Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 9, 2021

In the age of monetizing social media through algorithms and paid advertising revenue models, getting two clicks per 100 followers is generous. In fact, according to the Global NGO Technology Report , 27% of nonprofits worldwide have an official policy to allow staff to work on their LinkedIn Profiles during work hours.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This is happening right now and over the next decade, I think Brazilian nonprofits will have more options at more accessible prices powered by the SaaS model. 42% are most inspired to give by social media, email (18%), and an NGO’s website (18%). 9% have donated directly to an organization using Facebook Fundraising Tools.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

What are the different models? How to support NGO leaders who want to work with a network mindset but run into obstacles, like their board? On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 5th, here’s a few of the topics we’ll be discussing: Taking Risks with Networks. How and when to catalyze networks? When don’t networks work?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 11, 2018

Now in its third year, the 2018 Global NGO Technology Report is based upon the survey results of 5,352 NGOs from 164 countries. The Global NGO Technology Report is a sister report to the Global Trends in Giving Report. The majority of NGO technology research is based on data from NGOs located in developed countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO. Network assessment. View more presentations from Beth Kanter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

Since networked learning happens in the context of an ecosystem, perhaps Gary Hayes Transmedia Storytelling model or Lini Srivastava’s Transmedia Activism model. . Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Agency for International Development and for an international NGO. We’re open to ideas across the technical spectrum from those that might be more advanced to those that apply existing working AI models to social impact use cases. My early career was in international development, working for the U.S.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

To that end we are investing some of our funding into the development of a deep business model analysis project, the results of which should be available in a couple months. NGO globalgiving nonprofit Foundation Center bridge grantmaking international nonprofits philanthropy Guidestar' A New Phase of the Project. Special Thanks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

I’m the lead for Zoetica where my role is to deliver training, advise on the curriculum and coaching methods, model transparency, and serve as meta network weaver. The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

One of the common characteristics of cloud-based services is the pay-by-month or pay-by-year model. According to our 2012 NGO Global Cloud Survey , collaboration is already one of the top ten current uses for cloud-based software among charities. I used it to project manage our recent global NGO cloud survey. Last year Huddle.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

Social networks are for-profits enterprises and their revenue models are almost entirely based on advertising revenue. 003% of referral traffic to Nonprofit Tech for Good comes from Instagram which means very, very few (if any) of our Instagram followers have registered for a free webinar or downloaded our Global NGO Online Technology Report.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). They all meet the definition of TI as a primary purpose of the agency or NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Every non-profit works with “systems” – internal ones relating to how work gets done, issue systems relating to the topic that the NGO is working to address, and mental model systems about strategy. The mental model mapping can uncover conflict, make it discussable, and enhance effectiveness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 17, 2011

Modeling the Network Mindset. I think that TechSoup Global’s three leaders – Daniel Ben-Horin, Rebecca Massisak, and Marnie Webb – have been modeling this practice. Alan Gunn holds Noel Dickover's number for a discussion about NGO adoption of social media barriers.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 10, 2012

With a mission to serve every NGO on the planet, we are constantly working on faster, more flexible, and relevant ways to do what we do in every corner of the world. It is one of several projects at TSG that aims to retool our models to achieve maximum impact. I look forward to taking this journey with you!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 2, 2012

After I finished teaching an intensive Networked NGO workshop for Packard family planning grantees in Delhi, I headed to Bangalore to visit my friend and colleague, Rufina Fernandes where I conducted a social media workshop for staff and teachers and got see a start up education company and its CSR program, close up. www.enteef.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

TechSoup Microsoft NGO Connection Day. He works for an NGO in Australia and we met on Twitter (via Eddie Harran ) prior to his visit to America to attend the Wisdom 2.0 I start with a crawl-walk-run-walk framework for staffing models for nonprofits. View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Connecting With Colleagues.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. The SANGOTeCH online technology donation and discount portal is a partnership between SANGONeT/NGO Pulse and TechSoup. Children and Education. About SANGONet.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 1, 2016

