sgEngage

APRIL 17, 2024

As a society, we have become obsessed with the “Technology” half the tools and devices that infiltrate our lives—and with producing, updating, and controlling these devices. It means that you are open to the importance of the role data plays in your organization. We sometimes forget that IT stands for Information Technology.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. Animoto isn’t a new tool, but it is still in my top five. Historypin.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. Include your teams in strategy sessions and provide them with the tech tools they need to keep pace. They can alert membership to emerging issues.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

With so many tools out there to choose from, your opportunities for customizing your organization’s tech stack are virtually limitless, especially when it comes to fundraising apps. Keep an eye on your campaign progress as soon as you open the app with the dashboard. Fundraising is more tech-powered than ever before.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Tools and Apps to Energize Your Base. You need two key ingredients – people and tools to connect and engage with them. From “texting&# to location based apps like FourSquare this panel will give you the nuts and bolts of the latest apps and tools organizations can use to effectively moblize and energize people online.

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Candid

APRIL 29, 2021

We’re pleased to announce today’s launch of a new, free course for grantmakers, “Funding Smarter: Using Candid Tools to Inform and Share Your Foundation’s Work.” To give you a taste of the course, we’ve included a clip below on how to use Foundation Maps to identify potential grantees. streamline your due-diligence practices.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 10, 2024

The Creative Power of Datamaking Focusing on the action of datamaking opens a world of possibilities for developing knowledge. Determine the best type of question, like multiple choice, Likert scale, open or closed ended, short text, or long text. We use these visuals to point to existing data sets and who controls access to the data.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 3, 2010

Just as our tools get more interesting and dynamic for global collaboration and impact, so do they for locally-focused work, campaigns, and communities. The opportunities for organizations to leverage hyper local tools include: Catalyze your community – be the catalyst behind community growth and collaboration. Meetup Everywhere.

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NTEN

AUGUST 15, 2012

Websites are loaded with eye candy these days — from slick user interfaces to interactive maps to cool photo slideshows — all achieved without Flash, just HTML, CSS and Javascript. And these technologies are free, open and can be utilized in essentially every current web-browsing device.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 14, 2009

We provide a supportive network for the vibrant and thriving community of women in technology professions by giving women an open platform to share their talents, experiences, and insights. Here’s a run through of the Tools Galore session. See the slide deck below and notes from the panelists: WomenWhoTech: Tools Galore.

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.orgSource

MAY 15, 2023

The days when board members holed up in a conference room and mapped the organization’s future based on anecdotal evidence, political expediency, and personal experience should be over. Include your teams in strategy sessions and provide them with the tech tools they need to keep pace. Effective strategy begins with an integrated plan.

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Whole Whale

OCTOBER 26, 2023

In this article, I’ll show you how to use AI and Canva’s bulk create tool to simplify and accelerate your short video production. You can do this manually, but AI tools make it much faster. Open the template and click on Bulk Create. Upload the AI-generated spreadsheet.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 26, 2008

These span the range from tools I use every day or every week, to tools use more occasionally, but depend on. They also span the range of proprietary, SaaS, and Open Source. Open Source Tools. This is an awesome cross-platform mind mapping tool. SaaS Tools. WordPress. I like it more and more.

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fusionSpan

MARCH 30, 2022

Availability of Maps. The map is yet another key aspect of Tableau. Tableau comes with a lot of pre-installed map data, including cities, postal codes, administrative borders, and so on. As a result, Tableau’s maps are extremely comprehensive and insightful. The Ask Data Tool.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

Panel at Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit Last month, at the Global Nonprofit Leaders Summit in Seattle hosted by Microsoft, I moderated a roundtable, “Empower Employees with AI Productivity Tools,” with leaders from three nonprofits: Alex Duncan,, British Heart Foundation; Jon Townsend, National Trust; and Joel Ramjohn, Agape Source.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2019

WordPress powers 34% of all sites on the web and is one of the most popular digital marketing tools used by organizations in the world. It is the ideal content management system for nonprofits because of how it’s open source and anyone can contribute to making it better. Events, Fundraising and Donations.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Check out these seven tips to enhance your event registration page: Customize your event page Use a fundraising thermometer Promote your event sponsors Include videos Add social sharing buttons Provide seating options Embed maps to the event 1. However, you can help fix this issue by embedding a map onto your event registration form.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2017

Ushahidi has been developing open-source crisis mapping software for over eight years now. And nonprofits and lots of others working to benefit the public can use its tools to be able to do their work better. Ushahidi's tools help others act for transparency, justice, crisis response, and human rights.

