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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. Sea Turtle Conservancy App. National Parks Conservation Association :: Park Wildlife Field Guide App.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2011 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Many of us will purchase hundreds of dollars in holiday gifts over the next six weeks, and with some conscious consumerism those dollars could also help some of your favorite nonprofits continue their work in 2012. It’s fun and you’ll be bringing hope to girls and women around the world. [ Send a CARE Package ].

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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

If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival. Or, if your nonprofit works to protect the environment or animals, for every tragic loss of habitat or endangered species, share a story of conservation or progress. 2) The rise of the Internet troll. Block, delete, ban, report, and move on.

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Care2 Impact Prize -- Help Pick a Nonprofit Hero

Care2

These heroes work passionately and creatively in support of great causes -- from human rights to wildlife conservation, from education to equality. • Geoff Handy - Vice President of Direct Marketing & Membership at Humane Society of the United States. And much more.

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

NonProfit Hub

Though the idea of helping and giving back to others has existed since Biblical times, nonprofit organizations in the United States have a much shorter history. With World War II happening across the pond, and the looming fear that it would come to the states, Americans took it upon themselves to help out with the effort from home.

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