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Remote Technology in the Pandemic: Rebalancing Toward Equity and Access

Non Profit Quarterly

We held 33 virtual focus groups (via Zoom) with 181 CVAs in the United States and Canada. A volunteer manager at a library in Oregon explains why translation tools are not enough: A couple years ago there was a Spanish language Facebook page for the library. School districts scrambled to get Chromebooks to students.

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Where are the twenty-something or GEN-Y Bloggers Who Are Writing About Social Change and Nonprofits?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here's a few good blogs written by GenYs that cover nonprofit technology, philanthropy, social change, and more. When I put on my Facebook status that I was looking for blogs, he wrote on my wall recommending many of the blogs that follow. His blog covers social technology, social action, philanthropy - with a UK perspective.

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GivingTuesday 2018 Scales Generosity and Kindness to New Highs

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

People contributed more than $125 million on Facebook , up from $45 million in 2017, using the network’s new fundraising tools. . Facebook and PayPal together offered a $7 million match for Giving Tuesday donations and saw that match gobbled up “within seconds” after 8 a.m. Lots of complaining from insiders.

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New And Old Techniques Target Donor Pipeline Expansion

The NonProfit Times

“In the past, Planned Parenthood organizations primarily relied on organic peer-to-peer fundraisers and remained neutral as to what platforms supporters used to bring us into their network, whether they be Facebook, Instagram, GoFundMe or Tiltify, to name a few,” according to Fishman. That effort will start with an alumni-focused effort.

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What does the future hold for your nonprofit in 2021? Look inside this crystal ball…

Pamela Grow

And we’ve emerged from the most divisive election year in the history of the United States. One of our long-time students wrote in: “We’re 74% of the way to our revenue budget and we’re not quite halfway through our fiscal year and are up 322% year over year (last year we raised almost $770K) How are we doing it? And missed out.

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System Error: Stanford Professors Tackle Tech Disruption and Democracy

Non Profit Quarterly

Rob Reich: Big philanthropy is an exercise of power, and wherever there is concentrated power in a democratic society, the civic attitude toward it should be scrutiny, not gratitude. Computer science is one of the most popular majors at Stanford—it’s taken by nearly 20 percent of the student body. I’m Amy Costello.

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