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Philanthropy’s response to the Turkey and Syria earthquake 

Candid

Only a relative few independent foundations in the United States and Canada have made public contributions, such as $500,000 from the Patterson Foundation in Florida; $250,000 from the Harry and Jeanette Weinberg Foundation in Maryland; and $188,000 from the Coram Deo Foundation in Canada. to make the gift.

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Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input

Forum One

I was invited to present last week at the University of Maryland's Human Computer Interaction Lab's workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some very cool examples of how to use NodeXL to map and understand social networks. Here is a nice summary of the event.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help and Consultations. Baltimore, Maryland: Salesforce 101 for Nonprofits and Free Tech Help and Guidance. Bath, United Kingdom: Tech for Good Community Mapping. Naples, Florida: Tools for Effective Email Communication. Mason, Ohio: Connecting Nonprofits and Techies in Cincinnati.

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Funders: Considering Collaboration? Start With a Light Touch and See Where It Leads

sgEngage

This mapping exercise helps funders meet unmet or underfunded needs and populations. . Serini Foundation and Leigh Adams of the Ausherman Family Foundation—have been catalyzing and leading a funders’ group in Frederick, Maryland. For several years, two of our members—Kerry McHugh of the Helen J.

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Goverment and Social Media: Online Approaches for Inviting and Collecting Public Input

Forum One

I was invited to present last week at the University of Maryland's Human Computer Interaction Lab's workshop on Government and Social Media. We also saw some very cool examples of how to use NodeXL to map and understand social networks. Here is a nice summary of the event.

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How to Better Choose the World's Most Innovative Nonprofits

Tech Soup

Direct Relief — For using interactive mapping to fight Ebola. Direct Relief made the list for "mapping and data collection [that] allowed the group to track the spread of the disease and identify where help was needed." Image 2 : Virginia-Maryland Regional College of Veterinary Medicine / CC BY-NC. The Howard G.

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Calling all Faith-Based Organizations! Think You Could Use a Free Tablet?

Tech Soup

The organization submitting the story with the most innovative and effective usage of a donated TechSoup product will receive the UnoBook tablet AND will be featured as the “Tech 4 Faith” story for an entire month on our Local Impact Map (LIM). Poke around the map and see for yourself. Interested? b) Void States.