Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

However, as a technology, printed books come with serious challenges for some communities (like blind people) that technology can unlock. First, they are place-based. What if you live in a place without physical books or can’t get to where the books are? Consider the issues with printed books. We can do better!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Crystal Dionysopoulou is the founder and Creative Director of Lucid Fox , a dynamic web design and development agency that puts people first. Tasks will tell you what people need to get done on your site, which helps you organize it efficiently. Are there any new tasks that people need to do in this situation?

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

But when it comes to a troubling relationship with your data, can you turn to those same people? If your association throws everything in one place and simply shuts the door, it’s difficult to find what you need because of the chaos. Probably not, right? Solution : The solution for this can be two-fold.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 6, 2018

At its simplest form, Github is a place that houses code into groups called repositories and allows one or more people to update and keep version controlled copies of their files. Finally, it’s worth noting that GitHub is also compatible with many different project management systems, such as Basecamp , Zapier , Slack , and Trello.

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Bloomerang

JUNE 11, 2021

Lindsay Simonds will decode the top five most impactful ways people contribute to communities. If you’re watching the recording, hope you’re having a good day because we are here to talk about some creative ways that people are contributing to the community. Full Transcript: – [Lindsay] Okay. . I’m Steven.

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Gyrus

APRIL 10, 2018

How To Foster User Adoption In Your New Learning Management System? As you are planning to transition from your outdated Learning Management System (LMS) to your new LMS application it is important to keep in mind your users’ perception of the change. Know the System Benefits.

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Nimble AMS

FEBRUARY 3, 2022

Training and education tools: Provide members with an easy-to-use training platform that integrates with relevant systems, like a learning management system. Remember that data collection can also be valuable in integrating your AMS with other systems. Some of these systems don’t fit seamlessly together.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 15, 2023

institutional grantmaking and provide the starting place and scaffolding for Candid’s grants data. Candid staff also scan websites, press releases, social media, and news sources for grantmaking information. tax exempt nonprofit organizations must file various Forms 990 with the Internal Revenue Service (IRS) each year.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. We surveyed over 700 nonprofits to find out what advice they’d give themselves and others about fundraising in the new normal. Have a Solid Donor Stewardship Plan in Place.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 10, 2024

At Qgiv, we’ve been helping people fulfill their passion to make a difference in the world for nearly 15 years. Say goodbye to disconnected systems and hello to improved fundraising outcomes through unified data, people, and tools, available all in one place. Unified data. We’re better together— Bloomerang + Qgiv.

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

This is also the right place to experiment with an MVP , or minimum viable product. It might live on your website, social media, product center or be integrated with one, or all of, your association management systems. People actually stay at the Cosmopolitan just for the experience of interacting with Rose.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 1, 2020

” Greetings from shelter in place California! Focus on these three activities: sleep, nutrition and exercise to help strengthen your immune system and feel better. The blessing of shelter in place is that you can still exercise by walking, jogging, or running as long as keep your distance from other people.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

By Emily Rose Patz , Senior Copywriter at DonorPerfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. The good news is that once you embrace digital donor engagement tools, most of the grunt work – like donation forms and gift acknowledgements – is done for you through automation.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

In fact, He encourages His followers to seek the welfare of the places in which they live (Jeremiah 29:7). He promises as cities flourish, His people dwelling within will also flourish. Obeying these commands pursues the common good of a city and its people. God loves cities.

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Candid

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

In 2018, Candid created a website to track racial equity funding, news, and research reports. Under PRE’s recommendation, we now define funding for racial equity as grantmaking explicitly awarded to benefit people of color broadly or explicitly awarded to organizations that serve these populations. Tracking racial equity funding .

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Charity Village

JUNE 20, 2022

However, many people in Canada live in housing that does not meet basic standards, and many do not have a place to live at all. The Federal Housing Advocate receives submissions from the public on systemic housing issues and unmet housing needs across Canada. Access to adequate housing is a human right in Canada. If […].

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Forum One

MAY 28, 2024

NRDC combines the power of more than three million members and online activists with the expertise of more than 700 scientists, lawyers, and policy advocates across the globe to ensure the rights of all people to the air, the water, and the wild. Forum One worked with NRDC this year to redesign their website. Thank you, thank you, thank you!

