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Looking for long-term impact? Advocacy is a must

M+R

After all, what’s the alternative? By mobilizing communities in support of solutions that center their needs, nonprofits can exert pressure on decision-makers to allocate resources where they are most needed and best utilized. But, now is not the time to retreat. We all know the stakes are at an all-time high right now.

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Making the world more accessible with web design

Candid

For instance, if your website focuses heavily on images or graphics, simply not including captions or alternative text can drive away supporters or donors with a visual impairment or slow internet speed. Increase mobile usability. Optimize your website for mobile use, like keeping the orientation to portrait mode.

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Case Study: Providing Event Attendees with Wireless Internet via Mobile Broadband

NTEN

In the four years that I’ve been responsible for planning and negotiating conference A/V and other technology expenses for NCFR, I’ve had my eye on mobile broadband as a potential lower-cost alternative for providing internet access. Our plan of attack going in was to bring nine mobile broadband devices. The approach.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The report provides detail about the opportunities and challenges and offers some next steps for social good organizations, technology companies, and policy makers. . The report includes a set of recommendations for organizations that want to use AI to solve social good problems, tech companies, and policy makers.

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An Integrated Approach to Audience Engagement

Media Cause

And all mobilization programs have an important part to play in building up that bottom line, even if they aren’t directly responsible for fundraising goals. And for those who don’t yet support you, advocacy can provide an alternative “way in” for people who may not be receptive to fundraising ask out of the gate.

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Will the Sharing Economy Catalyze New Forms of Philanthropy?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After I attended Catalyzing the Sharing Economy conference (the sharing economy is defined as the use of networked, mobile, information technology to share goods and services), I shared a post with some notes and ideas about why I think it is the next generation of networked social change. Alternative Currency Donations.

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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

Over the course of a three-year grant , Champions implement ambitious, goal-oriented projects and participate in advocacy campaigns aimed at changing local and national policies that hinder equal access to education. The initiative currently supports 57 Education Champions in eight countries with the greatest need.