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EVENT 360 LAUNCHES “FOR GOOD®” A NEW COLLABORATIVE PEER-TO-PEER FUNDRAISING MODEL
Event 360, a leading event production and social impact company, today announced FOR GOOD®, a new collaborative peer-to-peer fundraising model that brings non-profit organizations together to produce one large-scale fundraising event that benefits each organization. Event 360 handles all the event planning and production as well as promotion to help generate participation and donations to individual charities. Non-profit organizations keep 100% of the funds raised by their participants. Learn more at www.EventsForGood.com.
Read more...Common Impact's Disaster Response Program Helps Communities Prepare for and Recover from Crisis
The private sector can take a larger, more strategic role in disaster preparedness for communities through skilled volunteerism, according to research and disaster response programming launched by Common Impact, a nationally recognized leader in skills-based volunteerism.
Read more...Keeping Nonprofit Workers Safe During Outbreak
According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, nonprofits are taking steps to keep their workers safe in the wake of the spread of the coronavirus.
Nonprofits are holding back on some services, limiting employee travel, expanding work-at-home opportunities, and taking other steps to protect workers and volunteers as the threat of the coronavirus continues to spread worldwide.
Read more...Adaptive Technology Helps Artists Create
Wisconsin based MadDesignWorks creates adaptive technology that helps artists with disabilities create their art, reports Wisconsin Public Radio.
Jeanne Grosse wanted to be a painter in the style of Jackson Pollock, but her disability left her with only limited use of her left arm. To achieve that abstract, splashed paint pattern, the Madison-based artist was using a small catapult to throw paint against a canvas. But she didn't have much control over the direction and angle of force.
Read more...Data Analytics Can Help Nonprofits Be Accountable
Nonprofits use data analytics tools to measure the efficiency of their programs, reports Forbes.
Accountability is at the heart of Impact Justice’s programs. The California-based nonprofit works with former prisoners and teenagers who have had encounters with the criminal justice system and is dedicated to putting an end to mass incarceration in the US. Impact Justice leaders are also accountable to funders.
Read more...The Blackbaud Institute Releases Annual Benchmarking Data to Empower Social Good Organizations
The Blackbaud Institute, a research division of Blackbaud (NASDAQ: BLKB), the world’s leading cloud software company powering social good, today releases its eighth annual Charitable Giving Report, offering benchmarking data based on the largest analysis of overall and online giving statistics for social good organizations. Through the Charitable Giving Report, the Blackbaud Institute is equipping organizations with resources to inform their strategies by enabling them to compare their organization to peers – across size and subsector – and identify areas of strength and opportunity heading into the new year.
Read more...Ransomware Shuts Down Nonprofit
A nonprofit health care organization was hit by a ransomware attack that completely shut down its networks, reports the Daily Messanger.
A ransomware attack has prompted Jordan Health to shut down its computer networks, a spokesperson said Thursday morning.
The nonprofit operates 9 health centers in Rochester and Canandaigua and treats upward of 30,000 underserved and uninsured patients. Those centers remain open for business and are seeing patients, but ask that patients bring their insurance card, medications and photo ID with them.
Read more...Bezo's Education Initiative Ready to Go
Jeff Bezo’s Day 1 Academy, an educational nonprofit serving Seattle, is hiring staff, reports GeekWire.
The educational philanthropy that Amazon CEO Jeff Bezos announced in 2018 is now hiring for a variety of roles in the Seattle area “to build the educational models, services, and technology that will give these children the leg up in life they all deserve and help them realize their full potential.”
Read more...Free Software isn't Free
Nonprofits looking to switch to a new software package should keep in mind that “free” doesn’t always mean no cost, reports the Nonprofit Times.
Nonprofit techies like to say that open source software is free the same way that the first few paragraph on a new website are free. If you want to read more than a couple of stories, you have to take out that credit card.
Read more...Tech Makes Volunteering Easy
When a teenage Sam Fankuchen sought a volunteering gig in the early 2000s, his feel-good quest quickly turned to frustration: It was hard to find an organization that matched his skills and, when he did find one, it was even harder to figure out who was in charge.
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