A few weeks ago, we asked you to share how you currently use Google products and how you find educational resources for those products. We were excited that hundreds of you took the time to provide a lot of great input. We wanted to highlight a few of the main themes, and alert you to some new educational resources that we’ve created based on your feedback. What we heard:Nonprofits go online primarily for communication and driving awareness We asked you for which tasks you’ve sought out online resources or support. Many of you go online to communicate with others in your organization. You also go online to find resources for fundraising, online marketing, driving awareness for your cause, volunteer management and project management. Needless to say, there are a wide variety of tasks that you go online to complete!Nonprofits want more info about nonprofit-specific Google tools We asked you which Google tools you’d be interested in learning more about and it was clear to us that you’re most interested in the nonprofit-specific product offerings. AdWords (Google Grants), YouTube for Nonprofits and Google Apps for Nonprofit are at the top of the list of tools that you want to learn more about.Nonprofits prefer online tutorials, step-by-step checklists and online videos as educational formats: We also asked you about your preferred formats for additional educational resources. You want online resources that are broken down into meaningful steps, such as online tutorials or checklists. You also said that you want more multimedia educational resources, such as online video. We wanted to take quick action on your feedback, so we’re launching a new set of educational checklists designed to help nonprofits get started with the Google tools that are available through the Google for Nonprofits Program. You can find this information here: http://www.google.com/nonprofits/tips.html. Additionally, we’ve launched a series of new Google Docs templates to help you with volunteer management. We have two Google Forms, a Volunteer Database Template & a Volunteer Event Registration Form Template to help you automate collecting volunteer information online. With these templates you can build an online database of general volunteer interest and get volunteers registered for specific events. We’ve also created a Volunteer Management Google Sites Template to help you communicate with volunteers, share key documents and publish a calendar of upcoming events. You can customize them to fit your organization’s volunteer management needs. We’ll continue to develop additional resources to help save you time and increase your effectiveness with Google tools. If you have additional thoughts or feedback on the educational content we’ve shared today, please take a moment to share your perspective in the Google for Nonprofits forum here .Posted by Leslie Hernandez Dinneen, Google.org Team
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