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Are Mobile Apps Serving the Underserved?

Tech Soup

" Organizations like Applications for Good and Code for America are engaging developers to build mobile tools with the needs of local communities in mind. The EITC offers tax refunds for individuals or families earning $48,360 or less (in 2010). 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

Remind me again how this is linked back to reducing poverty in this country, or creating sustainable local food systems, or increasing graduation rates, or fighting institutional oppression? It demands a perspective that is self-reflective, microscopic, local, and grand. Can we break that down one more time? Because I'm lost.".

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. Regional and local leaders were supported and given the opportunity to shine. Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. 1Sky and 350 merged.

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

Care2

Building local chapters. 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.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Benefit corporations, created in Maryland in 2010, differ from L3Cs in that they are required to operate under specific standards set forth by B Lab, itself a nonprofit organization (Powell et al., However, the impact of the “Great Recession” in 2009 and 2010 left its founders with dwindling funds. Banks were not lending.

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My Kumbaya Moments: Like Summer Camp for NPTechies, the NTEN Conference

Connection Cafe

This was the first year I was able to participate in the Day of Service , a pre-conference volunteer event allowing technologist from all over the country to contribute to the city that is hosting the conference by sharing their expertise with local nonprofit organizations. Photo Credits: SteveLavo (Flickr).

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The Bold, Focused Ideas of Breakthrough Nonprofit Brands: Book Giveaway Winners Announced

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

An island-wide educational campaign in Puerto Rico to educate people on the importance of spaying and neutering and vaccinating their dogs and cats, in hopes of alleviating the drastic conditions for the 100,000+ “satos” (street dogs) that are homeless and roaming the beaches and streets of PR. SafeAmerica Foundation , Bill Soule.