Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 28, 2010

Food banks and homeless shelters: St. Tags: FourSquare Mobile Technology. Libraries :: New York Public Library. Performing arts venues and theatres :: The Tank. Animal shelters, zoos and aquariaums :: Monterey Bay Aquarium. Mary’s Food Bank. Health clinics, hospitals and gyms :: 92nd Street Y. Schools and universities :: UCLA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. His new project is a social media literacy website to help homeless people learn how to use the Internet to tell their stories, build community and connect with support services. Mark is a free agent championing the cause of homelessness. Tags: Free Agent.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 17, 2010

Mark Horvath, known as " HardlyNormal " on Twitter and who is a tireless advocate for the cause of homelessness, was the winner of the SXSW Pepsi Refresh Challenge. Mark uses social media to tell the story of homeless people in America. The rules were simple, the winner who got the most retweets of a unique tag won.

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2013

Tag every gift with the donor’s designation: When we get a gift that is designated for a specific purpose, we are required to spend the gift for the stated purpose. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to "meals for homeless children," just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 10, 2013

Tag every gift with the donor’s designation: When we get a gift that is designated for a specific purpose, we are required to spend the gift for the stated purpose. When we create this expense entry, we have to tag the entry as related to “Meals for Homeless Children”, just as we tagged the revenue entry initially.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 21, 2022

Some donors are drawn to just one cause area, such as homelessness or food insecurity. But most donors are drawn to several cause areas, so they may donate to a homeless shelter, a chess program for middle school students, a dog rescue, and an organization that supports women with breast cancer.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

There’s a price tag attached for creating the replicas and mailing the boxes, and it may be sizable. One of my Northern Virginia colleagues, who works a very local organization – a homeless shelter – reported that she has a virtual volunteer from California. There’s more potential to engage the viewer with a live demo.

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Nonprofits Source

JULY 24, 2023

For example, software developed for nonprofit organizations dedicated to fighting homelessness may come with features to help users report to the Department of Housing and Urban Development. Specialized software for various causes often comes with reporting templates and can automatically generate specific parts of your reports.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2010

I met Claire Murray almost five years ago this month when I was working as a consultant for the Community Technology Center Networks to do training for human service agencies that provided homeless services. Claire was working with the Cyber Cafe @ Malden Square. Tags: Networked Nonprofit. I trained her staff on how to blog.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2010

Mark Horvarth (who made a brief appearance in my video from yesterday ) has caught a lot of attention with his alluringly simple idea: record homeless people telling their stories and publish them on the internet. Tags: Digital Divide Online Activism Using the Web and Internet Web 2.0 His project InvidiblePeople.tv

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2010

I'm very honored that @hardlynormal , a homeless activist, has donated. Tags: birthday twitter. I combining raising money to send Cambodian youngsters to school, an action learning experiment on the art of retweet, guest teaching at Stanford Business School class on social technology, and eating chocolate. What could be more fun?

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Forum One

MAY 1, 2009

Photo Gallery: Connections for San Francisco's Homeless. Tags: Events. While several of us were in San Francisco for the 2009 Nonprofit Technology Conference, we helped install a wireless network in a local community center.

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Get Fully Funded

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Compelling mission (like feeding the hungry or housing the homeless). Tags: Fundraising Planning fundraising plan nonprofit fundraising. They are things that you have going for you that you can leverage in your plan. Here are some examples of nonprofit organizational assets: . Large donor base. Well-known staff or Board members.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness. They''ll be visiting 7 cities along the way, sharing the stories of homeless youth and the folks fighting to end this crisis. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2010

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. Tags: GreenTech Hardware Recycled & Refurbished Computers.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 6, 2013

Invisible People is hitting the road with Virgin Mobile, Sevenly, and Ford to bring awareness to youth homelessness. They''ll be visiting 7 cities along the way, sharing the stories of homeless youth and the folks fighting to end this crisis. Check out the plans and help get the stories heard!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2012

The App also provides: adoptable dog search by zip code, simple giving to help homeless pets, and their grassroots pledge to start seeing invisible dogs. They used Perky across channels to invite people to donate a Turkey for a Thanksgiving meal for Second Harvest to distribute.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2009

Take for example Big Warm Up , a campaign by Lands End to encourage people to donate winter coats to homeless people. Tags: twitter. Some will launch sooner, while others have already swung into action. This cause-related campaign has a big fancy web site and nonprofit partners.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2010

