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Understanding Your Options Following the Microsoft Program Changes

Tech Soup

In April 2022, Microsoft took a major step in the direction of its cloud-first model for nonprofits , an effort to align Microsoft philanthropy efforts with the security and operational capabilities of cloud computing. Most donated, on-premises licenses were moved into discounted offers.

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was honored to be invited to cover this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum , a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. I went to cover one session, “ Building An Information Infrastructure: Unlocking Data for Philanthropy.” gpf13 #philanthropy.

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TechSoup Global and Microsoft: Leveraging Technology for Social Change

Tech Soup

Over at Beth Kanter's new blog, she's written up an interesting piece about Microsoft's corporate social responsibility (CSR), philanthropy, and how they leverage, strengthen, and empower social change agents with technology. And that's keeping it simple.

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Friday Fun Links: Creativity, Yummy Food, Blogging, Do-Gooding and Events

Have Fun - Do Good

Events December 6 (Berkeley): Seeds of Resilience: Women Farmers Striving in the Face of Climate Change hosted by Women's Earth Alliance. Andrew Weil on Time.com (hat tip to Beth Kanter for tweeting this) Mindmap of How to Focus in the Age of Distraction (hat tip to whomever's Facebook page I found this on. I can't remember!)

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Why Nonprofits Are Needed in the Sharing Economy

Tech Soup

At the SHARE Conference last month, I spent time watching venture capitalists, entrepreneurs, and techies praise how the sharing economy was the new way to make money and catalyze sharing and change. Beth Kanter wrote up a piece ahead of the event and two after; Will the Sharing Economy Catalyze New Forms of Philanthropy?

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Due diligence before you donate

ASU Lodestar Center

Youth Villages subsequently changed its program and began to monitor its results on a monthly basis. Nursing@Georgetown, a master in nursing degree program, as well as a contributor to the Nursing License Map. McKinney's " Making philanthropy a lifestyle, 365 days a year.". Like this article? Get another! Read Kayla L.

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How grant makers and nonprofit grant recipients can do great things together with data and evaluation

Deborah Elizabeth Finn

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License. __. Please feel free to let me know if you’re interested in being part of a regional or national conversation about how grantors and grantees can move forward and work constructively with data and evaluation.