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Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle. Don’t Bring Your Phone in the Shower – guest post by Carrie Avery. This morning’s breakfast plenary speaker, Jonah Lehrer, was fantastic.

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The Tech That Will Change 2016

Tech Soup

Now, it is looking like the emerging killer apps may be messaging apps that text directly to stakeholders' mobile phones. But with so many charities and libraries working with children, the weird new security threat in 2016 will be smart toys. Children love it. a-month phone service or home broadband — their choice.

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Accessible eBooks for Equal Opportunity

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Kevin Leong was in kindergarten when he experienced an organic brain injury that forced him to relearn everything from walking to using the bathroom. In particular, electronic books (or e-books) offer the possibility of dramatically improving access for students with disabilities – and for disadvantaged children everywhere.

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5 Tips And Tactics To Become A Master Nonprofit Wordsmith

Bloomerang

We live in a world of smart phones, emails, text messages, Zoom, and LinkedIn. A single compelling press release might land you a national television interview that leads to 100 new donors and $100,000 in funding. Now, imagine if you supplemented those facts with a success story about one of the children in your program, say Stu.

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Philanthropic Leadership: Engaging Board Members As Fundraising Ambassadors

Bloomerang

And foundations this 19% includes both, you know, national foundations and family foundations. And then again, inviting people to attend events that are in your network, your professional, personal, religious, children’s networks, invite friends, invite prospects. It might be harder if you’re a national organization.

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[VIDEO] Creative Ways People Contribute to Community

Bloomerang

So here’s what the rest of the nation says. . What is it like if we expand that to the whole nation or the whole globe? But still, it’s going back to that foundation to say, we all believe in, you know, we want the best for our children. ” Brains start aligning, “Oh, we’re connected.”

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[VIDEO] How to Talk about Legacy Giving Without Seeming Creepy

Bloomerang

It lights up the pleasure centers of their brains, it gives them what is called a warm-glow feeling. So the one on the right is from the National Society of Prevention of Cruelty to Children, and that’s from the UK. Have your email, have your phone number, have your postal address.

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