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Key facts, figures, and trends among U.S. labor unions

Candid

A study conducted by Roland Zullo and published in the Industrial and Labor Relations (ILR) Review (2011) [3] found that charitable donations to United Ways increased in localities with higher union density and in areas where unions were financially stronger. 4 (2011): 699-711. 3] Zullo, Roland. Labor Unions and Charity."

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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

The patch relays the info to a cloud app for analysis and in due course the info shows up on a doctor’s smartphone. High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? It also uses Twitter to “find, counsel, and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.”

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

This morning, I had the huge honor of presenting the keynote at the 2011 MyCharityConnects Conference in Toronto, ON. Maybe you’re a homeless shelter, and you want to partner with a shelter on the other side of town to better track and understand the community experiencing homelessness in your city.

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Guest Post: Community and Civic Engagement in Museum Programs

Museum 2.0

Stacey Marie Garcia came to the MAH first as a graduate intern in the summer of 2011. To apply the results of my analysis to produce a community-driven program design specifically for implementation at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (the MAH). You can download and read the full version of my thesis here.

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The Evolution of NPTech: Keynote and slides

Amy Sample Ward

For example, this means strategies that are focused not on feeding the homeless in our city, but on ending homelessness in our city. 350 is an excellent example: people around the world used a tag “350ppm” to start uniting their content whether it was blog posts or analysis or videos. Resources & Links. Organizations.

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300 More Email Subject Lines from End of Year Fundraising

Connection Cafe

This is the 2013 edition of my annual review of year-end email subject lines that started in 2011 and continued in 2012. Most nonprofits in the analysis followed a pattern of sending most emails between Tuesday and Thursday throughout December. Subject Line Analysis. Email by Date. A remarkable year. Be the light.

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450 Email Subject Lines From End of Year Fundraising

Connection Cafe

Back in 2011, I started collecting all the emails that nonprofits sent me during the month of December and reviewed what was in my inbox. Be sure to check out 2014 , 2013 , 2012 , and 2011 too. Subject Line Analysis. Thank you – we’ll end pet homelessness, the seal hunt, and more. Double Trouble.

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