Group items tagged

A survey about mobile text messaging found that 86% of donors said they would donate again in the future, either through text messages or some other form of online giving. Most people had a positive experience with donating through a mobile phone and would like to recieve notices about the charity they were donating to. Future predictions say mobile phone donating is going to continue to grow in popularity.

This is site that non-profits can join and access different technologies that would help the organization reach its goals. TechSoup is the name of the organization that runs this and it has many partners that donate these different forms of technology. This technology is availiable to all nonprofits that qualify. check it out.

Article giving 7 tips on how non profits can use mobile phones to their advantage and gain donations. A good follow-up on class discussion of bar code scanning...

Quadriga Art works with nonprofits to help improve online donations by creating a more advanced technology infrastructure.

Clover is a small business web design site that offer a website some money, very good news.

One solution to budget crisis that NPAs are facing- another private organizationg donating volunteer hours, which will include creating websites and social media for NPAs that need them

Real Estate is involved in NPOs, a must read.

In Kansas City, they are involving the church with credit cards

This article talks about how technology is improving our ability to respond to disasters around the world. Specifically it talks about how technology like SMS and twitter allowed rescue efforts to happen quicker and more efficiently. I think it's cool how with all this new technology we have the ability to save more lives and do more in times of disaster. Families were able to communicate with those in Haiti more than they would have been able to before this technology was available. Also, that with tools like SMS, donations were able to be set up for non-profits to assist in recovery efforts. People are probably more likely to donate if they can do it with something as simple as sending a text message, and organizations will be able to receive the money quicker. Cool article.

There is a Tech for Good contest for nonprofits to show how they are using Microsoft software to do good and Microsoft is donating $5000 in cash/up to $100,000 in new software to the winner.

Microsoft hosts a conference called Tech for Good Contest, where eligable nonprofits prove why they deserve the donated money anywhere from 5 to 100 thousand dollars worth of Microsoft software. Along with it they will receive consulting from the organization teaming up with Microsoft, NPower Seattle.

Microsoft is holding a contest for nonprofits to win money through use of technology and holding a technology seminar for non profits next month

Another way HP is making a difference by helping NPOs

The emerging business structure applicable to nonprofits. You will have to pay taxes but the confusion is in the donation structure. There is a link to that information contained within

Was seeking answers to what is an L3C?

Found this article very interesting in how technology business such as Microsoft is donating so much to charities

Another blog donated specifically to non-profits (mostly small ones), where employees and leaders of these organizations can connect, spread messages, and troubleshoot.

People giving donations online. Easy as 1-2-3 for givers and non-profits.

Being online has a benefit after all

This article describes the trend in online giving which is becoming more popular since Haiti. Online giving represents a considerable amount of donations, and has grown by 35% in 2010.

Charity Technology Trust helps nonprofits save money on software. They give tips to your organization so that more money is coming in. They receive donated hardware from places like microsoft and sell it to nonprofits for cheap. roughly, 6,000 charities have benefited from CTT

UNICEF is playing with the idea of using QR Codes to encouraging people to donate items on a 1X2 (buy one, give one) basis while shopping at the store. It is a pretty neat way to utilize the technology, and encourage people to donate.

This article details results of a fundraising survey for 2010. The biggest finding is that online contributions are rising in 2010. This makes the process more important. It is unclear if the trend is strictly temporary. The increased awareness of events in conjunction with social media appears to be generating more donations. More data is needed to make a definitive assessment than this article provides.

Seems like an interesting initiative. Anyone in the class involved or know someone that is? --Andy