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The Surprising Truth About Donor Fatigue And What Nonprofits Can Do To Avoid It

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

We approached the question from several angles, and we’re not seeing the public’s giving interest or ability waning. between our Sierra Leone Mudslides appeal in August and our Harvey, Irma, and Mexico earthquake appeals in September. Here’s what we saw: 1: Giving to disasters hasn’t decreased over the past two months.

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Great reads from around the web on August 24th

Amy Sample Ward

It has some terrific questions to think about including: What behavior are we wanting to change? And rather than pay people to go get information about those places, Google has smartly been using a service called Map Maker, which lets locals and people knowledgeable about the area edit it themselves. What problem can we help solve?

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Why is "World Class" so Classist?

Museum 2.0

Jason Beaubien was reporting on the Soumaya Museum in Mexico City, the gleaming new art museum built as a "gift to Mexico" by the world's richest man, Carlos Slim. The news report , strangely, focused on the question of whether the Soumaya Museum is a rich man's indulgence or a truly "worthy" cultural institution.

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Research Friday: Why Give to International Charities?

ASU Lodestar Center

is a question I often hear people ask. As I become more immersed in the nonprofit world, I learn more about dilemmas in philanthropy; questions like: "where will my contribution have the most impact?" As part of a. continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit expert to. inform and improve day-to-day nonprofit practice.

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TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey: What We Found Out and What to Do About It Part Two

Tech Soup

We hoped to reduce confusion by defining the term near the start of the survey: Cloud computing allows you to access software via the Internet instead of from your computer hard drive or your local computer network. When you use cloud-based software, it is available anywhere you can use the Internet — not just in your office.

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350.org Is Greening the Planet with Lean, Green IT

Tech Soup

My first question of course was, "How does that work with three offices, 40 employees, and thousands of volunteers to keep track of in nearly every country?" This theoretically frees up millions of offices from having their own local area networks with servers and IT staffs to run them. An example is 350 Mexico.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

We need to utilize these tools, to the best of our abilities, to engage and inform the public, because no matter how much federal, state and local officials do, we will only be successful if the public is brought in as part of the team." Frequently, they are simply bystanders.