Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2019

Maybe a problem that needs to be solved, a person that needs help, a goal that’s not yet met — then let them know what role they’ll play when they create a personal fundraiser. They’ll be excited to turn their personal connection into a meaningful campaign. When you communicate with supporters about this opportunity, present real situations.

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CauseVox

APRIL 13, 2021

How is our peer-to-peer campaign solving a problem? Easy to convey — You may be solving a complicated problem, but your message should be simple enough for your supporters to explain to others. Sample “Registration Now Open” email. Make sure your messaging addresses these questions: What makes our organization unique?

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Whole Whale

MARCH 22, 2023

GPT and The Grey Jacket Problem At a Fundraising event in NYC, George was on a panel to talk about AI applications for fundraising and was wearing a grey sports jacket with blue pants. When you combine generic prompts with untrained AI’s and then publish it you are walking straight into a Grey Jacket Problem.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 9, 2023

King also recommends you develop and benefit from three information networks : Informal Advice Network – the people you go to for advice regarding a challenge or problem you are experiencing at work. Sample questions to ask include: How could I be more open about the decisions I make? Do you find my behavior to be inconsistent?

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 13, 2014

Try and increase awareness about the problem your nonprofit is seeking to resolve? Here are a few sample question you can start asking today. Why did your nonprofit start its social media feed in the first place? Was it to better engage with community? Spread the word about your mission? Like our blog? What are you passionate about?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 17, 2011

Ushahidi member Patrick Meier interpreted the JRC results as suggesting that "unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake."

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Kindful

JUNE 3, 2021

But many are struggling with the same set of problems that nonprofits have. The Council of Nonprofits boasts a treasure trove of free sample gift acceptance policies. A lot of nonprofit professionals think businesses have deep pockets. That’s a noble aspiration, but nonprofits aren’t entitled to anything.

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2021

Start by creating sample scripts for thank-you calls, emails, and cards and ask your team to thank your major donors. No problem. Adding personal stewardship to your major gifts program is one of the most effective ways to retain donors and engage fundraising allies from outside the development team. Keep growing.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 22, 2024

Before you start a new organization, it’s worth it to fully think through the problem you’re hoping to address and whether a nonprofit is the right way to solve the issue. Before taking the steps to start a nonprofit, ask yourself these questions: What need or problem will the nonprofit address? Hold interviews.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 20, 2022

The need to close may be because the organization is no longer needed because the problem the organization works to solve gets addressed. You can also find templates for nonprofit bylaws and nonprofit bylaws samples online, if you feel like your refresh will be more of a rewrite. Wouldn’t that be great?

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Robert Weiner

DECEMBER 5, 2012

Problems with this operation? For fast answers to your problems, visit our Help Center by clicking "Help" located on any PayPal page. {l1d} Sample Amazon spam: Payment sent to Kurtis Walls. Receipt ID: C-FJY21UQ72O68WD7H9. You have 45 days from the date of the operation to issue a dispute in the Resolution Center.

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Achieve

NOVEMBER 19, 2015

When I see a problem, I’m curious as to how it can be solved. At Achieve, we often employ a mixed-methodological approach to solve unique problems. From these findings, we then constructed a survey for distribution to a representative sample of teams within this company. I have always been curious. This natural curiosity.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 4, 2009

Here’s what David said : If you want to find out how social technology can be used collaboratively to solve neighbourhood problems, do join me and colleagues for a lively session on May 16 in London at the SHINE unconference for social entrepreneurs. You’ll find details here. “ If you want to do it quickly, do it alone.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 20, 2020

Ali was expected to make a training video from home on how to extract a bone marrow sample — without an examining room, without equipment, and most especially without an animal. If your supervisor has a catalogue of pandemic-related problems to solve, you might hesitate to add these needs to the list.

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NetWits

MAY 25, 2011

Teach Them to Fundraise and Provide Samples. Provide samples of everything. Supply sample fundraising emails, Facebook posts, tweets, phone scripts, thank you notes, approved logos, etc. Problems + slow response times = frustrated fundraisers. So, how can you help supporters become fundraising superstars?

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 15, 2022

The biggest problem with Facebook is that you can’t thank people properly and you don’t get donor information unless the donor agrees to it. Here’s a sample GivingGrid from the Humane Society of Southeast Missouri: Tips for Best Practice Of course, online fundraising is still donor-based fundraising.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2011

We’re reacting to the following claim: “Data collected using unbounded crowdsourcing (non-representative sampling) largely in the form of SMS from the disaster affected population in Port-au-Prince can predict, with surprisingly high accuracy and statistical significance, the location and extent of structural damage post-earthquake.”

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The Modern Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 28, 2023

Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. If this is your nonprofit’s first #GivingTuesday, use this workbook provided by #GivingTuesday to help your team get started planning. It’s okay to be a little vulnerable and tell your organization’s story.

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Get Fully Funded

JULY 16, 2023

Overcoming Challenging Board Members Almost every small and growing nonprofit Board has problems. People-problems are harder to fix. If this is a common problem, the President of the Board needs to speak with Wendy about her responsibilities and commitment and to get herself there on time. Or the ones who never stop talking.