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Neon CRM

JUNE 23, 2023

But financial contributions aren’t the only way people got involved. Takeaway : Between economic uncertainty, global instability, and whatever new crisis is just around the corner, the thought of fundraising can be daunting. That’s great news if you’re looking for inspiration! Donors in the United States alone gave $3.1

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Candid

JUNE 15, 2022

Not only is the size of your gift significant, its unrestricted nature allows us to place bold bets to improve the social sector’s collective future. To deliver on Candid’s 2030 vision , we must address what we know to be true: people have difficulty finding the information they seek amidst our plethora of tools, products, and services.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 9, 2022

When you set marketing systems in place, they don’t always work together like they should. Organizational assets: Your assets are the things you already have in place that you can leverage to help reach your goals. You have: Your team: Your staff, Board, and volunteers are the people power you have to achieve your goals.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

DECEMBER 12, 2007

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Open Source CRMs – people like them? and although the sample sizes were small, and not representative of the nonprofit sector as a whole, the people surveyed seemed to like the open source tools available.

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Whole Whale

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

In his book, Start with Why, Simon Sinek shares his theory of the Golden Circle : Every person knows what they do; some people know how they do it. But few people know why they do it. Examples of Nonprofit Vision Statements: Habitat for Humanity’s vision statement is for a world where everyone has a decent place to live.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 20, 2022

We keep going because the very definition of philanthropy, perhaps even of the nonprofit sector, is love of humankind — people helping people. And as long as there are people walking this planet, we will help each other. But we kept going. We all keep going. Courage is what helps us persevere. It’s the beginning of courage.

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sgEngage

DECEMBER 29, 2023

Every day, you and your donors are inundated with thousands of pieces of news and bits of information. These numbers are most easily calculated when you have the proper fund accounting systems in place and a strong finance routine. It can be tricky to figure out what’s real and who you can trust.

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TechImpact

APRIL 2, 2014

Work with people who already care about your mission. Do not try to force people to care about your nonprofit’s mission, find and work only with the people who already do. Make sure your employees old and new share at least a resemblance of your own passion for your nonprofit’s mission. Get donor ready.

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Greater Giving

DECEMBER 26, 2022

Have you ever asked yourself “How do I get people to give again?” But the good news is that there are ways to do it! The easiest way to do this is by using fundraising software in conjunction with a donor management system. Once you have your plan in place, promote the event as much as possible before it takes place.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation. These platforms have become essential to people from marginalized communities as they build political power, deliver mutual aid, and have helped many make a living.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 11, 2023

I suggest you go back to your boss and revisit the reason you invested in donor analytics in the first place. That’s great news. This means being as aggressive as possible within your current system, while planning strategically to change that system so it’s more capable of using the resources at your disposal.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

I posted some nonprofit technology trends and news late last month, but found some late breaking nptech news items I wanted to add. Strange News. Microsoft has placed an Office 365. Available on news stands now, so check one out if you see a new issue while in line at the grocery store. Yes that's right.

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Forum One

JANUARY 31, 2023

When people think about data, the concept of data visualization (aka., In order to efficiently and consistently produce high-quality data visualizations — whether in health, education, poverty, or any other important issue – mission-driven organizations need to first have platforms in place to manage and analyze their data.

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NTEN

MAY 6, 2011

Data and outcomes are components of a larger ecosystem of people, processes, and technology. One nonprofit trains disabled individuals and places them in jobs. The third nonprofit had a system: an old DOS based system, supported and used by one person on the staff. I saw a similar framework.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 5, 2012

To all who have endured my rants, you will be shocked to hear me say that I believe Facebook finally has the pieces in place to make a major impact on organizations ability to acquiring and building productive relationship with supporters. This first post went out on a Saturday and resulted in 125 people signing up for the campaign.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 12, 2021

The pandemic spotlighted the inequalities of food allocation systems that weren’t distributing healthy, fresh, nutritious food to underserved communities. We know that technology can play an essential role in reimagining a new system that benefits families and communities alike. It’s a human rights issue.

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sgEngage

AUGUST 22, 2022

As a nonprofit technology consultant, I spend a lot of time talking with people about their systems, staffing, and business processes. The database didn’t have space for the multi-part campaign codes that corresponded to Barbara’s financial system. Leverage automations and workflows to share data between systems.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 26, 2021

People continued to give more generously than before – often referred to as a “ bump ” – and the predicted “slump” never really arrived. . No matter what happens in the economy or world, be it war, recession or natural disaster, people who can help DO. But people are generous, and generally want to help. . This is good news.

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Forum One

DECEMBER 11, 2010

And you are ready to invest the money in selecting and developing the greatest system ever. I assume most people start there because it is arguably the easiest part to grapple with; at least you can quantitatively evaluate and compare various solutions. But what about the people/social factors that influence adoption?

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