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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

Working with an intelligent and experienced staff of a Phoenix-based nonprofit involved focused on global issues, I was encouraged to ask questions of development organizations and to think through a lens of international aid. Read Karina Lungo''s " Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities? ". Sources: [1] Matthews, S.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. His Tweet-a-thon raised over $5,000 for his charity on Twitter.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. You want to be weary of hero worship in a movement, but that’s addressed by constantly changing out the spotlight – shining a light on people, partners, organizations and policy makers, actions local and global.

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2012 Nonprofit Technology Year in Review

Tech Soup

An example is Charity Wallet , an online tool that simplifies the online giving process for donors who support more than one organization, which was launched during the event! Having project managed TechSoup Global's 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey , I can heartily agree with that. We gathered so much data!

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Nonprofit Technology News for September 2013

Tech Soup

Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? ” Their history of smartwatches is also good. The UK NPTech website, Charity Digital News reports that the Royal London Society for the Blind and IBM are creating a new voice controlled screen reading application called the Chatty Web.

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