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Earth Day 2010: Recycle

Tech Soup

Metals are the most readily sought after material to recycle, due to their high commodity value, while the recycling of plastics remains stunted by comparison due to poor labeling, its multiple varieties, the current cheap cost of virgin plastic, and the relative difficulty in finding manufacturing uses for post-consumer plastic.

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Are Mobile Apps Serving the Underserved?

Tech Soup

Apps created specifically to address the needs of low-income and underserved communities in the United States are few and far between – despite the fact that smartphone adoption rates are higher within minority communities where social services are in greater demand and poverty tends to be more concentrated.

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The End of the Beginning of Online Giving

Connection Cafe

Since 2016, online fundraising has grown 17% among nonprofits in the United States. Based on research from the Blackbaud Institute’s Charitable Giving Report , online giving in the United States represents 8.5% As a point of comparison, the U.S. of total fundraising revenue. of total sales. Did you get the memo?

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5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit.

sgEngage

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Key Insights from the 2010 Global State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on October 27th, 2010 Blackbaud has conducted its North American State of the Nonprofit Industry Survey annually for six of the past seven years.

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Looking across years and areas illuminates trends, uncovers gaps, and provides comparisons within the field. Our analysis provides an evidence base to understand and strengthen resourcing for social change.

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4 Things Your Nonprofit Needs to Know About Online Donors

Connection Cafe

The findings are based on analysis of online and offline giving data from sixteen large national nonprofits in the United States during 2016 and represents more than 6.5 By comparison, only 29% of online only donors were 65 or older while 58% of offline only donors are represented in these age brackets. million donors.

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10 Ways Geolocation is Changing the World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Elections app will soon be updated for 2010.). Scanning for Ethical Products : With online shopping, we’ve become accustomed to reading reviews and making comparisons before we buy. In 2008, we had the Tennessee coal ash spill , which was billed as “the largest environmental disaster of its kind in the United States.&#

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