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The Modern Nonprofit

AUGUST 31, 2021

Use this Complete Toolkit for Nonprofits for a sample timeline to get on track with your communications. Let your donors know what specific problem they are helping to solve. If this is your nonprofit’s first #GivingTuesday, use this workbook provided by #GivingTuesday to help your team get started planning.

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AccelEvents

AUGUST 28, 2020

A virtual escape room will give attendees the opportunity to work together with other participants, each using their knowledge and skills to solve problems. . Send a small bottle of wine, ingredients for a custom cocktail, or a craft beer sample. Virtual Cocktail Hour. Mix things up by adding a fun session or two. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 1, 2014

No problem. Amy Sample Ward from NTEN invited me to participate in an online webinar with other NTEN community champions to talk about GivingTuesday efforts. The day has so much more potential, as Hildy Gottlieb points out to be a day when nonprofits give to each other and create abundance.

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NetWits

NOVEMBER 5, 2010

To enter, just submit a short essay (300 words or less) explaining an idea for how your non-profit can (or already does) use media and technology to solve a social problem. NetSquared with Amy Sample Ward. To help do that they’ve launched a special scholarship program which has a entry deadline of … Sunday, October 31.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2013

Let me tell you why: I started working in the field of nonprofit technology in 1992 before there was an organization like NTEN and working alone you quickly face the problem of too much to learn alone. In the years leading up to the formation of NTEN, I was lucky enough to connect with colleagues and learn from them.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

The end of the year is usually when we have the most activity on the site and, therefore, we’ll reach a large sample size faster. Featured Photo: Students Create Digital Tools to Solve Problems by CDI Apps for Good. We ran our test from late October 2018 through late January 2019. Want more tips like this?

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2010

View more presentations from Amy Sample Ward. Here’s 5 key steps to mapping your work towards metrics: Problem : Be as specific as possible, focus on the problems you will be addressing directly (not just changing the world). (We’ll put up more notes after the session, too!). Crowdsourcing for Social Change.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Here are a few sample questions you might consider adding to your list: How fast are we growing? If there is a certain theme or central topic that a lot of questions continue to bubble up around, like costs of operational tasks or ROI, but you don’t have access to any financial data, that’s going to present a problem.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Small, solvable problems make excellent campaigns for Facebook fundraising! This strategy focuses on a small solvable problem that’s well defined and invites people to make an impact by giving just five dollars. It’s better to get the win so that everyone feels good about reaching the goal. Choose the right message.

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Double the Donation

AUGUST 21, 2021

How your peer-to-peer campaign or event is solving a problem. Getting participants to sign up to fundraise for your organization (and providing them with basic details, sample emails, and suggestions about how to raise funds from their family and friends) is just the beginning. What impact you are having on your mission.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 4, 2009

The core team was the same: David Wilcox, Andy Gibson and Amy Sample Ward - all co-authors, with Cass Business School of the forthcoming Social by Social handbook. After the problem and the people are addressed, then it’s time to consider the tech tools. More on that here.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Lack of Food Isn't the (Whole) Problem. The Range mobile app helps address that awareness problem. Find out more about the problem of hunger in America by exploring resources from Share Our Strength , WhyHunger , and Feeding America's Map the Meal Gap project. A Range of Nearby Summer Meals.

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.orgSource

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Wikipedia offers this one : Intelligence has been defined as the capacity for abstraction, logic, understanding, self-awareness, learning, emotional knowledge, reasoning, planning, creativity, critical thinking, and problem-solving. While AI does involve logic and problem-solving, it does not think. It calculates.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

JULY 12, 2015

The interviews shed light on any possible problems while there's still time for you to address them. Stay interviews are periodic, private, one-on-one meetings between direct supervisors and employees, both newly-hired and long-timers. They have the sole purpose of encouraging people to talk about themselves and what makes them happy.

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AFP Blog

MAY 27, 2014

Young People Are Skeptical of Information Learned on Twitter - Pacific Standard: The Science of Society : t’s reasonable to fear that social media could exacerbate this problem. It finds that a sample of college students were, in fact, less likely to fall for false information if it had been presented to them in a Twitter format.'

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NTEN

AUGUST 8, 2011

For example, ask applicants to "please reference X in the subject line" (fill in X with something related to the position or your organization) or use an auto-responder to ask applicants to answer a few questions or get a writing or code sample after they've submitted their resumes. Do you have any tips or recommendations to share?

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NTEN

JUNE 24, 2013

The third and latest episode of npVOICES has come out featuring Mark Rovner and Alia McKee of Sea Change Strategies, and NTEN''s new CEO, Amy Sample Ward. They are places where problems big and small are tackled by groups of people working towards a common goal. They are places where we learn and become something greater than we were.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 13, 2013

The problem is that it takes some tech planning to come up with a budget for the New Year. DIY technology planning resources has good simple templates: Sample Technology Inventory , a Sample Budget for Technology Investments , and a Sample Technology Action Plan.

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