Free eBook on Volunteer Management
Wild Apricot
NOVEMBER 18, 2011
Tobi Johnson's new eBook - that includes "21big picture tips to rock your volunteer program" - is now available in Wild Apricot's new Membership Knowledge Hub.
7 eBooks for activists and donors: Ways to give back during Giving Season and beyond
Candid
NOVEMBER 4, 2024
Here are seven titles from Candid’s free collection of eBooks and audiobooks that offer guidance on how to make a difference through volunteering, career choices, and intentional daily actions. To get started, see How can I access Candid’s eBook collection? Looking to get involved with a nonprofit?
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The Ultimate Nonprofit Event Planning Checklist for Success
Bloomerang
OCTOBER 24, 2024
Here at Bloomerang Volunteer , we’ve had the privilege of working with dozens of nonprofits during their event planning processes. Connect with new volunteers who are committed to your cause. From securing your vendor to recruiting enough volunteers , keeping track of all these elements is essential.
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Thousands of Nonprofits Are Using GIS—Is Yours?
NonProfit PRO
MARCH 28, 2025
Through this geographic approach, your nonprofit is able to act on your mission faster, mobilize volunteers, address inequities, and more. Download the eBook now. At Esri, we believe that the first step toward success is in understanding challenges from a geographic approach and analyzing data through maps.
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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
APRIL 20, 2013
And when the idea of a peer-to-peer ebook library came to me, it was George who I went to with the idea. After talking me out of calling it Bookster, he explained how the DAISY format would be ideal for our new Bookshare project, that he had made sure that it would work well for ebooks like the ones we were hoping to provide.
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The Book on Volunteer Management – Free eBook Download
Volunteer Hub
OCTOBER 17, 2022
At VolunteerHub, we wrote The Book on Volunteer Management…literally. The Book on Volunteer Management compiles 20 years of expertise into a valuable resource. The book is filled with best practices and strategies for organizing, managing, and retaining volunteers. Why Download the eBook? Why Download the eBook?
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Thank You, Gerardo!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 28, 2014
Gerardo helped Benetech dramatically increase our capacity to benefit larger populations by scaling our services, revamping our innovation process, and establishing a thriving network of industry partners and volunteers.
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Five practices for professional growth within your organization
Candid
JANUARY 15, 2025
Relationship tips: Collaborate with colleagues across the organizationfor example, through special projects, committees, volunteer events, or employee resource groups Participate in mentorship or other engagement programs that help employees connect and learn from one another Go one question beyond the generic How are you?
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Advancing Reading Equality with Bookshare’s Exponential Growth
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 12, 2014
Thousands of ebooks are pouring into the collection each month thanks to the dedication of our volunteers around the world and partnerships with more than 500 socially responsible publishers who donate their digital files. a11y accessibility Bookshare Braille DAISY ebooks Global Literacy print disabilities Reading'
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Join Benetech in the Skoll Foundation’s 2014 Social Entrepreneurs Challenge!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 27, 2014
With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college. Zach’s encounter with accessible ebooks is but one example of how Benetech empowers people who often face difficult challenges and whose needs are neglected. Thank you for your support! This post also appeared on the Benetech blog.
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Nonprofit Tech for Good
MARCH 27, 2019
Humble Bundle is an online store that sells games, ebooks, and software. If you work at a nonprofit or NGO, please volunteer 6-8 minutes of your time and take the survey. Diners are able to RSVP for events online and a portion of their checks are donated to charity. Humble Bundle :: humblebundle.com.
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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
MAY 15, 2012
Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. Bookshare is seeking volunteers who can apply their expertise in specific subject matters to describe images.
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DIAGRAM Center
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 16, 2011
This is becoming crucially important as the problem of delivering access to text is increasingly solved by the move to ebook publishing and solutions like our Bookshare library. Of course, just as we're solving the text problem, more and more content is moving to richer, more visual forms like graphics, simulations and flash!
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The Essential Tech Elements for Virtual Fundraising Events
Nonprofit Tech for Good
MAY 22, 2020
It acts as the central hub for both you and your donors by providing all the important information about your virtual event in one place, including call-to-action buttons for giving, sponsoring, supporting, volunteering and more. They can help you reach more donors, support your beneficiaries and continue the fight to achieve your mission.
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A Modest Complaint to Bookshare
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
AUGUST 10, 2010
Thanks to incredible work on the part of socially responsible publishers, our volunteers and the Bookshare team, we've been adding books at at incredible rate: more than 10,000 books in the last month. They also operate Web Braille, an online Braille ebook service with roughly ten thousand titles.
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Bookshare and the Power of We
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
OCTOBER 15, 2012
I’m excited to contribute to this topic in honor of the multitudes who work together to make a difference in the world through Bookshare, a global asset we have built with joint efforts of education, technology, publishing, student, parent, and volunteer communities.
