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Weekly update from PND

Candid

Bloomberg Philanthropies has announced a $31 million investment in the Partnership for Healthy Cities and the addition of six cities to the initiative to create safer and healthier urban environments: Bucharest, Romania; Cairo, Egypt; Córdoba, Argentina; Dublin, Ireland; Greater Manchester, United Kingdom; and Warsaw, Poland. Read more.

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Cryptocurrency in the nonprofit sector: What you need to know

ASU Lodestar Center

With a DAF established at a public charity like a community foundation, the donor can contribute cryptocurrency to the fund tax-free and direct grants to any nonprofit organization. Some estimates put crypto's global carbon footprint at a level comparable to the entire country of Argentina. How should nonprofits accept cryptocurrency?

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#IFC2014 International Fundraising Congress: Inspire, Connect, Transform

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The IFC is amazing global community of fundraising professionals, representing nonprofits working in every continent of the globe. The conference had 1,000 delegates and offers high quality production values and advanced content sessions as well as incredible networking opportunities.

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NetSquared Events to Cure Your Social Media Ailments

Tech Soup

The exact format isn't important, as long as we are consistently gathering the nonprofit and tech communities together so that they can learn from each other. A social media surgery is an informal gathering of people who want to learn how to use the web to communicate, campaign, or collaborate. Tuesday, June 16, 2015.

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Women Ingenuity is Powering Solutions for the Digital Divide

Connection Cafe

Over the hum of her café’s fuel-powered generator, Olutosin types, “Our center is the safest place for any woman to access the Internet in my community. At World Pulse we trust that local women community leaders will reveal the way forward. Women in our online community tell of solutions, but they also tell of risk.

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An Interview with Lorene Straka, Joanna Eng, and Mari Velasco from the Idealist

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

When I joined, we were a staff of three, and we're now at 55 in two countries: the US and Argentina. The other story is from another friend who is the executive director of a great NGO (Fundacion Futuro del Ecuador) that works with indigenous communities living on the highlands, helping them have access to decent health care system.

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A Sneak Peak at Who Is Taking the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Survey

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This year we are getting more participants from outside of the United States, but we definitely need more diversity in our survey respondents for the data to truly reflect the global donor community. Argentina 5.1%. The survey is available in five languages – ???????????? Black/African American 5.6%. Hispanic/Latino 4.6%. Israel 13.3%.

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