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Place Matters: How Collective Impact and Place-Based Investment Can Empower Communities to Lead

NonProfit PRO

The place-based approach gives communities and funders the authority to identify their own greatest assets and needs, and to articulate their own priorities. In philanthropy, a top-down approach and lack of lived experience has often led to funder-driven decision-making that lacks authentic community expertise and inclusion.

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An Ars Technica history of the Internet, part 1

Ars Technica

So Taylor was in the Pentagon, a great place for acronyms like ARPA and IPTO. Authors re-creation of Bob Taylors office with three teletypes. He had three massive terminals crammed into a room next to his office. Each one was connected to a different mainframe computer.

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The Best Place to Find New Donor Prospects for Your Non-Profit

The Fundraising Authority

The single best place to find new donor prospects is inside your current donors’ rolodexes. The post The Best Place to Find New Donor Prospects for Your Non-Profit first appeared on The Fundraising Authority. Think In Terms of “Two Asks”.

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6 Places to Find Grants for Your Non-Profit

The Fundraising Authority

If your non-profit is looking for new grant opportunities, here are six tried-and-true places to find them: #1 – Your Board I always start my grant research with my board. The post 6 Places to Find Grants for Your Non-Profit first appeared on The Fundraising Authority.

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5 Ways to Build a Digital Community that will Transform Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Every nonprofit strives to make the world a better place, and a strong community is essential to achieving that goal. About the Author Sarah Suarez is the founder of The Social Puzzle , a boutique social media marketing agency specializing in nonprofit clientele.

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7 Tips for Standout Nonprofit Website Content in the Age of AI

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Try to get it to be more informal, and suddenly it’s greeting readers as if they’re long-lost friends, with exclamations all over the place. 5) Use AI to polish or simplify There’s a place where AI really does shine: straightforward tasks that can be time-consuming and annoying to staff. About the Author Laura S.

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The UK could greenlight direct-to-phone satellite services this year

Engadget

On Tuesday, the nation's telecom regulator, Ofcom, proposed using direct-to-device satellite tech to connect people in the UK's "most rural and hard-to-reach places," like mountains and remote villages. Depending on the feedback it receives, it could begin authorizing direct-to-device calls later this year.

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