Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2011

Greg Ligon, our guest blogger for the Social Media for Nonprofits conference, is an online communications professional with experience in building a brand via online channels, social media communications, and website content development. Learn more about Greg on LinkedIn. Think Strategically About Your Social Media Presence.

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Millionaire Grant Lady

MAY 3, 2024

Lately, it seems I can hardly open a newsletter, attend a training, or look at a conference schedule without seeing the word AI popping up everywhere. Alex, the founder of Millionaire Grant Lady and Associates, has been working in the nonprofit and grant space for more than a decade.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2012

Submissions for the 2012 TechSoup Digital Storytelling Challenge have closed, but the fun has just begun! conference on storytelling in the digital age. and media strategies for nonprofits, companies, and individuals. David's favorite cause-related video: (Please visit the site to view this video). As the Dean of Story.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 24, 2012

The Blackbaud Impact Awards recognize nonprofits who have used Blackbaud’s solutions in new and innovative ways to make a positive impact on their local communities and around the world. Does this sound like you or a nonprofit you know? If so, nominate a nonprofit for an Impact Award! on October 1, 2012.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 23, 2012

Jan Masaoka's California Nonprofit Policy Convention is far from conventional. "This is a different kind of conference," says Masaoka, California Association of Nonprofits CEO. congressional district, will deliver the keynote address on how nonprofits and government need to work. More Information.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

In October 1998, the first National Suicide Prevention Conference was held in Reno, Nevada. Thanks to the Reno Conference, the Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent Suicide was issued in 1999 and the National Strategy for Suicide Prevention followed in 2001. It was updated in 2012, and the Office of the U.S.

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 5, 2013

That’s how many dollars were collected with checkout programs in 2012. As founder and president of Cause Marketing Forum , he’s the one who released a study on these programs at last week’s Cause Marketing Forum’s conference in Chicago. He found 63 of them. These programs really work.

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Selfish Giving

APRIL 2, 2012

I’ve always had columns for “cause marketing”, “#causemarketing”, and, since I started writing QR Codes for Dummies , “qr codes” I also added “nonprofit mobile”, and for this week “#12ntc” and “innogive” so I can follow the Nonprofit Technology Conference in San Francisco.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 31, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. Our ability to collaborate effectively in the cloud and create meaningful media together is quickly evolving as more nonprofits expand their borders.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 13, 2012

nonprofits on their use of cloud services. To quote Annaliese Hoeling, NTEN’s publications director: A couple of the biggest take-aways for us were that 91 percent of nonprofits taking our survey reported using at least one cloud software solution?. NTEN surveyed 780 nonprofits across nine U.S. Primary Findings.

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Selfish Giving

JUNE 3, 2011

What a great Cause Marketing Forum Conference this year. Nancy had some strong opinions—such as how some agencies are misleading and overcharging their nonprofit clients—that didn’t sit well with some of the people I spoke to during the break. See my post on the pre-conference for more details. You can find her slides here.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2012

Want to start your own nonprofit or socially responsible small business? Enter or nominate an idea before the deadline of September 5, 2012. All finalists will be invited to the Sapphire Now conference in November in Madrid, Spain, where the four competition winners will be announced.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Summer is a big time for mobile news: there's Apple's World Wide Developer Conference, Microsoft Build, CTIA, and a spree of other mobile-related press conferences. Sometimes the day-to-day work at a nonprofit can make you feel worlds apart from the fast-moving mobile tech industry. Windows Phone Evolves.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Guest blogger Grant Howe, VP of research and development for Sage North America's nonprofit solutions, kicks off a series of posts about providing great IT leadership. Cynthia Adams, President and CEO of GrantStation, reports on the results of GrantStation's survey about grantseeking challenges facing nonprofit organizations.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 17, 2012

How would apps benefit your nonprofit or library? Apps for Nonprofits and Libraries. Thanks to a grant from Microsoft , TechSoup's App It Up project investigated the kinds of apps nonprofits and libraries are using to engage their constituents, tell their stories, and get their work done. What apps are already out there?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 20, 2012

One of the most frequent questions I hear at events from nonprofit professionals in the field is how to coordinate teams to produce compelling media across offices, time zones and countries. Our ability to collaborate effectively in the cloud and create meaningful media together is quickly evolving as more nonprofits expand their borders.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

percent increase in 2012 to $5.3 More than three-quarters of corporate respondents said their giving budgets would be flat – essentially the same as 2012 levels. The 2012 leaders were: Wells Fargo Bank ($315 million cash). The median cash amount given in 2012 among those companies surveyed was $25 million.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 26, 2012

Last weekend I had the privilege of speaking at the Ohio Habitat for Humanity conference. If donors and potential donors don’t see you as excited about the work your nonprofit does, how do you expect them to get excited? You’re dooming your nonprofit to remain small. and are in great shape to start 2012. BIG donations.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 19, 2013

