Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

Now that this year is wrapping up and we have the verdict on nonprofit technology trends for 2013 , we queried charity Technorati like Amy Sample Ward, Beth Kanter, Marnie Webb, Peter Campbell, Nicole Wallace, the entire crew at Idealware, Lucy Bernholz, and other luminaries to find out what is in their crystal balls for 2014. Marnie Webb.

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Strategic Grants

SEPTEMBER 17, 2024

The article ’15 learnings we’re sharing from 15 years of working with grant-seekers and fund ers’ by the Strategic Grants team first appeared in the Winter 2024 edition of the F&P (Fundraising & Philanthropy) magazine. It is the quality and most definitely NOT the quantity of applications.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

Technology for nonprofit development and fundraising is quickly changing. 2008 was a benchmark year in online fundraising history as Obama won the presidential election with 87% of funds coming through social networking. Causes is the largest Facebook fundraising application and most nonprofits are likely familiar with it.

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Selfish Giving

JANUARY 12, 2022

Share new impact measurement trends and how nonprofits and corporations can work together to accomplish their impact goals. For every employee that gets boosted the company will make a donation to your nonprofit. raised over $22,000 for its nonprofit partner this past holiday season. Here's a pitch to companies.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

Or how about asking your family to purchase gift wrap as a way to raise funds around the holidays? With crowdfunding sites taking the business, art, and nonprofit world by storm with exponential growth since 2009, it's easy to overlook peer-to-peer fundraising. Do you need to raise a lot of funds in a short period?

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 23, 2009

Holly Ross of NTEN will moderate a panel with Heidi Hess of Children's Defense Fund and Greg Zelder of the California State Parks Foundation. When: Thursday, October 1, 2009 at 2 p.m. CARE2 is holding a webinar on strategies for successfully welcoming, cultivating, and converting new leads into donors. What: While They're Hot!

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GrantNews

MAY 14, 2024

Beyond that, there are also countrywide, and even international, grant funding opportunities listed. Since 2009, the town has been unincorporated and has been largely abandoned since the 1990s. Funding is to undertake a comprehensive inventory of all governmentally owned assets. What’s in a Name?

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2009

If your nonprofit or library works with supporters or community members who have difficulty hearing or are deaf, there's a cool new freebie out there to help ensure that people can communicate well by phone with you and everybody else. This phone captioning service is free because it is funded by the Federal Communications Commission. .

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2009

Jim shows off a few more green gadgets from CES 2009. Elliot offers some ideas on how to respond to criticism and inaccurate information about your nonprofit. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Robert warns of the Downadup worm, a potentially devastating new piece of malware.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

Nonprofit Commons is opening a new island. Kevin reports from RSA 2009 on security awareness in schools and security concerns around cloud computing. Elliot points out the Nonprofit Finance Fund's new package of services for nonprofits coping with the economy. GreenTech's TeleGreen Your Work campaign is underway.

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Grant Professionals Association

JULY 2, 2024

hard and fast proof to qualify a community for programming, such as when funds have to benefit “disadvantaged” or “under-resourced” communities. measurable data points for long-term program and impact assessments. Do you have other tips for making the most of the Profile Narratives tool, or other hacks for the data-challenged among us?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2013

Federal Communications Commission in 2011 and is now its own nonprofit organization. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground. How the Project Got Going. People like Jeff Hancock of Adapt∞Impact.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 25, 2013

This is the third blog of my series on configuring QuickBooks for use in a nonprofit organization. My second blog dealt with setting up the chart of accounts in a nonprofit environment. The "Customer/Jobs" utility should be used to keep track of your nonprofit's funding sources.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2009

He will be in charge of the new stimulus funding dedicated to the creation of green jobs, which presumably includes $5 billion for weatherizing modest-income homes and the $500 million for training of green-collar workers in the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009. I can't wait to see how he does. read more.

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Qgiv

APRIL 14, 2022

While individual donations make up a large part of every nonprofit’s funding, organizations often need additional sources of support through corporate sponsorship. Generally, a business provides some kind of support to a nonprofit through a monetary donation or with donated goods and services.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2016

The errors of a few, but well-known nonprofit organizations have hurt the nonprofit sector in public opinion as well as capacity- and infrastructure-building ability. How are nonprofits coping with this issue? They reference an article from the fall 2009 Stanford Social Innovation Review , The Nonprofit Starvation Cycle.

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Selfish Giving

JULY 25, 2018

Their new report High Expectations: Corporate Partnership Decision-Makers Research Results is full of myth-busting stats on what companies are REALLY looking for in a nonprofit partnership. For example, Raytheon - a defense contractor - is funding the “Think Like a Programmer" badge. ??When Partnership notes. ??The they complain.

