Tech Soup

MAY 16, 2013

To help your organization find the tools it needs, we have compiled a list of the best software and web-based tools along with resources on how to meet the many challenges of modern fundraising. Donated Fundraising Tools from TechSoup. TechSoup offers a wide variety of fundraising tools through its donation programs.

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Greater Giving

MARCH 24, 2022

How high-tech tools and some creative thinking can turn a slow fundraising season into a regular revenue stream. Get high-tech. Try out some new ideas. Does your organization have a unique idea for a summer fundraising event? Please let us know in the comments! Another great way to manage vacation schedules?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 23, 2020

Please sign up for Nonprofit Tech for Good’s email newsletter to be alerted of new posts. Today, nonprofits worldwide have access to online fundraising tools that could not have been imagined at the turn of the millennium, and current best practices are shaped by 20+ years of innovation and experimentation.

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CauseVox

AUGUST 2, 2024

What might not initially come to mind–but is just as true–is that Gen Z is a tech-savvy, socially conscious generation characterized by a strong desire for authenticity, social impact, and transparency. Short, impactful videos are a fantastic fundraising tool to use across social media, your website, and your fundraising pages.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 17, 2013

Having the right tech can help you stay connected even when you're away. Lync is an all-in-one tool for video calls, web conferencing, instant messaging, and voice calls. The app also includes a real-time note-taking feature so you can keep track of ideas and notes from your meetings. Protect your tech!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 17, 2019

By improving the visibility of your posts you are able to involve more people and thus, you’ll also have more creative ideas. 2) Get inspired by new ideas. You can also use Lightful’s Inspiration feature to discover new accounts to follow for more creative ideas. 5) Pick the right tools. 3) Decide on your channels.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 3, 2009

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Drupal security, and other CMS Report comments April 3, 2009 Now that the Idealware CMS report is out, I get to have my say about it. Here’s the first post, there might be more to come. 7 admin 04.07.09

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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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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 21, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #16: CiviCRM April 21, 2008 In honor of the webinar that is happening in a couple of weeks, I figured I’d talk a bit about CiviCRM.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology New tools February 5, 2008 Last week, I spent too much time watching demos from DEMO , which is this twice yearly event that showcases the most bleeding edge internet technology. You can share these Blists.

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TechImpact

AUGUST 20, 2014

There are more tools available to nonprofits today that can be used for measuring their donor data than ever before. Whether it be a CRM , GoogleAnalytics , or a social media analytic tool like SproutSocial , measuring and understanding data is an essential part of contemporary business. Let us know in the comment section below.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 9, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #13: Flock March 9, 2008 I’m running behind, so I need to catch up in the next week or so. at 9:01 am { 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Robin 03.16.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 26, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #12: Miro February 26, 2008 Miro used to be called “Democracy Player&#. It’s a pretty amazing tool. There are channels for everything.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 4, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #2: Limesurvey January 4, 2008 I am in the process of writing a survey for NOSI, which you will hear all about next week. Limesurvey is actually quite powerful.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 24, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #5: WordPress January 24, 2008 It seems like a good day to talk about WordPress. Here is yet another amazing free and open source tool getting a lot of good attention.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

MARCH 27, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source tool #14: SugarCRM March 27, 2008 Since I’ve been covering CRMs for the webinar today, I figured I’d switch categories on my free and open source software list. 2 admin 04.20.08

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tools #1 – #100 January 17, 2008 I just though I’d take a brief pause to explain my criteria for these 100 tools that I’ll be covering this year.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #8:XChat February 5, 2008 This is, really a post both about a tool ( XChat ) and about IRC (Internet Relay Chat.) IRC is an incredibly useful tool. I use IRC every day.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2014

