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How Data Intelligence Is Accelerating Innovation for Social Good
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1 day ago
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I am often asked what I see as the biggest potential game-changers in tech — particularly as it relates to social good. Mobile, social, the cloud , and analytics continue to emerge as key themes. However, analytics is emerging as the true game changer...
How Many Microsoft Products Can My Nonprofit Request from TechSoup?
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2 days ago
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Bob Nowacki
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Here is the short answer to the question of how many Microsoft products you can request: You can get 50 of each kind of product in a two-year period — but there are some exceptions. See Microsoft products What do you mean by "each kind...
For Grantseeking, a Nonprofit's Age Matters — but It Isn't Everything
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4 days ago
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Ellen Mowrer, GrantStation
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I'll confess — I am much closer to age 60 than I am to age 50, and my knees remind me of this daily. Our human infrastructure wears out as we grow older. For nonprofit organizations, it is usually the opposite — their strength and infrastructure...
5 Easy Rules to Remember When Telling Digital Stories
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8 days ago
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Terry White, Adobe
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Capturing beautiful imagery and creating wonderful designs is only half of the story. If you're an amazing photographer, then in many cases your work will speak for itself. Or perhaps it will create mystery or a question in the viewer's mind,...
How to Protect Your Identity After the Equifax Data Breach
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8 days ago
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Jim Lynch, Twitter: @originaljlynch
Last week, Equifax, one of the three major credit reporting agencies, came clean with a stunning announcement: A security breach had exposed data on nearly 143 million Americans — nearly half the population of the United States. If security experts...
Face-to-Face Communications with Zoom Help NGOs Around the Planet
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9 days ago
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Glenn Hirsch, TechSoup
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A few months ago, TechSoup was able to launch a donation program for nonprofits in over 40 countries simultaneously for the first time. This milestone was made possible in part by the use of the online conferencing platform Zoom . As a nonprofit and part...
6 Tips to Improve Your Next Fundraising Campaign Using Digital Storytelling
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11 days ago
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Michael Stein, Twitter: @mstein63
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Storytelling is the currency of fundraising. In the digital environment of email, social media, and mobile, we can use storytelling in innovative ways to inspire supporters and donors — and raise more money. Photos, videos, selfies, and personal...
Video Storytelling Made Easy with Adobe Spark
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15 days ago
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Amy Copperman, Adobe Spark
An eye-catching opening, slick text animation, smooth transitions — these are all important elements of polished social videos . But what really makes a story shine is a strong, concise message, told in a way only your unique perspective and voice...
Grant Writing and the Perfect Storytelling
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16 days ago
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Cynthia M. Adams, GrantStation
I grew up on a farm in Minnesota. My mother was from the area, but my father was from Missouri. I don't know how much you know about Missouri, but I bet you know this: Missouri is the Show Me State. My father, however, was the "tell me"...
Mozilla and Nonprofits: Working Together for Common Good
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17 days ago
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Chris Worman, Twitter: @ChrisWorman
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The Mozilla Foundation is driven by a mission to help keep the Internet an open, global, public resource accessible to all. With a mission like that, it is perhaps unsurprising that Mozilla is constantly cooking up things that might be of interest to...
Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact
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22 days ago
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Elijah van der Giessen, @NetSquared
TechSoup's annual Storymakers campaign launches September 5. We know that good stories power fundraising and marketing, so join one of our free events to discover powerful case studies and connect with digital storytelling experts in your community...
How Does a Nonprofit Find Funding to Keep the Lights On?
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23 days ago
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Ellen Mowrer, GrantStation
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GrantStation's founder and CEO, Cynthia Adams, recently gave a free 30-minute webinar on the Zen of Grantseeking . In the webinar, she focused on the importance of embracing grantseeking as an integral part of the overall financial approach for...
