global upheaval, and the subsequent economic fluctuations. Internally, there is no better time to take a critical look at your organizational structure.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

As discovered in the Global Trends in Giving Report , the.org domain is by far the most trusted domain for nonprofit website and email communications. In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours.

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Bloomerang

OCTOBER 5, 2022

It’s no secret that as a global society we’ve had a few changes thrown at us in the last few years. Even aside from a global pandemic, an ever changing landscape of technology and politics have caused all of us to have to navigate change. Structural change – this include teams, departments, and job structure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Good stories are authentic, emotional, and use dramatic structures. Some of those structures include: – Three-Act Structure is a classic approach to organizing your story for emotional impact. But there other structures – for example see the below drawing of the RadioLab story structure. Momsrising.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2021

Establish an internal governance structure. As online behaviors and norms change, meeting the growing needs of your audiences or your organizational structure will often require a shift in approach—from adapting quickly and making small iterative changes, to taking larger, more long-term changes. Take and agile approach.

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