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Donor Spotlight: Lavelle Fund for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

And what are some of the social benefits and impact that may result from such a relationship? Soon afterwards in 2007, we won our first major award from the United States Department of Education, Office of Special Education Programs (OSEP), which, in turn, allowed us to build Bookshare into a national asset.

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How Unused Gift Cards Can Support Nonprofits - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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Users exchange their unwanted or partially used gift cards and donate the cards with a minimum balance of $10 to benefit a list of nonprofits or DonorsChoose.org, a really cool organization that connects people to public school classrooms in need. August 16, 2009 | gratis downloaden Copyright © 2008, Care2.com Sound interesting?

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. It’s a plain English primer on what cloud computing is and how it benefits nonprofit organizations. Green Technology. Adobe Creative Cloud.

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The Joys of Google Grants, Part 2 - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

Care2

Today, I’ll go into more detail on how we’ve maximized the use of our grant, and some of the benefits we’ve seen from it. Other Benefits We’ve been pleasantly surprised by the additional, less quantifiable uses we’re finding for our Google Grant. March 9, 2009 | Abigail Hirsch Copyright © 2008, Care2.com

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Why I’m Scared of the SOPA Bill by Jim Fruchterman

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We’re against piracy, and have made commitments to authors and publishers to encourage compliance with copyright law. Yet another example of bills written to catch criminals, that do very little to stop them, but end up screwing up law-abiding organizations. Unfortunately, that’s not the case. And then they go away.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Even though I’m a Skoll Award winner, it really made me think about my organization, Benetech, and what we are trying to accomplish. I always refer aspiring social entrepreneurs to the article when they ask me how they can win a Skoll Award. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S.

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Is Direct Mail Really Headed for the Exit? - Online Fundraising, Advocacy, and Social Media - frogloop

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” Accordingly, 12 states are developing laws to ban or limit “junk mail” despite strenuous efforts by the Direct Marketing Association and others to fight such legislation. This online approach also has provided the benefit of increased speed and agility, she added. 60) Search « Is Direct Mail Dying or Dead?

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