Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured IT to further their missions. It’s a place that provides educational and recreational services for autistic kids and also some adults.

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Forum One

JUNE 2, 2022

Late last year a new Executive Order focused attention on what many government agencies already strive to do: provide an efficient, reliable customer experience (CX) to citizens accessing government services like passports, social security, and small business loans. 2) What about accessibility? Not part of a government agency?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map is a trove of information on what lots of nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup-procured-IT to further their missions. It’s a place that provides educational and recreational services for autistic kids and also some adults. Want to share.

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Candid

APRIL 13, 2021

Candid’s partners come in many forms: public libraries, community colleges, nonprofit resource centers, and foundations. Regardless of institution type, they all have staff trained to provide access and guidance to Candid’s premier applications, such as Foundation Directory Online (FDO) and Grants to Individuals , for free.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2022

Our mission is to develop neuro-inclusive communities for adults with autism and other intellectual or developmental disabilities to ensure that everybody has a place and a sense of belonging in the world. Feeling overwhelmed and clueless, I headed to the Salt Lake City Public Library (SLCPL). The mission of AA21 Utah is too important.

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Forum One

APRIL 30, 2024

Each type of solution has benefits and drawbacks, so it’s important to understand the landscape and map the right solution to the use case at hand. This includes protecting personal and sensitive data from unauthorized access and ensuring that data collection and use follow relevant laws and regulations.

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AccelEvents

JULY 16, 2021

The SOC 2 certification was developed by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) as a way of evaluating that a company follows the criteria for managing customer data based on principles of trust. . Set up policies and procedures for data classification and data access. What is SOC 2 Certification?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 12, 2012

Get mobile broadband access for your organization with a donated fourth-generation (4G) modem or wireless hotspot from the Mobile Beacon Donation Program. This USB modem is handy for someone who often travels with their laptop, and needs broadband access as they go. CLEAR Spot 4G Apollo. CLEAR Modem with WiFi. Is Your Area Covered?

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.orgSource

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

These are qualities that characterize customer experience: Takes a broad perspective—encompasses interactions both across the organization and constituencies and can extend to employees and the public as well as members. The ability to accurately develop personas and create their journey maps. Once those powerful systems are in place.

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Classy

JULY 14, 2021

Make Your Content Accessible to Varying Audiences. People absorb content differently, so it’s important to organize your virtual fundraising event in a way that is accessible to a variety of learning styles and schedules. If they drop or freeze a lot, ask them to move closer to their WiFi access point or to hardwire.

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sgEngage

JULY 19, 2021

States , journals , and professional associations declared racism a public health emergency. More equitable access to resources. Do they map to your Community Health Needs Assessment? Sharing the application process with the community also makes access to resources more equitable. Assess current priorities. Set a budget.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Millions of editors on Wikipedia and it’s rise in public use was climbing. On the morning of July 7th, a page was created for the events taking place in central London and as both television news and personal witnesses revealed more information the page content grew – by the minute. Examples from Haiti.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 20, 2010

Having tools in place to help you monitor, measure, and evaluate your work in real time will help you be more successful with your campaign, better engage with the community, and make more lasting change in the long run. You can see an example of a dashboard by visiting my public Nonprofit Tech Dashboard. Community Mapping.

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Classy

JUNE 8, 2021

But as you gain more followers, you also gain access to their networks, since the content they’re engaging with will show up on their connections’ feeds. . The LinkedIn search bar is a good place to start searching for members—but to really take your searches to the next level, consider investing in LinkedIn Sales Navigator.

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NTEN

JANUARY 8, 2013

Data sharing has become a critical part of collaboration and will continue to do so as we are able to access and create more data. Data.gov: Data.gov provides public access to datasets generated by the Federal Government. You can filter the raw data, RSS feeds of the data, charts, maps, or even widgets made of the data.

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Forum One

MAY 18, 2023

If your government agency is exploring a Drupal 10 migration, a great place to start is to read through our Guide to Planning for Drupal 10. In 2019, USDA conducted the third Farm to School Census to measure progress towards reaching the goal of improving access to local foods in schools. Many others are planning the move now.

