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Youth community service: Belonging, reciprocity, and agency 

Candid

The Allstate Foundation not only provides resources directly to youth-led service initiatives but also involves youth in funding decisions. Regardless of the funding priority—equity, economic mobility, safer communities—service is a powerful means to achieve those ends. The imperative to center youth also applies to funders.

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Donation Drives: Catalyzing Change Through Collective Giving

Greater Giving

A donation drive is a purposeful and organized effort to mobilize individuals, communities, or businesses to contribute resources, typically in the form of monetary funds, goods, or services, towards a specific cause or charitable organization. Diversifying Revenue Streams Relying solely on grants or individual donations can be risky.

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Gates, Ford, Open Society announce commitments for gender equality

Candid

Announced at the Generation Equality Forum convened by UN Women and co-hosted by the governments of Mexico and France, the Gates Foundation's commitment will focus on three areas: women's economic empowerment, health and family planning, and leadership.

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How You Can Help Haiti Relief Efforts

Qgiv

UNICEF USA has already mobilized in Haiti and is providing aid to communities that have been hit the hardest by the earthquake and tropical depression. Global Empowerment Mission has already deployed one ship full of supplies to Haiti and is continuing to raise funds to aid in their distribution efforts. Joseph’s vulnerable residents.

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Thank You, Gerardo!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

He oversaw the development of numerous products and services that allow us to drive social empowerment through technology across all our programs. He also championed an open source ethos so that our work can be broadly shared (you can view all our open source projects on GitHub ).

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Nonprofit Technology News: Help for Charities to Develop Mobile Giving Capacity

Tech Soup

Our lead story in this issue of TechSoup’s Nonprofit Technology News is the creation of the Mobile Giving Alliance that will help charities develop their mobile giving. Help for Charities to Develop a Mobile Giving Campaign. Fund for UNICEF, and United Way Worldwide to bring more mobile technology resources charities.

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Report: Insights from the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Partnerships with technology companies are driving AI4Good, providing their expertise, toolkits, and resources to work with nonprofits to integrate the use of AI. Many organizations are working on similar projects and could benefit from shared resources. . I’ve put together a curated list of resources about the AI4Good sector here.

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