Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. Currently there are over 700 students at the home, which runs exclusively on donations provided by philanthropic public and financial institutions. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. The Corps Network National Conference. The Corps Network National Conference. The Corps Network / Washington, DC / TBA. PEAK Grant Managers Network Annual Conference.

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Qgiv

APRIL 27, 2022

Use your network connections with your staff, volunteers, and board members to see if they’d be willing to contribute or can help you get in touch with people who might be able to provide you with enticing prizes. For your next school fundraiser , raffle off the opportunity to grab a sweet treat with your students’ favorite teachers.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

The Luciano Barreto Júnior Institute in Aracaju, Brazil provides educational opportunities to low-income kids in the agricultural Brazilian state of Sergipe, the home of Brazil’s far-famed Forro music. They’re now to the point where each student has access to an individual computer workstation during classes.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India. Currently there are over 700 students at the home, which runs exclusively on donations provided by philanthropic public and financial institutions. Photo: Ramakrishna Mission Students Home.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 19, 2008

Freelance Switch Gavin’s Digital Diner Idealware Jon Stahl’s Journal Lifehacker LinuxChix – Be Polite.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

Panelists included: Danielle Siembieda, former community engagement and special projects manager for ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network in San Jose, CA. " Its purpose was to train students to experiment with, understand, and share art using social media and face-to-face interaction.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

The Luciano Barreto Júnior Institute in Aracaju, Brazil provides educational opportunities to low-income kids in the agricultural Brazilian state of Sergipe, the home of Brazil’s far-famed Forro music. They’re now to the point where each student has access to an individual computer workstation during classes.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

Childreach International serves a large network of international partners in work that involves a great deal of organization and coordination. According to Kyo Shimizu, KnK ‘s public relations officer, who also takes care of the computer network in the office.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

1] Scheme is an obscure programming language that most Computer Science students learn, but almost no one else does, and almost no one produces production code in scheme. { I’ll describe what you’ll give up with these tools (if anything) compared to their popular proprietary counterparts.

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Everyaction

DECEMBER 12, 2017

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is a capstone experience for students seeking the Certified Nonprofit Professional (CNP) credential. The Corps Network National Conference. The Corps Network National Conference. The Corps Network / Washington, DC / $875. PEAK Grant Managers Network Annual Conference.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

at 2:51 pm There’s a great free Firefox plugin for students & researchers who need to manage citations and bibliographies, not to mention organize all those PDFs…Zotero is wonderful, and works perfectly with Word (for those of us still hooked on some Microsoft programs).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 8, 2008

She’s a brilliant academic who studies social networks. They describe a process where 99% of the people involved get close to nothing for their efforts, the authors gives away right and the publishers just get to sit on their pot’ogold of academic knowlege and get student to pay inflated prices to use these works in school.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 23, 2012

A life-long activist, she had volunteered with the Progressive Student Alliance, Amnesty International and Sierra Club. Her passions include organic farming and gardening, urban chickens, her kitties, self-publishing, printmaking, bookbinding, playing music and hiking. Dane Grams - Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? If you read the reviews (most of which were quite positive,) the people who liked it were looking at the real functionality (it could edit their documents, it could surf the web, read email, etc.) Figuring out a clear migration strategy that takes all of this into consideration. {

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 10, 2008

This got me thinking that all people, not just scientists and students could use this method. Recently when searching for peer-reviewed science communication journals I came across Using a self reflective journal to enhance science communication.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

From their website: Some of the features that distinguish Hampshire from more traditional liberal arts colleges include student-designed academic concentrations; an active, collaborative, inquiry-based pedagogy; an interdisciplinary curriculum; and a narrative evaluation system. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 14, 2022

Creative stuff: Things unique to your organization including the ability to create art, music, poetry, dance, etc. Offer access to a lounge before or after events with seating, beverages, and networking opportunities. Throw in beer and pizza and music and it can be fun. Year-round gratitude is key. that you can make available?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Legacy of Hope Austin is a Texas-based arts charity that's created the 2dance2dream program , providing a way for children with special needs to express themselves through movement and music. Legacy of Hope has leveraged Cisco networking equipment donations from TechSoup and some help installing them from Cisco volunteers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 11, 2010

