Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 5, 2019

As a beloved cause to many, you can find willing and effective influencers among your own ranks and volunteers. See what your board or staff members, donors and volunteers are up to on social media. Follow the lead of organizations like the Austin Public Library who have a sign-up form for those interested in participating.

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DipJar

AUGUST 9, 2022

Public libraries are some of our favorites. If you haven’t been to your library lately, check it out! We recently spoke with Joyce Fehl of the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick, Maine. Joyce is the development and marketing manager for the library, which serves both Brunswick and the smaller community of Harpswell.

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NTEN

AUGUST 20, 2014

Is it possible to create an app that gets volunteers traveling across the country to enter data for a nonprofit? As glorious as the zine library is, we have developed an enviable problem of scale. custom mobile apps event planning Mobile volunteer management Program' Independent Publishing Resource Center.

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Volunteer Hub

JULY 26, 2021

Holocaust Museum Houston needed a volunteer management solution to help them recruit, engage, and manage volunteers, following expansion. VolunteerHub provided the features the organization needed and helped increase active volunteers by 478%. Expansion led to an increased need for volunteers and software.

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Whole Whale

AUGUST 13, 2020

Volunteering has always brought people together in service of a common cause but now we must do this online due to COVID-19. Once you have found the right idea post it where volunteers will find it , then consider a volunteer management tool to make sure they are well managed. Manage and Organize Photo Library.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 21, 2021

When someone expresses interest in volunteering with your nonprofit, library, or other program, they want to feel engaged quickly. Or at least they want to understand if the role is something they'd actually want to do. This is true for both online or in-person opportunities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 15, 2012

Benetech’s Bookshare library is living proof that real, transformative change happens through partnerships and by helping people unleash their talents and energies. The Bookshare breakthrough was to put our users in charge of the collection; we created a crowd-sourced library built by and for the people it serves. copyright law.

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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. Footnote: NLS stands for the National Library Service for the Blind and Physically Handicapped, part of the U.S.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 28, 2013

TechSoup is a nonprofit with a clear focus: providing other nonprofits and libraries with technology that empowers them to fulfill their missions and serve their communities. Sparked.com is an online portal of volunteers that have signed up to offer small amounts of time to complete Web-based projects requested by nonprofits.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 27, 2023

Internet Archive Wayback Machine :: archive.org/web The Internet Archive Wayback Machine is an online library of almost 500 billion screenshots of websites since 1996. Ideal for staff and volunteer appreciation. Ideal for thanking donors, volunteers, and supporters. Tiltify also empowers donation processing on TikTok.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 30, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. GroupMe is useful for managing small teams of volunteers or for real-time communications between staff and volunteers during events. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 8, 2013

Formstack allows nonprofits to easily create online forms to capture contact information of new supporters, volunteers, and donors. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. Giving Library :: givinglibrary.org. HopeMob :: hopemob.org.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 3, 2012

From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. If your nonprofit is active on Pinterest or wants to make better use of your digital library, knowledge of photo-editing is essential. DailyFeats :: dailyfeats.com.

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NTEN

AUGUST 1, 2011

Points and levels for volunteers and donors and offering incentives and fancy titles/recognition for advancement. Games that put your audience in the role of one of your volunteers or caregivers, to help them understand your cause better. New York Public Library: Find the Future.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 27, 2012

is an iOS App that allows users to earn points for doing things like volunteering at local food banks or animal shelters. From eating healthy to volunteering at local nonprofits, users earns points that can then be redeemed for rewards or special discounts offered by partner businesses. Cause.it :: cause.it. Dipity :: dipity.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

Bookshare: Solving the “Accessible Book Famine” Twelve years ago, we had an idea for recreating the traditional library for people with print disabilities—such as those who are blind, cannot physically turn the pages of a book, or have learning disabilities, like dyslexia—using the then-emerging technologies of digital books and crowdsourcing.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 3, 2022

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Generate a list monthly or quarterly of current donors or volunteers and call or email them to thank them for their current or past support. your neighbors. your family members.

