Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. There is also some interesting insight into the link between open development and social impact bonds, while the data dilemma is brought to the fore. It was originally published on NetSquared.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 5, 2024

Boards that are professionally, demographically, and ideologically diverse are more likely to be open to risk tolerance. Teri Carden, Founder of Review My AMS and 100 Reviews, explains how some of her association clients are using their data to address member needs. View customers as individuals. Stepping up to Association 4.0

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Cloud 4 Good

DECEMBER 7, 2021

From recruitment and admissions to student success and reporting, the Salesforce.org Winter ’22 Education Cloud Release features a number of updates and optimizations designed to help make institution operations more efficient. This new feature will help better track the individual’s journey from prospect to student to alumni.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

My hope is that we all—individuals, teachers, students, parents, schools, and government officials—honestly wrestle with this revolutionary change and recognize it as so much more than a “cheat tool.” Imagine empowering a teacher with generative AI to improve question-building workflows for online assessments and open-book evaluations.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Candid reviewed these organizations and found that 38,049 organizations—or 84% of 501(c)(5)s—are unions. [1]. In that campaign, the CTU pursued demands beyond their own wages and benefits to aid their students, including: smaller class sizes, a nurse and counselor in every school, and resources for homeless students.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Some of these challenges include a lack of funding for schools, a lack of access to high-quality educational resources and opportunities, and a lack of support for students and teachers. Create a welcoming and inclusive environment that celebrates diversity and encourages open dialogue and respect for all individuals.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

This framework not only breaks down the components of the key seven indicators of school quality, but it also serves as a practical guide for educators who are designing and operating school models to fulfill a community’s shared vision of student success.

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Forum One

MAY 14, 2009

I've just been introduced to what look like useful new online tools for reproductive health students, faculty, and professionals, produced by The Association of Reproductive Health Professionals (ARHP). Users can share sites via e-mail, write an online review of their experience, and access supplementary travel and funding resources.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 9, 2021

If you ask them, most organization leaders, teachers, managers, and more would claim that they allow their employees, volunteers, and students room to fail without judgment. According to Harvard Business Review , “The wisdom of learning from failure is incontrovertible. Promote Open Communication About Failure.

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Bloomerang

JULY 19, 2023

Do you serve K-12 students? For instance, there may be several nonprofits that offer art programs for secondary school students, but you are one of the few entities that serve adults 18 years and older. As you review the organization’s budget, examine if existing earned income streams are being optimized. Senior citizens?

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 1, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source Database solutions part I January 1, 2007 I’m throwing up my hands. more on Open Standards and Benkler (actually, Benkler is up next – I’ve got two chapters to review).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2013

Two or three years to adoption: Learning Analytics (K-12/Higher Ed), Open Content (K-12), Games and Gamification (Higher Ed). The report methodology models the open content technology identified in the report. It also has benefits to students themselves who can use the data to customize their participation in the class.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2021

Online courses are professionally structured and guided opportunities that simultaneously provide flexibility and convenience for students. The Nonprofit Leadership Alliance guide on the subject explains that you have an option to choose between open-source and paid courses.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Donors could communicate with the students, and they thanked participants directly – building lasting relationships.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

7 steps to start a major gift program Major gift fundraising tools Let’s start by reviewing the basics of what these key donations are. Let’s review the key steps of finding major donor prospects, building relationships, and retaining their support for the long term: 1. Why are major gifts so important for nonprofits?

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

The connections nonprofits form with businesses through corporate giving programs can open up opportunities for further partnership in the future. Let’s review some of the most popular ways that businesses give back to nonprofits. Most of the time, students must seek out and apply for these scholarships on their own.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 26, 2014

” (Photo captured by Renee Blodgett). The audience was primarily college students and after the event, several came up to me and thanked me for inspiring them to do a social good activity online. The talk is brief and you can view the video here. What I loved about the experience is that as a speaker you get a lot of support.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

What began as a small online library, with a collection built in large part by its users, is now the primary national supplier of electronic accessible educational materials for students with print disabilities. At the close of 2012, we are five years into our work in education and are serving over 230,000 students.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Don’t expect anyone to remember names after your brief “this is Jane and she’ll be helping us with…” greeting, but it puts everyone at ease and makes Jane feel like she’s being welcomed to the team with open arms. Now is a great time to review how to communicate. Complete the paperwork. Remember, a volunteer can leave at any time.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 1, 2022

In this guide, we’ll review the importance of year-end giving and the best strategies to use to plan a successful campaign. As a rule of thumb, nonprofits should start preparing and building their year-end giving teams when students return to school for the fall semester, usually three to four months ahead of the campaign period.