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[Webinar Notes] Mobile for Good: A How-To Fundraising Webinar for Nonprofits
Nonprofit Tech for Good
JUNE 5, 2014
Attended by more than 2,000 nonprofit professionals and volunteers, the webinar featured one best practice from each of the book’s sixteen chapters and provided the basis for writing and implementing a comprehensive mobile and social fundraising strategy. Include video icons and shortened links to relevant videos. Chapter 9: Facebook.
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4 Ways Nonprofits Can Start Using AI in 2024
Nonprofit Tech for Good
DECEMBER 23, 2023
Team Unity: All staff and volunteers should understand and adhere to the same AI guidelines. To get started, download NFPs.AI’s Introduction to AI for Nonprofits eBook. A policy should encompass the following key elements: Transparent Usage: It is essential to communicate transparently about how your non-profit uses AI.
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AARP covers Bookshare!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JUNE 19, 2009
We've been getting lots of questions about the article, including volunteer offers (yay!) Our team has been explaining how to assist a disabled senior who doesn't have a PC, by empowering a PC-using child to download the book and load it onto a device like a Victor Stream (an ebook player that has a voice synthesizer that speaks our books).
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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
DECEMBER 16, 2014
He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities. For example, this summer, SocialCoding4Good organized “code sprints” at Google and LinkedIn during the companies’ volunteer service events, GoogleServe and LinkedIn for Good InDay.
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Robin Seaman, Agent of Inclusion
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2019
The nonprofit Benetech team built the revolutionary Bookshare library for this community, all online, and based on the powerfully flexible ebook. You can take an ebook, push a button and make it Braille. This results in an ebook, which can be shared by Bookshare legally with many thousands of other disabled readers.
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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 4, 2013
We celebrated the tenth anniversary of Bookshare—both online and with in real life—with gatherings of users, volunteers, partners, employees, and friends throughout the year. After all, in the world of eBooks, ten years is pretty old! We are committed to regularly raising the bar on the level of accessibility we can offer.
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When Flexibility Becomes an Operating Principle: Lessons from a Nonprofit
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JULY 11, 2013
Our most recent initiative, SocialCoding4Good , and last week’s launch of its Corporate Partner Program , which offers companies a new, skills-based volunteering channel for employee engagement and their pro bono initiatives, is an example of this. The problem: our idea wouldn’t address the real challenge.
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New E-Book: How To Raise More Money Now
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
AUGUST 6, 2010
While I was sitting on the beach on vacation, Network for Good published a free eBook called How to Raise a Lot More Money Now – 50 Great Ideas from 11 top Experts. Organize a volunteer online thank you corps. But many nonprofits deep into planning for year end campaigns and perhaps looking for ways to raise money now.
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Heroes Define Philanthropy
Bloomerang
MAY 25, 2023
Nonprofit professionals, donors and volunteers put themselves on the front lines of service to others with their gifts of time, talent and treasure. Professional and volunteer nonprofit leaders who, without fear, hesitation or anxiety, ask for gifts of time and money to fuel the good works of the nonprofit sector.
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Upholding The Social Bargain: Bookshare and Copyright Compliance
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 21, 2012
We think that all publishers should sell accessible ebooks when they sell their books through mainstream channels, but the copyright exception leaves that decision to the publishers except for this narrow community of people who are significantly disabled when it comes to print. through the Association of American Publishers (AAP).
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Designing engaging and effective learning experiences
Candid
JUNE 5, 2024
Whether you’re trying to equip your team with the latest fundraising techniques or preparing volunteers to tackle new challenges, the quality of your training materials will impact your organization’s effectiveness. You can also conduct a training inventory to identify existing resources that can be repurposed.
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Use This eBook To Improve Your Communication
Eric Jacobsen Blog
MAY 22, 2010
Saturday, May 22, 2010 Use This eBook To Improve Your Communication The former director of communications for McDonalds, David Grossman, now a leading consultant, speaker and author has released a free eBook about how to communicate effectively. Be An Effective Team Member.
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Accessibility and ACTA
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
NOVEMBER 15, 2009
A great (bad) example is Adobe, one of the leading ebook technology vendors, who just introduced their Digital Editions. Do we want people with disabilities, volunteers or teachers losing their internet access without due process because they were handling copyrighted materials in ways that are permitted today in the U.S.?
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100 Great reads from around the web on February 20th
Amy Sample Ward
FEBRUARY 20, 2012
" Check out the 12 Trends, from Personalized Video Thanking to Ebooks to Digital Fundraising Staffing! We believe that with improved tech leadership, nonprofits like yours will provide more and better programs, inspire more communities, and involve more volunteers to share their time."
