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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? Phones also provide a reliable contact method for people who have no permanent address. It also uses Twitter to “find, counsel, and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.” Cloud Storage Price Wars Update.

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Four Early Lessons Learned in the Quest to Improve Feedback Loops in Philanthropy

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

They use a variety of methods including focus groups, surveys, and one-on-one conversations. There are many ways to collect feedback, and our nonprofit partners use a variety of methods. In each of these cases, the organization is looking to improve based on feedback and also improve their own feedback collection methods.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). Solving basic social problems requires a level of sustainable investment that donors and government cannot provide alone.

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10 Organizations Leading The Way This Mental Health Awareness Month

Everyaction

Lack of access to appropriate mental health care carries serious consequences, including increased likelihood of hospitalization, homelessness, incarceration, and suicide. Their vision is to become a national leader in the sphere of youth and family behavioral health, and in many areas they are already leading the way.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

During her lifetime, biochemist and pharmacologist Gertrude Elion worked to develop drugs to treat leukemia and prevent rejection in kidney transplant recipients, as well as revolutionary drug treatments and research methods for diseases like malaria and AIDS. She won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988. Marie Curie. Marie Curie was a.)

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

We’ll be in California in January, we just left. Are you using evidence-based methods. And I see an anonymous question here about, “Can you speak to what evaluation methods are particularly effective regarding impact?” ” So maybe it’s our diverse, our national, our local partners coordinate.

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