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5 Ways to Build a Digital Community that will Transform Your Nonprofit

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Liking, commenting on, or sharing content from nonprofits with similar causes or within the same locale fosters a supportive network and broadens the organization’s reach. Post photos and videos of team members, events, program activities, and volunteers to give followers an inside look at the organization’s efforts.

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6 Innovative QR Code Strategies for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

6 Innovative QR Code Strategies for Nonprofits Take your nonprofit’s QR codes beyond fundraising and volunteer recruitment: 1) Showcasing Donor Impact: Use QR codes on personalized thank-you postcards that direct supporters to engaging videos or photo galleries showing how their contributions make a difference.

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Iceland built 1,756 wheelchair ramps in the past 4 years. Why can’t other countries do that?

Fast Company Tech

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. As a wheelchair user, Thorleifsson knows firsthand how exclusion can be built into a city. I had some money, and I was able to quickly raise more.

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Strategies For Building Sustainable Support For Homelessness Initiatives

Bloomerang

For nonprofit professionals serving rural communities, building strong donor relationships starts with clear communication about local needs and measurable outcomes. Data-driven insights for donor education Numbers tell a powerful story when paired with local context.

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Apple will reportedly scan photos stored on iPhones and iCloud for child abuse imagery

The Verge

Photo by Vjeran Pavic / The Verge. Apple plans to scan photos stored on iPhones and iCloud for child abuse imagery, according the Financial Times. Photos will be hashed and compared with a database of known images of child sexual abuse. But the system described here would go further, allowing central access to local storage.

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A new airplane silently broke the sound barrier. It looks nothing like NASA’s X-59

Fast Company Tech

Photo: Boom Supersonic] The company announced the milestone February 10. Photo: Boom Supersonic] Mach cutoff is a phenomenon where a sonic boom, instead of traveling directly to the ground, bends upwards and dissipates into the atmosphere. And as long as the bottom of the U never touches the ground, there’s no audible boom.

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Taking Local Currency Digital: A New Experiment Emerges

Non Profit Quarterly

Photo by S O C I A L. a local currency issuer. Then as now, the idea behind BerkShares was to galvanize residents in Pittsfield, Great Barrington, and surrounding areas to purchase more goods and services locally. The local currency could be converted into US dollars but is designed to be spent directly in the area.

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