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New Venture Helps Teachers Use Tech

Eleven Western Pennsylvania schools are set to be pilots in a new project underwritten by Google, reports Trib Live. Google and EdTechTeam along with nonprofit Digital Learning Project are working with the W.PA teachers to use technology more effectively. Read more...

Getting Personal is Important

Nonprofits aren’t giving their donors what they want, reports the Nonprofit Times. 81% of those surveyed stated that they want to see more personalized emails from nonprofits. Read more...

Google Focuses on Nonprofits That Help the Unemployed

According to TechCrunch, Google.org wants to help people find jobs. To that end, Google is pledging $50 million dollars to nonprofits that use technology to help people find jobs. Read more...

NASA Turns to Crowdfunding

NASA’s is using crowdfunding to help preserve mission control, reports KHOU. The new fundraising campaign is raising funds to restore the flight control consoles and wall displays in the historic monument.  
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Easier Way to Create Donor Letters

According to Media Post, there is a new way to prepare donor letters. Gravyty, an artificial intelligence based fundraising software, has released First Draft, a program that helps create email donor letters. Read more...

New Website Helps Nonprofits Find Volunteers

Chicago nonprofits will have an easier time finding volunteers, reports Crain’s Chicago Busines. A new website Go Civic launched recently and its goal is to match potential volunteers with nonprofits. The website will also help connect nonprofits to one another. Read more...

Online Donors Tend to Be Younger

A new study by Target Analytics, a division of Blackbaud, found that online donors skewed younger, reports the Huffington Post. In 2016, donors under age  accounted for 45% of the online donors. They also comprise 21% of offline donors. Read more...

Zoo App Connects Donors to Cause

According to the Tri-City Herald, the Pittsburgh Zoo has a new app that it hopes will entice Millennials to visit and support the zoo. Research shows that Millennials like to connect to causes, so the zoo designed an app that allows them to become connected to the zoo. 

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Kindful Offers Square

The Kindful platform will now offer Square integration, reports PR Newswire. Kindful is the first nonprofit donor management platform to offer Square mobile payment processing. Read more...

Blackbaud Increasing CrowdFunding Platform

Blackbaud wants to extend its crowdfunding platform, reports the Nonprofit Times. To do so it  is acquiring JustGiving,  a United Kingdom company. Read more...

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