Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 13, 2015

I just finished reading the National Education Technology Plan , and I can recommend it to anyone interested in the future of technology in American education. It is full of examples of interesting ed tech from for-profits and nonprofits, as well as local, state and federal government agencies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

In the frenzy of exciting discounts and hot new product trends, it can be a challenge for nonprofits with online shops to compete with big brands and e-commerce giants that have significantly larger marketing and advertising budgets. This holiday season, o ne-quarter of consumers plan to shop specifically at a local or small business. .

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Candid

FEBRUARY 22, 2024

area have been discussing a disconcerting trend: Black women and Black gender-expansive nonprofit leaders are leaving their positions, some exiting the nonprofit sector altogether. Disproportionate expectations and challenges The report highlights 10 barriers hindering local nonprofit leaders’ ability to thrive.

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Candid

AUGUST 30, 2023

I’m often invited to speak with organizations about the latest fundraising and nonprofit trends. While I am happy to share my perspective, trends are, by nature, always changing and have varying impacts depending on your nonprofit’s function. The first is to share my view on some of the latest fundraising and nonprofit trends.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The data from GivingTuesday comes from their 2019 GivingTuesday Impact Report and the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report data is based on the survey responses of 2,263 GivingTuesday 2019 donors. From the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report : 2) 9% of donors worldwide donated to a nonprofit, NGO, or charity on GivingTuesday 2019.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 23, 2020

Black tie galas and silent auctions will always be mainstays, but there are new and exciting trends in charity event ideas that can help keep donors interested. Five charity event trends to consider. Creating a VIP experience for supporters during charity-centered events has been a trend gaining traction over the past few years.

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FEBRUARY 23, 2024

This translates into the negative national narrative that college isn’t worth it. Unfortunately, it continues to rise, spreading from national news down to the local level at an alarming rate. Declining trust and polarization is affecting national organizations’ ability to partner with their chapters.

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EveryAction

MAY 11, 2023

Welcome to another installment of Thursday Thoughts, a dedicated space for our friends in nonprofit sector leadership to reflect on reports, statistics, and other trends—because when our community shares knowledge, we can all do more good.  Check out our last installment here ! Connect with her on LinkedIn !

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SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

Connecting national and chapter data can help your staff and chapters save time, stay connected, and deliver a better member experience. It can help your entire organization know your members better, uncover member trends, identify opportunities for improvement, and personalize the member experience. Share useful information.

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JUNE 5, 2023

The organization and its members work at the international, national, and local levels to realize the vision of a world in which women’s rights are recognized as human rights and every woman is able to achieve her full potential. Leaders who work on a global playing field can help you see in a new perspective. “The

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

law with the 1935 National Labor Relations Act (NLRA). Once a union is recognized or a union election is certified by the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), the union can negotiate contracts on behalf of the employees it represents (known as collective bargaining). . Unions are both local and national.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 24, 2020

A growing trend is to add large, visually prominent calls-to-action to the body of blog posts approximately halfway into the post. For example, the National Parks Conservation Association recently blogged about a rollback of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) and included a prominent CTA.

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Top Nonprofits

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

In this session, Laura MacDonald, Chair of the Giving USA Foundation and Founder of Benefactor Group, will discuss data and trends from 2020, a year in which the environment for giving was certainly uncommon. Each year, the nonprofit sector receives extensive data describing philanthropy in the United States. billion capital campaign.

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The NonProfit Times

APRIL 24, 2024

A union drive is underway at a Denver nonprofit that helps the unhoused, the latest of what appears to be a nascent but growing trend across the nonprofit sector there and in other parts of the country. The total of management and non-management employees at the nonprofit is about 800.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 21, 2019

1% via text message ( Global Trends in Giving Report ). 92% of donors say it is important that NGOs, nonprofits, and charities make a concerted effort to protect their contact and financial information from data breaches ( Global Trends in Giving Report ). Emerging Trends. The average online gift in 2018 was $96.40

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 20, 2023

You could keep slogging ahead doggedly, or you could take some advice from the president who led the United States through the Great Depression, helped create the United Nations, and brought you the first federal action to prohibit employment discrimination. In fact, we’ve noticed a trend among our leading fundraising customers.

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EveryAction

MAY 2, 2023

No matter how your nonprofit organization is making change in the world, it’s impacted by others’ decisions, whether those decisions come from local and national legislators, corporations, institutions, or others who hold power and shape the way we live our lives.

