Care2

MARCH 17, 2016

Another awesome 16NTC conference starts next week in San Jose. There's going to be some terrific panels aimed at nonprofit advocacy, fundraising, tech, and leadership teams. Every year we go through the program to help you focus on the top 10 sessions to attend. Digital Outlook: Ready, Set, Go… Wait, Where Are We Going?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 8, 2016

This year's #16NTC Nonprofit Technology Conference is in San Jose, right around the corner from TechSoup's San Francisco office. A well-designed app can be a great way for your nonprofit to motivate people to take action, change behaviors, convey important information, and inspire real change.

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NTEN

MAY 18, 2015

It's that time again to start the process of gathering session proposals from the NTEN Community to help inform the program for the 2016 Nonprofit Technology Conference (16NTC) in San Jose, California on March 23-25. We look forward to their contributions and insights throughout this process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 20, 2010

One of the reasons I made a commitment to blogging about professional topics regularly was because I was inspired by Marnie’s nonprofit technology blog, ext. David was interested in learning more about what American nonprofits were doing with social media, he asked me for some advice.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

This is a great question and one that is always at the forefront of our minds as we put the overall program together. Members of our Community participating in the CFRE program received access to 102 Approved credits and 93 NFR-only credits at no additional charge at the 15NTC. You can find more details here.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2014

When we hear about nonprofits like Community Technology Alliance (CTA), we get really excited. This San Jose, CA-based organization provides technology and services to agencies that work directly with the homeless in their community. Recently, tech company Zendesk teamed up with San Francisco nonprofits St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2010

One of the big themes in our book, The Networked Nonprofit , is the importance of experiments and not to frame them as success or failure but as learning. The problem I see all too often is that many nonprofits expect immediate success and at the first “failure&# they quit. Program funders watching the presentations.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 18, 2013

nonprofits for three years. Panelists included: Danielle Siembieda, former community engagement and special projects manager for ZERO1: The Art & Technology Network in San Jose, CA. As part of the marketing campaign for the 2012 ZERO1 Biennial , it also functioned as a professional development program in arts administration.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 11, 2009

We're also seeing more nonprofits take this approach for fundraising, program development, and social change. Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ". Envision San Jose 2040 (There's even a platform to support the virtual charrette called " wiki planning ".

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 26, 2011

Last week, I faciltated a mini-workshop at the Silicon Valley/Peninsula Nonprofit Leadership Forum hosted by Compasspoint. For example, the City of San Jose is trying to save money by turning off the street lights in the city. Lack of lighting is associated with higher crime.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

Photo from San Jose Library. Chances are if you work or volunteer for a nonprofit you already know that. After all, volunteers are the lifeblood of most nonprofits, and with 64 Million volunteers taking the time to give back in 2009, National Volunteer Week is as much about thanking volunteers as encouraging them to come back.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 29, 2015

TechSoup and its members have been central to the launch of BetterWorld Wireless and subsequently our ramping and scaling up of Mobile4All — a partnership with San Jose-based Community Technology Alliance, Downtown Streets, and a host of other corporate and nonprofit partners. Image 1 : Human Resources Establishment.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe is working to make a difference in the nonprofit community and recognizes that their software is used by the community for creative expression and social advocacy. See how nonprofits like yours are benefiting from their donated products and services, and creating professional-quality videos. Employee Engagement.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 10, 2017

So our whole staff went to visit another public market the developer had started: San Pedro Square Market in San Jose. I don't assume that nonprofits are automatically more inclusive than businesses. Were we creating a gentrifying space instead of an inclusive one? The food was mid-range in price.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 13, 2006

In 2001, I started at the Digital Media Studies Masters program at the University of Denver. When I graduated in 2003, I moved out here to California and worked with the San Jose Museum of Art before getting a job with Linden Labs. You have worked with nonprofit organizations too ???? Second Life isn???t

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 1, 2006

Girls for a Change , a nonprofit that pairs women with middle and high school girls to help them create social change in their communities, is looking for mentors in the Bay Area and Phoenix. Through this awesome after-school program, these young women are becoming true social change agents. They even got a grant to fund their project!

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

People login to our system from any place on Earth within cell reception, and constructively use small windows of spare time for science, medicine, nonprofits, government, and more. Those Featured Projects came together May 26-27, 2009 in San Jose, CA, at the N2Y4 Conference to pitch their ideas, find collaborators, and get valuable feedback.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

Guest Post from Debbie McKenzie, Development Manager for Children’s Discovery Museum of San Jose. . If all of your membership levels are in one membership program, the discount ($21 in our case) code can be applied to any level – a few clever folks will figure this out.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 14, 2006

Kellogg Foundation Sponsors Attendees SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., March 13 (AScribe Newswire) -- TechSoup, the nonprofit technology Web site, today announced that the Philanthropy and Volunteerism Program of the W.K.

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EveryAction

APRIL 1, 2016

In the past year, thousands of nonprofit pros took advantage of our definitive Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar, and we're so excited to share our brand new 2016 list! Nonprofit technology, and more! 2015 - 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar. Nonprofit Leadership Alliance / Houston, TX / $250. Fundraising.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2015

Only one month ago the NTEN team was packing up the last of the boxes and headed home from the 2015 Nonprofit Technology Conference. We are proud to have a program that is filled with great sessions and speakers ( WIN ). We are working with the San Jose Convention Center (next year''s venue) to look for similar options with the space.

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John Kenyon

JUNE 26, 2017

I spent 5 years working with 4 nonprofits on a collaborative technology project. Below I share the lessons we learned, the challenges and the benefits of having nonprofits collaborating on a technology project. It involved four domestic violence service providers near San Jose, California.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 22, 2012

Kelli Lee I recently graduated from Foothill College with an Associated Arts degree in Business Administration and will be attending San Jose State University in the fall. As I am disabled, I have used several programs that Bookshare/Benetech provides for their consumers.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2014

However, the San Jose-based nonprofit, Community Technology Alliance (CTA), had a hunch that cellphones might be a surprisingly good place to start getting employment and becoming self-sufficient. If all goes well, Mobile4All would like to scale the program to more communities in California and across the U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 23, 2010

The occasion for getting to know Adobe better came with the launch of Adobe's new wind turbines at their headquarters building in San Jose. At last count TechSoup now has 41 donation or discounted product donors for nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2008

This week, as BlogHer , launched a special campaign with GlobalGiving to raise money for lifesaving programs for women around the world, here is an interview with Donna Callejon who is the Chief Operating Officer of Global Giving. I've been working on something called the " cute dog theory " of social media and nonprofit adoption.

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