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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

It’s time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news again! Find the European Court of Justice press release here. An App To End World Hunger? The New York City-based nonprofit Spare Change is developing a smartphone app that will soon launch. Here in the U.S.,

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How Skills-Based Volunteerism Creates Transformational Experiences

Connection Cafe

One of those organizations is the YWCA of the City of New York (YW), a nonprofit organization that offers job training, daycare, and after-school programs to New York City women and their families. I asked the group, “What do you think are the most pressing problems in the world today?”

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GivingTuesday 2018 Scales Generosity and Kindness to New Highs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

According to MarketWatch , the grassroots web-based global movement past $1 billion in total online donations since it was launched seven years ago by the 92nd Street Y in New York City. . People contributed more than $125 million on Facebook , up from $45 million in 2017, using the network’s new fundraising tools. .

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COVID Had Devastating Consequences for Food Security. Here’s How the Media Covered It in 2020.

M+R

By July, the pandemic’s impact on food insecurity and the potential long-term effects on hunger were more well known. Coverage from NPR on a UN report that found the pandemic could potentially push 132 million people into hunger received almost 2 million shares on Facebook—the most of any story about food insecurity from this past year. .

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