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Data Digest: African Students Using Open Data, Social Impact Bonds, Digital Smoke Signals, and the Data Dilemma

Tech Soup

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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5 Games Supporting Nonprofits’s Missions, from Low-Tech to High-Tech

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Games’ strength is not showing “this is the problem, and here is the answer,” but to broaden players’ perspectives, build engagement, and ask “what are some ways we could address this?” The Senate Immersion Module will launch in Boston in March, at the opening of the EMK Institute.

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The 2016 Best Nonprofit Conferences Calendar

EveryAction

Its 45 workshops, seminars and lectures explore internal and external strategies, systems, methods, best practices and successful examples. International Fundraising Conference. International Fundraising Conference. AFP / Boston, MA / Price varies. 12th International ISTR Conference. Donor Relations. Mar 20 - 22.

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Tech Policies for Virtual Teams: A Leader’s Responsibility

Non Profit Quarterly

The problem they had was they didn’t really have policies to really govern and guide their staff towards effectively transitioning. Some of you might already have IT staff internally. Probably in the office, you got an internal IT team. So, they were not dealing with two particular issues; they really were dealing with one.

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Small Groups Can Change the World: An Interview with Marianne Manilov of The Engage Network

Have Fun - Do Good

He'd been going around the country looking at everything from disaster sites, to CEOs of corporations, and seeing how people were empowered from the ground up. We want to take it to scale and see what the problems are that we come up with at scale in these three programs: What's Your Tree?, Off the Mat, and Green For All.

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