Wild Apricot

MAY 24, 2010

This action-packed infographic from the Pepsi Refresh Project presents a picture of the “typical” volunteer. Could your non profit create a similar volunteer or member profile, to help guide your own recruitment and retention programs? Tags: nptech Volunteers Non-profit Communications demographics. read more ).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 22, 2009

Volunteerism in the 21st century can take a different form than traditional charity work, like YouTube’s Video Volunteers: youtube.com/videovolunteers. Become a YouTube Video Volunteer. Tags: socialchange storytelling allforgood socialactions video youtube. Want to use your video skills for good?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 16, 2006

This morning I got an email from my colleagues at NTEN telling me it was an awesome example of tagging. This post takes a quick look at the the Voters project as a tagging project to glean some learnings. The intent of the project is "By tagging content related to Minnesota's election, more voter s will be heard."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 19, 2009

Later in the afternoon, we held a volunteer appreciation event for inhouse volunteers. Most Benetech volunteers work remotely, but our volunteer coordinator, Pavi Mehta, has attracted a group of great people who come into Benetech to work on Bookshare Bookshare and other projects as well.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 22, 2010

This week (April 18th to 25th) is National Volunteer Week in the US. Chances are if you work or volunteer for a nonprofit you already know that. Maybe you even have a favorite volunteer and you're planning a special recognition of their efforts this week. Try 'em out, pitch in for a good cause, and who knows? Start here.

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Whole Whale

MAY 2, 2024

Data hygiene projects This can range from cleaning and completing Salesforce, spreadsheet, CRM or other databases for stakeholders. Meta descriptions and tagging Interns can be given assignments to clean up tagging and past content on platforms like YouTube or Pinterest which will help discoverability.

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Association Analytics

JUNE 21, 2023

For example, include any details on how that KPI may impact other projects or results. You might use inconsistent content or course tagging, or team members might use a variety of names for one type of offering. Once everyone is steering in the same direction, tagging and classifying data will become second nature.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 20, 2010

Here's some specific examples of how, if you're a techie, you can find ways to donate your technical expertise or time to Haiti or some of the many ways techies are helping out: The Crisis Commons facilitates partnerships and maintains a network of technology volunteers to respond to specific needs in times of crisis.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 13, 2006

I'm tagging information related to discussion, examples, and comments about nonprofits using tagging (or not using tagging) to prep for upcoming session at netsquared.org with the tag del.icio.us/nptag. What would this visual look like if it was translated into a graphic of nonprofit tagging use?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

One of the most effective ways to turn prospects into supporters, generate buzz about your nonprofit, and build loyalty with your volunteers and donors is to use user-generated storytelling. Then tie your user-generated stories together using hashtags and encourage them to tag your organization and share it with their social networks.

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Candid

JANUARY 30, 2023

Rebranding can be used to improve public perception of a nonprofit’s organization, but it’s a major decision and significant project to undertake. Ask yourself: Do you have the budget and bandwidth to invest into this project? Full-scale, extensive rebranding projects can carry expensive price tags.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2010

Note from Beth: Last month, we did a Networked Nonprofit session at the National Conference on Volunteering and Service. Recently I got my first full-on blast of the Networked Nonprofit at a session the authors presented at the 2010 National Conference on Volunteering and Service. He offered to write a guest post. Opportunity Design.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 28, 2014

Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Offer custom fields for tribute or memorial donations to be made in someone’s name or create fields for additional details you may need to collect from your donors, such as volunteer options. Give your donors the option to choose a specific project within your organization that they want their gift to go toward within your donation page.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 26, 2010

Wading into the end-of-project paperwork? Or maybe you’re signing up a new crop of volunteers for your non-profit. Creating a presentation for your board? Whatever the task, odds are that there’s a time-saving template, free at Google Docs, to help you do more with less effort. read more ).

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2010

People — whether they are volunteers or paid staff — are the backbone of every organization. Below we've listed a few of our human-resources-focused tools to help you keep track of documents, schedules, and time — for employees and volunteers alike.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 29, 2021

In early 2018, a band of adventurers who came to be known as the Salesforce.org Trailhead Editorial Board set out to reach customers, partners, and pro bono volunteers with a comprehensive menu of skills-based training. Tag @SalesforceOrg to extend your reach. Road-Tested Tips for Designing a Learning Program. About the Author.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 21, 2023

One way to engage with your donors on social media for GivingTuesday is to create a hashtag challenge for people to participate and tag you in. Recurring donations also keep your donors in the habit of giving, making them more likely to donate to your organization for other projects.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Capturing your event via picture and video all while transforming it into marketing collateral can help you recruit volunteers, surpass your fundraising goal , and boost signups for the next one. Consider compensating them for their participation, promoting their upcoming initiatives, or offering them volunteer hours. Geofilters.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 2, 2023

Capturing your event via picture and video all while transforming it into marketing collateral can help you recruit volunteers, surpass your fundraising goal , and boost signups for the next one. Consider compensating them for their participation, promoting their upcoming initiatives, or offering them volunteer hours. Geofilters.

