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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? Phones also provide a reliable contact method for people who have no permanent address. It also uses Twitter to “find, counsel, and direct as many homeless people as possible to help.” Cloud Storage Price Wars Update.

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How Faith-based Nonprofits Can Use Peer-to-Peer Fundraising

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Peer-to-peer fundraising is one of the most popular fundraising methods for faith-based organizations. Now that you know the basics of peer-to-peer fundraising, how might your faith-based organization leverage this campaign method? This method can apply to your peer-to-peer fundraising campaign!

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Are Online Vote-for-Me Contests A Good Idea?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nonprofit consultant Hildy Gottlieb has been a vocal skeptic and is deeply philosophically opposed to online contests as a method of change in the social sector. Note from Beth: There has been a variety of criticism of contests. Earlier this month, I sent out a few tweets asking for the counterpoint to Hildy's view.

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What I Learned From @nancylublin About #dataonpurpose

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Their primary communications method is text and that lends itself to templates. They can also analyze the message they receive back and learn. For example, they ran a campaign for teens to collect food for a Food Banks around the country. Another example was to help Youth Homeless Shelters. Kids learned about homelessness.

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Sheroes You Should Know: Inspiring Stories for #WomensHistoryMonth

EveryAction

During her lifetime, biochemist and pharmacologist Gertrude Elion worked to develop drugs to treat leukemia and prevent rejection in kidney transplant recipients, as well as revolutionary drug treatments and research methods for diseases like malaria and AIDS. She won the Nobel Prize for medicine in 1988. Marie Curie. Marie Curie was a.)

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Self-Censorship for Museum Professionals

Museum 2.0

Why do homeless people smell bad?” The science of capital punishment from DNA to execution Religion Teen suicide, teen cutting – I wanted to include these in my museum’s “Hall of Human Life” teen area. Use expert-only vocabulary – stop making entry points for general public, students, families Social science of war.

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