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Welcome to the 2021 Digital Inclusion Fellows

NTEN

Our seventh cohort includes 15 Fellows from around the country : Alabama, Georgia, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Texas, and Utah. Over the next year, these fellows will be learning, sharing, designing, implementing, and challenging themselves to become digital inclusion experts who can and will transform their communities.

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10 Nonprofits Ready For Their Close-Ups, Mr. DeMille

The NonProfit Times

Photo via Alabama Association of Nonprofits The Alabama Association of Nonprofits has launched a film festival of works by nonprofits in the state. AAN partnered with the Fidelity Charitable Catalyst Fund to provide grants to 10 nonprofits through a competitive process.

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A renowned community of quilters is taking on copycats — and winning

The Verge

Online sales gave Gee’s Bend quilters control over their work Quilts made by generations of women in Gee’s Bend, Alabama, have hung in the Met, the Whitney, and the Smithsonian Museum of Art. Illustration by Claudia Chinyere Akole. They’ve been shown at galleries and art fairs around the world.

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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

As one volunteer manager in a human services organization in Alabama put it, remote technology like social media gives you an “audience that doesn’t have limits.” With technology solutions, organizations were able to reach volunteers and clients who lived too far away or had other mobility issues.

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Real estate investing app Fintor raises $6.2M at $80M valuation

TechCrunch

The platform currently offers shares in single-family residences in states such as Georgia, South Carolina, Texas and Alabama, and Yousefi said it plans to enter 20 different markets by the end of 2022. Fintor enables its customers to invest in properties with as little as $5, according to Yousefi.

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Explore Multichannel Fundraising Advice from the Experts

Allegiance Group

For example, the subject line Read our new blog post about childhood literacy likely wont get as many clicks as Fuel Kids Love for ReadingDive Into Our Latest Blog! Example of This Communication Channel Allegiance Group + Pursuant client Alabama Public Television (APT) launched an outbound text campaign to drive revenue for the organization.

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How Shopify’s network of sellers can take on Amazon

The Verge

There was just a failed union drive in Alabama , there’s going to be more. And if the tool that you want is not available, I think the technical literacy of most entrepreneurs and founders in 2021 is so high. There’s a lot of labor unrest at Amazon to enable the amount of volume they do, to enable their shipping speed.

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