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Benetech: President's Update

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I want to unveil several of these new initiatives, as well as sneaking in some of the incredible things happening in our core programs in literacy and human rights. Knight Foundation, our SocialCoding4Good initiative will kick off later this year. and James L. Route 66 is software that provides teachers (and non-teachers!)

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Research Friday: Financial literacy: understanding money for today’s activities and tomorrow’s security

ASU Lodestar Center

When those who are responsible for an organization's overall fiscal management responded to a study by The Moody Foundation, it was found that nonprofits need to "fortify their financial skills to better forecast future needs, navigate economic instability, and manage risk." The Moody’s Foundation, 2011. 22. ^ [4] Ibid.

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10X: CEO’s Update: Spring 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Technology currently serves privileged groups through tools that provide access to education, literacy, health, and justice. Global Literacy Sixth Grader and Bookshare member Kevin Leong with Jim Fruchterman at Benetech''s offices. But what about everybody else? The time has never been better to think 10X bigger!

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5 Things That Nonprofits Wish They Knew Three Months Ago

Nonprofit Tech for Good

By Stephanie Kanak , Content Strategist at Donor Perfect – a top-rated donor management system and fundraising platform for nonprofits. Our Foundational Series is a collection of 15 free, live webinars that takes you through basic and intermediate functions in DonorPerfect. What would you do differently?

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Mapping the Donor Engagement Cycle: A Visual Guide to Stronger Connections

Neon CRM

Personalize the ask In a study of email fundraising campaigns, we found that the emails with the highest engagement rates addressed the recipients by name and used “you” language, speaking directly to the recipient. An example of this might be a literacy foundation raising $X to help provide tutoring to X number of students.

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What is the Funder’s Role in Supporting Good Measurement?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Building infrastructure, in-house expertise, and data literacy of all staff is critical to their success so they have invested. The St Luke’s Foundation in Cleveland realigned using the premises of Leap of Reason and has redefined its own role and purpose: Bigger Investments. That says volumes.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Although Vietnam is regarded as a developing country, it has a literacy rate of 94 percent. There are 54 ethnic groups in Vietnam.