Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 11, 2023

So in short, yes—a golf tournament is absolutely worth it, especially when you have the right tech in place. Use your event website to seamlessly collect donations during checkout, right from live leaderboards, and through a mobile app, and show your progress toward a fundraising goal. 5) Help is available!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 4, 2021

The good news is that once you embrace digital donor engagement tools, most of the grunt work – like donation forms and gift acknowledgements – is done for you through automation. These items tend to sell quickly at any auction, but you can generate even more excitement with pre-bidding and mobile notifications. Custom artwork.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 12, 2011

On the Mobile Web, it’s 1999 all over again. Those nonprofits that are pioneering mobile websites today will reap the benefits of Mobile SEO tomorrow. Mobile search engines like Google Mobile , Yahoo! Mobile , and Bing Mobile are hungry for mobile content, especially fresh content.

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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. The new project is called the Mobile Giving Alliance.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 20, 2015

Mobile World Congress (MWC), which is held annually in Barcelona, Spain, sets the tone for the mobile industry for the coming year. It also influences other areas of the tech world and other industries — including the social sector. Remember how I mentioned that Mobile World Congress seemed focused on inclusion?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 21, 2016

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. Nonprofit new media managers often battle mobile and social media burnout. Mobile and social media stimulates mental chatter and can sometimes even affect a person’s ability to sleep.

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Byte Technology

DECEMBER 17, 2015

It’s said that life moves pretty fast, and in the world of tech gadgets and gear, apps and programs, cloud computing and massive online networks that’s certainly true. The mesh refers to an ever-increasing set of “endpoints” that people use to access applications and interact with each other in social communities, at work and in business.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 26, 2014

38% of Internet users access social media through mobile. We’ve talked in the previous blog posts about the importance of mobile to your nonprofit’s digital content marketing future. 54% of Millennials use LinkedIn to read professional / business news. General Our Impact Tech nonprofit npTech social media technology'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

The majority of Gen Z resides in developing countries where NGOs are going to be essential to ensure this rising generation has access to education, employment, and family planning resources. 6) By 2018 more than half the world will have access to the Internet and by 2020 global internet users are expected to reach 4.2

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

While a QR code makes donating quick, it also limits accessibility to those (1) with a smartphone and (2) with a QR reader app. Only a small portion of mobile device users scan QR codes. of people with a mobile device using the technology to scan a QR code. Many users need to download an application from their app store.

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Non Profit Quarterly

APRIL 20, 2023

Image Credit: dole777 on unsplash After more than a decade of dominating the social media landscape, Big Tech platforms like Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter are in flux. Meta—the parent company of Facebook and Instagram—has been under fire in the past few years over its lax policies on news content, data privacy, and misinformation.

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TechImpact

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

Additionally, the majority of providers offer mobile apps and software platforms that can be downloaded to smart phones and laptops to be taken anywhere by your employees. Have you ever been in the field, or had a worker in the field who needed a document immediately but had no access to a fax machine?

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Achieve

SEPTEMBER 8, 2020

While smart tech-based strategies will improve your efforts right now, they’ll also continue providing value after the pandemic once social distancing guidelines dissipate. When planning your next fundraising event, it’s up to you to decide which tech tactics are worth the time for your organization. Ensure it’s mobile-responsive.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 27, 2019

Your organization has exclusive access to this data. You can then publish your own report, blog post(s), news articles, social media posts, etc. To apply in any other language, please email Heather Mansfield, Editor-in-chief of Nonprofit Tech for Good in the language of your choice and she will email you an application.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Mobile for Good is a bit of a misnomer for this month's column. But there's light at the end of this tunnel: new, free updates to Office mobile apps! In my years of tech writing, I've found that many Apple users have a false sense of security with their products. Privacy should be accessible to everybody!

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TechImpact

APRIL 30, 2014

Image courtesy of SMB Tech Guide. This ensures that all your data is only accessible by authorized and authenticated users. This level of certifiable protection ensures your nonprofit’s network infrastructure is monitored and unauthorized persons are kept from accessing your data, content, and kept from disrupting service.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

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. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 17, 2014

Mobile for Good is a bit of a misnomer for this month's column. But there's light at the end of this tunnel: new, free updates to Office mobile apps! In my years of tech writing, I've found that many Apple users have a false sense of security with their products. Privacy should be accessible to everybody!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 22, 2017

Sponsored by the Public Interest Registry and researched by Nonprofit Tech for Good, the report summarizes donor data across six continents about how online and mobile technology effects giving. Despite a decade of improvements in mobile giving, the app that donors want doesn’t yet exist. Only 9% say anger and sadness.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 29, 2010

The Web is going mobile. Smartphones are transforming the Internet and how individuals access the Web. One in five Americans now access the mobile Web daily. Others through mobile Web browsers. For $8 a month, your organization can launch a blog and a mobile website. Faster than anyone thought. Easy enough.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 25, 2014

When I was working at a tech magazine, my colleagues would often comment on certain months being slow for their beats: May was slow for printers, July was slow for cameras, etc. I usually laughed when I heard such remarks because my beat, mobile, was never. Microsoft News. The event is expected to focus on mobile and the cloud.

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 24, 2013

Mobile Access. Easy Access To Conferences. One of the best features is the web app, which allows both PC and Mac users to access a meeting in their web browser. The ability to access a detailed record of chats makes it easy to search and reference details after the chat is over. Persistent Chat.

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Neon CRM

AUGUST 10, 2023

Nonprofit conferences can feature a variety of topics, like fundraising, marketing, nonprofit tech, and leadership. Register for Generosity Xchange 2023 News & Highlights 7 Top Takeaways from 2022’s Generosity Xchange 10 min read Read Now 2. All attendees, both virtual and in-person, will receive access to session recordings.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

It's high time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! This time I’ll review some new developments in privacy and security, social media, cloud computing, digital inclusion, gaming for good, and the new tech blog, Re/code. There’s lots of interesting NPTech news this month.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2014

This week, the world is gearing up for mobile's biggest global tradeshow, Mobile World Congress (MWC). The Barcelona tradeshow sets the mobile trends for the year with major announcements expected from Nokia, Samsung, LG, and others. In open source news, ZTE announced two smartphones that run Firefox OS 1.3,

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TechImpact

OCTOBER 17, 2013

Donors are mobile and want accessibility. 87% of supporters who researched a nonprofit via their mobile device found a nonprofit’s website to be the most helpful in their decision, and 1 in 4 discovered a new nonprofit they were previously unaware of through mobile browsing and research.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Summer is a big time for mobile news: there's Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, Microsoft Build, CTIA, and a spree of other mobile-related press conferences. Sometimes the day-to-day work at a nonprofit can make you feel worlds apart from the fast-moving mobile tech industry. Tablet Explosion!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 5, 2009

As the Web goes mobile , so does social media… and so should your nonprofit. If there is one thing I have learned over ten years of using the Internet for fundraising and social change, those nonprofits that can embrace change quickly, empower their visionaries, and adopt new Web trends, reap the benefits of being early adopters.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. PC Sales Continue To Decline While Mobile Sales Increase. Green Technology.

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TechImpact

JANUARY 30, 2014

Image courtesy of Mobile Day. From files, and information to logs of interactions between specific individuals, Salesforce’s robust array of features will keep any nonprofit’s tech team innovating and engaged. Upgrading your nonprofit’s tech isn’t always a priority, but it should be. Access customized information.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

Donors are much less likely to give through mobile apps/wallets (4%) and through text message (1%). Increased access to online and mobile giving technology in Africa, Asia, and South America will likely grow these numbers significantly in coming years. Donors are also highly engaged in civic life.

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Tech Soup

JULY 21, 2015

NTEN's Amy Sample Ward recently wrote an intriguing article about Addressing Digital Inclusion in Every Mission making the case that access to broadband for everyone is key to ensuring that we all have the opportunities to fully participate in public life and advocate for our own health and well-being. Image : I used a nikon / CC BY-NC.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Four quick bits of news: a new life for New York City pay phones, a more "conversational" way to search for information, the recently-launched Give app, and smart garbage. Useless Pay Phones to Become Free WiFi Hot Spots in New York City. Bing’s New "Conversational" Search.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 11, 2014

Nonprofits that have not yet mobilized their online communications and fundraising campaigns will start to pay the price literally in lost donations in 2014. Websites, blogs, and e-newsletters that are responsively designed will become more common place in 2014 and will incorporate elements of flat design for optimal mobile browsing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 14, 2014

The following is an excerpt from Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Guide for Nonprofits. In 2013 the number of nonprofits that hired part-time or full-time new media managers increased fourfold. Expert new media managers have the ability to anticipate the impact of emerging trends in mobile and social media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2021

The good news is regardless of these changes, the primary focus of the event remains the same—golf and your cause. Organizations can sell top-tier sponsorships that provide broad exposure on the event website, mobile scoring app, and live leaderboards that deliver impressions before, during, and after the event. 5) Add a virtual round.

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TechImpact

SEPTEMBER 17, 2013

By virtualizing their web-based operations with products like Office 365 and SharePoint, employees were able to access documents, Outlook, shared calendars and even their desktops from any computer or mobile device. Discovering Tech Impact through TechSoup, Path Point opted to mobilize their network through virtualization.

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