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Technology and the Environment

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

OK, well, not so unrepentant or unabashed since I’m writing this post on the varied factors around technology and the environment, and have been thinking about this issue for myself for a long time. There is some argument as to whether or not cloud computing is good or bad for the environment. Just Google it.

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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Children and youth – 10%. Environment and conservation – 7%. Digital wallet payments, such as Apple Pay and Google Pay – 1%. Latin America and the Caribbean – 9%. 3) 74% of GivingTuesday donors are female, 25% male, and 1% non-binary. Health and wellness (physical and mental) – 12%. Cash – 3%.

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Embracing Intrapreneurship: A Nonprofit Game Changer

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Celebrated intrapreneurs include the 3M scientist who wanted to create a bookmark that wouldn’t move and ended up inventing Post-it Notes , the Google engineer who came up with the idea for Gmail, and the Sony employee dissatisfied with his daughter’s Nintendo who developed the PlayStation.

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Help I Just Lost My Google Ad Grant

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Note from Beth: George Weiner from Whole Whale wrote this insightful piece about the Google Ad Grant program. Help I Just Lost My Google Ad Grant – Guest Post by George Weiner. The title of this article is becoming more frequently used by the roughly 35,000 nonprofit recipients of the popular Google Ad Grant.

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25 Must-Know Global Trends in Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

3) LinkedIn inspires more online donations at 3% than WhatsApp (1.4%), Google+ (.4%), Google+, Tumblr, Medium, and Pinterest are stagnant. Across the ideological spectrum, children and youth is the cause most likely to inspire giving while peace and non-violence is the least likely to inspire giving. 15% say Twitter.

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2017 Cause Awareness & Giving Day Calendar

Nonprofit Tech for Good

12: International Day for Street Children — #StreetChildrenDay. 5: World Environment Day — #WorldEnvironmentDay. 20: Universal Children’s Day — #ChildrensDay. 3: World Wildlife Day — #WorldWildlifeDay. 8: International Women’s Day — #WomensDay. 25: Earth Hour — #EarthHour.

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11 Holiday Gift Programs That Benefit Nonprofits and Make the World A Better Place :: 2010 Edition

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Last year’s list of nonprofit holiday gift programs has been getting a lot traffic over the last two weeks thanks to Google searches. Mission : To advocate for the protection of children’s rights, to help meet their basic needs and to expand their opportunities to reach their full potential. Purchase Green Gifts ].

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