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Big Tech pledged a billion to racial justice, but it was pocket change

The Verge

In the first full quarter measuring earnings during the pandemic, Amazon, Apple, Facebook, Google, and Microsoft reported making truckloads of cash. The money they’ve pledged, in context, looks an awful lot like pocket change. Apple theoretically could have made its $100 million pledge back in less than a day.

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Forget Coffee Spoons: I Can Now Measure Out My Life With Facebook Status Updates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alfred Prufrock : “I have measured out my life with coffee spoons.” Disturb the universe? For I have known them all already, known them all: Have known the evenings, mornings, afternoons, I have measured out my life with coffee spoons; New Feature: The Timeline. Talking of Michelangelo. In a minute there is time.

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100+ Fundraising Tasks for Your Nonprofit’s Board

Nonprofit Tech for Good

A CTA is an invitation to take action, such as donating, volunteering, signing up for something, signing a petition, pledging to do something, etc. Download this Board of Directors Fundraising Worksheet to help your board members execute their board pledges to raise or give donations. It’s easier than it sounds.

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How to Use CauseVox for Fraternity and Sorority Fundraisers

CauseVox

Create Teams of Different Pledge Classes Now, let’s talk about a secret ingredient that can make your capital campaign soar: the power of friendly competition within your own ranks. By creating teams based on different pledge classes, you can tap into the natural camaraderie and rivalry that exists within your chapter.

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Demographics via Candid: A data-driven approach to encourage equitable funding practices

Candid

Pledges were made to reduce barriers, shift power, and engage in more equitable funding practices. Candid saw an opportunity to relieve this data-request burden while also providing a standardized benchmark measurement for the entire sector: enter Demographics via Candid. Introducing Demographics via Candid.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

This year’s Measuring the State of Disaster Philanthropy report, published by the Center for Disaster Philanthropy (CDP) and Candid, tracked roughly $121 billion in aid to date in 2020 across multiple sources—including bilateral and multilateral aid, U.S. federal agencies, donor-advised funds, and giving platforms.

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China introduces policies aimed at supporting young talent in sci-tech fields

TechNode

Beijing has issued several measures to further boost the cultivation and utilization of young scientific and technological talents, aiming to give young people prominent roles in national-level sci-tech research tasks, according to an August 27 report by state-owned Xinhua News Agency.

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