Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Philanthropy plays a role beyond what governments could do—allowing for the testing of innovative models that are responsive to local cultural contexts—and then looks to government for scaling up successful efforts. I hope that it spurs the submission of many exciting proposals from NGOs focused on delivering secondary education programs.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

I propose a careful exploration of social enterprise strategies is a matter of relevance and survival for small nonprofits in low-income communities, as they cannot rely on their constituents for a high level of donations or otherwise support. Understand the financial resources needed to engage in a social enterprise approach.

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Whole Whale

MAY 24, 2023

As we move into the age of AI, we propose an evolution of the 2-minute rule: The AI 2-minute rule. Instead of completing the task yourself or putting it on the pile, send it to a trained model that can deliver a rough draft or quick solutions. MODEL: requires Read.ai MODEL: requires Read.ai MODEL: requires Read.ai

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Nimble AMS

APRIL 9, 2020

Here’s how to create a compelling case for an investment in new membership management technology. Your old technology might have worked in the past, but it just isn’t keeping up with your organization’s evolving processes and needs. The business case presents your proposal for change. a TCO modeled over three to five years.

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TechImpact

APRIL 21, 2014

Does it mean driving sweeping changes in a completely new business model? Propose an interesting caveat to your normal meeting routine by swapping roles, having people work in teams to accomplish a common goal. The post 10 Ways Nonprofit CEOs Get Creative appeared first on Tech Impact Blog - Leaders in Non-Profit Technology.

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Forj

JUNE 1, 2021

There are many technology consultants who know associations. DelCor has remained a leader in the association technology space for decades. In episode 4 of Managing eLearning, Tobin Conley , certified association executive, describes how DelCor aligns technology strategy to association mission and goals.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 6, 2022

Although the most popular accounting software products- like QuickBooks and SAP- handle the needs of businesses in many industries, nonprofits have a unique business model and accounting standards and require different features and functionality from accounting software. High-Level Requirements.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 14, 2022

For your website design consultant, make sure to research each candidate’s services and business model. Once you’ve created your initial list, research the following for each candidate: Price model. Develop a request for proposal. After you receive a response from each consultant, begin reviewing their proposals.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Google.Org is giving away $25 million to humanitarian projects that use Google’s machine learning technology. I’m the Head of Product Impact at Google.org, working to use emerging technology and Google’s expertise for social impact. First, can you introduce yourself to my readers?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

Richard Cooper is the development manager at Charity Technology Trust , an organization that provides IT services to charities in the United Kingdom. In this guest blog post, Richard argues that cloud computing is primarily a business decision, not a technology decision. So management are still involved in gory technology decisions.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 10, 2011

. “Innovating at the speed of communities&# is a big goal, but something organizations and civic institutions can learn a lot from as a model. Communities As A Model. What’s the community-driven model that supports innovating at the speed of communities? Who’s with me?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 5, 2010

Here are my comments on the big picture and a couple of their proposals. We have a model for this kind of change: TTYs (text telephones) and relay services though the telephone. Specific comments on the proposed Clearinghouse. Specific comments on the proposed Chairman’s Awards.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 25, 2014

Earlier this month, I presented on a panel called “ Learn, You Will ” with Cindy Leonard, John Kenyon, and Andrea Berry on the topic of designing effective nonprofit technology training at the Nonprofit Technology Conference hosted by NTEN. Even harder to incorporate “going meta.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

These fragile environments mean that those using Salesforce technologies have to take into account a whole set of additional potential threats, such as considering the theft or capture of trusted devices, or personnel may be forced to divulge login information under duress. Step One: Understanding Your Use Case’s Purpose and Threat Model.

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DNL OmniMedia

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

These stats were compiled by the team at Blackbaud, long-time stand-out providers of nonprofit technology. The solution has built-in custom predictive modeling, including Expected Value Index (EVI) and Probability to Donate Index (PDI) models that are built from scratch for your specific organization. How do we know this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 30, 2013

This year at the Nonprofit Technology Conference, I had the pleasure of designing and facilitating a session on “Content Curation for Nonprofits” with Will Coley. Will is also does a lot of work with video – so when he proposed that we incorporate video interviews as part of the session, I was thrilled.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 9, 2013

These relationships generate countless ideas for using technology for social good. Together with our partners in the nonprofit, technology, government, academic and publishing sectors, we participate in new cultural and technological movements, deriving new knowledge that we apply for social gain.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 3, 2016

Because the Marrakesh Treaty was modeled after the Chafee Amendment, as the Section 121 copyright exception is widely known in honor of the senator who proposed it in 1996, only minor changes have been recommended to align U.S. And, that American copyright exception was the inspiration for the Marrakesh Treaty!

