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Inspire a New Generation of Donors: Text-to-Give for Nonprofits

The Modern Nonprofit

A quick text, and your supporters have done their part in bringing your non-profit’s goals to life. Disaster Relief Efforts In times of natural disasters or emergencies, nonprofits can quickly rally support using text-to-give as a rapid response tool for gathering donations. This includes philanthropic giving!

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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. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them. Green Technology. is another one I’m watching.

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Building a Strong Future: A Step-by-Step Guide to Non-Profit Planning

The Modern Nonprofit

Here’s a thought: attempt building a skyscraper with no ground work—it’s a disaster waiting to happen. Gather demographic data, such as age, location, income level, and specific challenges or needs they face. The first gust of adversity may very well be its undoing. A non-profit is much the same.

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Don’t Just Celebrate – Advocate. Getting back down to the Roots of Earth Day: Tips for CSR Professionals

sgEngage

The core team focused on bringing Earth Day to life quickly realized the potential to engage Americans beyond just the college-aged demographic and worked diligently to expand their reach. The National Centers for Environmental Information has been tracking ‘billion-dollar disasters’ since 1980. million people.

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UNICEF Shares How You Can Support India Today Amidst the COVID-19 Surge

Saleforce Nonprofit

Indirectly, many children’s lives are impacted as more households get pushed into poverty, schools are closed, and strained health systems and by disruptions to life-saving health care like immunizations. UNICEF’s goal is to enable every child born in India to have the best start in life, to thrive, and to develop to their full potential.

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

Have Fun - Do Good

About 100,000 new weblogs were created each day According to the Pew Internet & American Life Project report, "Bloggers: A Portrait of the Internet’s New Storytellers" from July 2006: 8% of Internet users, or about 12 million American adults, keep a blog. Today, the blogosphere is doubling in size approximately every 230 days.

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What Nonprofits Can Learn from New Orleans

ASU Lodestar Center

They’ve seen poverty and tragedy in their city, experienced natural disasters and man-made neglect. Which made for a happier life. NOLA loves to celebrate life. They don’t have to put others down to hold themselves up.They care about celebrating life, not doing it perfectly. Because they live a happier life.