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64 Online Stores That Benefit Nonprofits and the Greater Good

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Proceeds benefit the Best Friends Animal Society, a nonprofit working to end the killing in America’s animal shelters through adoption, spay and neuter education, and no-kill initiatives. Proceeds aid musicians and music industry workers who are struggling with illness, disease, and age-related problems.

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October Awareness: Breast Cancer Awareness Month

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Breast Cancer Awareness Month began in 1985 as a joint effort between the American Cancer Society and the pharmaceutical division of Imperial Chemical Industries, now a part of AstraZeneca, a producer of several anti-breast cancer drugs. History of Breast Cancer Awareness Month. How to acknowledge Breast Cancer Awareness Month. Get screened.

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The Problem of Nonprofit Data and Equity

NTEN

At its heart, the Equity Guide makes requests of two audiences: nonprofits that are engaging with technology at the staff, leadership, and application development levels; and the commercial technology industry that serves nonprofits with products, services, and solutions.

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Top Ten Reasons to Streamline Your Grant Cycle with Automated Processes

Connection Cafe

With origins in lean manufacturing , many of the principles found in system automation have, in recent years, been more widely adopted by other sectors, including the service and human resources industries. In manufacturing, there are true physical safety concerns. Improve worker safety.

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Mobile Trends Your Nonprofit Should Be Watching

Tech Soup

Sometimes the day-to-day work at a nonprofit can make you feel worlds apart from the fast-moving mobile tech industry. Microsoft's Windows 8 tablets are made by different manufacturers, like Asus and Lenovo, that have put their own spin on the tablet design. Tablets now come in all different shapes, sizes, and operating systems.

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What Are Social Enterprises, Anyway?

Tech Soup

Their publication, the Evolution of the Social Enterprise Industry , dates the commercial or private sector social entrepreneurial movement back to the 1890s and Andrew Carnegie. He set up a polytechnic school that in turn educated entrepreneurs who started worker-owned manufacturing cooperatives. Its valuation is currently 15.6

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. The first SoCap conference in 2008 coincided with the launch of this paper, Investing for Social & Environmental Impact: A Design for Catalyzing an Emerging Industry A Monitor Institute Report [link] EnvImpact_ExecSum_000.pdf