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Mobile for Good: Fire Phone, Locking Down Data, and Services for the Homeless

Tech Soup

I'll also update you on the "kill switch" initiatives as well as a nonprofit that's using mobile services to alleviate homelessness. Reset the Net is an effort to fight back against government surveillance on all devices, including mobile (here are five ways to get started). Homelessness and Mobile Technology.

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How to Form and Use an Advisory Board for Your Nonprofit

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Unlike a Governing Board, often called a Board of Directors, an Advisory Board has no decision-making authority and does not issue directives or have fiduciary responsibility. Giving Advice The most obvious role for a nonprofit Advisory Board is to give advice to the Governing Board and staff. How long will terms be?

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Using Smartphones and Portable Wi-Fi Hotspots to Tell Your Story

Tech Soup

To quote a somewhat recent YouTube blog piece , "if a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a video worth a million?" Storytelling with Mobile Video. It's reasonably easy to upload videos to Facebook or YouTube even without the phone being on a data plan. " May well be. Tell Your Story.

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5 Places to Find Grants for Your Nonprofit for FREE!

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Perhaps it’s a program grant to cover costs of running your homelessness program. And if you need help navigating Foundation Directory Online, their handy Features Guide offers tips, best practices, and video tutorials. Get clear on the type of funding you are seeking. They offer free webinars to learn more too.

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[VIDEO] The Board’s Role in Fundraising & Resource Development

Bloomerang

And so they created a series of videos, not complicated, didn’t charge them a lot. If they want to be a volunteer for the organization different from a governing board member or working board member and they just want to give time, that’s fine. They used their cell phones, but the story was spoken through a teddy bear.

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Technology & Community: Strategic Options for Building Movements

Amy Sample Ward

Outside of our organizations, we have government institutions, and service providers. The community, partners, government, are all necessary for really making a change. If organizations are a part of the solution, a part of the process, what does that role really look like? But, alone, the organization can’t make the change.

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8 Apps That May (Actually) Change San Francisco

Tech Soup

The team members came up with a tool to make the cumbersome process of collecting, transcribing, and cleaning data easier for urban nonprofits and government agencies. Watch this quick video to see LocalData in action: (Please visit the site to view this video). Video : Code for America. No Place Like Home. spanhidden.