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NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Navigating the world of nonprofit tools can be tough. This guide is here to help you learn more about nonprofit fundraising platforms, what’s available to your organization, and when you should consider using each. Nonprofit Tools. What are the most important nonprofit tools? Nonprofit Fundraising Tools.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

I posted some nonprofit technology trends and news late last month, but found some late breaking nptech news items I wanted to add. Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Interested in winning a free refurbished laptop or tablet? Dell Core Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection. HP EliteBook 8440p Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from PCRR. Both laptops come preloaded with Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows operating system, and Microsoft Security Essentials. Are you … A U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 30, 2015

Interested in winning a free refurbished laptop or tablet? Dell Core Windows 7 Laptop from InterConnection. HP EliteBook 8440p Core i5 Windows 7 Laptop from PCRR. Both laptops come preloaded with Microsoft Office 2010, a Windows operating system, and Microsoft Security Essentials. Are you … A U.S.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 13, 2011

Human beings suck at remembering numbers, so a system of connecting names to numbers exists (called the Domain Name System , or DNS.) This system is called IPv4, or Internet Protocol Version 4. But the core underlying structure is computers talking to each other via numbers that run from 0.0.0.0 to 255.255.255.255.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Rather than a clever hacker directly targeting your nonprofit, your organization is more likely at risk from a software update you skipped in haste, a disgruntled employee who still has access to your cloud drive, or an unencrypted device left in an airport bathroom. That fundraising contractor whose laptop was stolen?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 29, 2023

Online fundraising is increasingly essential for nonprofits, but these types of initiatives come with unique challenges. To effectively ramp up fundraising, your nonprofit needs the right online fundraising platform for your needs. What are online fundraising platforms? Give donors an easy way to show their support.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2014

If you pay attention to the news, you may have recently heard about a major Internet hacking of celebrity phones and devices , in which hundreds of photos were leaked to the wider Internet. And it should serve as a stern wake-up call to all nonprofits and social change makers to shake the complacency off our security standards.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 26, 2012

Whether it’s a virus hidden in an email, an unexpected server crash, or someone hacking into online transactions, threats to your nonprofit's or library's data and computers are always there. For example, a user could receive a voicemail as a text message on the phone and reply to it using email. VoIP and Your Network.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Starting in October 2016, TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative (RCI) will feature refurbished laptops and desktops with Windows 10 preinstalled. We plan to retire our inventory of Windows 7 hardware, and all of our Windows computers will feature Microsoft's latest operating system. Browse Refurbished Computers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2013

But then, your coworker calls and informs you that your donation page is broken, your organization's CRM just ate half of its entries, and the kitchen dishwasher is flooding… Guess you probably should pack along your laptop. Mophie Juice Pack battery charging cases keep your phone powered and protected. Work Remotely.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 21, 2014

The annual Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas just finished up on January 10 th so we thought we’d call out some of the products and trends that we hope are fun and interesting to nonprofit techies. smart socks generate heat maps of how a runner’s foot strikes the ground and sends the info to a phone app.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 5, 2010

By Grant Howe, VP Research and Development, Nonprofit Solutions, Sage Business Solutions. What will the nonprofit office of the future look like? Corporations and nonprofits alike are rapidly embracing the practice of letting employees work remotely. Look what I can do with my phone! Probably like your own home.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2015

Last week, I facilitated a peer learning session for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders and their mentors about healthy and productive meetings. We covered the best practices of meetings , both face-to-face and virtual meetings. First, contact those who will be present through the phone beforehand to discuss how they will participate.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OCTOBER 11, 2010

I’m actually quite happy – I can run both Windows 7 and Ubuntu Linux on my laptop, and I like Android (and my Droid 2 phone) a lot. I had come to chafe at the closed-ness of the whole system, but somehow the ease of use in comparison to the alternatives was addictive for a long time. What will I miss?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 7, 2010

For the audio, we use a phone line that was fed into the AV system and wireless mic. I thought we could use the chat back channel but since there was only laptop in the room we needed another system for backchannel communication. The body language code was as follows: !

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2017

One man I supervise planned on taking his laptop on his honeymoon. At the end of a long day of meetings and phone conferences, sometimes the last thing we want to do is talk to more people. It is easy to not pick up the phone when your friend calls and to say no to a night out. You are usually provided with vacation time.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2015

I’m facilitating a peer learning leadership development group for Emerging Nonprofit Leaders supported by the Packard Foundation. Don’t attend a meeting wishing the meeting was over while stealing glances at your email on your mobile phone under the table, or trying to sound smart during the meeting.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them.