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Tech Soup

MAY 15, 2013

Some big news this week as President Obama further commits to opening up government data by signing an Executive Order. Open Government Data. Landmark Steps to Liberate Open Data President Obama has signed an Executive Order to make government data more accessible to the public and entrepreneurs. Nonprofit Data. Data Privacy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2010

View California Coast Trip in a larger map This holiday rather than working, we decided to take a brief vacation and travel down the beautiful California coast. Only problem was by Christmas night we realized that we hadn't even opened.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 17, 2021

Together they are a powerful set of tools for nonprofits, especially with integrations to automatically sync data between them. Unlike web-to-lead tools, these provide the flexibility of submitting data not just to Leads but to other standard or custom objects in Salesforce. Sample Apps or Tools: Ninja Forms with Salesforce extension.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2007

The Map does not aim to index all kinds of web filtering, but rather to provide an overview of online censorship efforts related to the social web and major web 2.0 tools and websites. tools and websites. The Access Denied Map will try to contextualize and situate that battle by focusing on two areas: 1. websites (e.g.

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sgEngage

JANUARY 17, 2024

Here are a few features you might consider when looking at your long-term grant management goals: Ability to work with other systems : Look for open APIs to help your GMS pass information to other systems, such as your fundraising or document management systems. Check out our guide for a smooth GMS implementation.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools.

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Care2

AUGUST 24, 2011

As we all continue exploring the vast horizons of the internet and the social tools it offers, be sure to check out the applications that help you continue telling stories with the power of video, maps and more. Animoto Animoto isn't a new tool, but it is still in my top five.

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Story Tools Help Online 78

Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

"The mobile tools to solve social problems are already out there." session, Open Source Mobile Apps for Social Change. In his session, he shared these tips, strategies, and tools for nonprofits looking to use mobile for social good. Why Open Source? Open source is not just about software distribution.

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Forum One

MARCH 15, 2010

It was a great discussion that brought together a mix of people from different disciplines interested in open data and transparency's capacity to make aid more effective. Develop a focused pilot that maps projects and activities at a sub-national level, for one country, using open standards.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

This week, Benetech’s DIAGRAM Center has announced the release of an open source web application for creating and editing crowdsourced image descriptions in books used by students with print disabilities. Benetech has long been a pioneer in providing innovative services to people with print disabilities.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JANUARY 27, 2024

In the book, Jacobs defines the mindset that drives his remarkable success in corporate America – and distills a lifetime of business brilliance into a tactical road map. Give the speaker your full attention and keep an open, receptive mind. And he shares his techniques for: Turning a healthy fear of failure to your advantage.

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Candid

JUNE 2, 2021

LaTosha Brown, co-founder of Black Voters Matter Fund, underscored a major theme during the opening keynote that carried through the rest of the conference: together. This became even more clear to us in 2020 when working on our COVID-19 and racial equity funding maps. There is still so much we all need to learn.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Rob Acker, CEO of Salesforce.org, opening our keynote session. The organization also shared how they’re using technology to deliver on their 2030 Strategic Vision, which maps out a plan for rescuing millions, protecting half a billion, and bringing justice for those in poverty. Our call for proposals is now open. Traci DePuy.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 14, 2022

But it’s really not hard, thanks to some great tools available on the market and the tips I’m about to give you. Start With the Basics: Platform, Domain Name, and Site Map The first thing you need to do in building your non-profit website is choose a platform. Next, you need a site map. Keep it simple. People still send checks!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2011

We covered how to do Community Mapping (identifying the segments and goals of the community), Content Mapping (creating a plan for which content goes where, and why), and Data Tracking (pulling all the numbers together). Community Mapping. >> Step 3: Identify the tools. Content Mapping. >>

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools.

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Tools Map Disaster Oregon 59

Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 11, 2010

Oxfam in Haiti – Google Maps – This is a great example of how you can use a tool like Google Maps to tell a story and provide easy access to information – great job Oxfam! "Oxfam "Oxfam is responding to the biggest earthquake for 200 years in Haiti.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 6, 2009

The above map that Chad explains gets at it. They use Internet tools and regional trainings to support learning across the network. Surfrider's CEO , Jim Moriarty, commented that it was a function of their organization's culture - that everyone is focused on the mission and principles and they have a DIY culture.

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3rd Sector Labs

APRIL 28, 2014

D2: Do I use the CRM vendor’s import tools? But the import tool needs to be well-tested. Unfortunately, based on our experience, the quality of these tools varies. The less work that you can complete through the import tool, the more work you will have to address alternatively. You stop and review your map again.

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