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Food Bank For New York City: Working to End Hunger since 1983

DipJar

It’s always encouraging to hear how food banks, like Food Bank For New York City , provide support and sustenance for the populations they serve – and in the case of New York City, that population is large indeed, with an estimated 1.6 million New Yorkers currently facing food insecurity.

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How Nonprofits Can Use Livestreaming to Raise Funds Through Sponsorship

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to a New York Magazine report, conducted in partnership with Livestream, 80% of consumers would rather watch a live video from a brand than read a blog. Facebook Live or YouTube Live have the most control on adding in advanced production options. 82% prefer live video over traditional social posts. .

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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. After nearly well over a year of working together, we finally met in person for the first time this past January in New York City.

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Why Hate on a Giver?

Have Fun - Do Good

"The greatest untapped source of motivation, he [Adam Grant] argues, is a sense of service to others; focusing on the contribution of our work to other peoples’ lives has the potential to make us more productive than thinking about helping ourselves." by Susan Dominus. According to the article, "The most successful givers.

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[Book Interview] Nonprofit Example of Social Media Excellence: Big Cat Rescue

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In addition to filming everything, he then creates the finished products, with a goal of one completed video per week, and then posts it to all of our social video sites. We have two full-time, paid people working on social networking along with me. Chris Poole is our full time Videographer and Media Producer.

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The iPad will probably be a great device. Someday.

Judi Sohn

I love that with Apple products, folks don't realize that they can't live without something until Steve Jobs tells them what they can't live without. She gets her books, magazines and newspapers on paper. And that means her local newspaper, not The New York Times. I get all my magazine subscriptions I can on Zinio now.

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Carrie Karnos, recipient of the 2006 James H. Veale Humanitarian Award.

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Here's the letter from the editor of Matilda Ziegler Magazine, which explains why Carrie was deserving of this award: A Letter from the Editor New York City Dec. Matilda Ziegler Foundation for the Blind, which funds this magazine as well as eye research programs at universities across the United States.

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