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Software Company Publishes Guide to Software

According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, in order to help charities determine which software is best for them, Idealware, a nonprofit technology group, has published a new guide to the different types of software used to collect, analyze, and visualize program data.
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New Game Lab Helps Disabled Players

AbleGamers Foundation, a non-profit charity organization dedicated to bringing accessible gaming to disabled players, has opened its first AbleGamers Lab, reports Escapist Magazine. The lab, located outside of Washington, DC, will let players with special needs to find gaming setups that best suit their specific requirements.
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ConnectEDU Wins Gates Foundation Grant

According to Yahoo Finance, The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has selected ConnectEDU as a recipient of its Literacy Courseware Challenge Grant. ConnectEDU, a technology company helping students make connections between education and career, will use the grant to develop a web-based teaching and learning platform that tracks student progress against literacy skills outlined in the Common Core State Standards.
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TechSoup Global and MicroSoft Partner

MicroSoft has partnered with TechSoup Global, reports the Herald Online. TechSoup Global has added a new service on its platform that will quickly and reliably verify if an organization is a registered non-governmental organization and qualified to receive donations of Microsoft Office 365 for Nonprofits. This allows MicroSoft to scale its donations of Office 365 for Nonprofits.
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Eco-friendly School Fundraising

 A new online fundraising platform, shopforstudents.com, helps schools is helping school raise much needed money and be eco-friendly, reports the Herald Online. Through the site schools can sell green products without going door-to-door.

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Rounding Up at the Checkout Works

According to The Cause Marketing Forum rounding up for charity really does work. The Forum analyzed 63 campaigns that encouraged buyers to round up at check out for a charity. The campaigns each raised more than $1 million in 2012, for a combined total of more than $358 million raised that year. The top three campaigns were run by Ebay, Walmart and McDonald’s.

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Google Grants Give Non-profits an Advertising Boost

According to Synavista,Google Grants offers qualifying non-profits a way to reach web savvy donors. The grant gives organizations up to $10,000 in free search advertising, which the non-profit can use to promote their mission and organization.

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Facebook Donation Increases In Value

Mark Zuckerberg’s donation of 18 million shares of Facebook stock to the Silicon Valley Community Foundation is turning out to be an extremely generous donation, reports The Chronicle of Philanthropy. A nearly 52-percent increase in Facebook’s stock price since December now has the donation valued at $738-million, originally it was worth $500 million.

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Helping Non-profits Connect with Donors

 According to Network for Good, Search Engine Marketing increases the visibility of your website and helps you connect with donors.

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The Internet Has Changed Philanthropy

According to Mashable the internet has transformed the way people support charities. With the internet people can use social media, crowd-funding and an host of other tools to support their favorite causes.

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