Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 14, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. La Conner Regional Library was one of our test sites. It is a small, rural library that serves 5,000 people in the Skagit Valley in northern Washington State. She became the library tech person by default.

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Candid

JANUARY 2, 2024

This vast library contains more than 34,000 freely available philanthropic resources authored by organizations in our sector—including reports, case studies, surveys, toolkits, and more. This case study illustrates the outcomes they achieved by directly engaging community members in their grant funding decision-making process.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 21, 2013

As smartphones and tablets grow in popularity, mobile optimization is something libraries and nonprofits should pay close attention to in the coming year. Why should mobile be part of libraries and nonprofits' game plan? Multiple studies have found that more people are accessing the web from a mobile device. Why Mobile?

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EveryAction

JUNE 21, 2023

For example, if you know which supporters interacted with your issue awareness campaign and learned about your work, you might then ask those specific supporters to contact their local library boards and express support for the drag story time bill currently in committee. GLAAD publishes studies on LGBTQ+ issues in media.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

Back in September, we posted a summary of App It Up's nonprofit and library apps survey. represent the full range of nonprofit and library app experiences. represent the full range of nonprofit and library app experiences. Nonprofits and libraries are interested in building their own apps, though they.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

Valerie Hill is an adjunct instructor at Texas Woman's University School of Library and Information Science and is also a librarian herself. She came to the Nonprofit Commons to share her areas of expertise in media literacy, human-computer interaction, and the impact of the digital revolution on education and libraries.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

Jenifer R Daniels, Communications & Marketing Specialist, Charlotte Mecklenburg Library. Crisis communications is often studied by public relations practitioners but seldom is it used. The Library system was now charged with informing our patrons [and the taxpaying public] how and why this was happening. .

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EveryAction

DECEMBER 19, 2016

With just a couple of weeks left, take stock of the most useful content from our blog and nonprofit content library and get a jumpstart on making 2017 the best year for your organization yet! The 2016 Nonprofit Email Deliverability Study. No matter how you slice it, 2016 was a year to remember. Nonprofit Donor Persona Template.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 13, 2019

According to the article, AI is completing many tasks typically done manually by researchers, from identifying individual animals from photos for population studies to categorizing the many millions of camera trap photos gathered by field scientists. Source: Urban Libraries Council Working Group: Press Release ).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2019

The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. We named this library Bookshare because it was created with an army of crowdsourcing volunteers, many of them blind people themselves, who scan the books using optical character recognition.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

For example, our Bookshare online library for the blind, uses several different social enterprises to do data entry and proofreading work on textbooks. Our partners proofread the text, fixing mistakes and adding accessibility, and ship us the files back to add to our Bookshare library. We scan the books in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 13, 2013

Basically it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. We did periodic check-ins on how the MultiPoint Server system held up under use so here is a case study from one YMCA site. Microsoft's Windows MultiPoint Server. is a thin-client or shared-resource-computing.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2010

This post originally appeared on TechSoup for Libraries. Those of us working in the nonprofit and library sectors understand the profound effect of broadband and affordable access to underserved populations. Some would argue that promoting broadband should not be something with which the government should be heavily involved.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

NOVEMBER 18, 2020

Prichard has featured, interviewed, and studied over one thousand of the world’s most successful people, from sports legends to world leaders. Look at everyone you meet as a wise teacher. Be motivated, not intimidated, by another’s success. Successful people have a sense of urgency. Skip Prichard.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

Retention among the newest generation of donors One startling finding in studies on individual giving post-COVID-19 is the drop in individual giving. As a librarian, I would be remiss if I didn’t say: Never sell short all the free resources at your local public library. Did we miss a good resource?

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AccelEvents

JULY 14, 2021

The schedule is usually organized into key themes or areas of study. Hosting virtual events inevitably leads to a library of valuable and useful content. The bigger this library becomes, the more options you have for marketing future events, educating your audience, and capturing leads. . Possibility to Create a Content Library.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 15, 2020

Prichard has featured, interviewed, and studied over one thousand of the world’s most successful people, from sports legends to world leaders. Look at everyone you meet as a wise teacher. Be motivated, not intimidated, by another’s success. Successful people have a sense of urgency. Skip Prichard.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Maria was especially excited about Read2Go’s navigation features that allow her to search and download accessible e-books from our Bookshare library directly to her iPad and iPhone. She studies secular songs and theater music from the English Baroque period of the 1600’s.