I fondly recollect choreographing my first piece to Flashdance , where I became conscious of the power of movement combined with music. I vividly recall running in big circles around my front yard pretending to fly; and, then having vivid dreams about it actualizing. As a child, having fun was an easy, natural way of being.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 25, 2008

The prelude to this interview is a tale of networking weaving. I'll be leading this workshop in Philadelphia for the Philadelphia Cultural Alliance in about two weeks) As part of my research process (using social media, of course), I looked at what arts organizations were doing on social networking sites like Facebook.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

This alternative to cloud computing consists of all the computers that are already around us, connected in to a distributed network of devices through smart routers. The reason why The Fog is emerging is because of the amount of data overwhelming our 3G and 4G mobile networks. Very sophisticated for a student team.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2005

This most inspiring case study on cyberstrategy was about how to change the culture of the prison from penal to rehabilitative using a network of computer labs linked to FM radio. The initial cyberstrategy was to capitalize on the inmates' interest in music by using music as a means of teaching digital skills.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 18, 2006

Anyway, being a poor student, and having a few extremely low-traffic sites, I figured I’d stick with Site Meter , which seems to be the best of the free site analysis tools. They had a link today to a great page: how to dissuade yourself from becoming a blogger. It’s funny, and appropriate. I think some nonprofits should read it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 20, 2007

Networking for Change. Online videos/vlogs Online videos or vlogs can searched for in the iTunes Music Store as well as on YouTube , blip.tv , DoGooderTV , QuantumShift.tv JOIN: Join a social network, or two, or three! Facebook isn't just for college students anymore. I thought I'd share some of my notes with you.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 9, 2007

Program Evaluation By Magic Eightball - Click to Play Music by Stablom, " Something Dark " from ccmixter. Peter Deitz of First of Its Kind Network - Click to Play. I'm slowly blogging the posts, videos, and photos that I captured last week along with some reflections. I was only able to interview volunteers.

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Museum 2.0

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Putnam defines social capital as “connections among individuals-social networks and the norms of reciprocity and trustworthiness that arise from them.” Bonding social capital refers to networks that bring people together with common interests to strengthen relationships in preexisting groups.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 22, 2022

You’ll create a peer-to-peer fundraising website and give your participants the option to create their own personal fundraising pages to share with their networks to collect donations. If you have any amateur chefs in your organization’s network, reach out to them to see if they’d be willing to teach your donors how to cook a special dish.

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Neon CRM

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Live Music Battles Live music battles make for great events because you can find a lot of excellent musical talent who want to get their names out there. Tap your network to see what kinds of artists and craftspeople are out there and are available to teach.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 15, 2022

Every dance-a-thon fundraiser requires music, so finding a DJ to help you spin tunes all dance-a-thon long is a great option. If you want to cater to a wide audience, you could turn your dance-a-thon into a silent disco with multiple DJs on deck and a variety of music styles for everyone’s preferred music tastes.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. hardware, network, application server…). I promise (!) Ease of recovery from standard crashes (e.g.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

I’ve been using databases since I was a grad student in the 80s, and I’ve been designing and developing database-driven applications for the web since 1995. hardware, network, application server…). I promise (!) Ease of recovery from standard crashes (e.g.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2008

Social Networks: Facebook, Myspace, and many more. Each has a composite page that has biography, conversation, and music/media area. Volunteer training - volunteer would design small projects and implement them in the communtiy - mental health care in the students. The volunteers were high school students.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

The Alliance Management Institute (AMI) is the only national conference expressly designed to prepare 400+ college students for a career in the social sector. We’re bringing together bright minds, seasoned experts, and innovative practitioners for three days of learning, sharing, and networking. Cultivating Student Philanthropy.

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Museum 2.0

JULY 20, 2010

Last week, I gave a talk about participatory museum practice for a group of university students at UCSC. In some cases, they do so on their own, "geeking out" on music or science or web design at home, away from their friends' judgment. Second, teens today are incredibly aware of "stranger danger."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2006

Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. Abby Rosenheck: Urban sprouts is a school garden program where we support middle and high schools in San Francisco to build school gardens at their school, so the students grow, prepare, eat--the whole thing.

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Museum 2.0

AUGUST 8, 2010

Our volunteers use our 90-person public discussion group for sharing job listings, networking events, and other professional development resources in addition to CUL-related topics. Some of the new volunteers are high school students, others are college professors. This Pop Up Library just returned from a folk music festival.

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