We hope you enjoy this month's update from the Google for Non-Profits team. A reminder that you can find and search all of the old newsletters and other emails sent to this list at the Google group site. Also, please be sure to join the googlefornonprofits-discus
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Google Grants - tips for relief organizations--
Mapping your data with Google Fusion Tables
Nonprofit video awards
YouTube for nonprofits launches in Australia and Canada
Google Grants - best practices summary
Checkout for nonprofits - update and best practicesPicasa update
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Google Grants - tips for relief organizations - Many Google Grants volunteers teamed up with relief organizations in the wake of the Haiti earthquake to help them manage the increased traffic. A wrap-up of their learning can be found on the Google Grants Blog here.--
Mapping your data with Google Fusion Tables - Fusion Tables, a new product from Google, makes it easier for your organization to store, organize and visualize data tables in the cloud. Fusion Tables allows you to filter, aggregate, map points, lines, or polygons, and export to Google Earth, in addition to integrating different data sources, collaborating with others on columns, rows, and cells, and visualizing your data in lots of other ways. Learn more and see some cool examples here. --
Nonprofit video awards - YouTube teams up with See3 Communications to present the fourth annual DoGooder Nonprofit Video Awards. The awards recognize those organizations that have used video to the greatest effect to create lasting social change in the past year. Winners will be recognized at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Atlanta and on YouTube. In addition, each winning organization will receive a $2,500 grant from the Case Foundation and a custom Flip camera. Learn more and enter your organization here.--
YouTube for nonprofits launches in Australia and Canada - Nonprofits in Australia and Canada can now apply to become part of the YouTube Nonprofit Program. Members receive free branded channels, custom thumbnails, longer video uploads, and call-to-action overlays. For more information, and to apply, please go to www.youtube.com/nonprofits.
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Grantee best practices summary - The Google Grants team has received an impressive number of best practices shared by grantees in the past quarter. They've distilled a few of the major themes into a recent blog post, including: alternative fundraising practices, test everything, set clear goals, focus efforts and get help. You can learn more and read the grantees advice here.
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Checkout for nonprofits - Back in December we announced that the Google Checkout for nonprofits program would continue through 2010. A reminder for all Google Grants recipients that you can sign up for this service to utilize Google Checkout for online fundraising and pay no service fees. In addition, this article from the Google Checkout team gives great advice about the impact of listing a recommended donation and what that team found to be the optimal amount for raising the most money (hint: less is not necessarily more).
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Picasa Update - The updated version of Picasa 3.6 has a lot of cool new features that we think nonprofits will really enjoy, including support for 38 languages in the Windows version. Face recognition enables Picasa to scan your photos for faces and group by similarity. Once you identify people in the photos, Picasa will create Person Albums, which can integrate with your Contacts data online. GeoTagging is now integrated with Google maps and allows you identify exactly where a photo was taken, then see that image in Google Maps. Also, Collaborative Albums are now even better, allowing you to upload to a friend's album from Picasa, without having to use the web interface.
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That's it for this month's newsletter. As always, please send any suggestions for the newsletter or Google for Non-Profits site our way.
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