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Mark Your Calendars! 2015 Cause Awareness Days

Nonprofit Tech for Good

3: World Press Freedom Day — #WorldPressFreedomDay. 5: Give Local America Day — #GiveLocal15. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay and #LIUB. 12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. September.

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[Breaking News] An Extraordinary Funding Opportunity For Nonprofits To Preserve Local Journalism

Bloomerang

Nonprofits focused on the preservation of local journalism are being called to step up, and many of the country’s largest private foundations have announced $500 million in funding over five years to support them, an extraordinary initiative called Press Forward. Press Forward seeks to stop and reverse that trend.

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2017 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar

Nonprofit Tech for Good

3: World Press Freedom Day — #WorldPressFreedomDay. 2: Give Local America Day — #GiveLocal17. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. 2: World Autism Awareness Day — #WorldAustismDay. 7: World Health Day — #WorldHealthDay. 14: World Dolphin Day — #DolphinDay. September.

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How to Get Your Nonprofit’s Story in the News

Get Fully Funded

Even though there aren’t as many people today reading actual newspapers or watching the 6 o’clock news these days, your local media still reaches a large audience of people in your community who need to know about your nonprofit’s work. The key to getting your nonprofit’s story in the news is building relationships with local journalists.

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President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

By announcing this in many press interviews, I've managed to create lots of external pressure on myself to get this done! Speaking of the press, it is clear that they really get my overarching goal: to engage more of the tech community in serving the 90% of humanity we haven't been focusing on (yet).

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

For example, Martus can now be configured in less than 10 minutes by anyone with basic digital literacy skills. Case in point is our team’s work with local LGBTI groups in Sub-Saharan Africa to help them establish independent human rights documentation initiatives. Martus Desktop 4.5 and Mobile Martus 1.2

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. Problems were that many survivors had no internet access, let alone electrical power, let alone computers or even computer literacy. If you want to see the data historically, be sure to visit the site and press “Play&# on the map.

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