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Using Tech to Help Nonprofits Helping the Amazon
According to WRAL Tech Wire, people are using technology to search out ways to help nonprofits that are actively involved in combating the fire devastation occurring in the Amazon.
Can you save the rainforest from your desk? A spike in downloads for a search engine that’s contributing profits to planting trees shows people are looking for ways to help as fires rage across the Brazilian Amazon
Read more...Tech Soup Gets Grant
VMware Foundation granted $2.5 million dollars to Tech Soup’s Capital Campaign, reports The Nonprofit Times.
TechSoup’s $11.5-million Growth Capital Campaign received its latest infusion in the form of a $2.5-million grant from the VMware Foundation.
Read more...Nonprofit Brings Tech to Africa
Colorado high school student creates a nonprofit that sends used laptops to children in Tanzania, reports CBS Denver.
After graduating from Colorado high schools, teenagers around the Front Range chose to donate their school-issued laptops to children in Africa.
Read more...How to Use Tech to Solve Problems Long Term
Hackathons, Coding for Good and other charity events that help nonprofits with their technology needs aren’t able to solve problems like homelessness long term, reports BostInno.
Today, there are more programs than ever before designed to encourage the use of technology to solve the world’s most pressing problems.
Read more...Bots Make Communication Easier
The new site Botsforcharity is a partnership between DirectRelief and Mind Heroes to help nonprofits create chatbots, reports the Nonprofit Times.
When hurricanes struck Texas, Florida and Puerto Rico almost two years ago, the spartan social media staff at Direct Relief was overwhelmed with messages via Facebook Messenger with questions about how to donate, volunteer or get help
Read more...Nonprofit Converts Shipping Containers
According to Technical.ly Baltimore, Maryland nonprofit Learning Undefeated is repurposing shipping containers to be mobile labs.
Shipping containers are continuing to prove their worth outside of transportation. From serving as a community-connecting space to an urban farm, one organization is now bringing them into education as mobile laboratories.
Read more...The True Impact of Fundraising
While nonprofits measure their success with the amount of donations they receive they aren’t doing enough to quantify their overall impact made with the donations, reports Associations Now.
Donations are an obvious way to measure interest in an organization’s mission. But showing the impact of all that fundraising is much harder for many nonprofits, according to a new white paper from an Oracle subsidiary
Read more...Switching Focus from Startup to Nonprofit
According to the Rivard Report, Elequa, a San Antonio startup focused on clean water, is changing course to become a nonprofit focused on providing clean water solutions.
Ryan Beltrán founded Elequa, a clean water tech startup, in 2013 to share an innovation that could help cut costs and increase access to clean water: electrocoagulation purification.
Read more...Gates Foundation Wants to Get into Digital Health
The Gates Foundation is looking to ramp up its digital health division, and to that end they have employed a former Apple researcher, reports CNBC.
Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation for a first-of-its-kind role to invest in digital health ventures
Read more...New Digital Document Storage Could Help Asylum Seekers
According to Wired, Innovation Law Lab, a nonprofit that develops technology to help human rights advocates, has created a digital storage locker that allows users such as immigrants seeking asylum to upload vital documents to a secure cloud storage That way the documents are available even if the hard copies go missing.
Last month, a young transgender woman from Central America applied for asylum in the US. Unlike thousands of others requesting asylum at the US-Mexico border, this person was especially fortunate. She had her birth certificate as well as a lawyer to represent her.
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