Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2013

I’ll review some new developments in email technology including Gmail’s new tabbed inbox and how it affects your charity newsletters, and the array of new email filtering services that cut down on email overload. Since then the Clinton Foundation has quietly been working on a sustainable infrastructure model for the country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

One thing we learned is that heavy social media users are more likely to be new donors to the charity after encountering them on social media channels. I love serendipity! We looked at the donation motivations and habits of individuals and their social media usage habits.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 29, 2014

– Amy Schiller – The Atlantic – “Charity is for patsies. The Rockefeller Foundation – “The World Bank recently published a noble and important report with answers to the question Is anyone reading our reports and publications? Is For-Profit the Future of Non-Profit?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2014

It was one of the first 24-hour day of giving that rallies and inspires to donate to charities. Now, in your 6th year, drum roll, tell us Give to the Max Day by the numbers : Total raised: $18,316,626.42 (7% increase over 2013). Total gifts: 120,664 (13% increase over 2013). Total donors: 62,607 (a 20% increase over 2013).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign. The Give App.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2013

I created an “ unselfie ” – sharing the charity I’m supporting – NTEN. UN Foundation (@unfoundation) December 3, 2013. Join me for a Twitter Chat at 12:30 pm PST – I’ll be taking over the UnFoundation Twitter account. What questions do you have for her? askbethk. — Giving Days.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2014

Photo courtesy of The Miami Foundation. This post was cross-posted from the Knight Foundation Blog and written by Jessica Hodder who is the digital communications associate for Knight Foundation. million, organizers at The Miami Foundation realized that Give Miami Day 2014 would be their most successful Giving Day yet.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. TechSoup donor partners, Microsoft and Cisco are teaming up with Google , the Omidyar Network , USAID , UKaid , and a host of additional charities and tech companies to launch the initiative. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation.

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Candid

JULY 27, 2023

This data powers tools like Candid’s Foundation Directory , allowing users to see who’s giving what, where, and to whom. private and community foundations. 2013-2014 – Tweens A decade in, the importance of consistent year-over-year comparisons grew. funders, and public foundations (aka grantmaking public charities).

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

We introduced the GuideStar Seals of Transparency in 2013 to address these questions and to provide visible recognition when a nonprofit shares information on GuideStar. Public charities account for 97 percent of Seal holders but only 73 percent of all U.S. Private foundations also hold Seals of Transparency. Foundations.

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AFP Blog

SEPTEMBER 18, 2013

Vodafone Foundation launches 2013 charity hackathon - mobility, smartphones, Vodafone, Hackathons, mobile apps - Development - Techworld : The Vodafone Foundation has launched the 2013 edition of its charity hackathon, App Aid. The goal is to build prototype mobile apps to help the charities'' work.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. Move over Gates Foundation. All that and Ginny Mies's pick for the mobile app of the month. Now, here's the latest: Digital Inclusion.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2013

So when the latest version of Microsoft Office became available for eligible nonprofits, charities, libraries, and foundations through the Microsoft Software Donation Program , we teamed up with our friends at Microsoft Citizenship and Doug Thomas, content producer for Office.com, to host a tweet chat. Use OneNote! (It's

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

billion in 2013 and nonprofit fundraisers using crowdfunding platforms and techniques continues to explode (according to this infographic from Craig Newmark). She is making barrettes, selling them , and donating the proceeds to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation. Crowdfunding in general has raised more than 5.1

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Candid

JULY 26, 2022

It’s not a new concept; in fact, as far back as 2013, GuideStar (Candid’s predecessor organization along with Foundation Center), the BBB, and Charity Navigator came together to issue a call to stop the overhead myth. . Work with a nonprofit accountant to create an ironclad budget and stick to it.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 11, 2013

Prior to joining NTEN in 2013, I worked in the human rights field with Social Accountability International (SAI). But the first test is to set up a way to measure it. Every nonprofit aims to have impact, but few have the systems in place to calculate little more than outputs. Get started!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

A study ( [link] ) funded by the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and MacArthur Foundation has found “when digital games were compared to other instruction conditions without digital games, there was a moderate to strong effect in favor of digital games in terms of broad cognitive competencies.”. Around Gender.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 4, 2013

Dan Pallotta’s recent TED Talk, “The way we think about charity is dead wrong” , has garnered more than 1.2 million views online and he is the keynote speaker at NTEN’s upcoming 2013 Nonprofit Technology Conference. But we don’t want people making money in charity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2012

charity called Barnardo’s , which is a children’s charity, rang me up and said could they borrow an economist from me,” Brookes says. ” It struck Brookes that if a large, established charity was soliciting economists, others might well be in need. .” charities with economists willing to donate their time.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Global giving appeals to grantmakers of all sizes and types, from family foundations with enduring legacies to new foundations exploring novel pathways of giving. On March 18, 2013, NGOsource. On March 18, 2013, NGOsource. public charity. grantmakers and a burden on the very organizations they hope to support.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 4, 2013