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The Fundraising Authority

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Maybe you need to create an appeal for an email campaign, a proposal, or a new set of thank you letters and you’re at your desk just wishing that coherent sentences would magically start appearing? I have used it to help me write appeals, emails, thank you letters, and draft some 1 and 2-page proposals. Fundwriter.ai Fundwriter.ai

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Tidbits September 19, 2008 Here are a few interesting tidbits that have come my way over the course of the last few days There is a new online fundraising platform, founded by an ex-Convio person.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 20, 2016

In the last six years, Community Boost_r , ReStart Challenges , and Things Camp have used an open community challenge model. These open challenges help activists, nonprofits, journalists, techies, and community members identify, refine, build, and launch technology tools to solve pressing local and regional problems.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 8, 2014

We are proposing a new entity that would work iteratively over time to fulfill four main purposes: 1. Partner with corporate and private donor philanthropists and technology companies in order to fund and encourage NPO security projects How did the idea get started? What is Nonprofit InfoSec? What’s next for this project?

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 20, 2019

At Common Impact, we’ve identified three keys that will help you confidently structure a pro bono project, identify organizational challenges your potential partner could help solve, and propose a skills-based volunteer engagement that meets your nonprofit’s needs and supports the interest of the volunteers. Is your IT on its last leg?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. The Proposals A. Joint Recommendation Proposal (US-JR). The African Union Proposed Treaty (“AUPT”).

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Tech Soup

JUNE 13, 2014

Traverse City, MI: Discussion Panel - FCC’s Regulatory Proposals - Net Neutrality. San Francisco, CA: The EASE INITIATIVE business model and its leverage of social technologies. Busia, Kenya: Hackathon -New Technologies and young talents-kenya. Upcoming Events. Saturday, June 14, 2014. Tuesday, June 17, 2014.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 25, 2013

While working at this nonprofit, I learned about Salesforce Foundation and their philanthropic model that allowed us to receive 10 free licenses, the ball started rolling. While implementing a new technology does not automatically double your fundraising results, Salesforce was the secret sauce to this success.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 20, 2011

The software’s diagram component, results chains, conceptual models and threat ratings allowed her to carefully analyze the impact of wildfires on sedimentation and water quality in these areas. Elaina also proposed the introduction of a hotline for community members to report fire violations and a fire violation citations program.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 19, 2009

The game combines elements of the Social Media Game, local real-world issues (at SHINE we used local regeneration topics), and the idea development and pitching of the Social Innovation Camp model. David has written up an incredible rundown of the game, including the cards, the planning documents and more. What should we call it?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

With generous support for new technology developments from the MacArthur Foundation, we now have the ability to assess and prioritize needs, enhance existing features, build new functionality and develop client and server infrastructure.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals about or by folks who work with nonprofits and voting. There's even a panel proposal for Slacktivism ). Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model?

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Regardless of whether it’s new technology, a new staffing model, or even a small adjustment to a process, adoption and success can hinge on keeping a focus on the human element of the change. Change management is always an important topic at bbcon as we strive to help our customers implement successful solutions on their campus.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 7, 2012

But, many of the others were eager to think through the challenges of adapting this model to their organization, and how it might work well.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 26, 2009

Think about 5 things: what’s the problem, what technology you’ll use, design sustainability, how will people come to use it and how will you distribute it. But, are proposal based approaches good for finding people who are going to start new things? Finally, a lot of new ideas, the newness is the business model.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 26, 2008

We've posted a proposed pilot project approach to "Jump-Start the Global Development Commons Content Ecosystem" to our global development Commons wiki. The GDC uses open- and nonproprietary standards for information and technology to encourage inter-operability, cost-effectiveness, and wide adoption.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

I did a roundup of nonprofit panel proposals a few weeks back and wanted to give you an updated list. At the end of that panel, we all hoped there would be a larger nonprofit presence on the agenda for this 2009. And yes, indeed, in 2009 there were many more panel proposals. Where does it surpass the traditional advertising model?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 8, 2016

Experiencing a cascading technology failure in real time for just one community is painful enough. Think about how you feel when you have spent five hours writing a grant proposal only to have your computer crash and completely destroy your document. This epic fail is more than a technology problem.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2010

Illustration by Jonny Goldstein of my SXSW panel proposal. I hope you’ll also vote for my panel proposal, Nonprofits and Free Agents in A Networked World and while you’re there vote for the other awesome nonprofit panel proposals (I’ve shared a list below). Just ‘Cause: Can Technology Make Brand Irrelevant?

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