EveryAction

JUNE 23, 2023

Whether your organization advocates for policy change on the national, state, or local level, mobilizing your supporters to place advocacy calls to their legislators is one of the most powerful tools at your disposal—and with support from the right technology, it can also be one of the most convenient.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The 2021 Open Data Project [ español , français ] seeks to gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. At the core of the project is the 2021 Global NGO Technology Survey and the data below is based on the survey responses of 592 online fundraisers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The Open Data Project [ español , français ] seeks to gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. To access the complete data, please take the Global NGO Technology Survey and then visit the Open Data Project Hub. 5% use TikTok.

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EveryAction

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

This isn’t the only data point backing up this finding, either: our friends over at National Audubon Society actually ran a sustainer-first GivingTuesday campaign in 2020 and grew their recurring donor base by an incredible 900 percent! Use your technology to your advantage, even if it is a simple A/B test.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 1, 2021

The 2021 Open Data Project [ español , français ] seeks to gain a better understanding of how nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use technology for digital marketing and fundraising. To receive future updates about the Global NGO Technology Survey data, please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

Our colleague Stuart Meyer,* who at the time was CEO of the National Barbeque and Grilling Association, a fully virtual organization, made this comment. “We We learned the importance of technology for communication and collaboration. More than a few of those executives were managing virtual teams.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Recently, in the wake of restrictive state-level and national abortion legislation targeting individuals seeking abortion access, multiple reproductive justice organizations have called attention to algorithmic content suppression and personal data surveillance practices of Meta and Google. Center language justice in your content strategies.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

Embracing Modernity: The Path to Frictionless Giving How can contemporary strategies and technological advancements redefine the donor experience for your organization? This also led to a 25% higher average gift amount. Data from early adopters illustrates the tangible benefits of a seamless checkout process.

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Forum One

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

National Rural Health Resource Center Gold – Health The National Rural Health Resource Center provides technical assistance, information, tools, and resources for the improvement of rural health care. Forum One worked with the National Rural Health Resource Center to design their new website in Drupal 9.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 13, 2023

Do I have the technology to segment? Step 2: Add a message targeted to each segment Fundraising copywriter Julie Cooper recommends picking a third or fourth line paragraph in your appeal where you can adjust the language to speak to your donor segment (active, lapsed, major, or monthly donors). Sounds complicated, how would we do that?

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

In this article, we unpack the lessons learned from a nonprofit’s chatbot project to dispense mental health advice that went wrong, and how nonprofits can reduce the risks when adopting ChatGPT and other generative AI (Artificial Intelligence) technologies.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 31, 2022

One of the easiest ways to contextualize your work is the United Nations Foundation’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By breaking down each goal into consumable sections, we hope you will be able to maximize the impact of the SDGs, harness a shared language in seeking funding, and bring about greater change.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Write tweets in clear, concise language. Embrace a writing style known as plain language which is becoming an increasingly important skill for social media managers. Nonprofits tend to mostly tweet content about the sad state of affairs – international, national, state, and local. Format your tweets for easy reading.

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Neon CRM

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

There Has Been a Change In Your Nonprofit’s Scope Over time, technology, politics, and culture will impact your mission and how you approach it. Next, ask about what language resonates with them. Be sure to use active voice and descriptive language. How do they describe your work or your beneficiaries?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2017

2018 is a crucial year for smart speaker technology and innovation. Think about some of the pieces of technology or up-and-coming topics that, maybe five years ago, we thought had nothing to do with us. The Rise of NGOs in Developing Nations. Today, 10 languages make up 82% of web content. The white population in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

As a long-time advocate for a global copyright exception and the founder of Benetech—which I started twenty-five years ago in order to make technology tools to address the needs of people with print disabilities—I was thrilled to become an active player in global diplomacy and witness the adoption and signing of this landmark Treaty.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 12, 2021

But a lack of access to new technology or the resources it takes to set up and maintain these programs is a barrier for many nonprofits. RoundUp App is the nation’s largest tool for rounded up donations. Use language that is mission-focused and impact-oriented. That’s where RoundUp App comes in.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2012

