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2020 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Cause awareness and giving days can be very powerful themes upon which to launch online fundraising campaigns. 8: International Literacy Day — #LiteracyDay. The first step is to decide which days to build a campaign upon and then add them to your 2020 editorial calendar. 10: World Lion Day — #WorldLionDay. September.

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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Region: Africa – 12%. 5) The causes that donors give to on GivingTuesday: Hunger and homelessness – 13%. 5) The causes that donors give to on GivingTuesday: Hunger and homelessness – 13%. Education and literacy – 5%. The median gift size was $50. Asia – 26%. Europe – 6%.

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Twitter’s Claire Williams Shares Why Literacy Is Her Cause

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. This week, nearly a year after first beginning to work with Room to Read, we’re proud to be taking part in promoting Literacy Day.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Brennan has Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment and blindness. Revelations about government interception of these confidential stories has caused us to redouble our efforts to lower the barrier to the use of strong, secure crypto software like Martus. Martus Desktop 4.5

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Funding & Grant Resources For Nonprofits Focused On The Environment And Conservation Efforts

Kindful

The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect natural resources, improve the production and distribution of food, and promote public health in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Areas served: Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East. National Forest Foundation. Gray Family Foundation.

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3 Ways to Bring Your Work to Your Donors (Instead of Asking Them to Come to You)

Achieve

As nonprofit and cause leaders, we wish every individual had the opportunity, interest, and time to meet the people we serve and see the impact of our work in real time. uses VR to give donors an up-close and very personal look at the crisis of poverty in Africa, while. Sound familiar? Be honest.). For example, One.org.

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Doing the Right Stuff Right for Human Rights

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our breakthrough in the conception of Martus came in 2000, when I was looking to expand Benetech to new frontiers of social good beyond our origins—helping disabled people access books in what is now our Global Literacy program.

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