Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It sounds dystopian to some and it very well could be, but once you understand the concept and the emerging technology around it, as a nonprofit marketing and fundraising professional, you’ll also begin to understand its potential. Those already exploring the metaverse can attend live concerts and meet with government officials.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

Complex Problems Aren’t Solved in a Vacuum. To address these challenges, the connection between technology and community is critical. While many organizations are working on the problem, no one individual, government agency, nonprofit, or school can solve it on their own. Submit an Idea. Opens new window. Amy Guterman.

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SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What’s the problem? Loss of investigative reporting: Investigative journalism, which is often resource-intensive, has suffered in many areas, leading to reduced oversight of local government and institutions. John Palfrey, president of the MacArthur Foundation, calls the philanthropic funding “seed money,” not charity.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

Along with co-founders Cashel and Dave Witzel, Wolz has brought Forum One’s vision to life through long-term relationships with major mission-driven organizations and government agencies such as the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation, March of Dimes, Urban Institute, and the Environmental Protection Agency.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The odd thing about living through a technological revolution is you think it’s just another Tuesday. My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” of ChatGPT last December.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

When there's no transparency and accountability in government, citizens feel powerless and deceived by the politicians that represent them. Through technology! The submitted projects were shared in a project gallery on the Community Boost_r website where the public could vote on their favorite project. From Serbia.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. The full keynote and presentation are below. View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Organizations should recognize that AI, like other technology, could exacerbate the blurring of work/life boundaries by pushing workers to remain constantly ‘on’. We must not accept any technology as the default solution for our problems. A few insights about the need to focus on humanizing AI. This is a more macro lens.

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JULY 19, 2023

While there are many types of grants your organization can apply for, there are three main sources of funding for these grants: the government, corporations, and foundations. Government The government provides grants at federal, state, and local levels to ease the burden of overhead or administration costs for nonprofits like yours.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

What was a source of information, are quickly becoming the trusted and necessary managers of community-wide information used to support inquiries from the public, state and county governments, nonprofits, and more--and able to do so every day, during disasters and emergencies, and for broad and specialized sectors.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 20, 2022

Businesses cannot remain offstage, with 68% respondents declaring CEOs should step in when the government does not fix societal problems, and must lead with action on issues like sustainability. Having started in Davos with 15 students, the program now counts 80 students across three continents.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 24, 2010

I recently had the opportunity to connect with Ricard Espelt to learn more about the various projects he’s working on in Spain leveraging new technologies for public engagement, government transparency and community building. The only problem is the inability to catch everything. Learn more in the interview below.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Governments were slowly waking up to the emergency, creating organizations like the Global Fund, one of the largest global health partnerships on the planet, but companies were still fast asleep. RED) Has Done a Great Job of Keeping the Issue of AIDS in the Public Conversation. One of (RED)’s earliest partners in 2006 was Apple.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

Most civil society organizations (CSOs) and citizens don’t use high-level jargon such as Internet governance and ICT policy. However, with Internet use also come problems such as cybercrime, lack of data privacy, and data security. This was originally posted on the GuideStar International Blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Those initial fundings rarely come from online donations, most are community-based initiatives, companies, and local government incentives. As a fast-growing developing country, this problem it’s quite real. There will be more technology support from new startups and tech companies aiming new niche and international markets.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 24, 2019

AI4Good is a somewhat new field that sits at the intersection of big tech companies and the world’s biggest problems. Partnerships with technology companies are driving AI4Good, providing their expertise, toolkits, and resources to work with nonprofits to integrate the use of AI. The key findings in the report are listed below.

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fusionSpan

DECEMBER 20, 2023

I have a bachelor's degree in technology and am 9x Salesforce certified. Over the years, I've successfully implemented Salesforce solutions across diverse domains, including banking, government, public sector, real estate management and leasing, and Non-Profit organizations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. More and more of my time is spent around both raising money and raising awareness of how much more could be done with technology to increase social impact. Are you excited about technology benefiting the world?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 24, 2022

It’s easy to see how technology is evolving at an increasingly fast rate. Whether it’s community services, donor relations, governance, volunteer management, or communications, data plays a critical role in telling the story and uncovering the insights required to develop a response. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

We have the technological innovations to help these children and their families and educators, who are looking for strategies to aid their success. They include struggling readers whose learning problems have never been fully diagnosed. There are some 7.5 million students (15% of the U.S.