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How Fundraisers for Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine Engaged Donors on Facebook
Qgiv
JULY 14, 2021
Local Qgiv client, Lakeland Volunteers In Medicine, recently had an exceptional fundraising team (called Swan Before the Storm) raise funds for their 2021 Swan Derby event. When raising funds for Lakeland Volunteers in Medicine, Swan Before the Storm knew their friends and family would be most responsive on Facebook.
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Benetech’s Framework for Developing New Social Enterprises
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 27, 2013
With support from stakeholders in the education, technology, publishing, student, parent, and volunteer communities, Benetech changed that reality. By partnering with the Bookshare community, we reinvented the traditional library for people with print disabilities and brought modern ebook technology to this underserved community.
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144 I Need a Good Lawyer
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
SEPTEMBER 25, 2013
The DMCA 1201 ruling on ebook access through DRM circumvention was clearly aimed at us: should we take up the challenge? Volunteerism: what happens when we engage volunteers outside the United States and expand the range of tasks we do inside the U.S.? Human Rights Program policies: what are contingency/crisis plans for our staff?
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Big Meeting on the Treaty this Week!
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
FEBRUARY 18, 2013
It’s why the great majority of accessibility work is done by volunteers, charities, and with government support. In the United States, the battle for equal access has moved beyond access to library services under a copyright exception to a battle for the ability to buy an accessible ebook on the same terms as people without disabilities.
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5 Ways You Can Celebrate National Nonprofit Day
Qgiv
AUGUST 13, 2021
If you volunteer at a nonprofit, let your volunteer manager know how much you appreciate them. Include details on how a nonprofit has shaped your life, share photos of yourself volunteering, encourage others to get involved, and more!
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Top Peer-to-Peer Fundraising Platforms for Nonprofits
Qgiv
JULY 30, 2021
When volunteer fundraisers reach out to their friends and family members, they’re building on established relationships. Peer-to-peer pages can be customized to your nonprofit, as well as to each of your volunteers. This way, each individual’s network of family and friends can see exactly why your campaign matters to the volunteer.
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Bright Idea: Hybrid Scavenger Hunt Fundraiser
Qgiv
MAY 4, 2021
We make meaningful, monitored matches between adult volunteers (“Bigs”) and children (“Littles”), ages 6 through 13, in communities across Central Kentucky. Download eBook. We then help develop positive relationships that have a direct and lasting effect on the lives of our young people. Ready to give hybrid events a try?
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98 The Case for Copyright Exceptions and Fair Use
Beneblog: Technology Meets Society
JANUARY 17, 2014
Without the rights the Chafee Amendment grants to Bookshare and our volunteers and partners, our work would be substantially curtailed and the materials made accessible to people with print disabilities would be significantly restricted. The Section 121 exception is a major and indispensable safety net for accessibility.
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8 Books for Nonprofits To Read and Book Giveaway
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
DECEMBER 12, 2012
Giving Back: Discover Your Values and Put Them Into Action Through Volunteering and Donating by Steven P. In 2011 the publisher of one of Guy’s books Enchantment, could not fill an order for 500 ebook copies. Ketchpel, Ph.D. Because of this experience, he self-published his next book, What the Plus!,
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What's Your Nonprofit's Social Media Measurement Strategy?
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
APRIL 26, 2010
Last week when I was Society for New Communications Research conference, I ran into KD Paine , who shared a copy of an ebook by Shabbir Imber Safdar , author of the TruthyPR blog and Shayna Englin of Englin Consulting LLC entitled "Is Your Nonprofit Facebook Page Worth It? Analytics and Measurement Techniques" (free to download).
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Technology Training Resources for Nonprofits
Tech Soup
JULY 22, 2014
And while you might be a super worker or volunteer, you're not super human so you shouldn't be expected to know everything about everything. Another great resource for training staff, volunteers, and the people you serve is Microsoft's Community Technology Skills Program. Advanced/IT Training.
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TechSoup for Libraries Spotlight: Amber Slaven of Bellevue Library
Tech Soup
AUGUST 31, 2011
She also managed up to 100 volunteers at a time to help teach classes in her library system and offered some tips on ensuring a smooth volunteer experience. You can also learn what a savvy librarian thinks about eBooks, if you didn't know already (hint: they're pretty cool).
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Is your Facebook Page Worth it?
Care2
APRIL 25, 2010
Whether people became your fans, or, in the new Facebook parlance, "like" you, you invest in your presence on Facebook to build relationships with current or potential donors, volunteers, and activists to move them to take action that support your mission. Our findings and recommendations are documented in a free ebook, available here.
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What Does Your Facebook Funnel Look Like?
NTEN
JUNE 24, 2010
The funnel should resolve in Facebook delivering something of specific value to your organization -- something that furthers your mission: volunteers, money, or some other resource that lets you make the world a better place. (or Twitter, or Foursquare, or Tumblr, etc.). The best part of this is that experimentation in this area is free.
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