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Guest Post: Murphy’s Law — sometimes simpler is better in technology for volunteer management

Twenty Hats

Some people emailed me their availability while others signed up on a google sheet (Google Forms wasn’t even a thing then, it came out in 2008). Fast forward to 2020 and I’m working with an incredible education non-profit in New York City which provides programming to and through college for underrepresented students.

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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Frankly, it didn’t go as well as we had hoped, and Lavelle worked with us to retarget the grant to focus on students with visual impairments. This experience helped us prove the potential of Bookshare to meet the needs of students with disabilities. Even in the United States, this was true of probably a quarter of our student users.

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The Top 54 Auctioneers for Nonprofit Fundraising Events

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Since 2008, Emily has worked with nonprofit organizations and corporations of all sizes, helping raise millions for her clients’ good causes. 17) Lyla Stebbins Lyla Stebbins (bidfirefundraising.com) is a 16-year-old, 11th-grade student at Bethlehem Central High School in Delmar, New York. You were born to do this!” 34) Bobby D.

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Using SMS in the Field

NTEN

This campaign needs to communicate details about all hunting laws, most of which are completely unknown to the average person. The campaign will run targeted workshops to train hunters in regulation definitions and processes, and partnership meetings to reform the hunting permit system so it will be effective in supporting legal hunting.

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Guest Post by Aspen Baker: Friend or Foe? UC Berkeley Investigates the Legal Landscape of Social Networking

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

who gave the keynote speech at UC Berkeley’s conference on law, ethics and technology, “ Social Networks: Friends or Foes? ,” complaints of hijacked accounts increased by one-third from 2007 to 2008. While the overwhelming consensus was that such behavior isn’t right, there are few laws on the books to address these scenarios.

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Our Much Improved Tech Support In TechSoup's Refurbished Computer Initiative

Tech Soup

The RCI equipment is then processed according R2. One of their many charitable projects is to be part of the 20 years | 20 ways campaign, a year-long effort by Microsoft to build better careers and better lives for aspiring IT professionals and students around the world. It became a commercial company in 2008.

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iLaw: Cyber Strategy for a Developing Nation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

He imagines a Jamaica ten years in 2008, ten years after the initial discussions about this project began. "We might imagine J amaica in 2008 that has become a remarkable leader in the world. The process of self-reflection and identifying differences, working ways to relate to issues, and going forward.

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