Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2021

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. In addition to the days listed below, see also public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 29, 2021

Put yourself in the mindset of a potential donor or volunteer and think of how they would search online for a nonprofit with a mission like yours. Instead of only using the term “homeless,” you should also use “unhoused” and any other synonym a searcher might use when referring to homelessness. 2) Technical Details Matter, Too.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2022

Cause awareness and giving days are powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising and social media awareness campaigns. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. In addition to the days listed below, see also public holidays by country , Days of the Year , and Wikipedia’s List of Commemorative Months.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 14, 2010

Mark's expertise in video production, his personal experience with homelessness, and his huge heart uniquely position him to help homeless people share their stories. are emotionally difficult, but they put a much-needed human face on the complexities of homelessness in America. Many of the interviews on InvisiblePeople.tv

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 1, 2023

101 Digital Marketing & Fundraising Best Practices for Nonprofits is a blog and webinar series on website design, email marketing, online fundraising, and social media best practices for nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide. 10: World Homeless Day — #WorldHomelessDay. 1: Gay Pride Day — #Pride23.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 27, 2018

Last year on Giving Tuesday, Chicago Coalition for the Homeless used DonorPerfect Crowdfunding for a fun and easy way to energize their supporters to give and share about their $10,000 fundraising goal. Simplicity : DonorPerfect Crowdfunding makes it super easy for people to create individual fundraiser pages and donate online.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 20, 2020

For example, if you are an organization fighting homelessness in Kansas City, you’ll want to search terms like: Grants homelessness Grants homelessness Kansas City Funding homeless shelter Missouri “Our Donors” homeless shelter Missouri Grants received homelessness Etc.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 15, 2020

According to the 2019 Blackbaud Charitable Giving Report , online giving grew 6.8% Also important to be aware of is that 26% of online donations made in 2019 occurred on a mobile device. According to Network for Good , one in six online donors will drop out of the donation process if they are sent to a third-party website.

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Candid

JANUARY 23, 2025

Strategies for building community Most nonprofits emerge out of a clear community need (think food banks, homeless shelters, health-focused foundations). Whether its an online forum or an in person collaborative event, creating spaces for your community to connect on their own builds stronger ties.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 3, 2018

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising campaigns. 17: International Homeless Animal Day — #IHAD19. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your 2019 editorial calendar. 10: World Lion Day — #WorldLionDay.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 30, 2019

Cryptocurrencies such as bitcoin can be sent directly from you to me or vice versa in minutes for a very low transaction fee using an online wallet. Transactions on a blockchain are cryptographically secured, unchangeable, and enable the peer-to-peer exchange of information or transaction processing.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 20, 2013

Slideshare reminds me of YouTube in that many nonprofits and even individuals use YouTube as the online storage space for videos that they plan to embed on their website or blog and otherwise share across the web. Column Five has a new infographic about Slideshare user data with some interesting highlights.

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NetWits

MARCH 11, 2012

Knowing that it can be tough to execute on we thought we’d give you a few examples of nonprofits effectively using content marketing as a key part of their online strategy. CONTENT MARKETING PRO TIP : Figure out how to turn the unique ways your organization is changing the world into content that can be used online.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 19, 2012

Hot Button Issues at SXSW: Kony and Homeless Hotspots. We’ve all experienced videos, blogs, photos, or topics “going viral” online before our eyes – the number of views increases, our Facebook timeline fills with reposts of the story, or a hashtag rises up the trending charts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 8, 2018

1) 54% of donors worldwide prefer to give online with a credit or debit card and 9% through PayPal. Increased access to online and mobile giving technology in Africa, Asia, and South America will likely grow these numbers significantly in coming years. 91% vote regularly, 72% sign online petitions, and 27% attend marches and protests.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

If you want to know how to run an amazing year-end fundraising campaign (both online and offline) for your organization, check out our three part series How to Do Year-End Fundraising the Right Way. The rule online is less, less, less. For the purposes of this sample appeal, though, we are using a fictional non-profit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2010

Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. As a fairly new nonprofit, this online contest gave us the ability to gain exposure and compete with some more established organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

Do you say homeless people or individuals experiencing homelessness?… There are numerous examples of Giving Tuesday or other campaign-specific toolkits you can find online. Do you use “they” in the singular to avoid binary language? … Be open and clear about why this matters.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2017

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising campaigns. 18: International Homeless Animal Day — #IHAD18. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and add them to your 2018 editorial calendar. 8: International Cat Day — #CatDay.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 21, 2024

