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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. It processes and vets applications from nonprofit organizations interested in getting going on mobile fundraising activities. costing consumers nearly $2.6

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On the Future of Braille: Thoughts by Radical Braille Advocates

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

federal law supports braille instruction. The convergence of standards in digital publishing and major advancements in braille codes – such as the recent adoption of Unified English Braille (UEB) format by the Braille Authority of North America – are on our side. Accordingly, U.S. This is important here in the U.S.,

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

So it's refreshing to come to an event where techies and nonprofits convene to solve deep, real problems that plague our community. They're also a useful way for nonprofits to connect with local developers if they're interested in building an app. This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Elevate America a workforce development program, that provides one million vouchers for Microsoft e-learning courses and select certification exams at no cost to recipients. Through its network of 32 partners (and growing), they have been able to reach and work with over 100,000 nonprofits on every continent of the world.

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Juneteenth Resources

Media Cause

The Legal Defense Fund (LDF) is America’s premier legal organization fighting for racial justice. . National Urban League —The National Urban League is a historic civil rights organization dedicated to economic empowerment in order to elevate the standard of living in historically underserved urban communities. The Color of Law.

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Announcing… 31 New Favorite Nonprofits for 2013!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Each January Nonprofit Tech 2.0 selects 31 new “ Favorite Nonprofits ” to be featured in the Nonprofit Tech 2.0 Nonprofits in previous years were chosen primarily because they excelled at social media. MomsRising is a nonprofit grassroots movement working to build a more family-friendly America.

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Leading the Resistance: 28 Organizations You Can (and Should) Support Today

EveryAction

To that end, we've put together a list of nonprofits doing their part in building a better tomorrow. This list is by no means exhaustive and many of these nonprofits do intersectional work that falls under multiple issue areas, but we hope offers a good place to get started. Southern Poverty Law Center. Make the Road New York.

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