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Greater Giving

AUGUST 21, 2023

Participate in your feasibility studies. If your nonprofit is gearing up to run a large-scale campaign like a capital campaign, you’ll need to start with a feasibility study. Consider hosting a fundraising training session or providing a resource library for your board members so they’re aligned on best practices.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 21, 2010

Of course, we don’t just want to talk about Haiti — we want to highlight some amazing work from around the sector, while also building a nice little library of case studies we can all learn from. Tags: case studies socialchange storytelling beth kanter netsquared nten social change social media sxswi.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 9, 2020

And most significant, it’s based on academic research and more than 100 interviews/case studies with senior management, business leaders and category experts from a wide spectrum of applicable fields who have lived through change or analyzed the phenomenon.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. Windows MultiPoint Server. is a thin client or shared resource computing. software solution in which one host computer is shared by multiple users simultaneously.

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Volunteer Hub

MARCH 26, 2021

Gateway Pet Guardians Create a Unique Points-Based Reward Program Using VolunteerHub’s Gamification Module ( Case Study ). Open Hand Atlanta Saves $649,656 Using Gamification in VolunteerHub ( Case Study ). The Lightning Couldn’t Imagine Employee Engagement without VolunteerHub ( Case Study ).

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 11, 2019

Prichard has featured, interviewed, and studied over one thousand of the world’s most successful people, from sports legends and world leaders. Look at everyone your meet as a wise teacher. Be motivated, not intimidated, by another’s success. Successful people have a sense of urgency.

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sgEngage

JULY 27, 2021

The Blackbaud Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Study also highlighted that fundraisers who did participate during 2020 raised an average of 35% more than in 2019 , most notably in registration fee free and DIY events. Aside from physical challenges, you can livestream events or create other opportunities to inspire and engage your fundraisers.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 8, 2023

The 5 key points from “Ogilvy on Advertising” Do your homework – Study the product, its competitors, and research consumers’ views before developing advertising. Learn from direct response – Study annual appeals, door knocking, and other methods that inspire immediate action. Thorough understanding leads to big ideas.

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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

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. Windows MultiPoint Server. is a thin client or shared resource computing. software solution in which one host computer is shared by multiple users simultaneously.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MAY 22, 2019

Prichard has featured, interviewed, and studied over one thousand of the world’s most successful people, from sports legends and world leaders. Look at everyone your meet as a wise teacher. Be motivated, not intimidated, by another’s success. Successful people have a sense of urgency.F Skip Prichard.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

As the sector evolves, students aren’t always sure which available resources are the most sound to support our studies. For instance, if you live in New York City, several libraries offer free access to Candid’s tools. More importantly, after paying tuition bills, we often struggle to find resources we can afford—free resources. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 9, 2013

I studied sociology, did a summer internship for the National Coalition for the Homeless , studied in Sweden for a semester (so that I could understand how their public policy worked), co-chaired Vassar''s Hunger Action chapter, and wrote a couple pieces about social-changey things for the student newspapers.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

Basically, it allows one computer to serve several people in a lab or library at very low cost and with minimum maintenance. Windows MultiPoint Server. is a thin client or shared resource computing. software solution in which one host computer is shared by multiple users simultaneously.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 29, 2014

Scott Pinkelman, digital literacy innovation specialist at the Free Library of Philadelphia , recently presented on this important topic at the Digital Shift online conference. The study concludes that education about privacy and surveillance needs to be incorporated into digital literacy education. The Drawbacks of Digital Inclusion.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

During the US Thanksgiving holiday, Tweetsgiving asked people around the world to use Twitter to share something they were grateful for and include the link to the Tweetsgiving site (where people could donate to help build a library, classroom and more for the benefiting school in Tanzania).

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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 same USDA study showed that 10% of U.S. Register for TechSoup for Libraries' upcoming free webinar on May 28. That's 3.9

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

Twelve years ago, the Fund made its first grant to Benetech, in support of the then newly launched Bookshare , our accessible online library for people with disabilities that get in the way of reading print, including visual impairments and dyslexia. This pilot paved the way for our work in the education field.

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