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
Cornell Lab Gives Bird Lovers Free Tools— in Exchange for Their Email Addresses
The university’s popular bird site has doubled donations by getting savvier about collecting contact information.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
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
Average Nonprofit Spends 3.2% of Budget on Technology, Report Says
The amount groups are spending has changed little in the past year, according to a study of 781 organizations.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Charities Kick Off Experiments With Google Glass
Nonprofits working on a range of causes, including the arts and health care, won a chance to use the new devices to advance their missions and fundraising.
By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor
Google Awards Grants in Bay Area
Four nonprofits have won $500,000 each in the company’s Impact Challenge.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Network for Good Lures Investment
The nonprofit created a for-profit subsidiary to accept financing for its expansion.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How to Keep Your Staff Out of Trouble on Social Media
Watch the recording of a live discussion about establishing and enforcing a social-media policy.
Nonprofits Sought for Google Glass Projects
Five U.S. nonprofits will each get a device as well as a trip to Google’s office for training, a $25,000 grant, and assistance from the company’s developers.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
How Nonprofits Are Using Google Hangout
View a video discussion on how to use Google Hangout to get feedback and ideas from the people you serve.
Prize Supports Tools to Aid Community-College Students
The Robin Hood Foundation, an anti-poverty group in New York, is holding a $5-million competition for technology tools designed to help students enrolled in remedial classes graduate within three years.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Series Highlights Museum’s New Acquisitions
The Metropolitan Museum of Art is using photo slide shows and video interviews with artists and curators to spotlight new works of art in its collection.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Site Helps Giving Circles Manage Donations and Memberships
The One Percent Foundation’s new projects helps people find, start, and administer groups that bring people together to combine their gifts.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Founder Wants to Extend Giving Tuesday
Organizers of Giving Tuesday, now in the planning phase for its third campaign later this year, want to spark contributions long after the holidays are over.
By NICOLE WALLACE and Raymund Flandez
Google Offers $5-Million in Contest
Google plans to award $500,000 grants to four nonprofits and smaller amounts to the runners-up for creative projects that help tackle tough problems in the San Francisco Bay Area.
By NICOLE WALLACE and Raymund Flandez