Ever try to change your clothes while running on a treadmill?
That’s what many nonprofits feel like lately. Even moreso since COVID-19, they are having to revolutionize how they can continue to safely create impact, pivot to virtual fundraising, and even how to operate efficiently from a distance. Learn how your organization can not only think incrementally, but to achieve 10x the impact through Strategic Alignment, Human-Centered Design and Systems Thinking.
In 2019, the Strategic Action for a Just Economy won the Technology Innovation Award to put $10,000 toward their technology project, OWN IT!, a suite of tools which makes public data accessible through interactive visualizations and maps to anyone. Hear an update from the SAJE team and how their project has grown to help LA renters grapple with the COVID-19 pandemic.
Okta’s VP of Social Impact breaks down 3 myths about working with tech companies and provides tactical tools for you to get the most out of your relationships with social impact teams.
As a former technology executive turned nonprofit COO, James Gadsby was on a journey to modernize his nonprofit’s footprint and his actions came just in time. Learn how Desire Street’s 3-year process led to leveraging workflow automation features that helped them thrive with increased efficiency, seamless work-from-anywhere capabilities and reduce operational timeframes.
In early 2020, Lynn Morrison lived an Executive Director’s nightmare when their operations were brought to a halt following a ransomware attack. Lynn talks about her experience and what she learned that other nonprofits can do to further protect themselves.
How do we change the world? That is the implicit question asked by nonprofits when they are planning their communications, marketing and fundraising activities. We we talk about online engagement, what we mean is the co-creation of something meaningful with our community. It’s not pushing content at people. It’s the push and pull of content that creates something new and nonprofits can harness the voice of their communities to help.
Free. It has all these wonderful connotations. Free lunch. Free as a bird. Free for all! We especially love free stuff in the nonprofit sector because we are working with limited resources and trying to do more with what we have. But sometimes free is not so free. In this talk we’ll address the broader expectation in our society of getting things for free, what the cost of that is, and how organizations can explicitly think about the cost of data systems that are “free”.
Artificial Intelligence still has a sense that is only for the elite, for corporate companies with unlimited budgets and the resources to support it. That’s not the case any longer, and hear you’ll learn one easy way you can set up and benefit from AI in your organization – ChatBots.
Cybercrime is now more lucrative than the drug trade and by April 2020 following the movement to remote working due to the COVID-19 crisis, the rate at which nonprofits have been attacked has skyrocketed. It is imperative to understand the landscape of cybercrime and what you can, and should, be doing to protect your data and employees.
SecCheck cyber security and compliance assessment evaluates your organization’s current cyber security and compliance maturity resulting in a rating against seven different categories: Application, Business Continuity, Cloud, Data, Identity, Policy, and Infrastructure.
In this workshop, we’ll provide access to the assessment tool, walk participants through its completion and provide an evaluation and personalized report with technology recommendations and resources. Assessments are typically completed by nonprofit leadership and technology staff and typically take between 60 and 90 minutes to complete.
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Building a dashboard is easy, but understanding what data to use and how to best present it is a challenge many organizations miss. Using the build of an Annual Report as an example, learn about best practices and how to get started visualizing data for your organization.
This workshop will focus on the steps organizations need to take before they begin the visualization build including drawing out your report, identifying key performance indicators (KPIs), and documenting where the data for each metric lives. Designed for leadership members, development staff, or any other team members looking for visualization tools, this workshop does not require technical expertise.
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Many organization are starting to evaluate ways to automate workflows to either replace a manual, paper process or reduce the burden on newly remote staff. This workshop will focus on the different tools available within Microsoft’s Power Platform and how they can be used independently, together, or with other applications. We will review ways to streamline repetitive tasks, gather key information from staff and report back on it, simplify existing processes like approval workflows, and more. Designed for leadership members, programs staff, and IT staff who are interested in learning how to leverage some of the technology currently available, this workshop will benefit those without technical expertise by providing an overview of the capabilities and possibilities of the platform applications as well as those looking for tangible takeaways to practice or implement within their own organization.
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Learn the fundamentals and best practices for using social media, email, and additional communication tools to conduct digital fundraising in this remote world. Walk through steps to consider when optimizing your website, targeting email audience and crafting a social media plan.
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2020 Speakers and Additional Workshops Coming Soon
Resiliency today is not a choice and nonprofits need to build it within their staff members and apply it to today’s technology challenges. In this on-demand session, certified change management expert, Ralitza Zikatanova will draw from the large body of change management techniques. Attendees will walk away with the ability to create a personal action plan in moments that require resiliency and have a list of big picture competencies they can reference as they continue to face new challenges.
Putting customers/constituents at the heart of your organization ensures decisions reflect your community’s needs, desires, and feelings. We’ll share the Customer Experience framework — identifying your key personas, mapping out their journeys, listening to your constituents at key touchpoints, anticipating and predicting needs, and actioning to transform experiences. To see this framework come to life, I’ll share stories from nonprofits like Human IT who have served 4x more households by streamlining their beneficiary journey and utilizing SMS as their main feedback channel for a better CX.
Online learning has been gaining in popularity and usage in recent years. With the necessity of social distancing due to the pandemic, it is likely that online learning will continue to expand. While online learning provides the opportunity to share content at any time, to anyone around the world, it also can be challenging to create the community and connections with remote learners. In this talk, we discuss some strategies that are proving to bridge that divide and share ideas with one another about ways to make distance learning feel engaging and meaningful.
You have a donor management system, but how do you get the most out of it while maintaining it for optimal efficiency? How do you take advantage of all the hidden gems that are in there to make your data truly work for you? Join us for a short primer that identifies key donor management software best practices, including keeping your data clean, enhancing your lists, and customizing and segmenting your data. This will be a quick pass to provide ideas you may wish to explore in more detail.
Up to twice as many women drop out of the technical ladder in the corporate world as men. A look at the numbers published by Facebook (16%), Google (18%), Slack (18%) demonstrate the extent of the problem. In open source, the numbers are around 5.4%. CodeChix, a CA non-profit, is addressing this retention problem in the tech industry through open source tools and methodologies to help retain busy, professional women engineers/developers.
Many nonprofits think of innovation as a luxury they can’t afford. Staff time and budgets are limited, and improving the way they use technology seems out of reach. But technology can offer straightforward, inexpensive means of providing higher quality services, and create numerous opportunities to do more with less—even in our current economic climate. Which makes innovation something organizations can no longer afford not to embrace. Hear key strategies and best practices for everyday innovation, along with real-world examples, providing a framework for innovation appropriate for every nonprofit.
Have you figured out how to steward your P2P fundraisers? We’ll share practical examples of ways to draw your existing P2P fundraisers more deeply into your organization and help them raise more money. You’ll come away from this micro session with fresh ideas and inspiration!
