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Double (or Triple) Your Donations with Corporate Matching Gifts

Allegiance Group

Through these programs, companies match employee donations to registered 501(c)(3) organizations at a predetermined ratio typically one-to-one, although some will do two- or three-to-one. Different businesses have different matching ratios and maximum matching amounts, which can be confusing.

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The Unanticipated Benefit of Content Curation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ve learned so much just watching his curation technique over at scoop.it. Robin recently shared his comprehensive map of content curation skills, dividing them into couple of key categories. Master curator, Robin Good, is the all around expert when comes to the topic of content curation.

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Google rolls out a new JPEG coding library

InfoWorld

Announced April 3 and accessible from GitHub , Jpegli maintains high backward compatibility while offering enhanced capabilities and a 35% compression ratio at high-quality compression settings, Google said. Jpegli works by using new techniques to reduce noise and improve image quality.

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Hoxton Farms raises £2.7M seed to produce animal fat without animals

TechCrunch

Furthermore, he says that current techniques for culturing animal cells are too expensive. We’re combining the latest techniques from computational biology and tissue engineering to do science that wasn’t possible a few years ago,” says Steele. and nutritional profile (saturated/unsaturated fatty acid ratio etc.).

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Samsung’s Galaxy Watch 4 calculates body fat from the wrist

The Verge

The Galaxy measures body composition using a technique called bioelectrical impedance analysis (BIA), which sends a weak electric current through the body. Since fat has a higher water content than muscle, the technique can estimate how much fat is present in a person’s body.

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Pinterest Nonprofit Benchmarking with Pinerly

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My goal wasn’t to compare raw numbers of each organization’s Pinterest scores to each other, but more to use the numbers to find those with highest engagement and reach and take a look at their boards, techniques and content. Here’s the stats I asked for and why: Average Repin Ratio : Gives a measure of engagement.

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What are News Discovery Tools? Why Use Them?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

One of the points he made during our planning call is that in order to curate, you need two sets of tools – news discovery and curation tools. News discovery tools select and aggregate content based on keyword searches, but give a higher signal to noise ratio than general keywords searches or general news sites.

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