Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

By focusing on projects, NGOs can gain the confidence of donors by keeping them updated on how funds are to be used. This is because the process to open a bank account is very tedious in comparison to getting a sim card and adding cash through a local M-Pesa agent. Mobile payments are more accessible and convenient than card payments.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Another study published in 2016 found that in cases where workplaces are unionized but workers are not required to join the union (so-called open shops), workers that join the union are likely to be more charitable than workers who do not. [4]. Trends in unions’ engagement with philanthropy.

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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. Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

Habitat for Humanity focuses on periodically posting curated content relevant to the cause of homelessness and housing. Upload work projects, such as presentations, videos, or special fundraising campaigns. Curated content relevant to your mission. It’s for this reason that nonprofits have been slow to adopt LinkedIn Ads.

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NTEN

MAY 28, 2009

Once a community has determined its needs, however, utilizing open source software presents a more rapid, sustainable path to implementation. With open source (specifically, in this case, Drupal ), all of the functionality is available already (except for the jet-packs and sinks -- those are still in beta). Oh, and jet-packs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Object Sync for Salesforce is an open-source WordPress plugin that provides a GUI to map and sync data between Salesforce objects and WordPress content types. Highest level of effort for implementation – ranging from $5K to $25K and up depending on the scope of the project. Solution: WordPress Object Sync for Salesforce.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

Download Report Opens new window. Cohorts have addressed housing and homelessness, equity in education, and climate action. Among contributors to projects in The Commons, 96% feel their solutions will foster greater efficiency and/or improve how work gets done in the nonprofit and education sectors!

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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. Many nonprofit leaders mistakenly think that they can open the doors to their new nonprofit and immediately apply for (and get!) Not hardly.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 8, 2022

It takes much more than just opening your doors to get donations to come your way. Using heartstring words like “homeless,” “abandoned,” “deserving,” “malnourished,” “unjust,” “innocent,” etc., Doesn’t “deserving homeless veterans” tug at your heart more than just “veterans”? It takes commitment, guts, and a great story.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

Forney continually helped other youth that were facing similar difficult circumstances, and he became a public advocate for improving safety for homeless youth until his life was tragically cut short. This change will make the program the nation's first 24-hour drop-in program for homeless LGBTQ youth. Forney was murdered in 1997.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 13, 2018

I knew I was supposed to have all of these new opportunities open up for me, but I didn’t even know where to start looking. service day was a great example of us working together to provide resources, or even just some friendly conversation to the homeless communities around the Valley. The Martin Luther King Jr. John Joseph Powell.

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NTEN

MARCH 20, 2012

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. Start Some Good, a platform for social good groups - whether nonprofit organizations or not - to raise funds and build community, highlighted eight diverse projects working for social impact at an evening event hosted by Center61 at SXSW. Crowdfunding Social Ventures at SXSW.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 6, 2021

For example, an organization that supports homeless families could have an Advisory Board made up of formerly and current homeless people. Assembling it is about being open to advice, insight, and support from different people with fresh perspectives. They could advise the organization based on their personal experiences.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 17, 2013

I was with two close friends who work in social service organizations focusing on homelessness and criminal justice respectively. We talk about these projects as if they were analogous to the work being done by a social service agency, and we wonder where the line between cultural and social work blurs. We all work for nonprofits.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 6, 2014

MuseumCamp is an annual professional development event at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History in which teams of diverse, creative people work on quick and dirty projects on a big theme. You can check out all twenty research projects here. This year, the theme was social impact assessment, or measuring the immeasurable.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2015

To help kick off Caravan's next breakfast, happening on May 1, I thought I'd follow up with one of projects, LocalFreeWeb , discussed in October, and see how it was progressing. Sometimes social good projects lose steam after hackathons end, but I'm happy to report that LocalFreeWeb is moving ahead.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JUNE 25, 2019

Paddock also mentions that skilled volunteers can come in with big dreams and big goals and it is important to manage their expectations so that the projects can be done creatively and affordably. Paddock suggests that communicating with them can open the door for networking, and having future questions and needs answered. Conclusion.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2012

People's Emergency Center (PEC) in Philadelphia has been using Mobile Beacon quite a bit under a government-funded project that's part of the Broadband Technology Opportunities Program. They're a homeless services and neighborhood revitalization nonprofit that serves West Philly. It puts them on the path to opportunity."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 31, 2016

