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Bringing Hope Home in Central Florida

DipJar

For millions of Americans, hunger became a new and unwelcome fact of life. Second Harvest had no alternative but to work harder and smarter to meet the growing needs of the communities they serve. The DipJars were on the move during the pandemic, popping up at two local BBQ joints during Hunger Action Month in September.

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3 Tips to Integrate Social Media with Your Nonprofit Website

sgEngage

Alternatively, you can share a photo related to your website content that you already have, like a picture of your volunteers or the animals you’ve helped. For example, if you’re sharing a link to your event landing page, you might write “Click to register now for our annual walkathon to tackle hunger!”

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Days of Service – Let’s Evolve the Vision

VQ Strategies

If we really want to get beyond vanity volunteering and engage people to address root causes of hunger and poverty, for example, how can we more widely incorporate learning into these days so that we tap into the best of effective “service learning” which includes learning, service, and reflection?

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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Seeing the limitations of microfinance, Matt sought alternative financial solutions to improve financial access across Africa. 103 donors whose top 5 causes are children and youth (23%), hunger and homelessness (15%), women and girls (12%), health and wellness (11%), and education (8%). 78% of donors in Kenya volunteer.

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Are you celebrating Giving Tuesday? These NTEN Members are!

NTEN

The Trust for Public Land TransForm Transportation Alternatives United Nations Foundation United Way for Southeastern Michigan United Way of Genesee County Vermont Foodbank Volunteers of America Wade Edwards Foundation and Learning Lab Women Employed World Food Program USA YES!

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. This alternative to cloud computing consists of all the computers that are already around us, connected in to a distributed network of devices through smart routers.

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Kids and Philanthropy: Teaching Your Children To Be Charitable

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This new genre of video games are about solving real world problems such as environment, global hunger, poverty and disease. One of their donors was a class of kindergarteners at the Berwick Alternative Elementary School. Network Solutions partnered with a 12-year old Connor who was raising money for hunger by selling popcorn.