Campaign Uses Texts to Promote Brushing
Parents get brushing reminders and texts that offer encouragement, quizzes, and interesting facts.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Service Charity DoSomething.org Opens 8 Global Affiliates
New groups in Africa, Asia, Canada, and Great Britain are already working on campaigns in literacy and other areas.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Medical Charity Battles a Rampaging Epidemic in Africa
Doctors Without Borders has more than 1,850 staff members working in countries where Ebola has been spreading.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
DataKind Announces New Chapters
Two of the new affiliates are in the United States while the other three are overseas, in Bangalore, India, and in Dublin and Singapore.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Tool Puts Dollar Value on Social Projects
Organizations can modify open-source calculator to suit their own focus.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Shares Data About Troubled Teens With Researchers
No identifying information is included, but academics hope they can use the data to help others struggling with problems like bullying and depression.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Performing-Arts Group Sees Boost by Supporting Use of Mobile Devices
A Virginia nonprofit gives opera lovers a chance to see “Carmen” translation on Google Glass.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Project Helps Museum Find Aging Holocaust Survivors
An online photo project helped a nonprofit locate more than 380 people who survived Nazi terror as children.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
With a Few Pay-for-Success Plans Under Way, the Idea Is Gaining Currency and Criticism
Concerns about cheating and the capacity of nonprofits to handle complicated projects are not getting enough attention, some say.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Investors, Not Foundations, Lead Impact-Bond Push
Bank of America Merrill Lynch, Goldman Sachs, and wealthy philanthropists are putting money into the pay-for-success approach.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor