Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. The organization began as a project of Jane Ratliff, inspired by her own 86-year-old mother’s quick and easy grasp of using an iPad purchased by Ratliff and her brother. Get Your Story Up On the Local Impact Map.

Georgia 36

Georgia Map Local Impact 36

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Now that TechSoup’s Local Impact Map has officially launched , let's discover one of great new organizations featured there. We'd also like to introduce Bea Dominguez, who is writing about the nonprofits highlighted on the map. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity.

Brazil 60

Brazil Map Local San Francisco 60

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

Cine Institute , an organization that provides Haitian youth with film education, is located a block from an orphanage built by Luke Montgomery, co-founder of WeCanBuildanOrphanage.com , an interactive charity building a home, clinic and school for AIDS orphans in Haiti. An Orphanage Destroyed, Children Still Alive. Crisis Camps.

Haiti 96

Haiti Map Volunteer Tech 96

Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what lots of nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured-IT to further their missions. By far, the biggest set of stories are the ones from organizations that serve youth and children. Want to share.

Map 65

Map Local Program Impact 65

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 11, 2012

Blue Hair Technology Group is featured on TechSoup’s new Local Impact Map. The organization began as a project of Jane Ratliff, inspired by her own 86-year-old mother’s quick and easy grasp of using an iPad purchased by Ratliff and her brother. Get Your Story Up On the Local Impact Map.

Georgia 57

Georgia Map Local Impact 57

DNL OmniMedia

JANUARY 15, 2021

At this point, the question isn’t whether to use tech but whether your tech stack is configured in a way that positions your organization for success. A nonprofit technology assessment is an evaluation of the digital maturity of your organization. It examines the tech you use and how effectively you use those tools.

Evaluation 52

Evaluation Tech Technology Consultant 52

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. I will explain the use of mapping, fundraising, and crowdsourcing. Indirect Content.

Disaster 206

Disaster Social Media Haiti Media 206

Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2013

NetSquared organizers bring together the nonprofit technology community for face-to-face meetings… but we all know that meetings are boring! Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Peterborough, Canada: Tech for Social Good.

Netsquared 55

Netsquared Local San Francisco Austin 55

Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2013

NetSquared Local is growing! We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! Birgit Pauli-Haack and James McDonald in Naples, Florida usher in the NFN4Good Tech Club with introductions to Google Apps and Wordpress. Event Reports.

Netsquared 50

Netsquared Local Guatemala Australia 50

Get Fully Funded

MAY 2, 2022

But with so many success stories out there, it’s clear that virtual fundraisers can be just the right thing at the right time for the right organization. Others we’ve seen other organizations implement with great success. Plan a program that is fast-paced, engaging, and focused on the lives changed by your organization’s work.

Virtual 111

Virtual Ideas Online Fundraising 111

Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

Are you… A Faith-Based Organization? The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Interested?

Organization 60

Organization Sponsor Free Map 60

Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The exact format isn’t important, as long as we are consistently gathering the nonprofit and tech communities together so that they can learn from each other. However, our organizers are currently very keen on social media surgeries. What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Cambridge, UK: Get Tech World Cafe.

Netsquared 47

Netsquared Local France Portland 47

Tech Soup

JULY 15, 2013

Being a nonprofit techie can be lonely work, since our role requires that we be change agents in our organizations as we help them discover the future! Find your local #nptech tribe by joining a NetSquared Local group. Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group?

Netsquared 58

Netsquared Local Taiwan Singapore 58

Top Nonprofits

APRIL 20, 2022

By following these suggestions during your planning process, you’ll be better prepared to drive awareness and make meaningful change at a local, national, or global level: Set clear campaign goals and identify a timeline. If you’re a new organization without many resources or contacts, you may have more luck working first at the local level.

Advocacy 130

Advocacy Campaign Tips Storytelling 130

Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2019

Search Engine Optimization (SEO) increases your organization’s visibility in organic (not paid) search results, making your organization easier to find and driving people to your website. The way to get a higher ranking is to use the right keywords… not words your organization uses but words people use in searches.

St. Louis 246

St. Louis Headline Search Google 246

Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Event Reports. Wednesday, June 12.

Netsquared 40

Netsquared Local Guatemala Minneapolis 40

Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

Women Who Tech brings together talented and renowned women breaking new ground in technology who use their tech savvy skills to transform the world and inspire change. For many people who find you online, your website is the organization. Does it say what you really want it to about your organization?

Tools 100

Tools Tech Map Case Study 100

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Get answers to your tech challenges at a NetSquared meetup (see list below). Find your closest NetSquared group on our global map. Don’t have a local NetSquared Local group? What have NetSquared Local groups been up to recently? Get nonprofit tech highlights from San Francisco from their monthly newsletter.

Social Media 54

Social Media Guatemala United Kingdom Local 54

Tech Soup

JUNE 17, 2013

We are deep into June already, but NetSquared Local isn’t taking a vacation! NetSquared Local believes that the best way to build a strong, self sufficient community of #nptech practitioners is for us to go outside and get face-to-face. We challenge you to join a NetSquared Local group or start your own ! Event Reports.

Netsquared 50

Netsquared Local Guatemala Chicago 50

Classy

JULY 14, 2021

As part of our debrief of the event, we wanted to share some insights from the Classy staff who organized it. As you organize your nonprofit virtual fundraising event , you’ll also want to ask yourself questions during planning, execution, and follow-up on whether your schedule is respectful of your participants’ time.

