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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

Working with an intelligent and experienced staff of a Phoenix-based nonprofit involved focused on global issues, I was encouraged to ask questions of development organizations and to think through a lens of international aid. In 2010, I was a fresh young Ally in ASU’s Lodestar Center Public Allies program. Sources: [1] Matthews, S.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. You want to be weary of hero worship in a movement, but that’s addressed by constantly changing out the spotlight – shining a light on people, partners, organizations and policy makers, actions local and global.

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Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Meta Analysis

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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Mapping funding for racial justice: A political imperative

Candid

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Over this time, we have had a glaring omission: our research has not captured funding related to race or ethnicity, despite significant and global human rights work in this area.

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2012 Nonprofit Technology Year in Review

Tech Soup

Having project managed TechSoup Global's 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey , I can heartily agree with that. TechSoup Global conducted a huge global cloud survey of NGOs in over 80 countries in March of 2012 and released the results in September. They are the fastest spreading technology in human history.

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Nonprofit Technology News for September 2013

Tech Soup

Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? ” Their history of smartwatches is also good. The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. Smart Watches.

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