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Iowa Charity Hack Draws in Participants

Nonprofits in the Des Moines area still have time to submit an application to be a part of the DSM Charity Hack, reports Silicon Prairie News. Ten nonprofits from across Iowa will have developers working to create a tech product for them.   Read more...

Improving Online Benefit Application

Code for America and Detroit’s Civilla, a nonprofit that helped streamline Michigan’s benefit application are working together to improve online benefits application, reports Crain’s Detroit Business. Read more...

Nonprofit Helps Teachers Rate Technology

The Jefferson Education Exchange is a new crowd sourced nonprofit that provides information about technologies effectiveness in the classroom, reports the Journal. Read more...

Nonprofits Must Meet Google Click Goal

Nonprofits that receive a Google Advertising grant may soon find themselves out of luck, reports Reuters. The 35,000 nonprofits that receive Google ad credits each month now have to meet a click goal in order to continue to receive the ad credits. Read more...

Nevada Nonprofits Can Win IT Makeover

Nevada nonprofits have the opportunity to win an IT makeover from Microsoft and IQ Technology Solutions, reports KOLO TV. This is the ninth year for the program, which has awarded $ 220,000 to 30 local charities. Read more...

Bringing Artificial Intelligence to Nonprofits

According to the Japan Times, two Indian brothers are investing in bringing Artificial Intelligence (AI) to the nonprofit sector.  The Wadhwani brothers have allocated $30 million over 10 years to the Wadhwani AI institute, which will work to bring AI to healthcare, rural development and agriculture. Read more...

Charitable Giving Increases over 2016

2017’s charitable giving increased over 2016, reports the Nonprofit Times. Year-over-year giving increased by 4.1 percent with a 12.1 percent increase in online giving. Read more...

Whatsapp Co Founder Supports New Foundation

Brian Acton, co-founder of Whatsapp is supporting the new nonprofit Signal Foundation, reports the Hill. Acton donated $50 million dollars to the foundation. The foundation supports the Signal app which is an encrypted messaging system. Read more...

Nonprofit Cryptocurrency

With BitCoin and other Cryptocurrency continuing to grow in popularity many nonprofits are considering accepting cryptocurrency donations, reports Nonprofit Quarterly Read more...

OneCause Has Growth Year

According to Global Newswire, fundraising software company OneCause had a banner year. Nonprofits using the software platform raised $300 million in proceeds. Read more...

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