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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Now in it’s third year (View the 2009 Edition and 2010 Edition ), the 11 holiday gift programs listed below benefit nonprofits and thus help make the world a better place: 1.

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The Top 3 Charity Rating & Badge Programs for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For example, SmileTrain has earned a rare 100% score from Charity Navigator , thus a ★ ★ ★ ★ rating, and placed their badge near the “Donate” button on their donation page(s). To begin, sign up to update your nonprofit’s Candid profile. Once you have earned your badge, add it to your nonprofit’s website.

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22 Nonprofit Mobile Websites

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Neither does linking to desktop sites inside smartphone apps, in group text alerts, or on location-based communities like Foursquare, Gowalla and Facebook Places. Nature Conservancy :: m.nature.org. National Public Radio :: m.npr.org. Smithsonian National Postal Museum :: postalmuseum.si.edu/mobile.

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Unlocking the power of data for wildlife conservation: An alliance between EarthRanger and Tableau Foundation

Tableau

In Zambia’s North Luangwa National Park, rangers study the map on their screen to see if there are any places they haven’t checked. The data is incredibly valuable for conservation work, but its vastness can overwhelm wildlife managers and strain their limited time and resources. . Park rangers becoming data pioneers.

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In Texas, ‘water is the new oil’ as cities square off over aquifers that may soon dry out

Fast Company Tech

Regulation of such projects falls to a patchwork of small, rural agencies called groundwater conservation districts, which might not be fully equipped or empowered to manage plans for competing regional water needs that can affect entire cities for generations to come. Theres no cheap water left in Texas. It stops it. You cant just say no.

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Four Nonprofits Pioneering Windows 8

Nonprofit Tech for Good

National Geographic Society. Smithsonian National Zoo . Nature Conservancy. Window 8 places a high priority on the mobile/touchscreen experience which the vast majority of nonprofits have not yet even considered, so Windows 8 could be the technical breakthrough, aha! Now, should your nonprofit upgrade to Windows 8 ?

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How people secured their secrets before encyption

Fast Company Tech

Dambrogio, a conservator at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology Libraries, traces her interest in the subject back about 25 years, to a fellowship at the Vatican’s archives. “When Jana showed me these models, suddenly all this kind of material fell into place,” he says.

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