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Forum One

MARCH 25, 2021

To solidify its place as a world-class fine arts organization, the newly rebranded Arkansas Museum of Fine Arts (AMFA) launched an innovative online experience to mirror what will be an important community landmark when the museum finishes its building renovations in 2022. The Frist Art Museum: Inspiring cultural curiosity in Nashville.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner , MapTogether.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2011

Signing up for a Google Account gives you immediate access to a number of Google Products while a Google Profile is your online identity inside of the Googleverse. The next step is to follow the instructions to “Create a public profile.” Sign up for a Google Account. A Google Account is different from a Google Profile.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 24, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! What Ive learned from Chandler is that community is not a place — its a practice.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 27, 2017

I'd like you to meet Kerry Thomson at Habitat for Humanity of Monroe County, Indiana; Lori Chidgey of Corazon Ministries in San Antonio, Texas; Betty Martin of Cape Girardeau Public Library in Missouri; and the late Rory Foster of the Northwoods Wildlife Center in Minocqua, Wisconsin. A World Where Everyone Has a Decent Place to Live.

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Forum One

JULY 22, 2021

If your government agency is exploring a Drupal 9 migration, a great place to start is to read through our Guide to Planning for Drupal 9. EPA migrated their flagship website epa.gov from Drupal 7 to Drupal 9, with much of the migration work taking place in Drupal 8. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Geographic information systems (GIS) and online mapping applications continue to become more powerful and easier to use every year. Mapping applications that used to require sophisticated software and time-intensive training to create can now be completed in a matter of minutes with user-friendly tools. Jim Craner, MapTogether.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 2, 2022

The £217 million fund is the largest single-purpose Lottery-funded endowment ever made,and the biggest-ever investment by a non-state funder in place-based, resident-led change in the UK. The growth of place-based approaches to community funding correlates with social trends that have been developing over the last decade.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

Flickr Photo By Mastery of Maps. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. I’m looking forward to being one of the public who gets to benefit from their courage and transparency.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 23, 2010

Embeds : I really like that the entire dashboard is embedable – helping keep the resources and value emerging from the community accessible and transportable. I’ve used it in conferences where you want to be able to pool resources, slides, and conversations into one place. Have you used Tweetnotes? What do you think?

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Whether we look at mapping tools, fundraising, or missing person systems, the social media response to the January earthquakes in Haiti all leverage the powerful technology we can hold in our hands: our mobile phones. Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2014

The library is much more than just a place to get books. They recruited a local volunteer to teach the kids Adobe InDesign to lay out the publication. Both children and older patrons avidly use the library’s public access computers with current Microsoft applications. The teens also have access to GoPro and Nikon.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Poke around the map and see for yourself. Even if you don't win this month, we would still love to place your organization's story on the Local Impact Map. The first place winner will be awarded a new Microsoft Surface Pro 3, and the second place winner will be awarded a new Microsoft Surface Pro 2, supplied by a donor.

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BoardAssist

APRIL 25, 2017

They want us to find them a way to truly be an agent of change on the boards where we place them. Once on board, they often do just that, like this week’s guest blogger Vanessa Wilson who BoardAssist was honored to place on several boards. Why not use these funding/ smoothing options available to many for-profit businesses?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2014

The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Interested? Submission Restrictions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. Once we mapped the network on the wall before our eyes, we reflected on the following questions: * What are the points of connection? Network Mapping Exercise. February 27, 2011. What are the opportunities for reciprocity?

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 27, 2011

ASU Home ASU A-Z Index My ASU Colleges & Schools Directory Map About Blog Academics Organizational Assistance Emerging Leaders Professional Development Philanthropy Research News & Events You are here: Home → Blog Pages Blog Home Write for us! Technology now makes it possible and even requires me to be all over the place all the time.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 10, 2013

And how can nonprofits and public libraries actually make use of it? Community Health Needs Assessment), is collaboration between Kaiser Permanente, Institute for People, Place & Possibility (IP3), and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. Big data is still one of those concepts that baffle me. Where does it come from?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 18, 2009

Karin Pritikin, who I met in Chicago in June and works for  Health & Medicine Policy Research Group , reached out to me to share some of the "hallway conversations" taking place in her organization about movements and social media.   In the 40s, 50s, 60s and 70s action took place at meetings and demonstrations.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The organization with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the Lenovo IdeaPad AND will be featured as the "Youth Impact" story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 30, 2014

One of our favorite ways to share success stories is through our Local Impact Map (LIM). The LIM is a highly visual tool that uses mapping technology to plot success stories in a global context. It is a place for funders, and NGOs alike to find inspiring stories about tech use. That sounds great. How do you plan on doing that?

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