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Qgiv

APRIL 28, 2021

Virtual options can be particularly helpful when fundraising for education, as they allow you to reach out to supporters of your students who may be further away, such as aunts and uncles, grandparents, and family friends. They also give you a unique opportunity to get the family members of those students to make a recurring donation.

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Get Fully Funded

JANUARY 17, 2022

Review your activities and numbers from the last year. As you review each activity from last year, ask yourself: Should we keep doing it? For example, a new project provides grocery store gift cards to college students coping with food insecurity. Staying on track Review your plan at the beginning of each month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2005

This workshop provides creative ways to channel your student's motivation towards active reading and better writing. Will need to review in more depth later one. Open the teaching and learning process publicly to other interested parties. There is a link to larger resource list for blogs in education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2014

This includes documenting your session, reviewing your decks and exercises, analyzing your instructional design, and figuring out how to improve it. If you think of your training as making a soup, your participant survey is like the food critic’s review of the soup. There are two different methods to evaluate your training.

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

Review the study’s findings and think about how your organization is delivering on the most important benefits. TECH TIP: Learn more about how to deliver a great member experience from recruitment to renewal, for students to retirees – and everything in between. They will see you care about and are open to their feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 4, 2017

I also use it as a year in review tool. When you have worked in a field a long time (for me it has been over 3 decades), you have to keep an open mind about remembering and reflecting on what you have heard before — looking at as if it was new. Year in Review.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 7, 2021

Then orient callers around the evening’s purpose, review a suggested script you’ve shared in advance, and answer any questions. Review the status of all of your major donor asks. . If you’re a school, ask students to help. TIP: Make it as easy as possible for leaders to review your business and foundation prospect lists.

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Care2

MAY 23, 2011

We’ve cracked the competition process open, leveraging a combination of workflows and social tools to produce a compelling experience of real participation in key activities. That’s a powerful community of support for our students who, historically, represent on average projects in around 30 of those countries.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

Before each training I review the Web presence for each NGO in attendance. Also, email communication services offer reporting metrics, such as who opened your email and what links they visited, and eliminate the need to manually manage your email list as your subscribers are stored in an online database and unsubscribes are automatic.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 11, 2012

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. There is also evidence that stipends do not necessarily attract people who are less altruistic, but do attract people who might otherwise remain uninvolved, opening up a pool of new volunteers for organizations. Carlton Yoshioka, Ph.D.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

NOVEMBER 16, 2007

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.) So, if students and Grandma can use Linux, can nonprofits? Linux is more secure, more stable, and can be used on older hardware. Be Helpful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 4, 2011

Here’s the official announcement on the Google Blog and review in the New York Times. This is a big issue for teachers who don’t want to friend their students for obvious reasons. It would be a more community like conversation if it was an “open circle&# or functioned more like groups.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Leading Educators , which crafts professional development programs for teachers, uses the tagline “Potential, ignited”—a similarly broad statement that captures the audience’s desire to do everything they can for their students. Here are a few do’s and don’ts to consider as you generate new ideas and review your favorite contenders: DO’s.

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Tech Soup

JULY 25, 2012

"We're moving from a 'top down' model where high quality resources were once published through peer review and traditional authority-based publishing modes to a different model," she explained. Valerie Hill in her recent visit to the Nonprofit Commons.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 7, 2021

Buckingham/Goodall : We both know that if anything we suggest is to have value, it has to be grounded in the real world, and we’re both students of the real world. He is the coauthor, with Buckingham, of "Reinventing Performance Management," the cover story in the April 2015 issue of Harvard Business Review.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

It is open to creators from all backgrounds – from charities to video game developers to artists. Make sure to review Kickstarter's guidelines for projects , however, as they've been known to pull campaigns for not meeting the standards. Special Plan for Nonprofits: No.

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