Preparation Conference where policy-makers, practitioners, and innovators discussed how to use connection technologies to advance sustainable development in advance of the June USRIO2.o Bridging Social Technologies and Sustainable Development: Social Squared – Guest Post by Kriss Deliglmeier. conference (Rio+2.0:

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Forum One

AUGUST 3, 2023

Simmons, the talks named in her honor feature discussions with African American innovators in art, business, science, literature, medicine, social justice, technology, and more. Overall, this work has helped to empower NRDC’s content managers, engage their audience, and amplify their impact. Endowed by Dr. Ruth J.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

First, it makes creating a national domestic copyright exception an obligation of countries that ratify the Treaty. Technological Protection Measures. Bookshare will get more books published in other countries, in far more languages. Conclusion In plain language, this is a Treaty that should start to remedy the book famine.

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Media Cause

JULY 19, 2022

When it comes to marketing and brand presence in digital spaces, it is imperative that content and messaging are available and accessible to all audiences—including those who rely on inclusive technology like screen readers, text-to-speech programs, and/or captioning to engage with digital content. The World Health Organization estimates 2.2

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 5, 2013

My passion at Benetech for the last twenty-five years has been making technology tools to meet the reading needs of people who are blind, dyslexic or have other print disabilities. The treaty also allows us to work around digital rights management and associated technological protection measures to ensure access for our users.

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Whole Whale

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

It shouldn’t be surprising that a nonprofit focusing on closing the gender gap in technology has a beautifully-coded annual report built right into its website. In a traditional PDF, this would take 5 separate charts and even then we wouldn’t get the same effect of watching this program grow on a national level. Girls Who Code.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries. We would like to see a global norm comparable to the system that has worked so well in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. As luck would have it, I got to chatting right away with Ned Malik, CTO of Vision Online , a DC-based company that provides cutting-edge information technology to government. Ned explained that the wearables are a hot topic now.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas, including homelessness , equity in education , and climate justice. Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. This spurred an idea on how we can leverage existing technology and learnings from custom solutions to build an easy-to-use module to get other organizations started with Salesforce. Food Insecurity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

We had just won the national contract to supply ALL disabled students in the United States, with ALL the books they needed to read to succeed in school, for free. This results in an ebook, which can be shared by Bookshare legally with many thousands of other disabled readers. Our crowd sourced model couldn't scale to meet this need.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

This annual event brings together representatives from nonprofits and technology companies around the world to address the biggest problems facing humanity and the planet. The United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) is the largest humanitarian organization in the world with a mission to end hunger.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Compare that to Google Book Search, with more than 25,000 publishers signed up for their commercial program in a similar time period. Google, who has been sued by the same publishers for alleged copyright violations.

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Whole Whale

APRIL 11, 2023

Rebuttal : While it is true that GPT models can be misused or abused, this is not a fundamental flaw with the technology itself. Rather, it is a concern that applies to any technology that can be used for both good and bad purposes. This may be especially true for a rising generation of writers in school or early career stages.

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Forum One

JULY 20, 2022

The Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture (NMAAHC) was planning the next installment of their already-successful and well-attended event, “A Seat at the Table.” Watch our discussion about creating a successful virtual event. It was March 2020.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. As the most internationally engaged library for people with disabilities, we’re trying to find funding and partnerships to help bring both Bookshare’s collection and technology to bear on this problem.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Our team has been thinking hard about scaling positive social impact of technology work. Dr. Karen Erickson, one of the nation's leading experts in literacy for people with disabilities, invented the original concept for Route 66 and collaborated closely with us on the instructional approach and content. This is a huge legal victory!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

However, technology is transforming innovation at its core and our team at Benetech does quite well in leveraging this “innovation at warp speed” for social good. His job is to explore new frontiers of technology for secure fact-finding by human rights groups and journalists. Technology for social change is needed more and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 12, 2009

Why shouldn’t visually impaired and disabled students in the United States have easy access to the study of the languages? Why shouldn’t students in Puerto Rico benefit from our technology and services? Bookshare, and the overall concept of technology serving humanity, was very well received.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 18, 2008

The main reason for my visit to South India was the National Seminar on Print Access For All, which was organized by the dynamic Mr. Krishnaswamy. C-DAC does a great deal of Indian language technology among all of its wide-spread projects, and I was delighted to know of their strong interest in helping people with disabilities.

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