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Feeding a Need: New App Helps Youth Find Free Summer Meals

Tech Soup

Millions of low-income students rely on free or low-cost school meals. During the school year, federal programs like the National School Lunch Program help close this nutrition gap by providing free or reduced cost meals to low-income students. Share summer meal site info via text or email. That's 3.9 MILLION U.S.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. The Microsoft Imagine Cup is a student competition to create innovative IT projects and ultimately bring those ideas to market. They’re calling it The Fog.

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Solutionary Women: DeeAnn Resk

Have Fun - Do Good

Shortly after I posted my first Solutionary Women profile , I got an email from a young woman named Tiara who was a student with Up with People last year. You can get more info at www.upwithpeople.org. One of the women, DeeAnn Resk, is originally from California and used to work at an international development office in Washington D.C.

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Donation Forms for Nonprofits: 8 Best Practices to Raise More in 2024

Neon CRM

6% increase in global giving in 2023—coupled with an ominous 10% drop in participation. Sure, these pages might seem like a pretty simple proposition: Once a donor has decided to give, they pop over to your forms, fill out their info, and complete the transaction. Giving was down in 2022—and 2023 doesn’t look like it’ll be much better.

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Paul Rusesabagina & Bloggers for Darfur

Have Fun - Do Good

The most touching part of the program was when some students from a local middle school came up and presented him with a check for $1,325 for the Hotel Rwanda Rusesabagina Foundation that they raised by selling sweatshirts with their school name on the front, Piedmont Middle School, and "Be an Upstander.

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How to Make A Successful #GivingTuesday Post in Just 5 Minutes

Greater Giving

How have donations in the past created opportunities for today’s students that will help them succeed? So make sure you can process donation payments and collect that all-important donor contact info. It will tell donors everything they need to know about this global day of giving without any additional input from you!

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[VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark

Bloomerang

They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students. And for those that aren’t aware in relation to the construction industry, you know, construction globally and in the United States has continued to grow and hasn’t stopped throughout the pandemic.