Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. Based upon the survey results of 6,057 donors worldwide, the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report summarizes donor data across six continents about how online and mobile technology effects giving. 10: World Lion Day — #WorldLionDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report. Based upon the survey results of 4,084 donors worldwide, the 2017 Global Trends in Giving Report explores the impact of gender, generation, and ideology upon giving and volunteerism. 8: International Cat Day — #CatDay. September.

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Candid

JUNE 8, 2023

Lead with generative AI literacy : Increase your organization’s, including senior leadership’s AI literacy. Responsible use also requires people to be in charge of the bots at all times. People in your organization do not need to know how to code, but they do need to understand what a chatbot is and isn’t capable of doing.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

In Tableau’s Building Data Literacy Guide , 80% of employees report they’d stay in their job if they were trained in technology. Prioritizing data literacy will empower your staff as innovators, helping staff to enact lasting change at your association. . Routine training is key to better skilled and more productive employees.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

For example, an output metric for a literacy program might be the number of books read by program participants. For example, a quality metric for a literacy program might be the number and length of activities. . Doing so will help you track progress, quickly respond to changes, and identify trends over time. Assessments.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

Generative AI is more than a trend, it’s a pathway to redesign your workflows with a human-centric approach, freeing staff to take on greater challenges. We’ll discuss the importance of understanding when to use AI and how to get comfortable testing AI in various scenarios.

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sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2023

Funders providing these types of gifts have a responsibility to trust their grantees to do what’s best for the organization while also supporting them with financial literacy. Interestingly, recommended solutions point to increasing financial literacy. So, how can funders assist here?

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sgEngage

AUGUST 24, 2023

Nonprofits have jumped on this trend, harnessing the power of activity trackers to create innovative fundraising events that go beyond the traditional marathon or walkathon. Think Participants track the number of pages they’ve read or books they’ve completed on a leaderboard to support literacy and education.

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Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

We also found nearly 20% of respondents aged 45-64 did not have checking accounts, revealing that our older clients needed more financial literacy programming to avoid slipping into poverty. We found striking data points , such as that only 54.5%

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Forum One

JUNE 8, 2022

Nation’s Report Card, National Assessment of Educational Progress Long Term Trends. Since then, Forum One has completed multiple reports each year under the NAEP program, including the most recent 2019 Nation’s Report Cards for Mathematics, Reading, and Science, and the 2018 Technology and Engineering Literacy, Civics, Geography, and U.S.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 14, 2021

Digital product acceleration is trending across businesses worldwide. . What new things might make sense given what you’ve learned and are continuing to see as trends? . This will affect your bottom line ability to deliver on your mission. How can you put a plan in place—within the next month—to improve and reap the rewards?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 17, 2012

Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. Kris Moore, Karen Walker, and David Murphey of Child Trends , expresses this well in this chapter from Leap of Reason – Performance Management: The Neglected Step in Becoming an Evidence-Based Program.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 18, 2021

This trend first emerged in 2015, starting with general fundraisers and later, Facebook Birthday Fundraisers. Then, we’ll wrap up with three tips to help your organization make the most of the trends. So, what can your organization do to make the most of these trends? For 2021 and beyond, we’re now seeing the focus shift.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2013

The broadband company, CenturyLink , is also building a gigabit fiber network in Omaha, so this is definitely a growing trend. Digital Divide libraries digital inclusion digital literacy tspubliclibraries' Google plans to roll it out in Austin, Texas, and Provo, Utah as well. The Community Driven Fund. Image: City of Kansas City.

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Top Nonprofits

MAY 6, 2021

I like to look at trends over time, and there’s a lot of social problems out there that are either slowly improving, which is nice, but frustrating because some of these problems are serious and bad and we’re only making small improvements. Let me talk more about why we need to innovate. How can we unstick these things?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2012

Harkin’s work, especially his efforts to guarantee that every child has the opportunity to pursue quality education, infuses everything we at Benetech do through our Literacy Program to transform the lives and outcomes of individuals with disabilities.

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Care2

DECEMBER 16, 2010

Please donate today to raise literacy of deaf children! link] #nonprofit #literacy #deaf. What benefit do they experience by spending their valuable time to visit wherever the link takes them? Tweet : It's almost December, month of giving! Nonprofit is @CuedSpeech.

