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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2010 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In addition to all those wonderful programs, I wrote up 11 more for 2010. Recipients receive a map, fact sheet, an adoption certificate, and a subscription to Nature Conservancy magazine. Last year’s list of nonprofit holiday gift programs has been getting a lot traffic over the last two weeks thanks to Google searches.

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Boulder Makes Worst Dressed List

VisionLink

Sources in order: Portfolio.com, 2010 Men''s Health, 2010 National Geographic, 2010 Bon Appétit magazine, 2010 Kiplinger''s Personal Finance, 2010 Backpacker, 2009 GQ magazine, 2011' And no, VisionLink does not support that last line. Douglas Zimmerman President & CEO VisionLink, Inc.

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HOW TO: Engage 5 Generations of Donors and Supporters

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In 2012, 58 percent of boomers donated online compared to 44 percent in 2010. In 1951 TIME magazine published an article that defined the silent generation as grave and fatalistic, stating: “Youth today is waiting for the hand of fate to fall on its shoulders, meanwhile working fairly hard and saying almost nothing.

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Great reads from around the web on October 25th

Amy Sample Ward

Women Give 2010 is the first report to compare philanthropic giving between men and women across all income levels based on a nationally representative sample. But, how can organizations and enterprises best use video to inspire change? " The Web Is Dead.

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Scanning for Good: 5 Reasons QR Codes Are a Safe Option for Nonprofits

NetWits

14 million Americans scanned them in June of 2011 , and there was a +4500% increase in use from 2009 to 2010. I see them in every magazine, subway station, and store shelf I encounter. They are everywhere – and people are scanning them!

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Knitting samples for Knitting off the Axis

Judi Sohn

I can stare a picture of beautiful yarn the way a foodie would study a picture in Gourmet Magazine. In late 2009 I knit a pattern from the Fall 2009 issue of Knitscene magazine. Here’s an in-progress photo from the elbow detail knit in September 2010. I know, it’s strange. Only my fellow fiberaholics can understand.

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What Does the Mobile Market Look Like for Nonprofits?

NetWits

According to the BBC in 2010 “In many regions, penetration exceeds 100%, where there is more than one connection per person in the country. The nonprofit Best Friends Animal Society turned their great print magazine into a magazine for the iPad2. ( [link] ). Currently there are over 5 billion devices worldwide and growing.

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