Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2014

Cynthia Adams, CEO of TechSoup donor partner GrantStation , recently did an important online training webinar on how rural charities and libraries can get grants. If your charity or library happens to be located in rural America, it's not your imagination that it is harder to get grant funding in rural locations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 2, 2012

David also walked us through Foundation Directory Online , a resource that we heard a bit about during our previous webinar Mapping Philanthropy: How You Can Use Data Visualization to Do Good. These are libraries and resource centers across the country that provide free access to the Foundation Directory Online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2018

The framework is based on Abraham Maslow’s hierarchy of needs, mapped to an organization’s hierarchy of needs: • Level 1: Functioning Factor – Do people have what they need to do their job? Create a leadership library of nonprofit books for staff to check out and read. Mission moments – photos, videos, make them visible.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2012

Stay in constant communication with your team by adding smartphones to your nonprofit’s or library’s toolkit. Capture photos and video of your organization in action. Check out our Mobile 101 article series to learn the basics of mobile devices , as well as how your nonprofit or library can benefit from them.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

Creative Commons Search is another search engine that searches multiple sites simultaneously, including Flickr, Open Clip Art Library , Pixabay , and several more. It allows you to search for photos with a Creative Commons license for noncommercial use and images that you can modify, adapt, or build upon. How TechSoup Uses Images.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2015

At TechSoup, we're all about using technology to tell your nonprofit, charity, or public library's story. Steller (free; Apple iOS) is an app that lets you build stories with your photos, videos, and text. You can pick whether you want to open your story with text, a photo, or video (see screenshot).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 10, 2013

This newly updated image- and video-editing bundle runs on Windows machines or Macs, and is now available to eligible nonprofits, charities, and public libraries through TechSoup. Choosing the Right Software. TechSoup also offers professional-level image-editing software from Adobe: Photoshop Extended CS6. Adobe Photoshop Elements Organizer.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 15, 2012

Last week, as the kickoff for the Loyalty Lab project , the experience design firm Adaptive Path facilitated a workshop at my museum for staff and visitors in which we created a "map" of the visitor experience at a museum event. They had not taken photos in our photo booth and gotten an email about them later.

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

Since we launched our donation program in 2002, TechSoup has saved nonprofits and libraries in the United States and around the world over $3 billion dollars in IT expenses. This fiscal year ten new donor partners have joined with TechSoup to make their product donations available to nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. Our Local Impact Map. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

It also lists and maps hackathons worldwide. • Mapping • Cloud computing. This is an astonishing technology for good in which large numbers of ordinary people analyze photos of cells cultures to identify irregular shaped cancer cell cores. See the map here. also reports some news that effect libraries.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

And how can nonprofits and public libraries actually make use of it? CHNA is part of a larger project called Community Commons , an interactive mapping, networking, and learning tool. In the case of Planet Labs, they state that their photos only show topography and vegetation, but not people, cars, or houses.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 11, 2013

This newly updated image- and video-editing bundle runs on Windows machines or Macs, and is now available to eligible nonprofits, charities, and public libraries through TechSoup. Choosing the Right Software. TechSoup also offers professional-level image-editing software from Adobe: Photoshop Extended CS6 (for both Windows and Mac ).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2011

The FEMA app includes preparation guidelines for a variety of disasters, including checklists, safety tips, and local shelter maps. Photos and video can also be included. Photo: Lee Maguire. Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) offers a free emergency preparedness app.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

The organizations get to do everything BUT drive: you are the vehicle, the gas, the map, the snacks even! So they provide the examples and maps, but they let the youth pick and pledge whatever it is they want to do to make a difference. As an example, let’s think about a community library. Quite the opposite.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Each year, we host a Nonprofit Digital Storytelling Challenge where nonprofits and libraries around the world submit short, digital stories about their organizations. Harta Zonelor Despadurite (Map of deforested areas) - a map of deforestation in Romania made by analyzing satellite images. Photo: billybicket.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2013

A smartphone is the perfect traveling companion: it provides directions, maps, apps, Internet connectivity, and more. Mobile Beacon offers 4G mobile broadband mobile hotspots to eligible nonprofits, charities, schools, and libraries. Luckily, I backed it up before I left on my laptop, but I lost all the photos I took on my trip.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 26, 2007

The photo above is from the poster session and shows what my screen looked like logging in remotely from in the Boston area. Alas, no photo as my computer just couldn't handle anymore stress at that moment. So, here we are in the map room - a 3D google map space. It was Peter Morville !

