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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

I like to think of it this way: Organizations may have the research or data, the capacity and staff, to identify problems and opportunities, to build messages, calls to action and campaigns. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level.

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Attention Nonprofit #DataNerds: A Few Recent Research Studies on Data, Technology, Funding, and Trends

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You can find data on philanthropists who have signed the Giving Pledge and data shared by 54 foundations on a set of “transparency indicators.” One of my favorite sections of the site includes the benchmarking data for foundation use of social media by channel which makes it very easy to do research.

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The Problem With Millennials & Fundraising

Achieve

a global humanitarian organization dedicated to ending the clean water crisis in developing countries. It offers a specific goal, requesting that participants gather 16 friends and each pledge to give $3.33 The problem with Millennials and fundraising isn’t that this generation doesn’t care enough to actually give.

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Phones in the Cloud and Telework Month

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global donation partner Cisco Systems and the environmental organization Telework Exchange are teaming up to promote Telework Week from February 14–18. This month in GreenTech we're focusing on cloud-based phone services and also the changes in the workplace that this technology is enabling, namely telework. read more.

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3 Ways to Kickstart Your Climate Action Plan

Saleforce Nonprofit

As the second week of COP26 — the UN’s global climate change conference — draws to a close, climate scientists are poring over the pledges made by world leaders, trying to determine whether their commitments to reduce carbon emissions will bring us within the agreed limit of a 1.5 degree global temperature increase.

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Mobile for Good: Earth Month Edition

Tech Soup

The company realized that simply raising awareness wasn't actually solving the problem. I'm also a big fan of apps that alleviate social problems. Anti-Phone-Theft Pledge. A new pledge signed by the big names in the phone industry swears that after July 2015, users will be able to remotely brick and wipe their phones.

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Influence | Forum One: Internet Strategy, Social Media, User Experience and Web Site Development

Forum One

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. Muslim relations. " A key message was.