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United Nations Sets a New Agenda for Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

Now that the United Nations Millennium Development Goals have expired and in some ways, have succeeded surprisingly well , the UN has developed a new set of even more ambitious goals. That may be why technology (for example, rapid mobile phone adoption worldwide) may be so important for realizing the new goals. In 1990, 1.9

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Announcing Our First Impact Labs Cohort on Zero Hunger: Addressing Food Insecurity in the U.S.

Saleforce Nonprofit

Food insecurity threatens to worsen as households continue to face setbacks due to COVID-19, fears of a global recession, and the highest increase in inflation rates and food prices seen in the last 40 years. In 2021, 53 million Americans turned to food banks and community programs for help putting food on the table. Melanie Calhoun.

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Are Social Enterprises Viable Models for Funding Nonprofits?

ASU Lodestar Center

Nonprofit organizations are vital to the nation’s economic well-being and have nearly doubled in the last 30 years (National Center for Charitable Statistics, 2015). Should nonprofits become more aggressive in adopting new business models that can add needed revenue? Social enterprise models may well offer an answer.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

Our distaste for writing followed us into adulthood because we still suffer from the same writing inadequacies we had in childhood. A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. We suffer writer’s block. We struggle to organize thoughts.

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Recapping the First Salesforce Nonprofit Summit Sessions

Cloud 4 Good

Through the power of Salesforce Service Cloud and partnership with Cloud for Good, AKC has improved agent effectiveness with a unified view of each caller’s constituent profile, improved service consistency, enhanced call center reporting and analytics, and greatly increased user adoption and buy-in.

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Mobile Storytelling: An Evolving Story

NTEN

I don’t have an identity grounded in an single culture, nation or land. At the rate memory capacity of devices are increasing, in a couple of years we will have an iPhone which would hold 256GB of data. Historians can narrate stories of a city’s development or you can tell your own story of fond childhood memories. Our Stories.

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Research Friday: Out-of-School Time Programs for Latino Youth

ASU Lodestar Center

who come from different Latin American nationalities, although they have varying races, cultures, language proficiencies, and experiences in the U.S. the more they have adopted the American culture), the more likely they are to engage in deviant behavior (such as doing drugs, drinking alcohol, and having sex). Balistreri, K.