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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. What do you measure every day, week, month, year? Have people heard of 350.org org before? Have you heard the number 350 parts per million? And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious.

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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. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Over this time, we have had a glaring omission: our research has not captured funding related to race or ethnicity, despite significant and global human rights work in this area.

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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 service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. Smart Watches.

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