.orgSource

JANUARY 14, 2024

If I asked you to describe the work styles of the colleagues on your team, could you tell me how each one prefers to solve problems? It’s the style of the CEO and executive team that drives the governance and the culture. You can have the best governance model, but with the wrong people on the team, you won’t be successful.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

It is defined as open-source software that doesn’t require the support of a trusted intermediary and it has no governing body. Nonprofit organizations often tackle complex problems with hard-to-communicate ideas and sometimes, static, 2D images and videos aren’t enough to explain the problem.

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sgEngage

JULY 20, 2021

In our most recent white paper, “ Exploring Environmental Social Governance ” we include a section that picks apart the pieces of ESG, including a list of some of the items under the “social” category. The post Taking a Deeper Look at the “Social” Piece of ESG (Environmental Social Governance) first appeared on npENGAGE.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

The problem might be something you’ve never considered. ENA brings objectivity to the process by using the net promoter score as a tool to measure success. But there was agreement that membership retention and loyalty problems might be symptomatic of declining confidence. Maybe stale programming is stopping the love?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

How can you use VR and AR as a tool for nonprofit donations? To start, bring the problems your organization wants to fix into the light. In the last few decades, telethons were a valuable tool for raising money for nonprofit organizations. Augmented reality, however, takes virtual items and projects them on the real world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2021

The challenges of designing and deploying robust, efficient and cost-effective systems and processes, configured to your unique needs with strong governance, adoption and lifecycle management are daunting even for the largest organizations. And if you get it wrong, your tech will create more problems than it solves.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 20, 2023

It gives your nonprofit breathing room when a problem or a new opportunity arises. If a government regulation changed or community preferences shifted, would you have time to react? Make Sure You’re Ready for Your Next Government Grant Government grants are a great addition to any nonprofit’s balance sheet.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Powered by technology and tools that make it easier than ever to communicate, manage data, and process and distribute funding, many foundations now see collaboration as a critical tool for accelerating – not delaying – their work. While it was once a nuisance, it is now a necessity. Why Collaborate? New Collaboration Models Emerge.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

Those already exploring the metaverse can attend live concerts and meet with government officials. Big Tech, banks, corporations, and governments worldwide are betting big on the metaverse and its future. Without these, the metaverse risks inheriting the problems of today’s social media, if not becoming something worse.

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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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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

And this is a problem. In other words, your Board should help you see problems before they occur, they should evaluate how well things are working, and they should help you find new and better solutions. They are a bridge between your nonprofit and the community, the media, and government entities. It’s surprising.

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sgEngage

APRIL 11, 2024

Respect the Principle of Least Privilege Any software that contains sensitive data must have tools for managing each user’s access to that data. These identity and access management tools enable administrators to add users and assign roles and permissions for users to access data when they sign into the software.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2016

Silicon Valley has a problem. In our quest to build better products and better meet the needs of the world for information, we built the most amazing system for effortless government surveillance as a byproduct. And, without encryption of this information, the makers of smartphones had effectively handed those secrets to governments.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 16, 2012

and the Rockefeller Foundation, titled: " A New Tool for Scaling Impact: How Social Impact Bonds Can Mobilize Private Capital to Advance Social Good." Social service and nonprofit programs have traditionally been supported through philanthropy and government contracts. One such model is the Social Impact Bond (SIB).

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Before you start a new organization, it’s worth it to fully think through the problem you’re hoping to address and whether a nonprofit is the right way to solve the issue. Before taking the steps to start a nonprofit, ask yourself these questions: What need or problem will the nonprofit address? of the overall workforce.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 8, 2014

Starting from 1999, FusionSpark Media has produced a wide range of content initiatives for nonprofit and government agencies in the topic areas of environment, sustainability and health. The explosion of channels, devices, tools and services that make up the digital marketing landscape is at best intimidating, and at worst, paralyzing.

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Forum One

APRIL 18, 2023

These tools employ collaborative methods that engage both end-users and the organizations serving them. Here are a couple of ways we have used service blueprinting for clients across sectors and industries to solve their problems. We’d love you to join our innovative community of nonprofits, foundations, and government agencies.

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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. Everybody can participate in solving a problem.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

When you have a goal to meet—like asking a governing body to sign a bill into law, telling a CEO or other stakeholder to change a behavior or policy, or meeting goals around educating decision-makers on your issue area—you know you can’t do it alone. Check out our last installment here !

