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Flexibility and Resilience Carries the Day for Big Brothers Big Sisters Houston

Greater Giving

Big Brothers Big Sisters (BBBS) Houston , the largest, one-to-one mentoring agency in the country, found those same qualities served them well last year when they needed to quickly switch from hosting their yearly gala to hosting a virtual fundraiser during the pandemic. Big Brothers Big Sisters Houston.

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Spring Is Here! Get Outside and Meet Your NPTech Community

Tech Soup

Houston, Texas: What's Your Story? New York City, New York: Don't Stop A/Believing: Using Testing to Improve Your Newsletter and Website. Vancouver, British Columbia: Testing Makes Perfect — How to Optimize Your Campaign Through A/B Testing. Seattle, Washington: Preparing for FLSA Overtime Rule Change.

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Growing the NetSquared Community

Tech Soup

We've been testing the Ambassador model for the last two years, and it has been been instrumental in the growth of NetSquared. Houston, Texas: Pizza, Beer, and Bitcoin. It's a good thing we've expanded our support capacity. Burlington, Vermont: Join Us for "The Internet of Things" Monday, February 8, 2016.

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6 Trends Shaping Corporate Engagement Today

Connection Cafe

At UPS, drones are being used for delivery of medicines to remote clinics and being tested to explore disaster hit communities to improve rescue and response. IBM has a longstanding practice of building technologies to address nonprofit needs, offering pro bono consulting contracts in partnership with nonprofits.

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Sparrow Launches Evidence-Based RefugeeMobile Partnership

Tech Soup

"The world is at a critical moment that tests our commitment to displaced people around the world," notes Sparrow's Allan Baez. Launched in April 2016, Refugee Mobile will conduct an evidence-based pilot study in Dallas, Fort Worth, Houston, and Austin to demonstrate the theory of change.

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Getting Social with Your Local Nonprofit Tech Community

Tech Soup

Vancouver, British Columbia: Testing Makes Perfect — How to Optimize Your Campaign Through A/B Testing. Houston, Texas: Monthly Meetup with Awesome and Never Before Heard of Topics/Speakers to BE! Saint Paul, Minnesota: Free and Inexpensive Communications Tools | MCN (free). Monday, June 13, 2016. Tuesday, June 14, 2016.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

I got a chance to test this out in a more orchestrated way (as opposed to the usual consultant/client interactions) when I facilitated/taught an OpenOffice.org “untraining&# earlier this month at Google HQ in NYC (some more details are on the Google Blog.) [link] Make sure it is really water soluable magic marker … 2 Tino Paz 06.21.08

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