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sgEngage

JUNE 16, 2022

The Problem with Managing Donor Restricted Funds. Donor restricted funds make up a large part of the resources for charitable foundations associated with parent institutions, such as for-profit hospitals, public school systems, and private universities without a 501(c)(3).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

In December, 2007, this post from the Chronicle of Philanthropy Blog, expanding on a post by Jeff Brooks, creative director at Merkle Direct, on his Donor Power Blog asked: Do most nonprofit organizations do enough to share key information with the public? Is it risky to provide statistics about finances and results on a public Web site?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

In looking at the problem from the perspective of smaller nonprofits serving high needs communities with growing multifaceted issues, sustainability becomes even more daunting. creating a public-private partnership where the private entity pays a fee for the nonprofit service for their clients.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 19, 2021

Don’t Configure Technology, Configure Its Users. Do we recognize the signs of these problems? Lorenzo has over ten years of experience in public policy, government, talent pipeline development, diversity, and inclusion. OFM: A Model for Partner Participation in Open Source Community Projects. Tim Lockie, Now It Matters.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 28, 2013

and the ways in which he is using technology to increase governmental accountability in the Balkans. In the end, the government lost the election, and the regional prime minister was forced by his party to resign from his position. Have you seen similar campaigns using technology successfully change political outcomes?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2010

However, there is a problem with this: market failure. I ran into this problem with my venture capitalists 25 years ago. So, a key action to improve this market failure problem is to be open to licensing technology to social entrepreneurs. This will need both strong voluntary action as well as public purpose exceptions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2014

Meanwhile, digital technology has changed the game. We saw a larger number of reports and publications out there on the topic, but most felt stale and too isolated to the nonprofit sector. We saw a larger number of reports and publications out there on the topic, but most felt stale and too isolated to the nonprofit sector.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 12, 2012

printing, marketing, human resources, information technology services), and board membership. The nonprofit business model is increasingly vulnerable to the volatility of the nonprofit marketplace and broad social, political, economic, and technological trends. This is all good and deeply appreciated. However, it may not be enough.

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Amy Sample Ward

JULY 7, 2009

Social by Social: a practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact - the handbook I co-authored about using social media and communications technology to change the world! Social problems. ). Social by social’ change is about using new technologies to bring people together to make their world better.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Picturing the Problem. What we can do to address the problem. Nonprofits and libraries can use the infographic to help local government and other community leaders understand why increasing information technology access and use should be a critical community-wide goal. The infographic. as a whole. Learn More.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

Did you know that defining the digital divide in different ways can actually change public perception of who's responsible for addressing the issue? This raises some interesting questions for how nonprofits and libraries talk about the digital divide and how they advocate for public access technology and technology skills development.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It also underscores just how critical a balanced copyright law is for technology innovation. As a different kind of Silicon Valley tech company—a nonprofit with a pure focus on social good—our goal is to see that the best of technology gets applied to social needs left unaddressed by for-profit businesses. copyright law. In the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

A copyright exception allows specialist organizations (generally a government agency or disability NGO or library) to make an accessible version of a published book without having to get permission from the author or publisher. It includes pressuring national governments to enforce existing accessibility laws.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2017

In a recent blog post , in which our nonprofit, TechSoup, advocated for Net Neutrality, there were several responses that have an interestingly identical structure: (a) Government should stay out of the Internet; (b) There are technical issues involved that TechSoup does not understand; and. (c) " This was 1988. There was no web.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Today, we are poised at a moment in time where we can transcend the limitations of past book technologies and bring the power of books to all humans. However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. Love of the print book.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Libraries, nonprofits, and schools are already working hard to teach digital skills and competency, but they need support of the entire community to help people thrive in the technology age. Access to technology is important, but teaching computer and information technology skills is just as vital. Defining Digital Literacy.

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