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Five Nonprofit Technology Trends to Watch in 2014

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Numerous communications and fundraising trends are on the verge of going mainstream and nonprofits committed to early adoption have a number of new tools and strategies to pioneer this year. Since the launch of the iPhone in 2007, many mobile fundraising apps have come and gone. 2014 will be an exciting year for nonprofit technology.

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Alt-labor: What are workers’ rights nonprofits?  

Candid

According to Candid data, funding from large foundations to workers’ rights nonprofits more than doubled between 2007 and 2019, from $14.5 This isn’t surprising when you consider the recent historical trends in funding for these organizations, which have increased continuously—with a notable dip in 2013 and a peak of $49 million in 2017.

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Power of Storytelling | Harmony for Change: The Global Impact of Playing For Change

Pamela Grow

Mayer, reflecting on his song in 2007, expressed the need to start a debate about our tendency to passively await change. Playing For Change aims to provide arts education to marginalized youth in 17 countries. The organization believes in the transformative power of music as a tool for social change.

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An Uncommon Year for Giving: GivingUSA Data [WEBINAR]

Top Nonprofits

In this session, Laura MacDonald, Chair of the Giving USA Foundation and Founder of Benefactor Group, will discuss data and trends from 2020, a year in which the environment for giving was certainly uncommon. Each year, the nonprofit sector receives extensive data describing philanthropy in the United States. Share This Post!

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To bot or not to bot: Using generative AI in grantwriting

Candid

Add “Please redo this paragraph with citations,” to the prompt and you get: Engaging in the arts is crucial for youth development as evidenced by numerous studies. Research has shown that artistic expression fosters creativity, critical thinking, and emotional intelligence (Winner, 2014; Hetland et al., 2013)… …and so on.

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Trend Blend 2009: A Map of Time and Tide

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Click to see a larger image This is a cool visualizations of trends for 2009 in different sectors. It's from Trends in Living Networks blogger Ross Dawson. You may remember the very popular Trend Blend 2007 and Trend Blend 2008 which used transportation themes. The mega-trends are: Global connectivity.

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Putting the AI in Education: Stepping Toward Generative Artificial Intelligences 

sgEngage

If we had known the full consequences of Steve Jobs showing us that first iPhone on stage in 2007 and its impacts on our lives, attention, interactions, children, environment, physical and mental health, what hard questions would we have asked? We didn’t ask.