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Google Ends Donation App
According to the Nonprofit Times, Google has shuttered its donation app One Today.
Google’s donation app, One Today, shut down after almost seven years, effective Feb. 6. In an email to users on Jan. 27, Google announced that One Today had been losing users in recent years.
Read more...Comcast Helps Visual Impaired
According to Innovation Map, Easter Seals Houston is showcasing Comcast’s new technology that can benefit the visually impaired.
Local nonprofit organization has tapped into new technology from Comcast to benefit the community of people with visual disabilities and impairments.
Read more...Automating Conviction Clearance
Nonprofit Code for America is working with California district attorneys to clear marijuana convictions from records, reports Fox News.
Los Angeles County prosecutors are partnering with a nonprofit technology firm to wipe out or reduce up to 66,000 marijuana convictions that disproportionately impacted minorities over decades.
Read more...Issuu Partners With Awareness Ties to Bring Philanthropic Causes to Life Through Social Media Stories
Issuu, the world’s largest digital discovery and publishing platform, today announced an exclusive partnership with Awareness Ties, a social impact platform that raises awareness for philanthropic causes, while providing resources for the general public and funding for nonprofits. The partnership will help raise awareness for Awareness Ties’ “My Cause My Tie” campaign, promoting the 21 causes the organization supports, ranging from Alzheimer’s disease to veterans’ rights to domestic violence and more.
Read more...Bringing More Women into Tech
Melinda Gates has launched a new nonprofit to bring more women into the tech sector, reports Geek Wire.
Melinda Gates is launching another initiative to turn the tide for women in tech. Pivotal Ventures, a Seattle-based philanthropic group founded by Gates, announced a $50 million project Tuesday designed to transform tech hubs into more inclusive places for women.
Read more...Using Emerging Technologies
Nonprofits can use emerging technologies to help them fufill their mission, reports Biz Tech.
What makes a successful nonprofit? Most people would point to organizations that raise the most money or mobilize the most volunteers. Those are important, and technology has helped in these respects, giving nonprofits new ways to elicit fundraising and engage those who want to get involved.
Read more...One Cause Sees Rise in Giving
According to Yahoo Finance, online fundraising platform One Cause reports that nonprofits using the platform raised $720 million dollars in 2019.
One Cause, a leader in online and event fundraising, today announced nonprofits raised more than $720 million on its fundraising platform in 2019, a 64 percent increase over proceeds raised in 2018.
Read more...Teaching Coding to Inmates
The Last Mile, a California nonprofit that works to eliminate recidivism, is teaching coding to inmates and placing them in tech jobs upon release, reports NewsOne.
California-based nonprofit organization is on a mission to combat recidivism through tech education. According to Black News, The Last Mile created a program for inmates centered on coding in an effort to prepare them for jobs in the technology industry upon their release.
Read more...Gates Foundation Locates Nonprofit in St. Louis
The Gates Foundation is planning to locate a nonprofit in St. Louis that will help build advance technologies for farmers in developing countries, reports St. Louis Public Radio.
The Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation plans to build a nonprofit organization in St. Louis to advance technologies that would help small farms in developing countries.
Read more...California Looks to Block .ORG Sale
The California AG has stepped into the ring regarding the sale of .ORG, reports the Nonprofit Times.
The California Attorney General’s Office has jumped into the proposed sale of Public Interest Registry (PIR) and the .ORG domain to a venture capital firm, sending a letter to the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers (ICANN) asking 35 questions.
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