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Non Profit Quarterly

JULY 9, 2019

The Local Voices Network (LVN), developed by the nonprofit Cortico in collaboration with the MIT Media Lab , is bringing people together to share their perspectives with each other and with a small electronic “digital hearth” that records their every word. On the backend, trends are identified and made available to users of the LVN database.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

There are rage tweeters and arrogant trolls that occasionally trend to the top. Nonprofits tend to mostly tweet content about the sad state of affairs – international, national, state, and local. People who are active on Twitter tend to be plugged into current events and trending news.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 21, 2023

Do you want to give to a local, national, or international organization? Whether donating cans at your local soup kitchen or providing millions of dollars in funding for disaster relief, due diligence leads to more informed giving. This Giving Season, we’re uplifting local charities with our ‘Change begins with you ’ campaign.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Also, data from the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report reveals that 45% of online donors worldwide are enrolled in a monthly giving program. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 33% of donors worldwide give tribute gifts. A matching gift strategy could also be applied to local nonprofits on a smaller scale.

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EveryAction

JULY 11, 2016

The event's impressive keynote speaker lineup is also worth noting: the Chief Marketing Officer from the Human Rights Campaign, the one-and-only Beth Kanter, the Senior VP of Brand at the National Geographic Society, and the Chief Communications and Marketing Officer from the UN Foundation. Netroots Nation 2016. Our favorite part?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 22, 2011

National Study Reveals: Digital and Social Media Are Delivering for Arts Organizations , Guest Post by Mary Trudel and Rory MacPherson. From these questions, our national study, How Strong is Your Social Net? By the time we closed the survey in September, we were up to 1,601 respondents nationally. The question. was created.

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JUNE 8, 2022

National Museum of African American History and Culture’s Talking About Race. Since 2014, Forum One has partnered with FNS to uncover and illustrate the most compelling stories emerging from the annual Farm to School Census, which collects and analyzes data on how 18,000 school districts are using local food.

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Candid

MARCH 26, 2024

Census suggests that Asian Americans have a median household income of $108,700—significantly higher than the national median of $75,580. CASL trains Change InSight partners to collect data directly from their client bases using the nationally recognized PRAPARE screening tool. For example, aggregated data from the U.S.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 5, 2020

These figures do not mesh with the trending demographics in today’s America. The Census Bureau (2012) also projects that by 2043, the United States will be a majority-minority nation and, by 2060, the non-Hispanic white population will make up only 40 percent of the total population.

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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 Constituents participate by tracking their success in helping the planet by recycling, reducing food waste, purchasing local produce, and reusing containers.

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Candid

MARCH 21, 2023

million Turks in temporary shelters and left more than 500,000 Syrians homeless, according to the United Nations. The United Nations also issued an appeal for an additional $1 billion in aid, and the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development pledged €1.5 million in grants to local nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) in Turkey.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

Women Give 2010 is the first report to compare philanthropic giving between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample. It uses data from the Center on Philanthropy Panel Study (COPPS), the nation’s largest study that tracks giving patterns among the same households over time."

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sgEngage

JANUARY 3, 2024

According to the National Center for Educational Statistics , only thirteen percent of all community college students complete by earning a degree or credential in two years. An expanded overview of two-year diploma acquisition at three years and beyond increases traditional completion rates, but only minimally.

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NOVEMBER 30, 2023

An important part of being an effective fundraiser is staying up to date on current fundraising trends , industry best practices, and donor preferences. See if your state, local, or regional AFP branch is hosting a reception! You’ll meet up with fundraisers from your area and make valuable local connections. They’re the best!

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. National LGBTQ Task Force / Detroit, MI / $500. State/Local.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2021

million images, videos, and other files related to child sexual exploitation were reported to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children (NCMEC). . This upward trend has continued, as the CyberTipline received nearly 21.8 National Crime Agency considers it one of the emerging threats to children today. . In 2020, 65.4

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Candid

JANUARY 17, 2023

For example, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA) undertook a six-year lobbying campaign in New York to pass better protections for domestic workers. It is, thus, possible that funding went towards activities outside the geographical locales of the organizations’ headquarters. million to $35.6 Source: Foundation 1000.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

This year kicked off with the launch of the new United Nations agenda for global philanthropy, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will take us through 2030. Each year, Kivi Leroux Miller of Nonprofit Marketing Guide publishes a survey and a Nonprofit Communications Trends Report. The Backdrop. Communications.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’m pleased to see that some of the skepticism and complaints have now morphed in to more capacity builders providing tips for nonprofits to take advantage of this national day of giving. ” This generation is loosely defined as those born after 1995 and who are now 18 and under. … Read More Fundraising'

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Volunteer Hub

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

billion social media users nationwide, it is safe to say there is strong potential to engage, inform, and recruit volunteers within your local community. Do Research on Social Media Trends The nonprofit community is a tight-knit group that provides a lot of insight. It is a win-win.

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