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Facebook Adds More Fundraising Features
According to TechCrunch, Facebook will let Facebook Pages users to have a ‘donate now’ button on their Facebook Live broadcasts.
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Bring Tech to Students
A Houston nonprofit wants to bring technology to every kid who needs it, reports the Journal. Comp-U-dot offers refurbished computers to students in the Houston area who otherwise wouldn’t be able to afford a computer.
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Nonprofit Works to Eliminate Fake News
According to ABC.com, a new nonprofit will work to eradicate fake news. News Integrity Initiative will be run from the CUNY Graduate School of Journalism. The start up nonprofit received $14 million in seed money from Facebook, Mozilla, Craigslist and other tech companies.
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Utah Giving Campaign Is a Success
Utah’s online fundraising blitz -Love Utah Give Utah- raised a record breaking amount, reports The Salt Lake Tribune. When the campaign ended 12,423 individual donors had raised $1,085,982 for various nonprofits in Utah.
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Big Data is Increasingly Important for Nonprofit Succes
According to BizTech, nonprofits can utilize big data just like for profit companies. While it does require that organizations have special talent to use the data, such as programming , visualization and statistics the information collected can be extremely valuable.
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Nonprofit Data At Risk
As more nonprofits become the target of hackers it is important for nonprofits to increase their website security, reports The nonprofit Quarterly. Ransomware, where the hackers seize control of a website and demand payment to release it, is becoming more prevalent in the nonprofit sector.
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Giving Via Hashtag
A new startup, Goodworld, wants to eliminate the cumbersome donation page, reports Inside Philanthropy. Instead, they want donors to be able to give using hashtags.
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Charity Water Makes the Most of Technology
Charity:Water is using technology to make the most of its new campaign, reports Mashable. The ‘Someone Like You’ campaign uses drone footage 360 degree video and personal stories to highlight their mission to bring water to an Ethiopian community.
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How to Get Good Terms on Technology
According to the Nonprofit Times, if your organization is going to add “mission critical” technology from a third party vendor there are things you can do ensure you negotiate the best terms for your nonprofit.
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Delaware Tech Challenge Brings New Ideas to Nonprofits
Technology Forum of Delaware’s 2017 Idea Challenge brings new ideas and tech to local nonprofits, reports the Delaware Business Times. Each nonprofit participating had a team of innovators that had 3 hours to come up with a plan. Then an audience voted on which nonprofit’s idea was the best.
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