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New on SSIR: Can Giving Days Strengthen Your Community?

Amy Sample Ward

. —– In 2011, Washington, DC, became one of the first major metropolitan regions to host a multimillion-dollar local giving day: Give to the Max Day: Greater Washington. Nearly 18,000 people participated in the 24-hour, online fundraising event, raising more than $2 million to benefit 1,200 local nonprofits.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. In the US, the Chicago and Portland groups visited their local Microsoft stores to learn how to leverage the Office 365 donation. Cleveland, Ohio: Tableau Tutorial: Free Data Visualization for Nonprofits.

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Free In-Person Events for Nonprofit Techies

Tech Soup

Arlington, Texas: DFW Nonprofit Geeks. Baltimore, Maryland: Salesforce CRM Tutorial and Free Tech Help Session! Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members. Image: New Orleans Net2NO meetup / New Orleans Local via NetSquared / CC BY-NC-SA 2.0. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night.