They've kindly given us permission to host this stream of a conversation between Dr. Pedro "Joe" Greer and his wife, Janus, about how Dr. Greer started working with Miami’s homeless. Tags: Spotlight. with roots in FDR's Works Progress Administration. Salinger who took a trip to meet the reclusive author.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Instead of only using the term “homeless,” you should also use “unhoused” and any other synonym a searcher might use when referring to homelessness. Page Titles – Each page should have a unique, relevant title within the <title></title> HTML tag.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Say something like “ Today, in this season of giving, we are extending a special thanks to our donors who give regularly to our organization, stepping up time and time again for homeless families.”. Be sure to tag them all! When you post, don’t forget to tag the corporation and anyone you know personally within that corporation!

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

Example of Bad Subject Line: Renew Your Commitment to End Dog Homelessness. Tags: Online Fundraising. Follow these five tips and you will be on your way to increasing open and click-through rates and more importantly - raising more money for your nonprofit. Short, Catchy Subject Lines. What’s Wrong with it?

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Judi Sohn

JANUARY 5, 2009

Do you want to feed the homeless or cure cancer? Tags: Nonprofit. We want to figure out how to do a better job letting people know who we are and why we matter in a way they’ll listen. It has always bothered me that nonprofits are measured in dollars and cents, and that we’re all lumped into the same pot. Convio Summit.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

Let’s say your organization has 3 primary service programs: animals, homeless and youth. Tags: Marketing and Communication #nptech BBNC Blackbaud Net Community Non-Profit. Think about it this way. You’re about to send out this month’s eNewsletter and you want to focus on a call to give, but which topic do you focus on?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

Flickr : You’re probably already familiar with Flickr's features such as the ability to upload from anywhere, tag photos, create sets , and create or join groups. If you’ve never created a digital story with a distributed team, then read this recap to learn how some well-known nonprofit storytellers do it.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Maybe you’re a homeless shelter, and you want to partner with a shelter on the other side of town to better track and understand the community experiencing homelessness in your city. When we are focused on impact, we are able to see potential collaborations we may have missed before when we looked only at our programs or services.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

tags: nten 09ntc ). 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! Tags: 09ntc. So, what are you waiting for?

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NTEN

JUNE 29, 2009

Speaking of Tech Club organizers, our Austin Tech Club rock star, David Neff , went homeless for 48 hours with the Austin Mobile Loaves and Fishes guide. Tags: nonprofit technology NPTech NTEN nten members. (BTW, NRDC was recently listed as a top Green Org to Follow on Twitter , so they must know what they're talking about ;).

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

using your favorite search engine or a community tagging site. on homeless issues, access to healthcare, or wetland preservation are. Tags: Kevin Lo managing technology NPTech NTEN techsoup. In this age of unfettered access and. crowdsourcing , you will find analyses and opinions from bloggers and writers just by. Consult your.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2005

In an attempt to create a demo to explain tagging and social tagging to some folks who run a ctc that works with homeless for Friday, I came up with the metaphor of a potluck dinner. All you have to do is upload a photo of the food to flickr and tag it beth_potluck. Here's on one of the desserts.

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AFP Blog

DECEMBER 14, 2009

Amy Bogl uses Facebook parties to help an organization that shelters homeless teens win a fundraising contest. Tags: NPVolunteer NPtech. Molly Shah, a volunteer tutor, uses texting almost daily to motivate a student".

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2009

Then, Adobe or Symantec can say that they want their donations to only go to organizations that work with, say, youth or homelessness. Tags: Acquiring Technology Grants for Technology Grants for Technology Hardware Running Your Organization Software Tech Support.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2010

to help promote awareness of homelessness in America. Tags: sxsw. And, it's amazing what we can accomplish when we get together. For example, through a Twitter campaign during the conference, Mark Horwath raised $50,000 for his organization InvisiblePeople.tv And that will make all the difference.

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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.

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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.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2008

Lemme know and keep adding to the Changeblogger list in the comments of this post, by emailing me at britt@brittbravo.com, or using the tag, "changeblogger". Spare Change TED blog TED talks (video) TimeToShine Tri to End Homeless Up with Women (they've requested help with improving their blog) Vampituity What Gives?

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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." Travis August tags this announcement from TechSmith, makers of SnagIt and Camtasia, about Mac development.

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