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Trello — Top Fundraising App for Project Management Nonprofits are frequently planning projects. Whether it’s a fundraising campaign or a project funded by fundraising dollars, you need to stay organized. Trello is a project management system that helps provide a visual representation of each stage of the project’s process.

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Wild Apricot

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Tags: collaboration documents event management General non-profit interest Microsoft Non-profit Communications Non-profit technology nptech office print productivity project management publicity spreadsheets Staffing surveys templates Volunteers websites. read more ).

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CauseVox

JULY 31, 2023

The concentrated effort can lead to a significant increase in fundraising outcomes, allowing organizations to meet financial targets, fund crucial projects, and expand their impact. The increased visibility not only leads to more donations but also opens doors for partnerships, volunteer engagement, and long-term support.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 22, 2011

Nonprofits face unique challenges that commercial enterprises often don't face: you have no IT staff, no IT budget, uneven levels of technical skills in staff, high turnover and volunteer staff, distributed teams with only the internet connecting them, no long term IT planning or vision, and project based funding models.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

If you are thinking about giving a social media project to an intern or a new employee who is a recent college grad, keep these four tips in mind. The intern can lead the way and set everything up, but permanent staff, long-time volunteers and board members must be a part of it too. Tags: guest blogging socialnetworking.

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NCE Social Media

JUNE 19, 2009

Through this project they want to connect web based volunteers with charitable groups who nee web and or technical support. If you have a need for someone to help your group on a web based project, please visit the Mozilla Service Week site. Tags: Marketing and Awareness mozilla volunteer webbased.

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Judi Sohn

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

These are projects where I’ll be using my knowledge and love of Force.com to help organizations make the world a better place. These are projects where I know the people behind them are are as passionate about serving communities as I am, and they’re not in this to return a profit to disinterested investors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2006

The Art Museum Social Tagging Project is a group of art museums is looking at integrating folksonomies into the museum Web by developing a working prototype for tagging and term collection, and outlining directions for future development and research that could benefit the entire museum community. A tag is a user???s

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NTEN

OCTOBER 9, 2009

Caught in the act, the two are forced to undertake a community service project as punishment. Tags: contest COP Social Media Web Sites Communications. A jealous Quinn is bitten with the spirit to serve as well when she learns that the two will be spending every Saturday for a month together at a senior citizen's facility.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2009

Using WWL, you can encourage bilingual volunteers to translate your own content so that a broader audience can find it. Before the guide even officially launched, TechSoup Taiwan had already begun an ambitious project to translate it into Chinese Traditional. Do you have any success stories about volunteer translation?

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Achieve

JANUARY 22, 2024

Invite mid-level donors to volunteer. Volunteering can help mid-level donors see first-hand the impact their contributions have and feel more connected to your organization and its community. If your mid-level donors are interested in a particular program or service your nonprofit offers, invite them to volunteer at the next activity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2014

#thankful4home: A Lesson in Project Based Learning & Gratitude guest post by Lisa Colton. The Boot Camp includes training, coaching, and project based learning. An awareness campaign was the perfect opportunity for project-based learning for this group of organizations. Are you volunteering or donating this holiday season?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 20, 2009

tags: nten 09ntc ). The Day of Service is an opportunity for nonprofit techies to give back to the local community - in form of sharing knowledge one-on-one with a local organization or participate in a group project like installing a wireless network in a homeless shelter! Every year we also do a group community project.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This week, thousands of volunteers have signed up and over 10,000 hours have been pledged to make a difference in our communities, our world, our Web. There are many ways you can get involved with the Mozilla Service week, whether you are a techie or not, have a project or want to join one. Learn more about finding a project, here.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 30, 2009

Volunteers. So, they’ve already publicly promoted you to their whole followers list and as a member of the list can feel a bit more connected with the organization (to retweet messages in the future, help promote campaigns or other projects, etc.). Tags: community strategy campaigns lists twitter. What do you think?

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Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 29, 2009

It's my "artistic rendering" of one of the most inspirational participatory projects I know of--the Bibliotheek Haarlem Oost book drops. Haarlem Oost is a branch library in the Netherlands that wanted to encourage visitors to add tags (descriptive keywords) to the books they read. Read the original post on this project for more info.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2008

The NpTech Tag Summary went on hiatus to give some space to. I'm moving beyond monitoring the NpTech tagged items and meta feeds to incorporate nuggets from micro media sources, nptech bloggers, friend feeds, and USG. Don't forget to sign up the feeds on the agreed tag. Photo by SpacePotato. rethink, reinvent. Tyler Willis ) 7.

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