More than 10,000 partner charities, volunteer organizations, corporations, community centers and foundations joined in the ‘giving spirit’ as they asked donors to give to their favorite causes from across the nation and around the world. Online giving on #GivingTuesday 2013 was up 90% compared to 2012.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MARCH 12, 2014

According to the Charities Aid Foundation''s (CAF) Global Giving Index 2013, the U.S. The two are, however, extremely different in Turkey, and nonprofit organizations avoid using any term that will associate them with the for-profit sector such as “sector”, “client” and “marketing”.

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Connection Cafe

DECEMBER 22, 2013

As we prepare for our leap into 2014, let’s learn from 2013′s ups and downs – triumphs and flops – and make this next year one for the record books. Here’s Your 2013 Nonprofit Roundup: THIS – thanks to Marc Koenig of Nonprofit Hub: Nonprofits, 2014 is the Year of the Blog.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2013

Baby Boomers Are Foundation of U.S. 5 of a Number of Takeaways from Blackbaud’s 2013 Next Generation Giving Study – NPQ. Baby Boomers Now Largest Source of Charity Gifts, Study Finds – The Chronicle of Philanthropy. New Study: 60% of Americans Donate Money to Charity – Frogloop. Your Donors Are Old!

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 11, 2013

More than 10,000 partner charities, volunteer organizations, corporations, community centers and foundations joined in the ‘giving spirit’ as they asked donors to give to their favorite causes from across the nation and around the world. Online giving on #GivingTuesday 2013 was up 90% compared to 2012.

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Whole Whale

JUNE 19, 2024

Were donations to charities always tax-deductible? Check out these pivotal moments in the history of nonprofits, foundations, and philanthropy throughout American history: The Union Fire Company in Philadelphia , founded by Benjamin Franklin in 1736, was the first volunteer-based organization in U.S. focused on fighting fires.

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Whole Whale

MARCH 21, 2022

Were donations to charities always tax-deductible? The United Way was founded by religious leaders in 1887 in Denver, originally called the Charity Organizations Society. The first community foundation was established in Cleveland, Ohio, in 1914. When was the first volunteer organization created in the U.S.?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2013

The updated 2013 Office Web Apps adds a few new features and a redesigned interface that complements Windows 8 and the new version of Office (read Ars Technica's review of Office Web Apps here). SkyDrive Pro also runs on the newest SharePoint Online and SharePoint 2013 on-premises.

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Care2

APRIL 1, 2013

The winner will receive a cash award of $1,000, plus Care2 will donate an additional $1,000 to their favorite charity. The 2013 Care2 Impact Prize finalists are (drumroll please): James Rucker – co-founder of Color of Change. Shumway Marshall – Online Director at American Foundation for Equal Rights.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 17, 2014

In 2012, New York's 92nd Street Y , in tandem with the UN Foundation , started #GivingTuesday as an event to be observed on the first Tuesday after Thanksgiving. In 2013, in only its second year, 10,000 groups in 40 countries participated. What is #GivingTuesday? Innovation and Creativity Wanted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 12, 2016

Community foundations across the country have been promoting local giving days to motivate people to support nearby charities, encourage nonprofits to embrace technology, and bolster their reputations. based software company, created Give Local America so community foundations could host annual one-day fundraising events.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

to see if your nonprofit, charity, foundation, or public library is eligible for the new Office. Bing Dictionary (Word 2013) is not your traditional online dictionary. Bing Maps (Excel 2013) helps you use location data from a given column in Excel 2013 and plot it on a Bing Map. Apps for Office. More Resources.

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Candid

JANUARY 14, 2022

Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center has announced a $100 million gift from the Fiona and Stanley Druckenmiller Foundation to establish a fund to seed promising projects in translational cancer medicine that might otherwise go unfunded. Druckenmillers commit $100 million to Memorial Sloan Kettering. January 12, 2022. January 12, 2022.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 18, 2016

Charity and government support remain crucial but are insufficient to address the magnitude of the task at hand. More than a million tax-exempt organizations exist in the United States, including public charities, private foundations, and civic organizations—not counting the 220,000 religious congregations that are also registered.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 12, 2015

Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2013. T-shirt giant CustomInk backed and launched Booster in 2013. Booster launched its first campaign in 2013. Co-Disruptor: YouCaring.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 7, 2012

" New at TechSoup: Your 501(c)(3) nonprofit, library, or foundation can now collect donations by text message — and develop your own mobile site — with discounted and donated services from Connect2Give. This offer is available to all nonprofits, charities, foundations, and public libraries. More About Mobile.

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