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8 Top Corporate Giving Trends to Watch in 2024 + Examples

Nonprofits Source

Charitable Giving Stipends: Companies can award employees with gift cards or add funds designated for donating to their accounts within their employee giving portal. Turkey and Syria earthquake: In early 2023, a massive earthquake impacted Turkey and Syria. With the right integrations, companies can drive employee participation.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

They have teamed up with the American Islamic Congress and the FREE Syria Foundaiton to bring their “ Interrupters Program ” to over 130 Syrian volunteers working on the ground there. Dara recommends a 2012 PBS Frontline documentary on their work.

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our Silicon Valley tech community roots give us an inside track on technology and business model change. We believe that our track record demonstrates how to drive this kind of equilibrium change repeatedly. Putting these ideas for social change into action is a key part of the Osberg/Martin definition of social entrepreneurship.

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Seven Nonprofits That Deserve a Standing Ovation

Connection Cafe

The first winner also received the “Best Use of Social Media” designation during a bbcon panel I participated in – the Social Media Police: Nonprofit Edition. Unfortunately, it’s all too often that nonprofit professionals don’t get recognized for the meaningful work they do. It is definitely the standout campaign of the year so far. (At

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

The FreedomPop Phone service is launching with $99 refurbished HTC EVO Design 4G. that lets you use the best search engines like Google, Bing And Yahoo without the search engines, the websites you visit, and your internet service providers (ISPs) tracking you. One of the bad news parts of this deal is the refurbished phone.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, the UN Refugee Agency, encourages all field officers to tell the stories of the refugees they are working with as this recent tweet from Syria illustrates. MT @atikaCNN Filming Syrian refugees crossing into Jordan safely – thanks @and_harper , @refugees + Jordan military pic.twitter.com/xMRJHR3xen. —

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Silicon Valley Human Rights Conference

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In the closing session, El-Fatah noted that he had just gotten an email saying that two of his friends had just been killed in Syria. The incident made me wonder if technology could be developed to help prevent such atrocities, and that idea led to the creation of the open source Martus software for tracking and reporting on abuses.