Tech Soup

MARCH 27, 2013

The TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge is back and there are some great prizes in store for organizations with the most creative, compelling, and entertaining stories. SlideRocket : Use SlideRocket to organize photos into captivating slideshows. And when you’re done, use ReadyTalk to share your story with your audience.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 21, 2011

You want to help the homeless? So, how do you, as a nonprofit organization, get me to help you? What makes microgiving so neat is how creative some of the organizations have gotten with it. For your organization. What if potential donors could do that for your organization? ASU Lodestar Center. Rescue dogs?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 9, 2015

Habitat for Humanity has been working to serve the nearly 100 million homeless and 2 billion people living in slum housing around the world since 1976. The organization's ineffective software and hardware had also slowed operations to a crawl. For example, Excel Online allows multiple users to update a spreadsheet simultaneously.

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Get Fully Funded

DECEMBER 4, 2022

A winning strategy for spreading the word about your organization’s work is getting your nonprofit’s story in the news. . A news story gets your organization in front of a large audience of potential supporters and gives your organization instant credibility. . Their fifth wedding anniversary would be a fun news story. .

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

For my 50th birthday, I held a 50th Birthday Card Photo Remix Contest on flickr and donated $50 the winner's favorite charity. Or support an organization that does recycling. There was so much support for the idea, that he started an entire fundraising organization fueled by social media to support Jane Doe. And, yes they did

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 15, 2005

I've been experimenting with vlogging and looking for examples by nonprofit organizations. Perhaps there aren't any examples. There are a handful of emerging examples of vlogging in nonprofit land that have moved past some of the barriers. contest with cash prizes. Update: I was wrong. " (Hmm.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

And if that isn't enough, TechSoup is also running a contest with $10,000 in cash prizes. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively.

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Qgiv

MAY 18, 2021

If you’re ready to make your event a rollicking success, take a look at these tips on how to organize a fundraising event with multiple venues! Which is helpful for organizations playing catch-up after 2020, as the mean peer-to-peer donation amount increased from $87.46 Happy guests = a successful fundraiser! . Finding Your Venues.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 5, 2009

Last week I hosted a little contest to win a copy of Darius Graham's book, Being the Difference: True Stories of Ordinary People Doing Extraordinary Things to Change the World. After 34 years in the Navy, Rick Koca "retired" - and started StandUp For Kids (S4K) , a nonprofit that works with homeless and street kids.

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Bloomerang

JANUARY 7, 2022

Photo Contest. Do survey results from Giving Tuesday donors yield the same level of allegiance to your organization? Why not organize a group of influential social media users who are passionate about your cause, and have them get the word out for you? Check out campaign examples like this one if you need inspiration.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 17, 2007

For organizations, web stats are useful indicators of how many people are being reached by their message, the geographical spread of the visitors and whether or not a specific campaign was successful in driving traffic or creating actions (like donations, or letters, etc.) And the mission of the organization matters too.

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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). Check out the example below: Although there is only one winner there are certainly no losers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 10, 2007

Tools for VolCom Groups: Blogs, RSS, Tagging, Wikis and Beyond," I wanted point to a new (to me) UK nonprofit technology blog discovered via a comment to my post about technology stewards and also weave in some more notes on UK examples. is and why it matters to their organization. tools and business applications for it.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But before, during, and after the fun, your message and the voice of your organization need to come through. Schedule in any organization events. Find the ones that mean something to your organization or that tie into the work you are doing and those you are serving. That’s what keeps things fun and engaging! Saving bears?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 18, 2007

My initial remix thought (wrong) was to look for examples that were related to agriculture, but the extension is so much more. looking at the ten steps and overlaying these themes in search of examples! You can find out what other people are saying or thinking about your topic, community, organization, program or issue area.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 24, 2011

Technology in the analog period was usually defined only as hardware or software, it looked like desktop computers and a server room, and it got as much attention from the organization as a whole as the employee handbook. We sought out case studies or examples that reinforced much of how we already operated. Analog Tactics.

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Qgiv

JUNE 9, 2021

Because COVID-19 paused in-person engagements and thus traditional fundraising events, many organizations had to quickly scramble and pivot their operations to virtual. Specifically, for organizations using our Qgiv peer-to-peer platform, we saw the mean donation amount of $87.46 in 2019 increase to $108.62

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2010

During the session, it was pointed out that crowd sourcing is a way to people, organizations, and communities work together for mutual good, and without competing. The second topic started percolating at last year's SXSW Social Media for Social Good BBQ and a question - so where are the good examples and techniques?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2013

About a year ago, Facebook began rolling out a series of important changes, most notably the launch of Facebook Open Graph , designed to empower app developers (like us here at ActionSprout ) to create tools to help brands and organizations get more out of Facebook. These are powerful tools. That’s where ActionSprout comes in.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 17, 2015

This blog post is for nonprofit organizations and charities that are looking to increase their online exposure (without spending loads of money) so they can receive more volunteers, donations, attention etc. Nonprofits might also have access to data that others do not (such as numbers surrounding homelessness, food donations etc.).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 21, 2010

Also in 2008, Daily Bread Food Bank , a local organization, announced that contributions had been sparse and unless something changed, homeless people would go hungry. Several Twitter social change users started to urge others in the community to do something. A Hybrid of Cause Marketing and Corporate Social Responsibility.

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