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Crowdfunding Site Offers New Way to Give
According to Digital Journal, a new crowdfunding website Survive the Streets offers donors ‘directed giving’ opportunities. Using the website donors can select an exact family or individual they want to help after reading their stories and seeing their faces online.
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Ohio Students Code for Good
Ohio State University student were among the college students present for the 24-hour “Code for Good” sponsored by JPMorgan Chase & Co, reports the Columbus Dispatch. The event is designed to give college students majoring in computer science, engineering and other technology fields and opportunity to create computer software solutions to problems that social-service organizations face.
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Program Helps Charities Get Free PR
According to Tipp News Daily, Neotrope, a marketing and technology firm, has launched a new program to help public relations agencies and solo PR firms adopt a local charity and promote it for free.
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New Site Brings Investment Tools to Non-profits
According to Tech Crunch, Wealthfront, an automated investment services company, has launched Wealthfront.org. The site will provide investment advisory tools to non-profits.
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Boston Tech Group Hopes to Grow Giving Participation
Boston Area Technology Underwriting Greater Good hopes to expand its ‘Tech Gives Back’ participation this year, reports Startups and Venture Capital. The program hopes to draw 1,200 participants from area tech companies this year to do projects in and around the Boston Area.
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Causes Transforms from App to Social Network
According the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Causes, which started as a donation app on Facebook, has now transformed into a social network. The Causes Network lets people discuss social issues, connect with like-minded people and nonprofits, and take action by making donations, signing petitions, and raising money.
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eGood Combines Loyalty with Giving Back
According to Tech Crunch, eGood, a new startup from California, has designed a new check in and loyalty app that lets consumers visit their favorite local business and give back. Businesses listed with eGood can choose local charities and non-profits, so that when consumers choose their business and check-into their store, any purchases they make there will include donations to the local charity the business is supporting.
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Ohio Non-profits Can JUMP Start Their Technology
The fourth annual JUMP Start Your Non-profit contest is now open, reports Dayton Daily News. The contest sponsored by Modern Office Methods is open to non-profits in Dayton, Cincinnati and Columbus is open until October 11. The contest winner receives a $20,000 technology makeover.
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TeraData Works with Non-profits to Provide Data Analytics
According to Red Orbit, Teradata, a data analytics company, has partnered with DataKind. DataKind, a non-profit that matches talented data scientists with non-profit and non-governmental organizations that have huge troves of data but lack the resources to analyze them, and Teradata will combine resources to provide non-profits with data analytic solutions.
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Local Company Gives Technology Grant to Middle School
The Somerset Middle School received a donation to purchase technology, reports Herald News. The $20,000 check from the Greater Fall River Development Corp. will be used to purchase document cameras and projectors at the middle school.
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