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

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.” Undoubtedly, the tools we use to shape the world end up shaping us.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 17, 2009

These are the themes I heard while attending the interesting Open Government: "Strategies and Tactics from the Playbook" event this past Monday in DC, organized by the team of Lucas Cioffi , Stephen Buckley , and Kaliya Hamlin. Here are some insights I picked up: Open Government Directive: Coming soon? The answer by GSA staffer, was ?No

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

In our 25-year history, Forum One has developed thousands of digital platforms and websites, campaigns, brand strategies, and custom tools that help nonprofits and government agencies communicate, deliver programs, and cultivate financial support. The key requirement on our team is a problem-solving mentality.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

It’s not just the end-of-grant reporting that can cause problems. Grant management tools to improve efficiency If your organization has significant grant funding, managing each grant with spreadsheets can make it hard to get a holistic picture of your funding—not to mention being incredibly stressful.

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Neon CRM

DECEMBER 14, 2023

Finance Director Government Grants INCREASE IMPACT Optimize grant management to ensure alignment with mission and efficient use of funds. There are tons of different ways to address these problems—but, ultimately, it’s important to prioritize what will best grow your community of generosity.

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Byte Technology

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

But beyond the exciting new gadget and gizmos being folded in through regular updates, there are more crucial reasons to keep your programs and devices current: when an app, plugin or other program is created, it’s inevitable that there will be problems with performance, connectivity and, most importantly, with security.

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3rd Sector Labs

MAY 29, 2014

We provide examples of how to achieve this alignment more effectively, as well as examples of common data problems that organizations encounter and need to overcome. Based on informal discussions with webinar attendees, the problem seems clear. Step one is to recognize the problem. Do your data governance policies need updating?

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sgEngage

APRIL 8, 2024

These grants typically have goals associated with them—the foundation has a specific mission, or the government grant wants to address a specific societal issue. But when most of an organization’s funds are restricted, often unnecessarily, it can create significant cashflow problems and inhibit growth.

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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. 9% have donated directly to an organization using Facebook Fundraising Tools. 47% of donors in Brazil volunteer.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 2, 2022

As we observe the International Day for the Abolition of Slavery on December 2nd, it’s important to remember that modern slavery is a complex problem that takes many forms. In 2017, I attended a small conference of government representatives, civil society leaders, and tech company volunteers from around the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2014

What are the right tools to help measure success? Tammi Marcoullier, Lead Strategist at the GSA’s Center for Excellence in Digital Government Engagement & Outreach. And we took away some ideas that we thought many nonprofits and government agencies should consider. Government. Use it to solve specific problems.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

Decision 1: Must we have data governance policies before we migrate? Data governance represents ‘rules of the road’ for your donor database. Good data governance addresses data quality issues ranging from how you control your data input processes to questions such as ‘How long will you store old records?

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Nucleus

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

He realized that their necessary first step was agreement on definitions and key terms – basic yet powerful data governance (and infrastructure that supports this) allows for consistent reporting, apples-to-apples conversations across departments, and is a first step in what ACOG thinks of as “data enablement.” They chose the latter.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 5, 2023

The problem is that if you’re like most, you haven’t paid a lot of attention to your accounting system. Starting or fixing your accounting system BEFORE you have a problem is just smart planning. Because believe me, without a good nonprofit accounting system in place, you WILL run into problems later. I promise you will.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Whether data is on your nonprofit’s radar as a tool for good or not, you will be inspired by the stories of these three organizations. They pull in available government geological data, such as temperature and water height, so that water quality can be estimated multiple times per day. To improve equity in your programs?

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Qgiv

OCTOBER 11, 2023

Using your financials as an indicator of success perfectly all right—but there’s a problem here: If you’re only taking into account how much you raised overall or how much you raised from individual giving, grants, or corporate giving, you’re missing the big picture—and that could really mess you up. How much did you raise?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

The world’s problems are many, and we keep seeing opportunities for technologists to address those problems effectively. We believe that having more minds working simultaneously on a problem increases the odds of solving that problem well and quickly. Read2Go Bookshare goes mobile!

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

The reality for many organizations, whether a smaller nonprofit, a large international advocacy organization or a government agency, is that their data lives in separate silos. Tools and channels that house data often do not make it easy to navigate. Too many tools to manage. Does this sound familiar? Not having the time.

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