This guest post was authored by Ritu Sharma, Social Media for Nonprofits executive director and co-founder. And if you’d like to learn more, visit our website and consider joining us at one of our many upcoming conferences, the nation’s only series devoted to social media for social good.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 6, 2012

As a nonprofit ourselves, we at TechSoup know what it feels like when your organization starts to grow. Following on the heels of our Software to Build and Grow Your Nonprofit. blog, we’ve put together this second toolkit based on what fellow nonprofits told us their biggest concerns were. Coordinate Your Staff and Office.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2012

TechSoup hosted its first ever Nonprofits Live. A session at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference, recounted on the TechSoup blog, offers advice on using storytelling for fundraising. The future of fundraising was a recent topic at the Social Media for Nonprofits Conference in Silicon Valley.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

From time to time we like to spotlight some of the great environmental nonprofit organizations that are involved with TechSoup Global. APGA, for example, uses a model hotel agreement for their annual conference. Donate leftover food from the conference to a charitable organization. Missouri Botanical Garden Café in St.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

percent increase in 2012 to $5.3 More than three-quarters of corporate respondents said their giving budgets would be flat – essentially the same as 2012 levels. The 2012 leaders were: Wells Fargo Bank ($315 million cash). The median cash amount given in 2012 among those companies surveyed was $25 million.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

In 2012, EU countries discarded 10.9 create positive social change by routing used-yet-still-useful equipment out of the landfill and into the hands of nonprofits, libraries, and low-income families at low cost. The conference is hosted by the Regional and European Co-Operative for Social Industry ( RECOSI ). and Canada.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

Keeping your critical data on an online cloud service has sparked ongoing debate in the nonprofit sector, not just in the U.S., argues that cloud-based services are likely to be safer and more secure than most in-house nonprofit computer systems. conference, or that just oh-too-tempting website/email. but all over the world.

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Get Fully Funded

MARCH 26, 2012

Last weekend I had the privilege of speaking at the Ohio Habitat for Humanity conference. If donors and potential donors don’t see you as excited about the work your nonprofit does, how do you expect them to get excited? You’re dooming your nonprofit to remain small. and are in great shape to start 2012. BIG donations.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2015

At the recent RSA Security Conference , an annual IT security conference, I attended a privacy panel featuring the chief privacy officers of Microsoft and Facebook, and the director of Google's privacy legal team.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 11, 2012

The last day at the Social Capital Market Conference in San Francisco closed out with a bang. The Big Data for Good session was a standing room only affair, attracting folks from both the nonprofit and social enterprise sector. However, nonprofits have not shared this luxury, often lacking the resources to analyze and act upon it.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Event Details: Saturday, September 22, 2012. We welcome you to join a community conference call to discuss agenda items Wednesday, September 19 at noon Pacific time (Readytalk: 1877.740.1260 pword: 6339369) and any agenda items you’d like to surface. You can reserve your space to this event by signing-up here. 11:30 a.m. -

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Tech Soup

MAY 25, 2012

Since we launched our donation program in 2002, TechSoup has saved nonprofits and libraries in the United States and around the world over $3 billion dollars in IT expenses. This fiscal year ten new donor partners have joined with TechSoup to make their product donations available to nonprofits and libraries.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. The winner will be announced at the next Nonprofit Technology Conference (NTC) in April 2012. About the Prize. Past Winners.

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Tech Soup

JULY 12, 2012

That's why BetterWorld Telecom, a TechSoup donation partner, is offering nonprofits a special rate on one of our favorite tools – Adobe Connect. From now until the end of July 2012, we are offering off-the-shelf pricing of 19.9 cents/minute for Adobe Connect and audio conferencing services combined, just for nonprofits.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

Social media can be a useful (though often overlooked) tool for frontline workers in social service agencies to engage with youth, according to Jason Shim, a Program Facilitator at the Canadian nonprofit, Mosaic Counselling & Family Services. Fear of failure (or actual failure) shouldn't stop nonprofits from experimenting.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 9, 2012

Laura Quinn shared her ideas at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , in a session called More Than Apps: Affordable Program Delivery Through Mobile Phones. More mobile devices are sold worldwide than PCs, and mobile is expected to overtake PCs as the most popular way to access the Internet in the next few years.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

Cindy Adams is the president and CEO of GrantStation, one of TechSoup's donor partners, and is an expert on nonprofit grantseeking and fundraising. of nonprofit organizations in the United States and 5.2% If you are a community organization , I strongly encourage you to look at diversifying your grants income for 2012 and 2013.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

Nonprofits are adopting telework faster than most other types of organizations, including commercial companies. From 2005 to 2012, telework growth in charities has been 87 percent. We can easily calendar with them, do email, do Internet searches, make calls, instant message, text, and conference on them. That's around 1.3

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Tech Soup

APRIL 10, 2012

" Or so said Aaron Pava , a strategist at CivicActions in his 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference. In his session, he shared these tips, strategies, and tools for nonprofits looking to use mobile for social good. "The mobile tools to solve social problems are already out there."

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