Sprouting a Cause

It’s simple because once widgets are launched, a nonprofit can update all of them from a single control panel and track where they appear and how people use them, Deitz said during the Nonprofit Technology Network webinar “Using Sprout to Get Your Nonprofit’s Message Out (in tact).”

Deitz explained that sprouts can be any size and any number of pages and can include video, audio, images, news feeds and components such as slideshows. Also, they can include Web service components such as Twitter, PollDaddy and ChipIn. Building a sprout is pretty easy, thanks to the pre-made templates at sproutbuilder.com. Users choose from templates for causes, sports teams, musicians or others and then drag in their content to the placeholders.