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Blackbaud

APRIL 15, 2024

Over the past 30 years, Blackbaud Grantmaking has been serving foundations and nonprofit grantmakers with software that continues to evolve with you. MicroEdge was established back in 1985 and released their Grants Management Software “GIFTS Online” in 2009.

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Seliger + Associates Grant Writing

MARCH 17, 2023

Unless you’ve been completed sheltered from the larger financial and information ecosystems, you’ll know that interest rates have gone from “zero or near zero” during 2009 – 2021 to “much higher than that” (at the time of this writing, even the federal discount window rate is 4.75%).

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DH Leonard Consulting & Grant Writing Services

JUNE 18, 2024

Who determines which projects will receive grant-funded support? As grant writers, we’re sometimes in a position of responding to requests from well-intentioned leadership or program staff to “look at this grant opportunity” or asking, “can you help us find funding for this project?” Remember 2008/2009, the Great Recession?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2011

The FCC created a National Broadband Plan in 2009 based on a Congressional mandate. Parts of the plan were funded under the Federal stimulus package including the Connect America Fund , which was created to supply affordable broadband to underserved people and areas. The National Broadband Plan and BTOP. A number of U.S.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 19, 2022

From that humble beginning, the program evolved into an after-school club and eventually became a nonprofit organization in 2009. Veterans Heritage Project chose images that spotlight the veterans they support on their donation forms and detailed what certain donation amounts will help fund. Powerful Images and Donor Education.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

SAP is helping to make a difference in the nonprofit and library community through their donation program here at TechSoup. Enabling 1,000 nonprofits through donations of technology, thereby helping organizations to run more efficiently and maximize their potential. Making Social Investments.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 2, 2022

An expert in her field, Lori has several decades of experience working with some of the largest commercial and nonprofits in the world, but prefers to use analytics for the greater good by helping social good organizations make a bigger impact in the work that they do. The economy is complex, and uncertainty is high. Follow the Leaders.

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Blue Avocado

OCTOBER 22, 2024

The Gold Avocado series showcases some of the very best content that Blue Avocado has for nonprofit leaders, based on overall popularity, reader response, and quality. This Gold Avocado article highlights eight essential responsibilities of a nonprofit’s treasurer — with a focus on treasurers of all-volunteer organizations.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

In a new campaign to raise awareness about the challenges - and opportunities - in a world of 7 billion, the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) has urged the world to take action to reduce the disparities in which hundreds of millions of people in developing and least developed nations lack the most basic ingredients for a decent life.

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Qgiv

MAY 26, 2021

Achieve was founded in 2008 and started off working in the nonprofit sector primarily in research, strategy, and fundraising. Achieve leverages technology in everything it does to cost-effectively help the nonprofit organizations it works with. Like Achieve, Qgiv exists to help people fulfill their passion to make a difference.

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 24, 2009

Here’s what we’ve come up with: Nonprofit partnerships. We’ve taken the enlightened path of working with other nonprofits to raise money. We want to work with more nonprofits that have corporate and retail connections but are unsure how to leverage them–something we’re really good at. We were too.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 19, 2016

Between 2006 and 2009, TechSoup hosted open challenges to identify and provide support for innovative projects that harnessed these and other technologies for social good. First, tech-for-good projects (either nonprofit or commercial) submitted a description of their project on the NetSquared website.

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The NonProfit Times

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

MBA, is the new chief executive officer of AARP, the nation’s largest nonpartisan nonprofit dedicated to empowering Americans 50 and older. She was selected 11 times to the annual The NonProfit Times Power & Influence Top 50. The post Minter-Jordan Picked As New CEO At AARP appeared first on The NonProfit Times.

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Qgiv

JANUARY 13, 2022

Many nonprofits work in tandem with volunteers to move their mission forward and keep expenses down. Volunteers can certainly be a huge help for any nonprofit staffer, especially since cloning yourself isn’t an option… yet. Recruit Like Your Mission Depends on It.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

last week to see what’s really going on in the frontier of nonprofit technology: wearable devices. He estimated that half the developers were hobbyists, and half were people with start-up ventures who came to San Francisco looking for seed funding. a nonprofit project), Golden-i , SixthSense. Google Glass Explained.

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The NonProfit Times

JUNE 4, 2024

Constituent relationship management firm Keela has been acquired by Aplos Software and will become part of a three-application cloud solution for nonprofits. Founded in 2009, Aplos Software develops finance software for nonprofits and churches. There was also seed funding in both 2009 and 2012.

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Double the Donation

APRIL 24, 2021

Classy Integrations: Recommendations for Smart Nonprofits. Why Your Nonprofit Will Love It An estimated $4 – $7 billion in matching gift funds is left on the table each year, meaning you likely have existing match opportunities in your database. Classy Integrations for Nonprofit Marketing. Visit Charity Dynamics!

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