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NTEN

OCTOBER 13, 2010

"One person can take a photo. Patrick Meier is a director of crisis mapping at Ushahidi, which is a platform that unifies data gathered from multiple sources (SMS, e-mail, web) and distributes it onto a visual map or timeline. One person can post a message. and it changes all our understanding of a situation immediately."

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 23, 2015

But what if an app could be used to help nonprofits, public libraries, and other community groups organize and solve pressing problems? Refuge Restrooms is a web application and a mobile app (Android and iOS) that crowdsources and maps locations of gender-neutral and trans-safe bathrooms.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. GlobalTweets is a website which plots recent tweets from all over the world on a map by using their geographical information. CrowdVoice :: crowdvoice.org.

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Qgiv

MARCH 26, 2024

Whether you’re just starting on your fundraising journey or a seasoned fundraising professional, these free resources will help you fill up your team’s digital library! Check out Bloomerang’s resource library for different guides and templates. Take advantage of Qgiv’s resource library for free fundraising eBooks and templates.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2011

Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. It originally appeared on the TechSoup Canada Blog.

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DNL OmniMedia

AUGUST 25, 2021

Map out the basic arc of your story. Before you get lost in the details of your nonprofit’s story, map out its basic arc. So for example, let’s say you’re mapping the arc for a story featuring a volunteer. In your arc, you mapped out the general flow of your nonprofit’s story. Create a content library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 15, 2009

Photo by Terry Bain in Flickr I've been hearing a lot lately from folks who work in nonprofits asking for examples of "social media or social networking policies." And while they did not map it out in the military precision of the AirForce Blog Response Assessment , it worked for them. There are examples (see below).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

A blog with the comments feature enabled allows or sharing photos in flickrs allows Extension program participants to discuss plans and programs. Technorati tracks these links, and thus the relative relevance of blogs, photos, videos etc. Photo Sharing around an organization's programs/mission - Global and National Youth Day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2007

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. Whether I'm raising money for Cambodia or Creative Commons , I try to include them in some way.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 29, 2021

However, maintaining a library of useful resources can engage your current supporter base and provide new donors and members with a backlog of content to enjoy as they learn about your nonprofit. As you build your website, engage visitors by including interactive media such as: Photo carousels. Classes, webinars, and presentations.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

It may be helpful to use some kind of map on a mobile app to help guide participants and allow them to reach out for help if needed while providing their exact position. Photo Contest Photo costs are incredibly diverse. Charge for tickets and offer prom-themed activities like photo booths, limo rides, etc.

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Museum 2.0

APRIL 18, 2008

Flickr's Commons project - Flickr is offering up its powerful community tools for museum photo collections. Institutions like the Library of Congress and the Powerhouse Museum are getting thousands of quality tags and comments on previously hidden away images. Want to plot all the Wal-Marts on a map over time ?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

TweepsMap is a free tool that provides a visual, interactive map of your Twitter followers by country, state or city by simply logging in with your Twitter ID. Tripline is a clever way to visually plot check-ins on a map that can be shared with others. PowerPoint Maps Online :: powerpointmapsonline.com. Quoto :: quoto.com.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

This is part two of TechSoup staff recommendations for mobile apps beyond the usual suspects : Facebook, Google Maps, Twitter, YouTube, Gmail, Pandora, iTunes, and Google Play. Camera ZOOM FX - photo enhancement app. Photoshop Express - for photo editing on my phone. has a great weather map. Find part one here.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. Animoto enables users to turn their photos, video clips, and music into videos that can be uploaded to YouTube and shared on the Social Web.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 11, 2023

You can use the answers to these questions to map out this year’s giving season campaign. Photos and videos will get people more excited than text-only posts. Building a custom library of original photos and videos that you can use throughout your campaign (and beyond) is a great idea.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

99 app allows you to easily create panoramic photos on your smartphone. This is a must-buy app if your nonprofit regularly tells your story through mobile photo-sharing. FotoFlexer is a free Web-based photo-editing tool that allows you to cut, crop, resize, and embed text and logos onto your photos. It is a must download!

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