Virtual 105

Virtual Professional Marketing Fundraising 105

Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

That's why we do an annual survey of our members — because our local volunteers are always striving to figure out how they can help your nonprofit use technology to do more good. To learn how I can apply technology to my cause or organization. Saint Paul, Minnesota: State Legislative Preview for Nonprofit Organizations.

Benin 37

Benin San Francisco United Kingdom Los Angeles 37

Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

These challenges helped provide early publicity, support, collaboration opportunities, and funding for now-famous "tech for good" organizations such as Ushahidi , FrontlineSMS , and many others. The NetSquared Challenges Foster Tech Innovation. Ushahidi's Continuing Tech-for-Good Innovations.

Netsquared 36

Netsquared Challenge Tech Nepal 36

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc. The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya.

Kenya 194

Kenya Mobile Trend Giving 194

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 27, 2009

I’m here at NTEN’s 09NTC and am going to live blog Beth Kanter’s session on mapping your social media strategy to metrics. obama reach vs local reach. ARC - gather data every morning and share with organization via email; issues that seem sensitive or are newsworthy will contact subject matter experts to follow up.

Social Media 102

Social Media Map Strategy Media 102

Get Fully Funded

JUNE 14, 2021

Organize Your Fundraiser Details You’ll never regret being organized from the moment you hit the ground running! Assign the right people to the right tasks so they are effective in marketing and organizing the fundraiser. Create a plan for communicating with all parts of your organization. Why are you fundraising?

Product 94

Product Practice Fundraising Fun 94

Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 20, 2011

Is your organization planning an event? After years of hosting local events, NetSquared has amassed a considerable amount of experience planning, marketing, and hosting local events. We've compiled a lot of that expertise into the NetSquared Community Organizer's Handbook. Discussion: Event-Registration Services.

Netsquared 59

Netsquared Organization Houston Broadcast 59

Tech Soup

AUGUST 12, 2013

Your NetSquared organizers are gearing up for Social Media September , a month of social media for social good -themed events. We’ll be hosting social media surgeries for local nonprofits and community activists. As a warm-up our organizers in Manchester and Cambridge are holding surgeries this August. Tuesday, August 13.

Group 54

Group Netsquared United Kingdom San Francisco 54

Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 26, 2011

Be as we have seen in events around the world, the revolution will be tweeted, photographed, mapped and posted to our status. The “leaderless” organizing of the Occupy Wall Street movement has helped avoid strategic arrests or censorship but has also prompted a powerful use of social technologies. #OWS

Technology 189

Technology Learning Audio New York 189

Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

TechSoup's mission is to build a dynamic bridge that enables civil society organizations and changemakers around the world to gain effective access to the resources they need to design and implement technology solutions for a more equitable planet. Find your local #Tech4Good group. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

Netsquared 36

Netsquared Benin San Francisco United Kingdom 36

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But if you’ve been following the news, cryptocurrency is here and is making some serious impact at more and more nonprofit organizations. Is fundraising on the blockchain a good idea for your organization? Wendy has worked with senior executives of global organizations to transform their leadership, culture, and organizations.

Tanzania 52

Tanzania Cameroon Fundraising NGO 52

Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 22, 2021

But if you’ve been following the news, cryptocurrency is here and is making some serious impact at more and more nonprofit organizations. Is fundraising on the blockchain a good idea for your organization? Wendy has worked with senior executives of global organizations to transform their leadership, culture, and organizations.

Tanzania 52

Tanzania Cameroon Fundraising NGO 52

Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

It's a great opportunity to love your local business (or nonprofit) or get your staff and supporters to show their love by nominating your organization. If your "business" isn't listed in the automated directory/map, you can also manually enter your organization's information to be eligible for the contest.

Contest 43

Contest Local Business Map 43

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 23, 2011

One of the findings that stood out to us: Only 40% of respondents reported that their organization has some type of formal technology plan. And much less than that (22%) reported that their organization had ever evaluated Return on Investment (ROI) of technology projects or programs." Change the internet?

Web 114

Web Map Bookmarking Conversation 114

Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

This is the story of how a Michigan faith based organization called Hope Endeavors leads significant humanitarian work from a home office.( intuit religious organizations quickbooks Local impact map faith based organizations tsreligiousorgs tsintuit' read more ).

Africa 52

Africa Malawi Michigan Change 52

Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

In a panel hosted by TechSoup, representatives from four arts organizations discussed how they are using social media in new and innovative ways to market the arts. Maura Lafferty, an independent communications consultant working with classical musicians and performing arts organizations in San Francisco, CA. Ryan Biega is a.

Arts 57

Arts San Francisco Community San Jose 57

Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

One of TechSoup's less-known areas of work has been to support and promote the work of other tech-for-good organizations, like Ushahidi in Kenya. Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. It can display data with maps, lists, charts, timelines, and other visual reports.

Benefit 36

Benefit Public Develop Tools 36

Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2016

What happens when you combine local government, open data, and creative and tech-savvy citizens? Led by TechSoup Europe , Apps4Warsaw challenged Warsaw's tech-for-good community members to create useful technology for their neighbors using city open datasets. Apps4Warsaw. A Contest Built on City Data. spanhidden.

Data 36

Data Europe Romania Map 36