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Tech Soup

MAY 30, 2014

Nonprofit Tech Essentials. We know that transitioning to new computers and updated operating systems can take months, but upgrading is easier than you might think. and Windows 7 are available to eligible nonprofits. Browse our selection of refurbished laptops, desktops, and monitors. Shopify is now open to all budgets!

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 14, 2021

We like to think that most nonprofits are concerned about their reach toward individuals who might struggle to connect with their offerings, at least in the best of times. To be sure, the pandemic has thrown a wrench into ways that nonprofits have engaged their stakeholders over the past couple years. But now we are limping along.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. Previous winners have developed open-source applications and systems that are free, shareable, and benefit organizations that work to benefit others.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2017

TechSoup offers many donated and discounted products for nonprofit museums and history organizations, such as historical sites and societies, of every type. Get the Latest Microsoft Products for Every Part of Your IT System. Perform the basic QuickBooks tasks that are most useful to nonprofits. Run nonprofit-specific reports.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

Refurbished computers are not for every organization, so we thought it’d be interesting to talk to someone who is using refurbished equipment in their nonprofit to find out how it’s going. Keli: Do you have any recommendations for other nonprofits out there on how to integrate refurbished IT equipment in to their work?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

OK, so your organization has a systemized way to manage identifying, qualifying, cultivating, soliciting, and stewarding your prospects and donors. You are doing something several of the nonprofits I work with on a daily basis are not doing. You may reach her at carol.belair [at] blackbaud [dot] com. Congratulations!

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Achieve

JUNE 3, 2019

The convenience of mobile giving methods has led many nonprofits to adopt them, and they’re only becoming more popular. An online giving page that’s mobile-responsive—that is, one that you can access and use as easily on a smartphone as on a desktop or laptop computer—is an essential step in providing your donors with mobile giving options.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2015

Thankfully, with Office 365 Nonprofit working behind the scenes, Caring Partners can focus on providing the community with the very best services. When care managers are with families, they need to be able to access critical information through email from their mobile phones in order to tailor services and care to their clients' needs.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 1, 2015

More than 90% of nonprofit organizations are using some form of cloud computing today with half of them using multiple cloud services. While the majority of nonprofits are using the cloud for common tasks like email, only about 15% are using cloud-based accounting and fundraising solutions. The Changing Landscape of Technology.

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NTEN

JULY 19, 2012

We're already framing our issues in ways that appeal to them, and have the systems to support that. Referencing the Millennial Donor Report , when it comes to trusting a nonprofit organization, the factors that influence Millennials, are relationship driven - based on personal connections to the leadership, or the organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2021

As the pandemic continues, most nonprofit workplaces will become a combination of virtual and on-site work. Hybrid meetings are familiar for many nonprofits, particularly larger international nonprofits with many country offices or national networks with affiliate office locations. Beware of Power Imbalances and Group Dynamics.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 10, 2008

see those pink arrows) This took about an hour on the phone with the technical support guy at Dell who walked through opening up the CPU and swapping out the four bars of RAM and rebooting. The latter is annoying, but I could fix that blue screen of death and by reinstalling the operating system.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Linux desktops? At some point, when I’ve saved up enough pennies, I’m going to buy a Mac laptop again. The eePC is a great example, as are cell phones, media players, etc.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

The mission statement of One Laptop per Child is artfully constructed: "To create educational opportunities for the world's poorest children by providing each child with a rugged, low-cost, low-power, connected laptop with content and software designed for collaborative, joyful, self-empowered learning. Money, it's a drag.

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration? The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. For example, LINGOs has a free nonprofit learning catalog. That's affordable for even the smallest nonprofits. No nonprofit should be going it alone and buying software and hardware retail.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Either way, you definitely have your phone out. So when you’re designing your website , make sure that the content you create functions just as well on a mobile phone or tablet as it does on a laptop or desktop computer. As the name suggests, it involves donors texting on their mobile phones in order to give to charity.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2012

When you think about someone accessing your nonprofit website from a mobile device, how do you picture them? Josh cited a statistic that 28% of mobile users in the US are “mostly mobile” users meaning they rarely use a laptop or desktop computer. Author: Lacey Kruger. Making the complicated seem uncomplicated.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 3, 2013

Five years ago, it was the laptop. It doesn’t replace my laptop, but I sure get a lot of use out of it. –Tom When I look at any piece of technology (business or personal), my first instinct is to evaluate the hardware and software eco-system around it to support the tablet in question. We’ve done your homework for you.

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