Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

These projects ended up becoming successful and found sustainable funding streams, allowing the innovation to go to scale without needing continued funding from Lavelle. Embracing measured risk, The Fund has been willing to make early bets on Benetech, and has repeatedly chosen to invest in our prototype projects.

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Qgiv

JUNE 4, 2021

Instead of multiple phone calls back and forth, they can just enter their information on your online form and press “submit.” Take Advantage Of Video Conferencing And Streaming Tools. Streaming video isn’t just a valuable way for you to connect with donors individually. Leverages common tools.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

As always, there’s plenty more news like how Facebook’s news feed policy is not good news for charities, how smartphone kill switch legislation will affect your organization, how things like your own perspiration will run your phone someday and some more NPTech quick hits. million phones were stolen in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

MAY 27, 2011

On June 7th TechSoup representatives Elliot Harmon, Susan Tenby, and Evonne Heyning will present in a unique Interactive Strategy event at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service in New Orleans, LA ( NCVS ). This post was written by Evonne Heyning , part of TechSoup's Community team. Connect with us at NCVS or online.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2012

Check it out on your mobile phone. There are over 2,600 Goodwill® stories worldwide that sell gently used and new items, providing an important revenue stream for its programs. Condom use campaign: (check that out on your phone. forms are really easy to fill out on a phone). Build lists and collect cell phone numbers.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2014

GB), streaming an hour of high-definition video (1 to 2 GB), or making Skype-to-Skype calls (3 MB per minute). If you’re really concerned about overages and don’t want to pay a national carrier for a data plan that’s bigger than you need, look into alternative carriers. These include downloading a film (up to 1.5

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NonProfit Hub

JULY 12, 2016

Sure, there are important national programs like United Way or massive online listings of nonprofits that give credibility and visibility for fundraisers. Now that you’ve seen how national and international organizations use graphics and messaging to build a strong page, how can we apply that locally?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 24, 2020

Since then, they’ve posted video or went live more than 40 times, including opening ceremonies, national anthem, messages from their walk chairs, awards, sponsor thank yous , and many participant-submitted videos using a designated hashtag. In addition to online recognition, d rop a card in the mail or pick up the phone!

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. ” Globally, people have more access to phones than the Internet.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 7, 2010

There is also some talk that this could turn the Internet into something of a 'caste system', in which certain users would have to pay more if they want to continue using streaming video or streaming audio. Make your voice heard and get involved with the national debate. So what can you do? Become educated on the issue.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

How can we protect yet empower ourselves, our kiddos, families, and communities among the multiple data streams social/media converge? Data''s New Clothes Speaker: Greg Schneider, Information Systems Director, National Institute on Money in State Politics. Data is becoming more and more transparent and that is changing the world.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. As such, what we are seeing are early experiments in new ways of working.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2011

David Smith and Michael Weiser, National Conference on Citizenship. Many are adding hashtags and so on, but we started streaming content and letting people engage online we found we were engaging 10-100 times more people than were in the room and we could actually listen to them. Moderated by Kari Dunn, Case Foundation.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

These included an English-Creole dictionary phone app, tools for tagging photographs of displaced people, texting tools that could be coordinated with the Ushahidi text alert system, and several tagging and updating efforts of satellite imagery and maps. As such, what we are seeing are early experiments in new ways of working.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Jane Meseck, Microsoft Corporation. This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

The technology scene today is distinguished by the growing connectivity among devices, mobile phones, the PC, and the browser, which enable people and organizations to access information, communicate, and collaborate in more powerful ways. Jane Meseck, Microsoft Corporation. This new paradigm offers great potential to improve how we all work.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

JP recommends nonprofits: Have another streaming platform ready to go just in case. Ensure you have active, agreed-upon communication tools with your remote guest speakers, such as phone, instant messaging, or email. You preferably do this on the same streaming platform as the event but as a private session. Contact Local Media.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

More and more money is donated on this national day of giving each year. Though a recurring giving campaign may not bring in major gifts upfront, it will give you a system for pulling in a steady income stream for the months following Giving Tuesday and beyond. How does Giving Tuesday help nonprofits? Launch a major campaign.

