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12 Useful, Well-Designed, Worth-Downloading Android Apps Created by Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But thanks to a strategy focused on bringing low-cost smartphones to the masses worldwide, Google’s Android surged to a whopping 68% share of the global smartphone market in the second quarter of 2012. That’s four times the 17% global market share held by Apple. Sea Turtle Conservancy App.

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It turns out Martín was asked by Franco to join his administration when he took office in June 2012. It was a daring venture: Paraguay was then still under a military dictatorship and it was extremely difficult to advance social work. He will serve in this position until Franco finishes his term in August 2013. and Africa.

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3rd Annual EveryAction Nonprofit Halloween Costume Parade

EveryAction

Each year, our staff marks the occasion by dressing up as some of our favorite nonprofit organizations as a way to recognize their incredible work and the start of end-of-year fundraising push with some fun. We're proud to work with Audubon on Halloween and beyond - check out the work Audubon is doing with EveryAction throughout the year.

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Three Ways Social Media Has Negatively Affected the Nonprofit Sector (and What We Can Do About It)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival. 2) The rise of the Internet troll. 3) Social media burnout.

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Telling Better Stories: Fundraising Tips from 12NTC

Tech Soup

Your organization is doing great work, but you may not always be telling that story in a way that resonates with potential donors and other supporters. If all of that is true, how come M+R Strategic Services found that personal stories didn't work for fundraising? The Nature Conservancy Experience. Stories That Compel.

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The Internet Gets Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” The article described fascinating new uses of sensors and other smart telecommunications devices in energy conservation, transportation, health care, and food distribution. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities.

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A Brief History of Nonprofit Organizations (And What We Can Learn)

NonProfit Hub

For the first time in the nation’s history, people came together to fundraise on a global scale. They started to conserve resources, send supplies to troops overseas and develop both civilian and refugee relief programs. Work with the government to apply for the legal status that best fits your organization.

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