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How to Use Trial & Error to Find the Right Fundraisers for Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Perhaps you could organize a peer-to-peer knit-a-thon, an auction of hand-made knitted items, a sale of knitted products and knitting supplies (you could partner up with a local yarn producer!), Pay attention to what is working—not only the type of campaign but individual aspects of each fundraiser. Try to figure out why.

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The science behind optimizing a productive work environment

The Next Web

What we do know is which three parts of the brain work together to help us create and come up with new ideas: The Attentional Control Network helps us with laser focus on a particular task. It’s the one that we activate when we need to concentrate on complicated problems or pay attention to a task like reading or listening to a talk.

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7 Ways Nonprofits Can Automate Donor Retention

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Your local gym knows how to retain its members, even the members that don’t go regularly. Your donors are paying attention to your brand. Personalized thank you’s sound incredibly time-consuming, but there are tools to make this essential task manageable for your team. 3) Make Giving Easier For Donors than a Gym Membership.

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8 startups that leveraged products for social good, and where they’re headed in 2014

The Next Web

or “What’s unique about my brand that’ll make people care and pay attention?”. For the most part, it’s exactly that it sounds like. All hail small (and local) business. For instance, if your local YMCA needs a WordPress ninja, you might be best suited for the job. 6) The startup that offers sustainable wine for the world.

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Android gets new accessibility features, including Google Assistant-powered Action Blocks

The Verge

Google is also adding features to Live Transcribe , Bluetooth support to Sound Amplify, and better navigation options to Voice Access. It does exactly what it sounds like, automatically transcribing speech into text — in more than one language if you like. It doesn’t yet.

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Refresh your home with the best home deals from Amazons Big Spring Sale

Mashable Tech

This Matter-certified deviced works with any smart home system, whether it be Apple Home, Google home, or Alexa, within your local network. robot vacuum just sounds like a good deal without any other context. However, it earned my top spot because of its attentive mopping. at Amazon $1,399.99 And that's totally accurate.

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Guest Post: Infusing “Social” into Social Justice Organizations

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this sound bite culture, social justice organizations must carve out nuanced positions on complex social issues, from racial and gender equity to immigration reform. What this often means is that their messages might not garner the media attention or viral traction they deserve.

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