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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders. Our new and long-term Martus partners crossed a milestone and backed up to our public servers over 200,000 bulletins, each of which captures crucial, sensitive information about incidents from a victim’s story or from a field investigation. and the European Union.

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

billion from private and community foundations and public charities, 96% of dollars addressed disease outbreaks (mainly COVID-19). Since 2011, more than 13 million Syrians have been displaced. million in funding was identified for this crisis in 2020 by foundations and public charities. Syrian refugee crisis. Beirut explosion.

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Burlington Public Library: Windows MultiPoint Server Case Study

Tech Soup

Burlington Public Library was one of our test installation sites. The library also offers free WiFi, a laptop checkout program, and 30 public access computers. TechSoup and InterConnection teamed up to supply the Burlington Library with everything they would need to set up a 7-station MultiPoint Server-based public access computers.

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NTEN Announces Launch of New Publication for Nonprofit Leaders (and It's Free!)

NTEN

Through in-depth articles, case-studies, best practices, leader profiles, and discussions, NTEN:Change will provide the guidance and practical considerations crucial to making the sound investments and decisions that will help your organization achieve its mission. Million Donors Tell Us About Online Fundraising,” and much more.

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Social Media: What To Do If Your Boss Doesn’t Get It

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Originally published in the November 2011 issue of Fundraising Success Magazine where I have written a quarterly column throughout 2011. Though Facebook had gone public nine months previous, Facebook Groups were only just beginning to be used as community-building tools by nonprofits and Facebook Pages didn’t exist yet.

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New on SSIR: How does celebrity impact your fundraising?

Amy Sample Ward

The 2011 Millennial Donor report , the second in an annual series, focuses on engaging Millennials in fundraising. That high-profile celebrity 35% or influential leader endorsement? The data says we should move on. It’s an interesting and valuable report with a lot of great insights.

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Open Data Kit: Mobile Phones for Social Change

NTEN

That's why we were particularly pleased to learn that Yaw Anokwa -- a lead developer on Open Data Kit , a modular set of tools helping nonprofits around the world collect data, via mobile phones, on everything from deforestation to human rights violations -- has won the fourth annual Antonio Pizzigati Prize for Software in the Public Interest.

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