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How to Define, Measure and Communicate Your Impact

NonProfit Hub

For example, if your nonprofit targets homelessness, your goal could be to get X amount of people off the streets by the end of the year. If you’re showing your potential donors a PowerPoint, for example, play a meaningful video on one slide and follow it up with statistics on the next.

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Free Manuals for Refurbishing Computers

Tech Soup

Twenty years ago, I was building computer training labs in homeless shelters with no hardware budget. I developed a small refurbishing operation with a bunch of homeless guys who were much better at fixing things than I. read more.

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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

Tech Soup

I think one of the most interesting phablet-type features of the Dell Venue Pro smartphones is their Windows 7 Microsoft Office Mobile app that comes preloaded on the device and allows users to view and edit Microsoft Word, PowerPoint, and Excel documents and use Outlook for email. It puts them on the path to opportunity."

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Tools to Tell Your Digital Story Available Through TechSoup

Tech Soup

PowerPoint 2013 can be used to create image slides and animations like nonprofit Trickle Up did. With GIS tools, nonprofits have been able to identify homeless populations in San Diego, plan public utilities in small, underserved communities in Ohio, and track food bank services to low-income neighborhoods in Texas and California.

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Volunteer for the Day of Service at NTEN's NTC in SF on April 26th

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! I participated in my first Day of Service in 2001 as a volunteer.

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How To Avoid Being Seduced by Web2.0 Hype: The UK NpTech Perspective

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As I sit here avoiding the completion of the rest of the powerpoint slides for next week's Circuit Rider Conference in UK session I'm leading with David Wilcox called " Demystifying Web 2.0 From a presentation by www.jamkit.com Pre and post-election blog by homeless writer as campaign tactic [link] Greenpeace Ocean Defenders campaign ???weblogdirect

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4 free ways to access Candid’s demographic data 

Candid

Download or export your search results as an image, PowerPoint deck, or PDF file to use in presentations or to create a snapshot in time for later reference. Common examples of these complimentary datasets include grant, compensation, financial, census, and subject area-specific data, such as homelessness, climate change , and education.