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A Hearty Congratulations to TechSoup Members Winning Google Impact Challenge Awards

Tech Soup

Google Global Impact Award competitions have been held in India and the UK, and most recently in the San Francisco Bay Area. BUILD actively works to increase high school graduation rates for at-risk youth with a four-year entrepreneurial program. 250,000 Grant Winners.

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Resilient Fundraising: Show Donors the Love

Connection Cafe

That same son spent four months training in India when he was fresh out of college. Per Epsilon’s latest quarterly review of client activity , email click rates in North America have failed to increase on a year-over-year basis for 18 consecutive quarters. Trey wasn’t in the room. I did not learn that day’s lesson.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup

The WEEE Directive is the set of laws that governs the proper collection and disposal of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in the 27 countries of the European Union. The latest update of the law is expected to be formally approved in 2014. On the other hand, the dominant countries of India and China are far behind.

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Lessons on Policymakers, Gender Equality, and Data

Connection Cafe

When asked to estimate the scale of several key issues relevant to women and girls in their country—maternal mortality, early marriage rate (before 18), women in the labor force, and women in parliament —policymakers were largely not confident in their knowledge of the facts.

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6 Email Marketing Hacks to Increase Open Rates

NonProfit Hub

Are you experiencing abysmal open rates? Harrowing click-through rates? You can inadvertently break any one of the CAN-SPAM laws. So, the first way to boost your open rates is to start using an Email Service Provider (ESP) like MailChimp, Emma or Constant Contact. This infrequent contact almost ensures low open rates.

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Poisoning the Treaty for the Blind

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

law--positions that would be hard for me to imagine passing our Congress. Because at the rate we''re going, we''ll end up with a Treaty that doesn''t help the blind, but instead advances the intellectual property agenda of the MPAA. Conflicts with American Law. Why does this matter? That''s what the MPAA calls "balance?"

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

The homicide rate, as people are probably aware of, has just really increased in the last few years in Oakland, where I live. Louis, Missouri, and I was working for an environmental law clinic as a consultant. We have four initiatives. And I started working with a community outside of St. So you do what you can. So we do that.

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