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How can nonprofits leverage digital technology to increase giving?

ASU Lodestar Center

The digital age represents an opportunity for nonprofits to increase giving. Digital fundraising, specifically on social media channels, provides a way for nonprofits to connect to younger generations who do not have the time nor desire to receive lengthy appeal letters or printed newsletters. Facebook alone has 2.41 Make it easy.

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Hype vs. Reality: What digital channels are the most effective in 2010?

Care2

There is a lot of hype around new digital channels, but little evidence is published to back this up. Here is the evidence from one global campaign in 2010 to demonstrate how different digital channels compared. I hear the questions every week: "Should we start with Facebook or email?" Should we use Twitter and Mobile?" "Is

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Cloud for Good Announces New Education Accelerators for Advancement and Recruiting & Admissions

Cloud 4 Good

The Cloud for Good family has welcomed The University of Alabama at Birmingham with open arms since partnering up in early 2020. Founded in 2010, Cloud for Good is a certified B Corporation and a Premium Salesforce.org Partner. The entire Cloud for Good team has been fantastic to work with. About Cloud for Good.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

Tech Soup

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. This is a group of largely self-organizing digital volunteers who use Twitter to respond to all of the major disasters around the world. A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters.

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Benetech’s New Image Description Tool Improves Accessibility of Graphical Content for Students with Print Disabilities

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Poet supports image descriptions for electronic books created in the international DAISY standard for digital talking books and will be compatible with descriptions for ebooks in the EPUB3 format. DIAGRAM stands for Digital Image and Graphics Resources for Accessible Materials.

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Great reads from around the web on January 24th

Amy Sample Ward

" New Research Proves the Business Case for Product Giving : PitchEngine : Get the Word Out™ – "New research from Indiana University concludes that businesses can do well by doing good through product philanthropy. Besides average gift amount, what might we expect?" " Is email going out with 2011? ."

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Meet with your finance committee now: Lessons from the Great Recession’s impact on charitable giving amidst current market shocks

ASU Lodestar Center

Remember the global financial crisis (GFC), aka the Great Recession, of 2007-2010? And, despite slight upticks in 2010 and 2011 in giving, they were still well below pre-GFC levels. This was especially true of organizations outside the health and human services sector, where drops in the double digits were not uncommon.

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