That freedom has enabled them to conquer new horizons in business, revolutionizing online retail, the electric car market, and even the commercial space market. Jody Levison-Johnson, Ph.D., LCSW What makes Elon Musk and Jeff Bezos successful entrepreneurs is their ability to innovate and think outside of the box.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2013

I caught up with Danny Alpert at the NTC Conference in Minneapolis, MN where he briefed me on how he is using a “Transmedia” strategy to raise awareness and funding to support homeless services. He graciously agreed to pen this guest post while I was in transit to “down under.” ” Enjoy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 10, 2014

Example using the issue of homelessness: First, use an infographic, picture, or video of homeless people begging for money from drive-by cars or pedestrians. Show how “heart-driven” donations may be spent on beer/alcohol and misused by the homeless. Next use an infographic, picture, or video of homeless people.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 4, 2022

In the modern fundraising world, creating an online fundraising strategy is essential to the success of your nonprofit. Thanks to the pandemic, online giving grew 21 percent in 2020 alone, and that growth isn’t slowing down any time soon. Why should you consider online fundraising? Classic online fundraising ideas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 2, 2023

By Wendy Mercurio , Content & Education Specialist at Qgiv — an online fundraising platform empowering 20,000+ nonprofit fundraisers to raise money for their causes while keeping costs low. This group is known for vetting an organization by looking into their impact reports and online presence.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2019

Also, on February 19 in collaboration with Nonprofit Tech for Good, she’ll be presenting a free webinar about how nonprofits can use social media to raise money online. Chances are that if you are online, you’ve watched a YouTube video. YouTube is the #2 search engine in the world, with 73% of U.S. The site just reached 1.8

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Care2

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

In today’s battle of the inboxes, tweets, Facebook updates, text messages, and banner ads flying across the screen, organizations can’t afford to ignore online fundraising 101 strategies to motivate and inspire supporters to donate money. Example of Bad Subject Line: Renew Your Commitment to End Dog Homelessness.

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The Verge

JULY 10, 2020

It is often peddled by religious organizations as a pseudo-science with no basis in fact and studies show it has direct links to higher rates of depression, drug use, homelessness, and suicide among young adults, many of whom are subjected to it without their consent.

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The NonProfit Times

MAY 22, 2024

Applications will be accepted online only , from May 22 to August 15, 2024. For the second round of 100&Change in 2021, MacArthur awarded a $100 million grant to Community Solutions to accelerate an end to homelessness in 75 U.S. Proposals must identify a problem and offer a solution that promises significant and durable change.

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AFP Blog

MARCH 13, 2012

Homeless people turned into walking wi-fi hotspots at $2 per 15 minutes at SXSW | Mail Online : A marketing stunt where homeless people were turned into walking internet hotspots with T-shirts proclaiming 'I'm a 4G hotspot' has caused outcry in Texas.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

4) What is your best piece of fundraising and online communication advice for Kenya NGOs when it comes to raising money through crowdfunding? 42% of donors in Kenya prefer to give cash, 26% via mobile payments, 18% via text message, 6% online, (credit/debit card), and 3% via PayPal. ? 60% sign online petitions.

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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. “What goals will we achieve by raising $50,000 for the neighborhood soup kitchen?

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 12, 2011

, we also have individual concerns that are more outwardly-focused (Why are there so many homeless people on the street these days? For individuals who care about helping to alleviate a community problem (homelessness, for example), there are three options: Do nothing (which will also do nothing to alleviate their need to help!).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Who’s changed their organization’s online communications because of it? To Mama With Love is an online fundraising effort focused on supporting women entrepreneurs caring for and supporting communities of youth around the world. I want to touch on just a few of them. Slacktivism. Who’s heard the term ‘slacktivism’? But organizations?

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 5, 2021

We help equip nonprofits with the tools they need to pursue better online fundraising efforts, such as well-designed digital donation forms and a text-to-donate platform. When supporters text the keyword to your mobile-giving number, they’ll be sent a link to your online donation form, allowing them to give right from their phones.

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The Verge

DECEMBER 7, 2021

Many, like Sadeia, have grown up cautious of saying too much online, wary of others like the man he met that day. I don’t share many details of my personal life online. I don’t share many details of my personal life online. And you’re just sitting there not really sure how to react,” he told The Verge. “A

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2011

Last year, I connected with Stephanie Rudat over a year ago when we were both named on a list of 11 Twitter Activists You Should Be Following. (It is also how I met Mark Horvath, an activist for homelessness). Stephanie is the founder of the Alliance of Youth Movements. Blog your hearts out! Post signs (obey rules & laws).

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Tech Soup

JULY 29, 2014

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help.

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