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Are Mobile Apps Serving the Underserved?

Tech Soup

The EITC offers tax refunds for individuals or families earning $48,360 or less (in 2010). In addition to efforts to build community-relevant apps, a number of initiatives designed to train youth from underrepresented communities to build mobile apps have recently launched. Image: homeless man on cell phone, artie*.

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Donning the Sweatshirt of Service: Reflections from a Second-Year Ally

ASU Lodestar Center

It demands that we remember, as individuals, that what we do on a daily basis, on the regular — planning that Halloween carnival or participating in a homeless count across the city — matters. Click here to purchase the 2010 Nonprofit Compensation & Benefits Report. Yet I think that that's the real beauty and power of this work.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. Campaigns were designed with the community and required the community’s engagement to implement. 1Sky and 350 merged.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

The traditional method of receiving tax-deductible donations is to file for 501(c) status with the Internal Revenue Service, an application for 501(c)(3) status designed for a religious, charitable, or educational purpose. L3Cs were specifically designed to help social entrepreneurs raise capital from a much broader range of investors.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. in booth 25.

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10NTC Science Fair Preview - Giveaways, More Giveaways and Free Apple iPads

NTEN

We're only 20 days away from the 2010 Nonprofit Technology Conference -- but who's counting? The Science Fair doors will open at 3 pm on April 8, 2010 at the OMNI Hotel in Atlanta. Download the NTC app developed by 501 Technology to make the most of your NTC 2010 experience. 501 Technology, LLC in booth 80. in booth 25.

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Road Trip! Fundraising, Advocacy, Community Building, Storytelling and Recruitment on the Road.

Care2

telling the stories of homeless individuals across the United States has been well documented. In September 2010 Bill McKibben, the founder of 350.org, In the fall of 2010 the community rallied around a pledge to find common ground and unity in the Charter for Common Ground. Connecting and enriching a national movement.