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144 Articles FoundFacebook Contest Aims to Give Nonprofits Technology Makeovers
November 23, 2011, 5:25 am By Cody Switzer Toshiba, the electronics company, is using Facebook to give away a $100,000 technology makeover to one U.S. nonprofit and smaller prizes to four other charities. The company is asking nonprofits to “like” ...
A Few Good Tools for eAdvocacy
By Kyle Henri Andrei, November, 2011 Advocacy organizations often encourage their grassroots supporters to influence politicians and corporations using different methods, from promoting a cause or opposing legislation to challenging ad campaigns or policies. A large display of public opinion ...
Can Stories Be Data?
By Beth Kanter, Beth's Blog Your numerical data can tell stories, but can stories be data that leads to continuous improvement? Do only numbers matter? There are lots of debates in the amazing world of measurement and learning: The only ...
Enabling Program Staff to Become Digital Editors
By Steve Heye, Digital Content Services Manager, YMCA of Metropolitan Chicago Working for a large nonprofit focused on programs and services that have impact on peoples’ lives, we often find ourselves with great stories of inspiration to tell. The challenge ...
Visual Storytelling for Nonprofits
By Christy Wiles, Marketing Manager, PhotoPhilanthropy A single photograph has the power to shift public policy, alter the course of wars, and engage civil society. In a time when photographs circulate around the globe at an unprecedented scale and ...
Create, Manage and Evolve Your Nonprofit Blog
By Roger Burks, Co-Founder, Pictographers Creating a blog should be an opportunity, not an obligation. If it feels like solely an obligation, you should reconsider starting one — because, in my opinion, the most compelling blogs are born and grow ...
Crowdsourcing Campaign Videos: Let Your Members Be the Messengers
By Danny De Bonis, Director, Political Media, IB5K Every campaign is bedeviled with certain challenges. Namely, how to spice up an email program, tell compelling stories, show the human side of your organization, and build strong emotional connections between your ...
FREE NTEN Membership with TANO Membership!
TANO is proud to partner with NTEN: The Nonprofit Technology Network to provide our members with access to programs, reports, and events that equip organizations to use technology to meet their missions. November is NTEN’s Member Appreciation Month - and that ...
Defining Your Social Media Goals and Audience
October, 2011 Social media often has two aspects. There’s an important listening aspect that helps you hear what people are saying about you online, and there’s a second aspect that includes hosting conversations. Through tools like Facebook, Twitter or YouTube, ...
New Release! Updated Nonprofit Social Media Decision Guide
With more than 750 million people signed up for Facebook alone, there’s little doubt that social media can be a powerful part of your organization’s communications mix. But what can it be used for—outreach and engagement? Event management? Advocacy? How ...
Making it Easy to Measure Social Media
Is social media working for your organization? That question seems simple enough until you start to think about it. Working for what? Compared to what? Are you doing what you are supposed to be doing? Wait, what exactly are you ...
Just Added to TechSoup: Build the Database You Need with Caspio
Let's say your organization is running one desktop database program to manage its constituents, one to organize your finances and fundraising, and maybe a cloud-based one to track your email marketing. Caspio Bridge, now available through TechSoup, can be used ...
Product Update from TechSoup
ReviewRoom is a one-stop shop for managing applications for scholarships/fellowships, grants, awards, essay/video contests, certifications, call for papers and more. ReviewRoom is used many non-profit organizations (associations, libraries, foundations), government agencies, universities and more. Watch our video introducing ReviewRoom. ...
Get Started with Email Fundraising
August, 2011 No matter how small your organization is, email fundraising is an effective way to communicate with donors and raise money without substantially raising your overhead. Emails provide inexpensive reasons and reminders to give, and some donors are more ...
How to Make a Guerilla Video
By Colin Pizarek and Ryan Dunlavey, August, 2011 What is a guerilla video? What does it take to make a video? This diagram will give you a crash course in film school, walking you through the steps to make your ...
Microsoft Donation Program: Get Your Questions Answered
Thursday, August 11, 10 a.m. Pacific time Each year, the Microsoft donation program provides millions of dollars of software donations to nonprofits and libraries around the world, enabling them to use those financial resources elsewhere. But not everyone who is ...
TechSoup Update on Microsoft’s Donation Program
We have exciting news about Microsoft’s Donation Program. In addition, Cisco allocated most of their remaining Flip Video cameras to TechSoup! Eligible nonprofits and libraries can now each request up to five bundles of MinoHD and UltraHD video cameras. Bundles of ...
TechSoup Webinar - Microsoft Donation Program: How Does It Work?
Microsoft Donation Program: How Does It Work? Thursday, August 4, 10 a.m. Pacific time Interested in TechSoup’s Microsoft Donation Program? Whether you are new or experienced with Microsoft donations, join us for a quick webinar to learn about ...
A Few Good Tools for Friend-to-Friend Fundraising
By Andrea Berry and Stella Hernandez, July, 2011 Enlist your supporters to fundraise for you! A number of online tools make it easy for staff or anyone eager to help your organization to set up individual donation pages to engage ...
A Few Good Association Management Systems
By Eric Leland and Kyle Henri Andrei, July, 2011 An association management system can be a huge help in tracking your members, newsletter subscriptions, special gifts, invitations to events and workshops, discounts on products and services, and more. We ...