Note from Beth: I’ve just returned from an amazing training project in Cambodia and will be sharing more about that this coming week. Tuan , project manager, for the Fund for Shared Insight. CEO implements text-based smartphone surveys with both numeric and open-ended responses. Photo by LIFT. Interpreting Feedback Data.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 21, 2017

We built specific community processes appropriate to each step of the project development. The result is a project dreamed up by our community, then harnessed, honed, and taken to completion by the MAH. Here are three significant ways community participation influenced our project. Every step involved community participation.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

Most of the time, this involves serving meals at a soup kitchen, working at a homeless shelter or ringing a bell outside a store. Before you open your doors to all people to come and do work, you need to find projects for them to work on. Find Simple One-Time Activities. But you never know!). Get the Word Out.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

Open source champion Brian Behlendorf spoke at the event, encouraging the hackers to focus on finding an interesting problem to solve rather than worrying about building a sustainable model. Another project was creating an easily accessible map of Hawaii's farmer's markets. Burlington, VT Day of Civic Hacking.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. It was the first project of its kind in 28 years. The project was created by the St. Data Collecting and Mapping.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2013

But what was a grantmaker who works on ocean conservation doing at a conference of software engineers and open government advocates? The whole speech is 12 minutes, and if you want some tips about reaching millenials I’d advise watching the whole thing [quick tip: animals and homelessness]. I told them the conference fit my 50% rule.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

Are mobile phones a lifeline for homeless people? Homeless people use mobile phones to break their isolation, find food and shelter, and connect with the people they care about. The Mobile4All project also sees mobile phones as a key to open the door to recovery and self-sufficiency. Assuredly they are. Surprises So Far.

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Volunteer Hub

AUGUST 1, 2021

“We wouldn’t be able to provide nourishment to the clients that desperately need our support without the help, dedication, and ongoing commitment of volunteers and the time they invest in our program,” said David Thoms, Volunteer Coordinator, Open Hand Atlanta. Volunteers are crucial to the work we do at Miriam’s Kitchen.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services. Be Helpful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 19, 2007

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services. Be Helpful.

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Museum 2.0

OCTOBER 30, 2013

I am just starting to dive into the science of intergroup relations (psychology-speak for social bridging), and I greatly appreciate these individuals who are working to popularize and open up what could otherwise be esoteric research. inclusion Museum of Art and History research social bridging Unusual Projects and Influences'

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 28, 2011

Yes to partnerships with the Second Harvest Food Bank and the Homeless Service Center. Yes to the Big Read with the library, yes to the Burningman artists who want to show their giant kinetic sculpture in the lobby, yes to projections on the side of the building. Yes to tie-ins with the Symphony and the Boys and Girls Club.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 21, 2014

I''m open to any questions you want to share in the comments. When I look back at some recent projects that I''m most excited about (like this teen program ), I realize that I had very little to do with their conception or execution. We''re investing a lot in a public plaza project outside of the museum. Naming fears, too.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

But they were transparent, and excited about all the potential the merger opened up. Whether it was 350 or ACE, or a group like Epic Change and their annual To Mama With Love projects. They didn’t make too much of the merger, as there’s lots of work to do. BlueGreen Alliance. Remember the examples from before?

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Lenders will want to see your nonprofit business plan to get an idea of how well you’ve thought things through and to see what your revenue projections look like. For example, if you run a homeless shelter, you should mention the number of people who are homeless on any given night in your area. Organizational Structure.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 23, 2014

The best approach when creating content for an online fundraising appeal is to envision the whole project as a campaign. Here are examples from different types of organizations: $20 covers food and shelter for a homeless animal for one month. $35 We know that successful fundraising appeals have 4 things in common: A compelling story.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2009

You open the door to your office and see your Program Director in shorts and a t-shirt with a dubious message, holding what might be an inappropriate beverage. Except the door you opened was to your social network space. Your transitional housing program for homeless families always needs activities for children. Close the door!

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Museum 2.0

MAY 2, 2012

We went through a dramatic financial turnaround and redefined our relationship with our community through a series of experimental participatory projects and new programmatic approaches. I'm open to any questions you want to raise in the comments. People are showing up, getting involved, and sharing their enthusiasm in droves.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 10, 2007

As both a lesson and as a metric, failure is potentially productive at every level of socialmarkets - from the repeated return of one homeless person to shelter, to the repeated attempts to attach a value like SROI to such a story." Opening Event for Nonprofit Commons in Second Life is on Tuesday, August 14 at 5:30 PST.

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