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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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This might include a summary of how the event went, including statistics, but it should also be something of additional value that your attendees weren’t expecting. If you have the foresight, try to allude to more communications as well, such as the follow-up questionnaire, the recorded content library, and attendee communities (see below).

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 25, 2023

Stories are much more powerful and motivating than merely using statistics or discussing administrative goals. Telling stories prevents your beneficiaries from being just another statistic. Nonprofit storytelling is effective for increasing funding and engagement for several reasons. It connects with the emotions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Do you quote outdated statistics about your client population? Create an office library and update it regularly using materials from books, newspaper articles, and academic journals. Is your executive leadership team not responsible for idea generation? Does your organizational culture fail to foster stability and conflict aversion?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

And there's a new free mobile app called Range that helps libraries, nonprofits, faith-based organizations, and others working with youth locate those free meal sites this summer. The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% Register for TechSoup for Libraries' upcoming free webinar on May 28.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Nonprofits and libraries can use the infographic to help local government and other community leaders understand why increasing information technology access and use should be a critical community-wide goal. The Auburn Public Library is collaborating with Best Buy to offer free technical assistance to community members. as a whole.

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AccelEvents

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

This might include a summary of how the event went, including statistics, but it should also be something of additional value that your attendees weren’t expecting. If you have the foresight, try to allude to more communications as well, such as the follow-up questionnaire, the recorded content library, and attendee communities (see below).

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 23, 2023

According to a report by the Charity Science Foundation, statistical trends have suggested that for many organizations, the ratio may be closer to 90/10. A $50,000 gift will build the library structure, and a $20,000 gift can supply all the desks our students need.”Helping

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

HRP’s statistical analysis of evidence from the Guatemalan National Police Archives, which contains some 80 million documents, has helped to establish forced disappearance as a crime in Guatemala. It is the world’s largest online accessible library, adding books at nearly four times the rate of the next most prolific U.S.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 29, 2013

Hydra Mendoza, the San Francisco Board of Education Commissioner and the Mayor's Education and Family Services Advisor, provided some sobering statistics about the opportunity gap in San Francisco and worldwide unemployment. Libraries Building Bridges. TechSoup for Libraries: Edge Benchmarks: Gadget Instruction.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

Mobile matters for nonprofits, charities, and libraries. The statistics on mobile device adoption and usage are probably familiar, but we'll quickly recap them. What does this really mean for your nonprofit, charity, or library? Start building a mobile strategy for your nonprofit or library. Mobile by the Numbers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 19, 2013

But if you haven't already started thinking about it, now is probably the time to start planning how your nonprofit or library can have a presence on mobile. To assess what your organization needs when it comes to mobile, you'll need some basic analytics and statistics. That's okay – you're probably not alone.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Use Normal Language in Your Story A long, drawn-out, flat story with a bunch of numbers and statistics and jargon is not a good way to convey your message and your needs. YouTube also has its own audio library offerd free of charge. It’s boring to the donor and doesn’t inspire them to give. A few I can recommend: Mixkit: [link].

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sgEngage

MAY 27, 2021

Figure out these details early on so you can develop a library of design collateral that is ready to be rolled out in December. Demonstrate gratitude by not only sending thank-you notes, but also showing supporters how their contributions make a difference with stories and statistics. You can get a head start on prospect research. .

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Global Giving

JANUARY 21, 2015

That was the only statistically significant result the experiment produced; waiting eight seconds slightly outperformed waiting for four, while the two different wordings were nearly a statistical toss-up. After three months and 300,000 views, the two wordings were at a statistical dead heat, so we ended the experiment.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

According to a 2010 statistic, people around the world spend three billion hours a week playing video games. Read TechSoup for Libraries' account of the Games for Change Festival to learn how libraries are using gaming to engage their communities. TechSoup Taiwan recently held a Net Tuesday event.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2012

“In 2014, mobile Internet usage will overtake desktop Internet usage,” according to recent statistics released by mobiThinking. More nonprofits and libraries are using mobile technologies to educate, activate, and engage audiences and constituencies of all shapes and sizes. There are easily more than 4.6

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 26, 2016

Check out this example of taking a dry, complex dataset, like workforce labor statistics, and turning it into a useful and interactive map. Free Data Visualization Webinar for Nonprofits and Libraries. See Your Data in a Whole New Way with Tableau. Get Tableau now. Ready to do more with your data?

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2012

According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics and Volunteering In America , more than 62 million Americans volunteered last year. Hear what other nonprofits and libraries are saying in our Community Forums. Resources to Engage and Involve Volunteers. Browse TechSoup articles about recruiting, training, and working with volunteers.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

Use statistics to vividly demonstrate the scale of the problem being addressed. There are tons of ideas that you can shop on Meta (Facebook) Ads Library. Put a human face on the cause through case studies, testimonials, and videos. This helps show the mission’s importance. What motivates instant digital engagement and gifts?

