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Platform Works to Connect Families with Food
According to Yahoo Finance, Genpact, Not Impossible and Bento will team up to build a digital platform that helps families overcome food insecurity.
Genpact (NYSE: G), a global professional services firm focused on delivering digital transformation, today announced it is providing in-kind technology and digital transformation expertise to help scale a donation platform with the Not Impossible Foundation and Bento, a text-based service that connects families in need with nutritious, prepaid meals from nearby restaurants.
Read more...Nonprofit Website Keeps Seniors Entertained
According to Trib Live, siblings have created a nonprofit website that helps senior citizens stay entertained and connected.
Hannah and Joseph Shin weren’t looking to use technology when they decided to find a way to inform and entertain senior citizens.
Read more...Nonprofit Receives Grant for Interpreter Training
According to the Dorchester Reporter, a $400,000 grant has been given to nonprofit Found in Translation to help them continue to train bilingual low income women to work as medical interpreters.
Found in Translation, a Dorchester-based nonprofit, has received a $400,000 grant from the Cummings Foundation, to be spread over 10 years, that will allow it to continue training low-income, bilingual women to become medical interpreters.
Read more...Instagram for Fundraising
According to the Nonprofit Times, Instagram has added a feature to make fundraising campaigns greater visibility.
Social media platform Instagram has added a new feature to its fundraising capabilities. The new functionality allows users who have created fundraisers to invite other individuals to become co-sponsors of their efforts.
Read more...America’s Nonprofits Face ‘Severe Shortage’ of Fundraisers
A new report on America’s multi-billion-dollar nonprofit fundraising industry suggests it is on the brink of a staffing crisis that could affect millions of people. America’s 1.5 million-plus charitable organizations face a “severe shortage of qualified fundraisers” that could seriously restrict their efforts to raise critically needed funds -- and impact millions of people served by them, the report says.
Read more...Apple Works with Nonprofit Focused on Youth
Apple is partnering with a Los Angeles nonprofit that connects at-risk youth with arts and technology, reports ABC 7.
On Thursday, Apple CEO Tim Cook visited a non-profit in downtown Los Angeles called Create Now.
Read more...Bitcoin Gifts Becoming Common
Some Philadelphia nonprofits are accepting Bitcoin gifts, reports the Philadelphia Inquirer.
You can pay for a scooter, a pizza, and clothing in Philadelphia with cryptocurrency. In El Salvador, you can pay for anything with Bitcoin, since the Central American country this month became the first nation in the world to accept virtual currency as legal tender.
Read more...Nonprofit Gets Grant for Tech Program
An Atlanta nonprofit has received a multi-million dollar grant to establish a technology training program, reports 11 Alive.
The Atlanta nonprofit City of Refuge announced this week it had been awarded a $5.4 million grant from the federal Department of Labor to establish a tech career training program.
Read more...Giving Grows in 2020
Despite the unsettled nature of 2020, some nonprofits saw giving grow, reports the Chronicle of Philanthropy.
If you’re a regular reader of this newsletter, you know that the story of philanthropic giving in 2020 was as complex as the year itself. A global pandemic upturned daily life, and the economic fallout has been prolonged and profoundly uneven. Renewed attention to civil rights and racial justice also led to an outpouring of generosity across cause areas
Read more...Nonprofit Works to Bridge Digital Divide
A Detroit nonprofit is working to bridge the digital divide, reports Gov Tech.
A nonprofit is joining forces with community partners and the city of Detroit to bridge the digital divide by distributing at least 1,000 refurbished computers and other equipment to low-income families in Detroit, through donations of used technology from area business
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