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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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TechImpact

NOVEMBER 20, 2013

TechSoup Global has a clearly defined goal of providing nonprofits, charities and libraries with modern, discounted copies of today’s hottest Adobe, Microsoft, Cisco and Intuit products. Industry News Leadership Tech nonprofit npTech tech volunteer connect' TechSoup Global. Read more about MANNA’s tech success HERE.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 14, 2014

Using the screenshot function on your smartphone, you can add images to your smartphone’s photo library that can then be shared on Instagram. When the event is over, you can convert the images into a web-based slideshow using Slidagram or a video slideshow using Flipagram. Share Screenshots of Photos a.k.a.

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NetWits

JULY 13, 2011

Because of Twitters timeline based tweets, organizations with mobile libraries, blood drives, medical services or other site-specific services can find Twitter useful for communicating where they will be at any given moment. Location Based Services. Timely Actions. Joining a Larger Conversation.

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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. The goal of the Treaty is to provide access to the great accessible libraries of wealthier countries, as well as make it legally possible to make local content accessible in each country. For what am I advocating?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 15, 2012

Benetech's digital Bookshare library is currently using Poet to add image descriptions for its accessible ebooks used by people with print disabilities. Bookshare is seeking volunteers who can apply their expertise in specific subject matters to describe images.

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NetWits

MAY 23, 2012

With more and more volunteer solicitors competing for donated dollars, helping your fundraisers stand out serves them in meaningful ways. With the rising popularity of “challenge” events like full and half marathons and triathlons, many volunteers have higher fundraising goals to achieve. Facebook Covers.

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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. Our outreach and volunteer efforts will grow, with a new parent program to match our incredible Mentor Teacher program. and a new audio option for Spanish titles.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 10, 2011

Maria was especially excited about Read2Go’s navigation features that allow her to search and download accessible e-books from our Bookshare library directly to her iPad and iPhone. In addition to being a Bookshare member, Maria is a book scanner and volunteer proofreader.

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The Fundraising Authority

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

School principals will often run this type of fundraiser by promising that the school principle will shave his head, or wear a chicken costume for a day, or run twenty laps around the school singing show tunes, but only if the kids raise $10,000 for new school computers or library books or a new school van. Eat bugs? Be creative….

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Bloomerang

APRIL 1, 2025

Volunteer scheduling can get complicated, especially because of the large number of volunteers your organization might work within fact, 1/3 of the nonprofit workforce is volunteers. This guide explores the basics of volunteer scheduling and the best solutions to manage volunteers. Determine your time frame.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 12, 2014

I’m thrilled to share with you some of the recent amazing impact of Bookshare , a Benetech Global Literacy initiative and the largest accessible online library of copyrighted content for people with print disabilities. Bookshare titles range from vocational to research to teacher-recommended reading.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 27, 2014

Zach Bryant The change happened when Zach was in high school and his Assistive Technology teacher introduced him to Benetech’s Bookshare library. I don’t wait for my books for new classes; I search the library and find them myself.” With Bookshare’s accessible ebooks and reading tools, Zach made a successful transition to college.

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Kindful

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Ask volunteers who have never donated to donate! If the pandemic has limited opportunities for your volunteers to help out, asking them to make a donation is a great alternative way they can engage with your mission, not to mention one that drives revenue. After all, Giving Tuesday is a day of remarkable generosity!

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NTEN

APRIL 29, 2021

Ellie Avis, a fellow in Josephine County, OR, launched a hotspot lending program that allows library patrons to bring their connectivity home. She also launched Tech Time, an opportunity for community members to ask tech questions, and developed a volunteer program that library patrons in navigating their devices.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Led by Benetech’s VP of Engineering Gerardo Capiel, we will create an online space, SocialCoding4Good, where people in the tech community interested in social causes can volunteer ideas, connections, time and skills. It is the world’s largest online accessible library, adding books at nearly four times the rate of the next most prolific U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 15, 2009

This week, thousands of volunteers have signed up and over 10,000 hours have been pledged to make a difference in our communities, our world, our Web. You can also visit other volunteer sites to search for your special project: View other Partners. Create Web how-to materials for a library’s computer cluster.

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