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5 Online Strategies to Encourage Recurring Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Lindsey Himphill , Digital Marketing Strategist at MobileCause – a nonprofit technology company that pioneered text-to-donate and also offers an extensive suite of online, mobile, and event fundraising solutions. Launched in 2008, MobileCause pioneered the use of text-to-donate in the nonprofit sector.

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Are Associations Losing Their Members’ Trust?—The Leadership ColLAB Explores This Critical Question

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September 11 The 2008 mortgage crisis The Great Recession The 2016 Election The COVID pandemic The murders of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, and Tyre Nichols January 6 The current inflationary economy This lowering of esteem for organizations, whose solid reputations were previously taken for granted, is not anecdotal.

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Bitcoin for Nonprofits: Cryptocurrency Fundraising for the Future

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Bitcoin was launched on January 3, 2008, in the midst of the financial crisis and bank bailouts. Bitcoin is a digital cash with no middle-men, no central authority, and truly peer-to-peer in a way that couldn’t be censored or controlled. Since then, the cryptocurrency market has grown to include over 3,000 digital assets.

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Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

Home About Me Subscribe Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology Thoughtful and sometimes snarky perspectives on nonprofit technology Social Networks and Digital Sharecropping October 1, 2007 I was reading Deborah Finn’s curmugeonly post about Facebook. I have been having curmudgeonly thoughts about social networks in general.

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Leading the Way Toward Digital Inclusion

Tech Soup

In this blog post, I highlight a model for successful digital inclusion. Recently, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) and the Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) published guides to help community organizations create or expand programs to close the digital divide. Additional Resources.

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Connect2Compete: The Biggest Digital Inclusion Project in the U.S.

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nationwide digital inclusion project called Connect2Compete. It is part of an ongoing national effort to bridge the digital divide in the United States. Department of Commerce (NTIA) stimulus grants in 2008 and 2009 and so it has had no government funding and has been struggling to successfully get off the ground.

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Has Your Nonprofit Considered Race and Class in Your Social Media Strategy?

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Then late in 2007 and throughout 2008, the spam on Myspace started to become overwhelming, while at the same time the naysayers and fearmongers were growing larger and louder. PEW REPORT] Digital Differences: How the Mobile Web is Narrowing the Digital Divide.

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