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Show data trends for your nonprofit or library in Microsoft’s Excel 2010 with built-in simple charts

Learn how your nonprofit can be more data-driven in your operations

This excerpt from the Demonstrating Value Workbook contains examples and diagrams to help you use your data to communicate the performance of your organization.

Customizing Microsoft Office’s Ribbon for your nonprofit or library use

Office 2010 has enhanced many of the graphics tools from prior versions of the suite and this article highlights a few. The instructions outlined here are specific to Word 2010, but the techniques tend to be similar for Word, Excel, PowerPoint, Outlo...

Learn how today's video editing software makes editing digital footage faster, easier, and much more affordable, and puts it within reach of anyone with a personal computer.

This guide will help you understand the questions to ask when shopping for a computer. It will also provide a quick reference checklist with definitions of some basic technology terms (not too many!), as well as the minimum standards we recommend for...

Whether you're looking to develop new skills, satisfy your technical curiosity, or solve day-to-day technology problems at your nonprofit or library, the offline resources discussed in this article will help. They include creating a testing or learni...

When a technology question arises at your nonprofit or library, the amount of technology information available online can be overwhelming. From quick tutorials to an entire college lecture series, you can access information on any topic and in any fo...

Once your organization has decided it's ready to upgrade to Windows 7 and has verified that it meets the technical requirements to do so, it’s time to begin planning for the upgrade itself. This article will walk you through steps to take before and ...

It's important to consider whether upgrading to Windows 7 makes sense for your organization and, if so, how you will go about implementing it. To help you decide whether Windows is a good fit for your organization, we’ve come up with four questions f...

Turn your mediocre nonprofit website into an engaging, high-traffic destination with these 5 basic tips.

As companies, nonprofits, libraries, and individuals find reasons to upgrade their computers, the problem of how to safely discard used equipment continues to grow. In this article, we share some tips for passing along your used but still useful equi...

Tips for nonprofits and libraries to process credit card transactions both online and off

Tools to track, manage, and serve your your nonprofit’s members

Idealware surveyed several nonprofit professionals and put together a list of tools for your nonprofit or public library.

Nonprofit professionals recommend affordable tools for all budgets.

Help your supporters raise funds for you with these online tools and best practices

What tools can help you raise money and rally support for your cause through an online auction? Idealware takes a look at the software tools that are widely used in the nonprofit sector.

Planning a free event? It can be difficult to justify paying a lot of money for online registration software. But trying to get by with email or online invitation tools like Evite can leave you frustrated. We asked nine nonprofit technology specialis...