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

In library- and museum-land, the participants were 80-90% women. It took me awhile to catch on to the gender divide in museums, arts organizations, and libraries. And one was a local TEDx. The first two had something in common that the last one didn't. Any guesses? At TEDx, the mix was 50/50. We can't even rate a whole guy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 24, 2021

Stevenson spoke at Salesforce.org’s Education Summit where he shared jarring statistics, including that one in three black male babies in this country is expected to go to jail in his lifetime. When I got back to Harvard Law School, you couldn’t get me out of the law school library because now I had this purpose and mission.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 31, 2011

The tweet chat covered why data is important for nonprofits and libraries, how to identify what data to collect, and provided guidance on software resources organizations could use for collecting and analyzing data. Even text can be measured with text analysis tools that can provide statistics on keywords and gauge sentiment.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" In 2014, GigaOm found some interesting statistics on diversity in tech from company-provided data and survey results from the U.S. " Here at TechSoup, we're excited to see nonprofits and public libraries as well as our donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco, involved with TechHire.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2009

The Energy Information Administration , the US government's official source for energy statistics, reported that in 2006, electricity generation alone was responsible for 40 percent of carbon dioxide emissions in the US. Lower the amount of electricity we consume.

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Forum One

APRIL 17, 2010

Statistics are staggering: Each year nearly 4 million babies die as newborns — in the first four weeks of life. Through the resource library, the HNN team is working hard to bring together resources from over 60 organizations who focus on newborn health. Why is this network and focus on newborn health important?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The statistics are similar for mobile phones, except that phones are discarded even more quickly than PCs. create positive social change by routing used-yet-still-useful equipment out of the landfill and into the hands of nonprofits, libraries, and low-income families at low cost.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 30, 2011

It supplies computers to disabled people of all ages through its technology lending library and it also supplies for special-needs classrooms. These are now available to eligible nonprofits and libraries through TechSoup's donation program. Disabled World - International facts and statistics on disabilities and disability Issues.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2009

Eligible nonprofits and libraries can request a special NOZA discount through the end of this week. According to the annual GivingUSA Foundation statistics (PDF) charitable giving in the U.S. Where do major gifts come from? Major gifts come from three primary sources: (1) Corporations (2) Foundations (3) Individuals.

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Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

It is looking for people in nonprofits and libraries that have servers and who would be willing to do a short interview with Drew Bennett of NRDC sometime in May to tell your story. This is a guest blog post by Drew Bennett of Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC).

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Tech Soup

MAY 5, 2009

Statistics compiled by the Telework Coalition show that more than 44 million Americans are commuting less by working at home at least one day per week, and it is the same in most countries with a growing number of "knowledge workers. They also do free telecommunications audit for US nonprofits and libraries.

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NTEN

JANUARY 22, 2009

Policy-oriented organizations have long produced dizzying amounts of statistical content. Users are more likely to download a full report after seeing a compelling stat or chart, than to wade through a long report in hopes of finding a useful statistical nugget. Kurt Voelker, Forum One Communications. Don't let your data fall victim!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Follow the lead of organizations like the Austin Public Library who have a sign-up form for those interested in participating. I especially love how the library messages the program as one about the volunteers, not the organization. How about interested parties already following you on social media or visiting your website?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 6, 2018

So I set out a task to understand the donation page, and with a library of 349 experiments all measuring for statistical significance (i.e. After all, I’ve discovered that similar “acts of convenience” (i.e. 95% confidence for any kind of difference in performance) I was bound to figure it out.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 30, 2009

Social Media for Non Profits Primal Media’s sideshow is loaded with information on trends, recent statistics, and examples of social media used by nonprofits. Can you add to this list of resources? Does your nonprofit have a social media how-to or a case study presentation to share? Please tell us about it and leave a link in the comments.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 11, 2023

However, statistics show that direct mail works. They don’t need to know all your statistics – in fact using more than one well-chosen stat can make people stop reading, which means they probably won’t give. Many unsuccessful fundraising letters focus on statistics or give sweeping overviews of what the organization has done.

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Nonprofits Source

MARCH 21, 2018

Social Media Marketing Statistics. SOCIAL MEDIA MARKETING STATISTICS. The statistics are more compelling when you dig into them by platform. Facebook Statistics For Nonprofits. Twitter Statistics For Nonprofits. YouTube Statistics For Nonprofits. Instagram Statistics For Nonprofits.

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