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Bringing Tech to Medical Nonprofits Serving Impoverished Areas
People living in impoverished rural areas can have a difficult time finding healthcare services, reports Nonprofit Quarterly. A new pilot project at Maine’s Harrington Center, a nonprofit medical service provider, puts technology, such as apps preloaded with medical apps in the hands of the healthcare workers.
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Making Giving Campaigns go Viral
According to the Verge, Omaze is a start-up tech company that helps non-profits create viral giving campaigns. The Omaze charitable giving campaigns, work similar to a kickstarter campaign and let donors from around the world bid on once in a lifetime experience, like riding in a tank with Arnold Schwarzenegger.
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Online Fundraising Falls Short
According to Benzinga, a new report by 121Giving.com finds that nonprofits don’t reach their online fundraising goals. About half the nonprofits surveyed, reported raising 25 percent less than their campaign goal.
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Restaurant Patrons Can Now Round Up
MyCheck, a mobile payment platform, is teaming up with Round It Up America, reports BusinessWire. It will allow users to make a donation to the Round It Up program.
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Promotion is Key to Crowdfunding
According to the Nonprofit Times, while crowdfunding is a great tool for nonprofit, it is something that requires effort from the nonprofit. For the campaign to be successful it requires a lot of promotion.
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Nonprofit Helps Find Housinng
One Degree, a Google backed nonprofit, helps lower income residents find housing, reports Tech Crunch. The nonprofit streamlines the application process for residents seeking assistance housing.
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Google's Impact Challenge Aids Non-profit
Google’s Bay Area Impact challenge helps a San Francisco non-profit bring hygiene to the homeless, reports the Chronicle of Philanthropy. Lava Mae outfits decommissioned city buses with showers and toilets for the homeless. Last year, the nonprofit received $100,000 from Google’s Impact Challenge.
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Bringing Solar to Nonprofits
According to the Register-Herald, Solar Holler, a West Virginia company, wants to make solar power available to area nonprofits. Many nonprofits are tax exempt, therefore not eligible for the tax incentives offered for using solar power, but the organizations would benefit from more affordable solar power, so Soar Holler, works with the nonprofits to finance the solar panels via crowd funding.
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App Connects People with Social Services
A new social services app, Cerebri, harnesses the power of IBM’s Watson computer to help low income people connect with social services, reports AustinInno. The app originally designed for the United Way of Austin Texas is now in testing for San Diego County’s United Way.
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Google Helps Relief Effort
Google is offering to match individual donations to the refugee crisis, reports Nonprofit Pro. The tech giant has already donated $1 million to relief organizations and is now offering to match individual donations up to $5.5 million.
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