Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 17, 2021

Whether it’s CRM products and websites for fundraising, outreach, advocacy and event management, or back office infrastructure for day-to-day operations and everything in between, the list of functions and choices is seemingly endless and growing by the day. It’s their job to think that way. As we all know, the truth is not so simple.

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Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 1, 2024

Let’s get specific: 3 more strategies + 6 new tips to boost generosity In the past, you may have considered some of these strategies someone else’s job. it’s part of your job to advocate for the resources you need. Maybe you relied on your database manager, digital fundraising specialist, or volunteer coordinator.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

But attorneys for the environmental advocacy group said during their closing arguments that Greenpeace had little involvement with the 2016-17 protests that are central to the case. He said law enforcement “did a phenomenal job of watching the protests.”

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Association Analytics

AUGUST 14, 2023

Much like how robotics impacted blue collar jobs in the 1980s, AI is predicted to be a massive disrupter for white collar jobs. For instance, your association might consider creating advocacy campaigns and scheduling lobby days. It’s equally important to think about how AI will impact your members.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Whether you are considering a new fundraising and engagement CRM, advocacy tool, reengineered database, custom integration, CMS or back office system, a separate discovery is the BEST approach to ensuring success. After all, these tools exist to help people do their jobs better, right? It’s about people.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2010

If you think having the ability to make in-App donations through iPhones without hefty fees or hassle – please send Steve Jobs a message now by signing this online petition.&#. But, since I have a few more months on my contract, I’ve left a comment on this post asking Apple to reconsider its policy. What do you think?

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Nimble AMS

OCTOBER 16, 2023

Our solution can streamline the management of volunteer jobs and shifts. For example, you can use the feature to track an advocacy day letter-writing campaign (job) or an advocacy day event on Monday or Tuesday (shift). When a member completes volunteer hours, all work is reflected in their account.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Raven’s Associate Community Manager Austin O’Brien said that team members were being called into individual meetings to be told whether or not they would still have a job come January 28th. Now they are out of a job on January 28th. an hour, along with better benefits and bonuses. an hour, along with better benefits and bonuses.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 15, 2009

Mauer does a great job in capturing the advocacy position of the Reading Rights Coalition. And, the Authors Guild is suffering because the NFB and Reading Rights Coalition has done a great job of articulating the differences. This is a case of dueling moral high grounds.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

Social Media: A Bubble About to Burst – Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media – frogloop – "Are your nonprofit staffers addicted to social media? Twitter beta-tested a spine."

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 13, 2010

. – "GreatNonprofits and Guidestar want to hear about the great nonprofits providing job training or job placement in your communities. Participate in this campaign to recognize the top-rated nonprofits developing your community through job training or job placement." Which ones are great?

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.orgSource

JUNE 24, 2024

Members saw us as a professional home, their most trusted source of advocacy and information. Individual members/customers –by helping them in their career development and enabling them to perform their jobs at the highest level. Being identified as the best in anything from soccer to sales requires commitment and hard work.

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Media Cause

DECEMBER 21, 2021

Coming from a background in community organizing and public policy — specifically in the anti-rape movement — I understand the importance of effective messaging in advocacy campaigns. At Media Cause, we conceptualize advocacy in that same vein: It’s about shifting the balance of power. Identify Your Own Story .

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Everyaction

SEPTEMBER 11, 2017

From legal work to advocacy to grassroots mobilization, these 7 organizations highlighted below are fighting to ensure that immigrant rights are human rights. Using impact litigation they have helped to stop unjust immigration laws and millions of workers from losing their jobs. American Immigration Council. Get Involved. Learn More.

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Care2

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Branded worthless from the day they are born, they are shunned by society, treated inhumanely and allowed to carry out only the most lowly of jobs, such as the cleaning of human waste and digging of graves. There are more than 6 million ”untouchables”, Dalits, living in Nepal today.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2020

That’s a good number, but that leaves 53% of nonprofits worldwide that haven’t yet come to the understanding that Facebook can be a colossal waste of time if you are not following these best practices and at least occasionally purchasing Facebook Ads for special fundraising and advocacy campaigns.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 24, 2012

” That being said, their fears and frustrations can create chaos, and part of your job as community manager is to make transitions as smooth and drama-free as possible. Usually, they’re afraid of repercussions that could affect the community they care so much about—so, it comes from a “good place.”

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.orgSource

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The organization is active in government advocacy and technical standards, conducts national and regional educational networking conferences, and produces the Furnaces North America business exposition every other year. I always ask people, ‘How do you think the association would be run if Steve Jobs or Bill Gates was the CEO?’

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Robert Weiner

JANUARY 27, 2012

Support advocacy, volunteer management, complex events, electronic communications, content management, online payments, and merchandise sales. Software alone seldom gets the job done. Complex family, social, business, corporate, and financial relationships. Provide strong reporting and analytic tools.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Success Factors: Celebrity Advocacy: Leveraging celebrity power attracts attention and builds trust with potential donors. Significant contributions went towards advocacy, legal support, and community development. Patient Focus: Highlighting the impact on children creates a strong emotional appeal and motivates giving. The good news?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 31, 2012

It is a nonprofits dream – to have its advocacy campaign messaging go viral on Facebook or social media channels. Her insights are useful to other nonprofits working on integrated advocacy campaigns. Here’s an analysis of what and why it happened from the HSUS’s Director of Emerging Media – Carie Lewis.

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Tableau

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They both are very familiar with housing and food insecurity, job loss, limited finances, and unsafe living conditions. Jobs and social services (mental and physical) were scarce and isolation is leading to ongoing challenges, including anxiety and depression, all of which are magnified by homelessness. .

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Tableau

OCTOBER 27, 2021

They both are very familiar with housing and food insecurity, job loss, limited finances, and unsafe living conditions. Jobs and social services (mental and physical) were scarce and isolation is leading to ongoing challenges, including anxiety and depression, all of which are magnified by homelessness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 11, 2014

You can’t do good research if don’t understand the patient, you can’t do good advocacy if you don’t understand the research and you can’t do good patient care if you don’t support research and advocacy. can’t do good research or do advocacy. ALS Association and discuss the Ice Bucket Challenge.

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Pamela Grow

MARCH 1, 2023

If you’re considering quitting your nonprofit job, you’re not alone. They’re often the happiest in their jobs. But there’s also nothing worse than being in a job you hate. Especially when you’re not allowed to do your job. If you’re burned out or frustrated with your job, tell your employer that.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

CareQuest Institute collaborates with a wide range of partners to achieve its mission of improving the oral health of all through work in grantmaking, research, health improvement programs, policy and advocacy, and education, as well as leadership in dental benefits, care delivery, and innovation advancements.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 4, 2019

21% agreed that the negative things about their jobs outweighed the positive. Many nonprofits saw a surge in recurring subscription initiations following the 2016 election, particularly civil rights, social action, and advocacy organizations, according to Classy platform data. 30% said they planned to leave fundraising altogether.

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Nimble AMS

DECEMBER 7, 2023

Benefits like training, certifications and credentials, fueling industry growth, advocacy, and help with career advancement are all up significantly from last year.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 18, 2012

We use free and open source software whenever possible, but we're pragmatic and work with what our human rights monitoring and advocacy partners need, so our environment is a pretty eclectic mix. Data archeology: recover data from ancient files in odd formats. Automate generation of publications based on data using LaTeX and Sweave.

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The Verge

APRIL 30, 2021

Given the recent changes at Basecamp, I’ve decided to leave my job as Head of Design,” Downey tweeted. After nearly 8 years, given the recent changes at Basecamp, I’ve decided to leave my job as an Android programmer there. Most cited “recent changes” at the company as their reason for leaving. It means a lot. ??

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NetWits

DECEMBER 1, 2010

Movember did a really good job of providing sample text for emails, pre-written tweets, and great facts to use in Facebook status updates. For most fundraising event participants like me, asking for donations can be a bit awkward. These examples really helped get the ball rolling in early November, and I was very thankful they were there.

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Candid

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Additionally, GuideStar is a helpful tool for post-graduation job hunting. Candid also offers a wide variety of borrowable e-books by topic: DEI, management, fundraising, grant writing, advocacy, etc. PND also lists job postings submitted directly from nonprofits. Meanwhile, Candid had one for free. . Candid.org .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2010

Steve Jobs and Apple have come under fre­quent fire for a lack of visible gen­er­osity in char­it­able con­tri­bu­tions. Google Grants has tackled this already , and organ­iz­a­tions like Tech­Soup and Guide­star do a soph­ist­ic­ated job of authen­tic­ating non­profits and char­ities world­wide. Cartoon by Rob Cottingham.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 8, 2011

What you need to do : If you are doing social media for your organization, either part time or your whole job, you need to handle metrics. Given they are an advocacy group, their key results are different from say, the Smithsonian Archives which has a different set of foundational metrics. What will change?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2010

Last week, Dan Michel offered an intriguing answer to this question : “What form of social media measurement does your organization engage in; Community participation, advocacy (earned mentions, discussions), or donations ($ or time)? &#. As Michel notes, The bill passed and our advocacy folks are taking a well-deserved break.

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DipJar

NOVEMBER 17, 2021

Advocacy campaigns are an innovative way for nonprofits to engage their current supporters, attract new audiences, and fulfill their mission at the same time. However, before you can reap the many benefits of a successful advocacy campaign, your nonprofit will need to invest in the right advocacy software. Canvassing Software.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 26, 2013

Readers of Care2's Frogloop blog love that our blogger in chief, Allyson Kapin always has her fingers on the pulse of the most current news, research, and best practices in nonprofit technology, online advocacy, fundraising, and social media. Just for you, dear Frogloop readers, we hereby present an excerpt from Allyson's excellent new book.

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