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10 Nonprofits to Support on World Humanitarian Day

EveryAction

Since its founding, the organization’s strategic grantmaking initiatives have directly funded more than $104 million to local communities. Take for instance its work in helping reduce the incidence of Guinea worm disease from an estimated 3.5 AIDS United seeks to end the AIDS epidemic in the United States.

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What You Need to Know About the Largest Vaccine Operation in History

Saleforce Nonprofit

Once they’ve passed the quality control check, they’re stored in cold rooms as they await the next phase of their journey to local health centres. Twenty-six percent of Australians are hesitant to be vaccinated against COVID-19, and that number is over 50% in our neighboring country of Papua New Guinea.

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Testing Your Donation Form Part 3: Wrangling Guinea Pigs

Connection Cafe

One method of recruiting that has worked very well for us in the past is loosely called “Starbucks testing” You simply go to a local coffee shop with a lounge area after the morning rush with $5.00 They also give you slick graphs, reports, heat maps , and other cool stuff. gift cards in hand.

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Social Networking Strategies: The Limits of Cutting and Pasting

Amy Sample Ward

If your community meets offline at a local watering hole to share opinions and make plans, don’t bother setting up a Twitter account with the purpose of influencing them. By last month, the user ratio between male and female had come up to about 70/30 and the country with the second highest number of users was India at about 13 percent.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. Local NGOs choose what is most needed in their area and apply online for funding. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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How to Predict What You’ll Raise by Year-End

NonProfit Hub

For an animal rescue, how many dogs/cats/guinea pigs do you want to save? For a food bank, you may find new donors through a promotion at your local grocery store (it’s a natural place to donate food), or maybe in a women’s group at a local church (these ladies tend to care about others in need).

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

They are places outside our daily lives--the Arctic, Papau New Guinea--and are easy, in some ways, to ignore or forget. The same is true for the political and educational challenges threatening science education worldwide.