2016 NGO Online Technology Report. Based upon the survey results of 2,780 NGOs worldwide, the 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report is unprecedented and provides valuable insight into the global NGO sector and its use of online technology. The State of Nonprofit Cloud.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 11, 2017

Now in is its third year of production, the Global NGO Technology Report is groundbreaking in that it is the only research project dedicated to studying how charitable organizations worldwide use web and email communications, online and mobile fundraising tools, and social and mobile media to engage and inspire their donors and supporters.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. Group Photo with Certificates.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference. Reconciling privacy concerns with your business model. What does anonymity look like in a video-mediated world? Does your app use facial recognition?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

WORTH Trust uses a two-pronged model that addresses challenges faced by people with different abilities at various levels. With this unique cross-subsidy model, WORTH aims to mainstream children like Arjun by providing them with training and employment.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Victoria, BC: NGO Summer Social. New York, NY: Content Modeling: Where Strategy, Design, and Tech Converge. Portland, OR: Community-Building Classifieds with Switchboard. Thursday, July 10, 2014. Mukono, Uganda: 2nd Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School & Communit­y. Monday, July 14, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

In order to regain exposure in the crowded study abroad marketplace, AFS and organizations in a similar position will increasingly rely on the support of platforms that believe in a greater mission and not just a one-size-fits-all pricing model for advertising. Google Grants are helping AFS?—?and and thousands of organizations like it?—?reclaim

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

We could have thought through open nodes — the places where other services could be delivered, we could have done more to define a sort of maturity model for partnership and we could have been quicker to recognize the necessary evolution of our systems and structures. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 15, 2011

More importantly, how can you bring them in beyond being passive listeners or re-tweeters but engage in the discussion? Finally, having just returned from the Middle East working with social media/NGO trainers , how can you create a global back channel so that language isn’t a barrier to learning? My takeaways: 1.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

Last week, I participated in three very intense days of project, curriculum, and online community planning for a new project, E-Mediat , a multi-stakeholder capacity building project for NGOS and Social Media in the Middle East. My friends from SMEX.org, Jessica Dherre and Mohamad Najem shared this post about their visit to SF.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Veronika never really thought that she would wind up at an NGO; she had a vision of working in a skyscraper for a Fortune 500 company. She enjoyed passing on her business knowledge, acting as a role model, and building professional relationships along the way.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

Veronika never really thought that she would wind up at an NGO; she had a vision of working in a skyscraper for a Fortune 500 company. She enjoyed passing on her business knowledge, acting as a role model, and building professional relationships along the way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 23, 2013

Understanding and mapping your network is one of the indicators in my “Crawl Walk Run Fly” maturity of practice model and looks something like this: Click to see larger image. GuideStar India - Networked NGO Workshops - Packard Grantees. Ventura County Community Foundation - March, 2013. Radio Bilingue.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

To further reach their goals, SAP is going beyond their traditional giving model to make an impact through technology — an idea that makes them a great partner with TechSoup. Instead of soliciting donations, this work is based on the idea that people can take care of themselves if given the opportunity. Tech for Good.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2007

via the Mind Blizzard Blog I learned of a new Dutch NGO island, called "Goede Doelen eiland" ( good causes island ). I'm thinking again of Steve Bridger's excellent post on the topic and the model diagram he has showing the degrees of engagement in social media. "Measuring ???engagement??? engagement???

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. This new technology has become available in time to help public schools in the U.S. This is on a personal computing level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 15, 2009

If fundraising is the only measure of what makes an NGO effective, then I worry about what the real value proposition is of organizations soliciting donations. They must ask "Have we provided enough value, and demonstrated enough proof behind our model or concept to ask people to give?".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2007

The wiki model has great potential for us: since we are always looking to share resources through our website, why not make it easier for the public to contribute great ideas and resources they know about? We'd still like to do more, though, to integrate these tools into the flow of our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I had heard of GuideStar in the US, but being face to face with the founder, and understanding the credibility of information in a self-reported model, based on transparency and public accountability, was like the discovery of a solution much needed in India. We asked NGO leaders to join a dedicated broadcast list.

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