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Level Up and Change the World: Gamification Apps

Tech Soup

You can use the points you collected to contribute to a charity cause. SF Heroes is a disaster preparedness iPhone app for the San Francisco area created for the San Francisco Department of Emergency Management. PlayMob is a UK-based platform that brings nonprofits and gaming studios together to create fun and charitable games.

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5 Things to Look Forward to at MCON 2015

Achieve

Since its founding, Fashion Project has expanded to serve over 500 nonprofits, helping provide valuable funding for disease research, humanitarian aid, sustainability initiatives and disaster relief. How do managers influence participation in company cause work? the nation’s premier conference on Millennials and causes.

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10 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause

Have Fun - Do Good

A lot of nonprofit blogs have come on the scene in the year between these events and I feel like it is time to revise and update my "10 Ways" post to include not only ways that nonprofits can use blogs, but also engage bloggers to support their cause. 10 Ways Nonprofit Can Use Blogs and Bloggers to Support Their Cause 1.

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The Cost of Free Technology for Nonprofits: Thoughts On Ning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

What's the cost of being one click away from disaster?". Last November, Causes, a popular and free social networking fundraising application, ditched its Myspace widgets and Ideablob closed its doors. How much time are you wasting having to reboot and redo work because the computer crashed? So, if era of free 2.0

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5 Things to Look Forward to at MCON 2015

NonProfit Hub

This is a guest post by Derrick Feldmann , who is the founder of MCON —the nation’s premier conference on Millennials and causes. He leads the research efforts for The Millennial Impact Project and serves as president of Achieve , a research and creative agency for causes. Leaders Who are Transforming the Media Industry.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

Kokkyo naki Kodomotachi (Children without Borders) in Japan is a humanitarian educational association NGO that supports disadvantaged children and youth in Asia who are on the street, are victims of trafficking, forced labor, and natural disasters, or in conflict with the law. Their great website is available in Japanese, English, and French.

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Open Source Database solutions part I

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I’ll be doing a fair bit of experimentation with Derby (’cause I’m curious.) It comes with a scripting language and interpreter, called ‘ij’ which is how you can interact with Derby on the command line. Also, of course, you can use JDBC is a way to access Derby.