Arts Institutions Could Benefit From Embracing Digital Media
Creating high-level jobs and setting a strategy for reaching people through social media, smartphones, and other technology are increasingly essential.
By Vince Stehle
Contributor
New App Helps People Aid the Homeless
The app uses a smartphone’s GPS function to give information about shelters, food programs, and other services close by.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Charity Creates Financial-Coaching Site
The Change Machine helps workers assist clients in identifying money problems, finding solutions, and monitoring progress.
Technology Start-Ups Don’t Hold All the Answers for ‘Broken’ Nonprofits
Lack of good journalism about nonprofits and strong professional training at business schools and elsewhere perpetuates dangerous myths.
By PHIL BUCHANAN
Contributor
DoSomething Uses Trademark Humor to Say Sorry for Text-Message Error
A post intended for 4,000 people went to 2.1 million, resulting in numerous policy changes at the organization, along with some teasing.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Anti-Trafficking Groups Harness Big Data to Fight Sex Trade
Organizations combating human trafficking are working with high-tech partners to help victims and identify hot spots in the global sex and slave trades, U.S. News & World Report writes.
Suspected Pro-ISIS Group Hacks Calif. Aid Charity
A hacker group calling itself Team System Dz replaced Buena Park-based Giving Children Hope’s home page with a message supporting jihadist force Islamic State, the Orange County Register reports.
Start-Up Seeks to Provide Inexpensive Satellite Images for Nonprofits
The company’s nonprofit arm will use overhead imagery to help causes like environmentalism and human rights.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Google’s Gift Powers a Mobile Shower Service for Homeless People
The bus has two showers, each with its own entrance, for privacy and safety.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
5 Falsehoods That Keep Nonprofits From Making the Most of Social Media
Nonprofits must stop worrying about crazy people online and instead focus on finding well-meaning people who want to help shape and support their cause, says the author of Matterness, a book released last week.
By ALLISON FINE
Contributor
Nonprofit Uses Radio for Education in Liberia
One charity is helping students keep up with their studies as schools in the country are closed to contain the Ebola outbreak.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Heifer Provides Tech Training in Peru
The program is giving women in the Andes access to computers, printers, and cameras to boost their income from the items they make from alpaca wool.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Tool Helps Foundations Share Data
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund has created a plug-in that lets foundations publish information from any grants-management database on their websites.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
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
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