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MobileActive Strategy Guide Now Available for Download

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Guide released today by MobileActive, a global network of organizations and. register people to vote, encourage involvement in elections, raise money for. a number of popular uprisings in the Ukraine and South Korea, to name just a. registration, and election monitoring campaigns, finds a MobileActive Strategy.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

Amazon, born in 1995 as an online bookstore, grew by the 2000s to become the largest global e-commerce platform company in existence. Globally, the number of platform companies rose five times between 2010 and 2021; 2 and, as of 2022, about 20 percent of all market commerce in the United States is now conducted online.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We travel because we need to raise money, and we won’t get it unless we get in front of the donors. It’s the week of the United Nations General Assembly and the Clinton Global Initiative. We travel because we think it’s the most effective way to spread social change. We travel because there is no substitute for human interaction.

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