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Detroit Getting Hotspots for Students
Students in the Detroit area will soon have better access to Wi-Fi as Comcast opens up a dozen hotspots around Detroit, reports Crain’s Detroit Business.
Comcast plans to provide a dozen Wi-Fi hotspots around Detroit by year's end to increase digital access for students, families and adults seeking jobs
Read more...Ocean Nonprofit Selling Pricey Sunglasses
Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit who benefited from tech created during Microsoft’s 2018 hackathon, is selling $200 sunglasses made from recycled ocean plastic, reports Business Insider.
These $200 sunglasses from The Ocean Cleanup come with an interesting backstory: they're made of recycled plastic from the Great Pacific Garbage Patch, a concentration of waste that takes up 617,000 square miles in the Pacific Ocean.
Read more...The New Partnership Will Offer UHSM Members a Holistic Approach to Cancer Treatments, Addressing Total Health and Wellbeing
UHSM (Unite Health Share Ministries), a faith-based health care nonprofit founded on Christian beliefs and values, today announced a partnership with Cancer Kinship, a nonprofit which seeks to help cancer patients and their loved ones adjust to their diagnosis and treatment. The partnership will broaden the help and resources UHSM provides to its cancer patients, now with free access to help and support from Cancer Kinship’s network of support groups, survivorship empowerment programs, and mentoring for patients.
Read more...Teen Starts Suicide Prevention Organization
A Japanese teen has started a nonprofit that aims to prevent teen suicide using text messaging, reports the Associated Press.
Suicides are on the rise among Japanese teens and that worries 21-year-old Koki Ozora, who grew up depressed and lonely. His nonprofit “Anata no Ibasho,” or “A Place for You,” is run entirely by volunteers.
Read more...Ocean Cleanup Nonprofit Gets Tech From Microsoft
According to Business Insider, Ocean Cleanup, a nonprofit that wants to clean up the Great Pacific Garbage patch, just got a boost from Microsoft.
Cleaning up the oceans is a huge undertaking, especially for a single nonprofit based out of the Netherlands, but having Microsoft on your side is a nice bonus.
Read more...Microsoft Offers New Nonprofit Product
According to Microsoft, it is releasing a new solution for nonprofits, Fundraising and Engagement for Microsoft Dynamics.
Since 2017, Microsoft’s Tech for Social Impact initiative has been working to empower the nonprofit sector. As part of that effort two years ago, we released our Common Data Model for Nonprofits, a set of best practices represented as data entities, attributes, and relationships.
Read more...New Tech Platform Helps Navigate Food Benefits
mRelief is a new nonprofit tech startup that aims to help people get access to food stamp benefits, reports Forbes.
1 in 9 people in the U.S. struggle with hunger. And despite federal assistance programs like food stamps, which aim to help millions of families across the U.S., many of these families aren’t actually receiving these benefits due to the cumbersome administrative process required to enroll.
Read more...Nonprofits Still Lack in Tech Savvy
According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, only a small percentage of nonprofits are digitally savvy.
More nonprofit work is going digital in the pandemic, but few organizations are yet adept at providing services online only, a new study from Hopelab has found.
Read more...New Relic Makes Products Available to Nonprofits
Observability platform New Relic is offering a product donation program, reports Dev Ops.
New Relic, Inc. (NYSE: NEWR), the observability platform company, today announced “Observability for Good”, a new product donation program designed to help NGOs, nonprofits, and charities around the world leverage the benefits of observability in order to advance their missions.
Read more...The Cloud Can Help Nonprofits
The cloud is one way nonprofits can do more with less, reports, Biz Tech Magazine.
Nonprofits are often tasked with trying to do more with less. The greatest success stories often involve nonprofits that are the most resourceful. One way that nonprofits have improved their overall lift is through the cloud, which has the potential to expand capabilities beyond what can be managed onsite.
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