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Google Funds Teacher's Request
According to Crowdfund Insider, Google announced it would fund Washington D.C. area teachers on the education crowdfunding platform DonorsChoose.org. The funding gave 276 D.C teachers a total of the $232,009. The funds will provide materials for 31,362 students.
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Girls Tech Program Gets Boost from AT&T
Girls who Code, a program designed to encourage girls to enter the tech field, received a donation from AT &T, reports the Philanthropy News Digest. AT & T donated $1 million to the program. Girls who Code will use the funds to expand its Summer Immersion Program.
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Fox Fans Met Goal and Charities Get Money
According to the Chronicle of Philanthropy, Fox network challenged fans to promote their upcoming program "Red Band Society" by sharing content. Fox also said if fans met the “flock-to-unlock” goal it would donate $100,000 total to five charities. The fans met the goal and Fox donated money to the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, the Ryan Seacrest Foundation, St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Children’s Hospital Los Angeles, and Teen Cancer America.
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Nonprofits Learn from the Ice Bucket Challenge
The recent success of the Ice Bucket Challenge is causing other charities to reconsider how they interact with the younger generation, reports the Seattle Times. The challenge’s success goes against what most charities normally do, which is find people passionate about a cause and encourage them to give. The challenge encourages people to be silly for a cause.
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Tulsa Group Helps Nonprofits with Technology
According to Tulsa World, the Tulsa Community Foundation created 501technet to help local non-profits get the technology they need. 501technet provides hardware and software support for eligible non-profits.
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Crowdfunding Continues to Grow in Nonprofit Sector
Crowdfunding is slowly taking off among US based non-profits, reports Dallas News. Annually non-profits raise about $200 million through crowdfunding and it continues to grow. Smaller organizations often turn to crowdfunding to get projects off the ground.
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Tech Companies Give to Nonprofits
In an effort to engage communities and develop loyalty many cloud and managed hosting providers are offering their services to non-profits, reports Tech Target. The non-profits receive the technology to help run their organization better at no cost and the service providers get positive press in the community.
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Online Giving Grows, but Could Still Improve
Online giving is increasing for small nonprofits, but still has room to grow, reports The NonProfit Times. The findings are a result of a survey performed by The Individual Donor Benchmark Report. They surveyed 29 non-profits with budgets of less than $2 million and found that those organizations had an 79 percent increase in online revenue compared to 2012, but that number only represents an average of 16 percent of overall revenue.
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LA Code-a-Thon for Nonprofits
According to the LA Times, 10 area nonprofits received free apps thanks to a nonprofit code-a-thon. The Causathon attracted over 50 coders and technology experts that worked non-stop for 24 hours to create apps for the non-profits.
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Technology Spending Still Lags at Nonprofits
The Nonprofit Technology Network has published its eighth annual Nonprofit Technology Staffing and Investments report and it shows that non-profits spend 3.2 percent of their annual budget on technology.
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