A few easy-to-implement ideas for improving your work day. I feel squeamish admitting this (erm, publicly, no less…), given that I work for a tech organization. And because I suspect that I am not a lone wolf in this tech world, allow me to share My Three Biggest Tech Grievances with My Work Day: Email insanity.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 7, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #10: Filezilla February 7, 2008 I decided that most of the tools I’ve been talking about so far (except WordPress and Joomla) are internet clients for one type of protocol or another.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 14, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #15: MPower Open CRM April 14, 2008 I am so far behind, it’s not funny. They made the change after my blog comments and I assume some others commented also.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 3, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #1: Thunderbird January 3, 2008 Before the holidays, I promised that I’d do 100 posts this year on free and open source tools. at 8:39 pm Wow, Thunderbird gets the #1 post!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and Open Source Tool #11: Azureus February 15, 2008 Azureus (now called Azureus Vuze) is the best bittorrent client I have ever used. It’s quite amazing. It’s got a lot under the hood.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #9 : Pidgin February 5, 2008 While I’m on the subject of chat, I figured I could talk about Pidgin. Pidgin is a multiprotocol IM (Instant Messenger) client.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 15, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #3: Dokuwiki January 15, 2008 I have become a fan, nay, a devotee of DokuWiki. But I’m converting my tech wiki to from MediaWiki to DokuWiki.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 31, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #7: Firefox January 31, 2008 This almost feels like cheating, talking about Firefox. 1 comment… read it below or add one } 1 Shawn Towey 01.31.08

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

That's why this is the perfect time to make a fresh start on your nonprofit tech resolutions. Then check out our new online learning courses, starting with Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. The **NetSquared Victoria** team has been investigating [tools for online collaboration]([link] Check out the storify! *

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 1, 2020

This will give you a good idea of what works and what doesn’t. This will give you a good idea of what’s working and what you might need to change. One of the best tools to help you do this is Findjoo – a comprehensive CRM software for membership organizations and associations. Amount of people who applied for membership.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 17, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #4: GIMP January 17, 2008 GIMP stands for Gnu Image Manipulation Program. 2 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Dustin J Mitchell 01.17.08 Oh, and one more thing.

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Kindful

AUGUST 28, 2023

About Kindful Kindful was founded with a simple idea in mind: nonprofits should be able to spend less time focused on their database and more time focused on their mission. Our tech stack includes Ruby on Rails, PostgreSQL, Backbone.js, React. Kindful offers a beautifully designed, intuitive, fully integrated online fundraising CRM.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 1, 2020

For more information and ideas, check out How to Create a Welcome Series for New Donors. Personalized thank you’s sound incredibly time-consuming, but there are tools to make this essential task manageable for your team. Share in the comments below. 2) Have Current Donor Information Sent to Your Inbox.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 25, 2011

There are some amazingly good blogs out there focused on the use of Drupal and other open source tools. You don’t need to hear from me about the newest web tools – you have ReadWriteWeb and Mashable for that, among others. Perhaps you can tell me in comments. Was this blog a success? I don’t know how to answer.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 2, 2011

So, for my fellow nonprofit leaders, here are the technology tools I can't live without. And for you nonprofit techies out there, some ideas for winning over your ED.). I have some of my best ideas while washing dishes, and I find some of the best sites while on the train. It's exacerbated by the fact that it's a 24/7 job.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 25, 2022

At first glance, it may seem impossible to recreate some of these types of events in a virtual format, but with a little creativity and the right fundraising event tools, you might be surprised at the high-quality experiences you can offer for your donors virtually. Why not take some of these ideas and apply them to a fundraising format?

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VQ Strategies

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

First, like all generations, Gen Z workers don’t relish the idea of an annual performance review and, as an antidote to that dread, McKinsey recommends frequent, ongoing feedback. Yes, they are the most digitally savvy generation, and their tech skills can benefit an organization. Become a Coach, not a Reviewer. The Big Picture.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 2, 2015

" In 2014, GigaOm found some interesting statistics on diversity in tech from company-provided data and survey results from the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission : 80 percent of employees were Caucasian at the tech companies it examined. or public library that is teaching tech and employment skills to underserved youth.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JANUARY 29, 2008

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Free and open source tool #6: Joomla! 5 comments… read them below or add one } 1 Leo Germani 01.30.08 It will take some time and effort to get a site up, but that’s standard for any website.

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