Nonprofit Scholarships Available for BoxWorks 2017
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24 days ago
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TechSoup donor partner Box believes that tech has the power to help us all do more together. That's why Box is inviting you to San Francisco October 10 to 12 for BoxWorks 2017 . Come discover how Box is helping draw The Blueprint for the Future...
Artificial Intelligence in Nonprofit Tech
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1 month ago
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Jim Lynch, Twitter: @originaljlynch
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Artificial intelligence or AI has the ring of important, complicated digital technology, but any of us using a cellphone or computer are using it every day. It is already embedded in a lot of the software we use daily. In this third installment on...
Ready, Set, Go! Submit Your Story to Storymakers 2017
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1 month ago
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Lewis Haidt, TechSoup
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TechSoup believes that nonprofits must have not only access to technology, but also the capacity to tell their story through video and images. And so, each time we do it, our Storymakers campaign gets bigger, better, and stronger. Storymakers 2017 is...
Make Your Nonprofit Website More Accessible with OpenAIR
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1 month ago
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Jayne Cravens
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Each year, Knowbility hosts OpenAIR (Accessibility Internet Rally). OpenAIR is an online event that provides mission-based organizations both with a new, professionally designed, accessible website that accommodates all visitors, and with expanded awareness...
So Now What? Finding Funding for Your Nonprofit
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1 month ago
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Ellen Mowrer, GrantStation
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You've found the time to download the latest State of Grantseeking reports . In fact, you have them all — total, by annual budget, by mission focus, by service area, and by U.S. region. So Now What? Next Steps for Grantseekers Well, that's...
What's New in Adobe Acrobat Pro 2017
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In July, Adobe released Adobe Acrobat Pro 2017, the latest version of its desktop software for viewing, creating, editing, printing, and managing PDF documents. Immediately after its release, TechSoup added it to its catalog for both Windows and Mac ...
Cases of Successful Nonprofits That Use Chatbots
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1 month ago
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Jim Lynch, Twitter: @originaljlynch
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Whether they're to serve up content, answer questions, or bolster fundraising efforts, chatbots hold great promise for nonprofits and charities. And although chatbots are relatively new to the nonprofit community, some organizations are already using...
What Chatbots Can Do for Nonprofits: Top 5 Things
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1 month ago
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Rachna Unadkat
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Artificial intelligence (AI) is the new tech craze, and everyone wants in. From self-driving vehicles to Alexa, our lives are slowly transforming as a result of constantly changing and improving AI. As foreign as the technology might seem to the nonprofit...
8 Nonprofit and Library Design Projects That Are on Point
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1 month ago
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Molly Bacon, Twitter: @mollymbacon
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Great design speaks for itself. These nonprofit designs are getting a lot of love on Behance — an Adobe site that allows designers to show off their work — and it ' s no wonder why. Get Adobe Creative Cloud and start creating your...
4 Free Photo Resources You Can Tap for Social Good
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1 month ago
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Alex Sorto
Creating content nowadays has become easier than ever, making it harder to cling to excuses not to create. But ease of use might come with a price tag even the most die-hard creators might not be willing to pay. The good news is that you don't have...
6 Device Security Tips to Keep Your Data Safe
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1 month ago
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Nick Mediati
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When we talk about security , we talk a lot about antivirus software, data privacy, VPNs, and so on. But actual on-device security often gets overlooked, even though it's very important. After all, it doesn't matter how good your antivirus is...
Top 5 Benefits of Having a Technology Plan
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1 month ago
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John Kenyon, Twitter: @jakenyon
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Whenever I began a new technology consulting project with a nonprofit, one of the first questions I ask is, "Do you have a tech plan?" That's because a good plan is the foundation of being strategic and successful with technology. Here...
From Startup to Social Enterprise … with Rebecca Masisak at the Helm
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1 month ago
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James Nickerson, Twitter: @NickInSFO
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It's hard living two lives. Maybe you can relate? Specifically, leading a 9 to 5 life at a job where you "increase shareholder value" and "exceed client expectations," while at night, you spend your precious spare hours working...
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