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Infographic: 2013 Charitable Giving Report

TechImpact

This report offers the community a chance to compare numbers, and helps individual nonprofits stack the effectiveness of their fundraising campaigns up against national averages. 2013’s report showed not only signs of improvement, but, according to blackbaud , charitable giving grew more in 2013 than it has since the great depression.

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Receiving the 2013 Migel Medal

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Earlier today, I attended the American Foundation for the Blind’s (AFB) National Leadership Conference in Chicago where I received the 2013 Migel Medal. This is the field where I found my life’s calling, applying technology to meet critical needs of society, where the market is likely to fail. Thank you again for this honor!

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

However, technology is transforming innovation at its core and our team at Benetech does quite well in leveraging this “innovation at warp speed” for social good. In all seriousness, 2013 has been an incredibly busy and productive year for us. Technology for social change is needed more and more. million grant from the U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. Green Technology. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. Smartwatches.

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Live from NTC! A Sneak Peak at the 2013 Online Benchmark Report

NetWits

Dennis McCarthy and I had the pleasure of presenting Online Benchmarking: What Worked in 2012 at the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Minneapolis, MN. NTEN and M&R also released their report, the 2013 eNonprofit Benchmarks Study. The report covers 17 self reported NTEE verticals plus Canada, Teams, and National Non Profits.

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Be the Voice of Relevance—Make Mission, Vision, and Values Fit the Moment

.orgSource

However, technology is a ruthless editor and could easily force a rewrite. Brent Gibson, former Chief Health Officer at the National Commission on Correctional Health Care and Managing Director of NCCHC Resources, Inc., Meet the Moment Mission Mission, or your reason for being, doesn’t typically change with fads and trends.

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Benetech Closing Statement on the Marrakech Treaty

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

To the Diplomatic Conference in Plenary on June 27, 2013 On the Adoption of the Treaty of Marrakech This is an excellent Treaty. We are a high tech organization that is not organized as a for-profit company, but instead as a nonprofit charitable corporation working to ensure technology serves all of humanity.

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