NTEN is partnering with the Hewlett Foundation to offer 12 in-person and 20 virtual scholarships to the Boot Camp 2022: Infinite Iteration Conference. The 2022 Digital Marketing for the Arts Scholarship will cover the costs of registration, travel, and hotel accommodations for the conference being held at the SVA Theatre in New York City (and virtually) this fall. Bay area art-based organizations seeking to improve their digital marketing and leadership skills, this is the conference for you!  About the conference This hybrid conference is hosted by Capacity Interactive, a digital marketi ..read more

In 2020, the Center for Inclusive Innovation, an organization fiscally sponsored by NTEN, began a research project to assess both pandemic crisis-based and longer-term efforts to mitigate digital disparities. This project documents the experiences of more than twenty organizations that attempted to adapt or improve strategies and services to address the digital divide during the pandemic as short-term, crisis-funded deployments ended. Researchers gathered information showing that those efforts resulted in tens of thousands of Portland regional residents receiving aid in digital connectivity a ..read more

What is a web content manager? Are you a good writer and editor? Do you enjoy working with graphics and video? Are you interested in or have proficiency in using digital and web technology? For people interested in career paths that combine these skills, a position as a web content manager is a good one to explore.  Web content managers oversee the planning, organization, creation, and publishing of content for an organization or company website and, sometimes, social media and email. They work with leadership (usually a marketing or communications director) to develop and publish content ..read more

While many activities and resources moved online over the past decade, the pandemic forced institutions to offer all their services digitally. The attempt elevated the public’s awareness of digital inequity. Whether trying to attend classes, apply for government benefits, or practice religion, many people were excluded from fully participating in their communities. As we experience a lifting of pandemic restrictions and move towards more offline and in-person gatherings (and less reliance on digital connection), we must maintain our commitment to making sure our communities have the access, de ..read more

The NTEN team is now fully staffed. We’re thrilled to tell you that Share Roman has joined NTEN as our first Impact Coordinator! They kindly indulged us as we played our favorite game, 5 Questions. You’re a wonderful community organizer. What are your favorite parts about and reason for being a community organizer?  I think witnessing the excitement, passion, and anger it takes to get people involved in the work that seems to not have an end date. I’ve also found joy in the recruitment process of organizing. Connecting with fellow anxiety-ridden people who want to create change has ..read more

The Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience aims to build a digitally-enabled nonprofit sector, where Canada’s nonprofits use data and tech to advance their mission and multiply their impact. Leading Canadian and global organizations have joined forces to launch the Canadian Centre for Nonprofit Digital Resilience today.  For the first time, leading nonprofits are taking deliberate, collective action to build the digital capacity of the sector. The founders include some of the best-known names in the nonprofit sector, including Imagine Canada, Tamarack Institute and SETSI. It is ..read more

Tech companies and vendors aren’t the only ones who build technical solutions for nonprofits. But unfortunately, the prevailing myth across the sector is that nonprofits are users of technology, not the ones designing, building, and even distributing purpose-built solutions for their teams and similar organizations. NTEN surveyed over 300 nonprofit organizations to illustrate the realities, challenges, and areas of strength for nonprofit staff and teams who are building, customizing, and otherwise supporting technology platforms for their programs and even for other organizations, with this in ..read more

As the second year of the COVID-19 pandemic, 2021 was complicated for nonprofit organizations of all sizes and missions. Many organizations that had made rapid technology changes in 2020 to continue program and service delivery found that some of those changes were sustainable and others simply were not. While there were many different opinions about and efforts toward returning to in-person work in offices, the realities of our ever-changing technical needs were evident regardless of whether an organization ever had an office again. NTEN and Salesforce partnered on a survey to better underst ..read more

2021 was an eventful year at NTEN as we continued to promote, work towards, and model equitable practices internally and externally. To ensure that NTEN continues to grow in our equitable operations, part of our process is to annually review efforts made to the practices outlined in our equity commitment and identify where we can push forward or expand on those efforts in the coming year. This evaluation process involves all three equity committees, including board, community, and staff.  Our evaluation and review of 2021 have helped us identify some key successes while providing us with ..read more

If so, we want to hear about it! NTEN and Schmidt Futures are conducting a research project to illustrate the realities, challenges, and areas of strength for nonprofit staff and teams building, customizing, and otherwise supporting technology platforms for their programs and even for other organizations.   We are eager to surface where there may be trends or commonalities in the sector and where there are divergent experiences. The findings in this survey will inform the creation of additional resources, and the responses will be published as a free public report. Take the Nonprofit ..read more