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NTEN

JULY 24, 2012

Let’s assume you plan to start an educational program to help children with literacy. Found other effective strategies for keeping up with technology trends on a tight budget? When you prepare your budget, include technology-related expenses that you will incur to carry out the project. If you stop there, you’re missing an opportunity.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The purpose of the Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium is to highlight current best practices, lessons learned from the field, and trends in effective nonprofit and philanthropic board leadership, as well as board recruitment and retention. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference. The Reading, Literacy and Learning Conference.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 28, 2014

As always, I'll also cover other mobile news and trends. The report examined how mobile devices are making an impact on literacy in developing countries. Happy Earth Month! To celebrate, I've rounded up some of the latest news in green mobile technology news. Let's dig in! iFixit and Fairphone. A Better Way to Go Wireless.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

So one strategy (among many) related to sharing your video on Twitter is by jumping on already existing and trending hashtags. For example #motivationmonday trends every Monday, so something like this could work: “Who would have thought making a charity #video using a #smartphone was so easy #motivationmonday!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

As many of you know who read this blog, I am an early adopter of social media and set up my listening post 5 years ago to scan for people, trends, and ideas related to social media and nonprofits. Last month I wrote a guest post for Brian Solis titled " Listening Literacy for Nonprofits " which outlines some of the basic how-tos.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2011

Jarche defines networked learning as “an individual, disciplined process by which we make sense of information, observations and ideas.&# He further suggests that networked learning is the solution (in part) to information overload (not the cause!).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 18, 2010

My most recent visit to Nigeria confirmed this trend. The MacArthur Foundation provided key support for the project by not only financing our work, but also funding computer literacy training for NHRC staff. We were thrilled to work with the NHRC as a new Martus partner.

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Association Analytics

MARCH 16, 2023

Also, take a look at what other associations are doing, what others within your community are focusing on, or even what industry partners are seeing as trends. Get specific so you can fill in the details with small, achievable steps. Don’t strive for perfection.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

Listening Literacy View more presentations from kanter. Listening Literacy Skills Whether your nonprofit is using listening tools that are free or a professional tool to take a deeper dive, after you figure out who will do the listening and how to make it actionable , it's time to address the nitty gritty of what and how. .

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Candid

JANUARY 13, 2023

When communicating about literacy, we should always strive to avoid the term “illiterate.” More often than not, people who are described as “illiterate” likely have a low level of literacy. This is because literacy is not a binary descriptor, as it is often made to seem. Illiterate.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 15, 2011

The study reveals that current leaders in the local nonprofit sector believe the skills most needed in the nonprofit workforce are financial literacy, communication (verbal and writing skills), knowledge of laws pertaining to the nonprofit sector, information technology, volunteer management, and donor cultivation.

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Tech Soup

JULY 20, 2011

Trends in mobile phones , social media , cloud computing , open data , e-government and e-governance , new applications, and open and developing Internet standards have increased the importance of ICT to multiple actors, which include CSOs. International Economic and Policy Stakeholders Recognize the Internet’s Increasing Role.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 16, 2015

However, another trend that is emerging is that we'll be discovering the limitations of social media in fundraising. This has been a steady upward trend since 2008. The NPR story on mobile recruiting is a good place to find out about this new trend. This is an international trend. This trend is likely to continue."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 16, 2008

How are technologies and social trends impacting your supporters? Social Listening Literacy Skills. What are they saying about your organization? What do they think about your issue area? What do they like or dislike about your program or service? How are their preferences changing? How will you share the information? How many feeds?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2008

How are technologies and social trends impacting your supporters? Social Listening Literacy Skills. What are they saying about your organization? What do they think about your issue area? What do they like or dislike about your program or service? How are their preferences changing? How will you share the information? How many feeds?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2010

Non-profits like Room to Read are benefiting from the program by promoting International Literacy Day in partnership with Twitter. Nonprofit Marketing Trends with Roger Craver & Steve MacLaughlin. In our brief time together Claire mentioned one of the core values at Twitter – “Being a force for good”. Want to be featured?

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2012

In addition to journalism training, the women attend literacy and computer skills classes and are ultimately employed as by GPI where their experience and relationships enable them to report from the perspective of community members on the social injustice and other issues that impact them.

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sgEngage

MARCH 4, 2024

Universities across the globe face challenges with successful digital transformation and what it means for their fundraising and alumni data, legacy systems, data literacy, and access to skills.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2009

I've been thinking about how to best incorporate the back channel or in this case Twitter. Two recent blogs, " How To Present While People Are Twittering " and " Trends in Leadership Conferences " are the most recent blog posts packed with advice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2009

As the chief listener for the organization, Wendy honed her listening literacy skills using free tools like google alerts, technorati, RSS reader, and delicious. I do a " by the numbers " summary, I look patterns and trends in the comments or visuals, and look at what other nonprofits are doing in the space. Conclusion.

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