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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It funds primarily organizations that serve the New York City metropolitan area or New York State. This first grant allowed us to pilot a Bookshare outreach project in the New York metro area, with a de facto focus on senior citizens with vision loss.

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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, the best practices below are based on Nonprofit Tech for Good’s experience using Twitter almost daily since 2008. With so much stressful, depressing news in the world today, positive news stands out. It’s a good practice to tweet content relevant to breaking news stories. Twitter Spaces.

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Community Funded Reporting: Interview with David Cohn of Spot.us

Have Fun - Do Good

in the Spring of 2008 at an Innovations in Journalism conference, I thought, this is going to be big. was a 2008 Knight News Challenge Winner. David is a journalist turned entrepreneur who has written for Wired , Seed , Columbia Journalism Review and The New York Times. We launched in November of 2008.

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Guest Post: An ARG at the Smithsonian--A Success?

Museum 2.0

The “Ghosts of a Chance” alternate reality game (ARG) ran from July 18 until October 25, 2008 and was a collaboration between the Smithsonian American Art Museum and CityMystery. The eye images were posted to the site, and the incantations were layered over the top of each other in an ever-growing audio file. The game website is here.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

an hour, and a national survey of Instacart workers found average wages (before expenses) of just $9.50 The term platform cooperativism is relatively new, introduced in 2014 by Trebor Scholz, associate professor of culture and media at the New School in New York City. Platform Cooperativism. trillion in assets.

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All for Green, and Green for All: An Interview with Van Jones

Have Fun - Do Good

What she did was, growing up in South Bronx, that's kind of the dumping ground for all of New York, she said, "Hey, I want to turn this into a recycling center. And the Democrats want to be the fiscal conservatives in 2008 who want to run against Bush's mega deficit. million dollar budget, and six attorneys, and a new ED.

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