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Qgiv

JUNE 29, 2021

Here are some great examples that are pretty easy to acquire: Fishing equipment Boating items like life jackets Outdoor cooler Camping equipment and sleeping bags Outdoor camping cookware Good hiking sneakers or boots National Parks pass. You can stream an entire series (Lord of the Rings marathon?) Garden Party Auction. Movie Nights.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

Right now, if you live in a metropolitan area or a large town, you probably have a choice of getting Internet service from your phone company or your cable TV company. For example, Comcast may want to slow data for streaming video to everyone except their cable TV subscribers. In economic terms, this is called a duopoly.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2010

I had to look up the Clark Griswald reference ( National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation ), but you might be scratching your head wondering what the heck is a back channel? And, how you click on your "friends" profiles and see their social streams. They're done on the phone and chat. It isn't a walled garden.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 5, 2011

Shana has been working in event fundraising for national health nonprofits for the past ten years. She is currently the National Associate Director for Interactive Fundraising and Engagement with the American Diabetes Association. Author: Guest Blogger. The following blog post is by Shana Masterson and Jonathan Cass. How do they.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 11, 2021

For Fiver, this means pulling client testimonials from thank you letters written by program participants or through phone interviews with families. Other Examples: An Annual Giving Campaign, like National Center for Youth Law did $10k for a new Alzheimer’s research project Raise $25,000 to fill a new school library.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Visit the Giving Tuesday website for a complete Giving Tuesday Toolkit and additional resources about the national day of giving. Live-streaming to keep in touch with supporters. If you’re considering live-streaming content to your supporters, check out this re:Charity article to learn more about the software necessary to do so. .

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NTEN

JUNE 22, 2011

Many are adding hashtags and so on, but we started streaming content and letting people engage online we found we were engaging 10-100 times more people than were in the room and we could actually listen to them. People can opt-in to getting additional messages from us so we may get their phone number but that's it.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 1, 2017

Of course, as long as it is a personal call and not an outsourced phone campaign. If it’s a serious major gift prospect, you may not want to put their solicitation into a mass direct marketing stream. Next, I’ll make a 2 page version that we’ll use for lapsed donors, maybe to test in the acquisition stream against our control package.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

A free, open-source software program that enables users to send group text messages from computers or mobile phones. Used widely throughout the globe, FrontlineSMS has empowered a texting revolutionat the grassroots by nonprofits in developing nations and has become a beacon for social good in mobile technology. It is a must download!

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 21, 2021

And really, I would say, building a stream of legacies or an endowment from which you can draw income is not a luxury. Now we want to make sure that you’ve got other preconditions in place for showing that you really need to have some kind of endowment or stream of bequests. It’s like creating a stream of passive income.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 7, 2021

This temporary instance allowed CCS to steward thousands of contacts by phone with a single cross-Canada team working remotely in the midst of a pandemic. Watch the session here. Technology can help you convert an influx of one-time donors into recurring donors.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 16, 2006

The two places I looked for mechanisms are the (1) United Nations APELL program (Awareness and Preparedness for Emergencies on a Local Level) and (2) the U.S. The population at large would probably not trust the federal government to run a national level information network for reuniting families and notifications for finding people.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Even if you’re not able to attend in person, please attend the live stream of our speakers. In this message, the emphasis was placed on the live stream opportunity that out-of-town supporters would have an easier time attending than an invitation to an in-person event. . Check out the lineup in the attachment below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 4, 2013

They also started small and low-cost with the automated phone call system: instead of taking the time and money to build out interactive voice response technology, a Fasal team member recorded the “automated” voice behind the phone by reading call scripts. Susmita De, Nonprofit-Share (Chief Operating Officer).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2009

To follow the Twitter stream or ask questions or make comments, use the #ROI hashtag. The Return by Danielle Brigida, NWF NWF Description of Case Study While strategy plays an important role within the National Wildlife Federation, initially it was very hard to determine one for our social media presences. Oh my god, take a look.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 18, 2021

If COVID-19 did not force your organization to embrace video both operationally and supporter-facing, then now is the time to turn on your phones and press record. . Hot tip: If your peer-to-peer fundraising solution allows, consider embedding video on a campaign page or streaming live on a personal fundraising page for extra impact. .

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 5, 2021

And it’s not just what we do, because you can send a thank-you letter, or you can send, you know, make a phone call, but it’s how we do it. Just get on your phone, do a little video and send it to them, I can tell you that will make a ginormous difference. Is it live streaming? So what is the point of all this is?

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NTEN

OCTOBER 28, 2008

Voter registration is headed for new highs across the nation -- with a firestorm of newly registered voters under the age of thirty. Election 2008 searches the endless stream of "tweets" for key electon words (McCain, Palin, Obama, Biden, Clinton, etc.) Election 2008 is remarkable for so many reasons. For the first time in U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

Vinepeek posts a continuous stream of newly-posted Vines in realtime. Live-streaming is ideal for reporting live from conferences, fundraisers, and protests. Whether you want to display your work on a local, national, or global map, this is a visually-compelling new way to tell your nonprofit’s story.

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