Creative Wireless Projects Honored
Taking first place and receiving $300,000 in the Wireless Innovation Project contest was the Wireless Bug Sensor, designed to reduce the amount of money farmers spend on pesticide spraying.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Workbook on Social-Media Policies
Idealware, a nonprofit technology group, has created a workbook that guides organizations through issues to consider in developing a social-media policy.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Service Charities Seek Ways to Help Their Lowest-Paid Employees Get By
Nonprofits are helping workers get safety-net benefits and training to get better salaries. But as the economy improves, that may not be enough to keep workers on the job.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Social-Service Groups Urged to Link Workers With Government Safety-Net Programs
Catholic Charities, Goodwill, and other national charities are testing a new effort financed with $1-million from the Ford Foundation.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A Social-Service Group Helps Workers Stretch Their Dollars at an In-House Grocery
A long-term health-care group allows workers to earn credits they can use to buy food and other items.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Online Fundraising Increased 19% in 2011, Says New Report
For the first time in six years, the percentage of people who gave in response to e-mail appeals rose.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofits Need to Think More About Mobile
As a growing number of people using their cellphones to go online, experts say mobile technology is the key for charities running programs and attracting attention to their causes.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
The Dangers of an Inactive E-Mail List
If not enough supporters open a group’s messages, some e-mail providers will stop delivering that organization’s messages to other subscribers’ inboxes, says a consultant.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Balancing ‘Hard’ and ‘Soft’ Technology Costs
Nonprofits need to take the cost of staff time into account—and not be afraid to ask for a deal—when making technology purchases, says a nonprofit IT director.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
A New Web Site Gives Charities Tools to Check Performance
A Web site more than two years in the making gives social-service groups a new tool for collecting and analyzing real-time data to help them improve programs and measure their impact.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor