The NonProfit Times

MAY 6, 2024

.” – Carol Dweck It is a truth universally acknowledged that employees who are motivated to continuously learn and grow will be the ones to take on new challenges, innovate, and problem-solve. Outside of performance management, offer consistent and public encouragement and support.

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.orgSource

MARCH 28, 2023

We were living in the midst of cultural, technological, and economic instability long before the pandemic. Yes, it involves assessing the situation and addressing problems. When the Public Health Department was looking at how to reopen safely, they had a sounding board, and we were able to collaborate to develop successful solutions.

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.orgSource

MARCH 6, 2023

Is technology tying your audience in knots? The problem might be something you’ve never considered. If you track current events, Sharon advised, you are aware of the erosion of public confidence across a spectrum of institutions. Perhaps it’s content that’s missing the mark. Maybe stale programming is stopping the love?

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Forum One

MAY 13, 2024

Behind each project, build, campaign, or strategy, there are the people working day in and day out to solve sometimes very complex problems.

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Candid

MAY 1, 2024

To understand how Candid products can best serve our users, we need to know what problems those users are trying to solve. What problems are we trying to solve? For straightforward problems, we produce one design and ask users to confirm that it should work. And as our design and engineering teams build, we test.

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 27, 2023

You can’t prevent the radical transformations in employment that new technology will certainly introduce. The differentiator now isn’t only the fastest piece of equipment or technology. To keep pace with the speed of business, teams need to reinvent themselves along with innovation and technology. It’s having the best talent.”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 4, 2022

Complex Problems Aren’t Solved in a Vacuum. To address these challenges, the connection between technology and community is critical. While many organizations are working on the problem, no one individual, government agency, nonprofit, or school can solve it on their own. Submit an Idea. Opens new window. About the Author.

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.orgSource

APRIL 17, 2023

The technology promises to upend the way business operates. The nominees varied depending on the publication. The 4Cs or critical thinking, creativity, collaboration, and communication complement technology and will serve any organization well in competitive markets. Summit makes short work of analyzing plenty of tough problems.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

What’s the problem? Training and capacity building: Offer training programs, workshops, and resources for journalists to improve their skills, adapt to new technologies, and stay competitive. They can also invest in innovative projects and experiments that explore new revenue models, storytelling techniques, and technology solutions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 9, 2023

The opposite, more utopian view was that AI was magic fairy dust and could wave a wand and solve all our problems. As with any technology moving from emerging to mainstream phases, it takes time to become fluent and this might lead to new job requirements, skills or even jobs. In reality, both of these are false narratives.

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TechImpact

JULY 15, 2014

Technology is enabling organizations of all kinds the unprecedented ability to communicate directly with all of their constituents. How can your nonprofit use technology to become more transparent? Your blog is the most direct portal to the public and is often the first public facing documentation your constituents will see.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 14, 2013

Technology has the potential to improve the lives of millions across the world. In this two-part series I explore the concept of “Technology for All” and Benetech’s commitment to both ensuring that the technology required to meet a social need is developed and that it reaches far beyond the richest 10 percent of people who can most afford it.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 19, 2021

It sounds dystopian to some and it very well could be, but once you understand the concept and the emerging technology around it, as a nonprofit marketing and fundraising professional, you’ll also begin to understand its potential. It will also require regulation with teeth to keep Big Tech accountable to the public interest.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 27, 2022

With a greater understanding of available information, better decisions can happen to recover from past problems and change future outcomes. For instance, if your organization chose to take a new tactic in expanding publication subscriptions, data can show success or failure in that task. Support previous decisions .

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

People who laugh together are better equipped to meet challenges and solve problems as a group. The concepts can range from technology tools to work environment and process improvement, but the request must be specific. Offer to help when help isn’t expected. Bring a colleague their favorite Starbucks beverage. Bring treats.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2011

Wikis can be terrific platforms for supporting professional learning in real time, but it requires a comfort level with “ learning in public.&# Learning in private is what most of us did in school. How do create an environment where it is okay to learn in public? Three Different Designs for Public Learning On Wiki.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 28, 2020

Keeping teams organized and synched can be a convoluted process, but the right calendar option can remedy this problem. Threaded conversations, document management, and simple UI, make it easy for teams to collaborate on a grant proposal, communicate constituent needs, and even organize a lunch meet up. #5 5 Online Calendar. Recommendation ?

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

Marnie Webb, CEO at Caravan Studios, recently asked nonprofit tech folks via Twitter “I’m giving a talk on the next wave of technology for NGOs. What groups of technology would you include? ” I think Marnie was asking about tools or technologies, like Artificial Intelligence or Machine Learning.

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Candid

AUGUST 26, 2021

Ann Mei is a leading expert on social innovation with global experience in the private, public, and nonprofit sectors. Ann Mei is a strategist, problem-solver, and collaborator who is ideally suited to lead Candid in achieving its ambitious 2030 vision ,” said T. Smith through the end of the year to ensure a smooth transition.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 24, 2022

Impact Labs convenes community experts, or fellows, across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas. We all know that hunger is a complex and growing problem. How might we bridge the gap between the private and public sectors? Food Insecurity. Why Food Insecurity in the U.S.? Melanie Calhoun.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

One of my great joys in my long career in nonprofit technology has been seeing the extraordinary success of so many women in our field. The UN finds that 119 countries have now passed domestic violence laws, though enforcement remains a problem. The Women of Technology for Good. Nonprofit Technology Leadership.

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The Modern Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

However, all corporations, whether “for profit” or not, need to solve a problem and create value for others. From the donor’s perspective, their “purchase” of investment in a nonprofit’s work results in the gratification of being a part of the solution to a societal problem. Invest in technology.

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sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

The odd thing about living through a technological revolution is you think it’s just another Tuesday. These technologies can do everything from poetry to code to digital art to research to essay writing. The hype is problematic, but the revolution is real. But things forever changed when OpenAI released version 3.5 We didn’t ask.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Technology and Community: Strategic Options for Movement Building. I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. The full keynote and presentation are below.

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Candid

APRIL 10, 2024

We addressed these problems through data investigations and corrections, and enhancements to how we sample data. The harmful impact of these early problems was clear. What problem is your AI trying to solve, and what is the definition of bias and harm for that problem? What can bias look like in the data?

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TechImpact

JANUARY 2, 2014

Here is a list of security issues your nonprofit, and a nonprofit just like yours, are likely facing, and ways a cloud can help to alleviate those very problems according to John Simcock of eduserv. When compared to the private and public sectors, the third sector consistently experiences the highest turnover rates of staff.

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Nimble AMS

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Innovator” might currently be a buzzword, but your organization should still be striving to blaze technological trails and deliver superior member value. . To drive innovation within your association, leaders will need to become problem solvers , prioritizing new opportunities and adopting flexible practices across the organization.

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sgEngage

MARCH 6, 2024

This is a story about acknowledging how there isn’t one piece of software that can solve all your problems, which is why the extensibility of your systems is so important. Naturally, it will take a lot of time, training, and labor to get it up and running, but once it is all configured, it will solve all your problems. You did it!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

Burlington Public Library was one of our test installation sites. The library also offers free WiFi, a laptop checkout program, and 30 public access computers. TechSoup and InterConnection teamed up to supply the Burlington Library with everything they would need to set up a 7-station MultiPoint Server-based public access computers.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! If you’re a nonprofit news junkie, have a look at all our Nonprofit Technology News pieces from this past year. TechSoup Technologies for Good. Hacker Helper is all about not reinventing the technology wheel.

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Tech Soup

JULY 7, 2015

Public Good is a new donation platform from the people who revolutionized grassroots online giving for the 2012 Obama presidential campaign. Public Good is a new online donor management platform that was designed from the ground up to reflect how people organize around causes. Public Good offers a number of features, including.

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Nimble AMS

MAY 14, 2020

Outdated and poorly maintained technology can hurt your organization when you need it most. When in-person school was no longer possible, Fairfax County Public Schools, in Northern Virginia, launched virtual school for its 189,000 students. One way to combat these problems is to start researching cloud-based AMS solutions.

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Candid

JANUARY 5, 2023

Chantal Forster, Executive Director, TAG ( Technology Association of Grantmakers ). Is social sector data a type of public good? How does the social sector fund (or charge for) data infrastructure as a public good? Effective data use in the nonprofit sector is not a technology problem.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

Knowing our technology is working to support so many meaningful missions is really satisfying. Public libraries are some of our favorites. They’re one of the only public spaces open to everyone and where pretty much everything is free. It should be noted that Curtis is not a public municipal library in the traditional sense.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 5, 2021

Learn about the problem, the effects, and the solutions. Parent-led actions can resonate with diverse publics and policymakers, many of whom are parents and grandparents themselves, and can cut across ideological and political boundaries. Tenacity — Climate change is not a quick-fix problem, and building a movement takes time.

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Tech Soup

JULY 16, 2013

Through technology! Through technology, data, and resource-sharing, Community Boost_r seeks to empower Balkan citizens to voice their opinions, demand solutions to everyday problems, and stay informed on accountability and transparency issues. is a site where citizens can report government and community problems and anonymously.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 14, 2024

It helps them cultivate essential human skills like adaptability, creativity, and problem-solving, which are invaluable in a world increasingly shaped by AI. It must a people-first orientation, focusing on listening to staff concerns, creating safe spaces and time for them to discover, and apply the technology in their own way.

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