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Building a Tech-Driven Legal Aid Network for the 21st Century

Saleforce Nonprofit

In Illinois, even during “normal” times, there is a shortage of legal help, with only around 450 Legal Aid attorneys for 13 million Illinoisans, of whom 31.6% In 2013, CARPLS moved its case- and knowledge-management system to a customized version on Salesforce. By: Al Schwartz, Executive Director, CARPLS Legal Aid.

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Celebrate Women’s History Month with these innovative leaders

Nimble AMS

Becky Anderson LMS Administrator at the Illinois ASBO Becky Anderson recently innovated at Illinois ASBO by leveraging Nimble AMS to modernize the event registration and membership renewal processes. Cain-Harris is always looking for ways to better utilize ATLA’s existing organizational systems, empowering staff to be more efficient.

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How does Nimble AMS empower legacy AMS users?

Nimble AMS

Three ways Nimble AMS empowers legacy AMS users Three ways Nimble AMS empowers legacy AMS users Are you ready to leave behind your legacy system ? In legacy AMS systems, reporting is often complicated, requiring a developer or IT team to customize and build lists, as well as create queries and reports. User-friendly reporting.

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Nonprofit Profile: First Christian Church of Beardstown Illinois

Tech Soup

The First Christian Church of Beardstown is a non-sectarian Christian church in rural west-central Illinois. Beardstown Illinois is an agricultural market town where farm products are loaded onto barges for transport on the Illinois River. It has 300 members. Charity Technology in the Heartland. They don’t have any grants.

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Highlights from Candid’s most popular philanthropic resources in 2023?

Candid

It outlines 10 core principles for philanthropy serving organizations (PSOs) to enhance their impact and contribute to broader systems change. It describes learnings and findings from this diversion program’s aim to serve adults aged 18-26 years in Cook County, Illinois between May 2021 and June 2023.

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Open Source and the Promise of Sustainable Nutrition Security

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Recently I had the opportunity to get introduced to Gerald Nelson , senior climate change researcher and Professor Emeritus at the University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. This week, on September 10-12 at Purdue University, CIMSANS will be co-hosting a workshop and summit focused on improving food systems data and models.

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How can nonprofit leaders enact effective practices to achieve the promise of social equity?

ASU Lodestar Center

He received his undergraduate degree in Social Justice Studies from Northeastern Illinois University, which is how he segued into the nonprofit sector. David is a current program supervisor for the CASA program in Lane County, whose mission it is to supply children in the child welfare system volunteer advocates.