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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. During the school year, federal programs like the National School Lunch Program help close this nutrition gap by providing free or reduced cost meals to low-income students. Remember, it only includes sample data from 2013 right now, but 2014 data is coming soon!

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6 Fundraising Platforms That Have Disrupted Charitable Giving Forever

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This includes some of the most basic student essentials. Jeff Bauman , who lost both legs in the Boston Marathon Bombing in 2013, has the second most successful fundraiser on the site with over $800,000 raised. Disrupting Fundraising Since: 2013. T-shirt giant CustomInk backed and launched Booster in 2013.

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How the Latino Community Foundation Used Learning and Pivoting to Get Better Fundraising Results

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2012, President Obama responded to the activism, passion, and residency of the Dreamers, by issuing Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) to protect them from deportation and provided them with temporary work visas. What was the goal of your campaign in 2013? What were your results? What did you do to get those results?

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Ze Frank Takes Over (My) Museum

Museum 2.0

To recreate childhood photographs. I'd love to find a grad student or two who are interested in creating some interesting research around this project, and of course, I'll be blogging about it. The exhibition will run from December 14, 2012 to March 4 of 2013. To celebrate political differences.

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Tap Into Millennial Potential by Creating a Stellar Website

NonProfit Hub

In fact, only 15 percent of millennials didn’t give to an NPO in 2013. Do you have the type of nonprofit brand that a college student wants to support by slapping a sticker on their computer? Plain and simple—they’re a foundation that raises money for childhood cancer research, “because research saves lives.” charity: water.