Why Vermont's Nonprofits Should Be Thinking About Digital Security | Vermont Public Radio

Why Vermont's Nonprofits Should Be Thinking About Digital Security | Vermont Public Radio: "Bernholz is a senior research scholar at Stanford University who studies digital civil society and works on using technology for social good among other things. She writes extensively on philanthropy, technology and policy on her blog, philanthropy2173.com, and she’s going to be in Vermont for a series of workshops this week about how nonprofit organizations can better secure their digital world.

On the digital vulnerability of nonprofits

"They tend to be less well resourced, and taking good care of your digital infrastructure takes two things: smarts and money. They've got plenty of the former and usually not so much of the latter. So they are vulnerable."



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16 Must-Know Stats About Online Fundraising and Social Media

16 Must-Know Stats About Online Fundraising and Social Media: "16 Must-Know Stats About Online Fundraising and Social Media"



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French Billionaire Opens Tuition-Free School in Silicon Valley - Bloomberg

French Billionaire Opens Tuition-Free School in Silicon Valley - Bloomberg: "Based on the model Niel launched in France in 2013, the U.S.-based non-profit will grow to 10,000 students within the next five years, the school said, allowing the institution to train information technology talent in large numbers."



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Crowdfunding the CareBOX way

Crowdfunding the CareBOX way: "CareBOX's crowdfunding model is part of an increasing number of charitable organizations tapping donors online. The Network for Good, an organization that tracks nonprofit giving, said charitable giving via the internet is increasing year over year, outpacing the rate of overall giving in the $358 billion charitable giving sector. At least $1 billion in crowdfunding went to nonprofit causes in recent years, according to MobileCause, a crowdfunding platform."



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Contactless donation terminals will help hungry schoolchildren » Charity Digital News

Contactless donation terminals will help hungry schoolchildren » Charity Digital News: "Contactless payment terminals have been placed in cafes and restaurants in London and Oxfordshire to enable consumers to make a spontaneous donation to charity."



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The hottest trend in web design is making sites that look terrible — The Washington Post — Medium

The hottest trend in web design is making sites that look terrible — The Washington Post — Medium: "The hottest trend in web design is making sites that look terrible
What’s old is new again
by Katherine Acrement
There’s an interesting trend in web design these days: Making websites that look, well … bad."



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9 statistics about eBay for Charity in the UK | UK Fundraising

9 statistics about eBay for Charity in the UK | UK Fundraising: "This month eBay for Charity announced that, thanks to eBay buyers and sellers, it has now raised over £100 million for charities in the UK.

Here are nine more statistics about the programme that lets individuals raise and donate money for their favourite charity on the popular trading site."



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Forget That Amazon Package: This Funder Wants Drones to Deliver Humanitarian Aid - Inside Philanthropy - Inside Philanthropy

Forget That Amazon Package: This Funder Wants Drones to Deliver Humanitarian Aid  - Inside Philanthropy - Inside Philanthropy: "The UPS Foundation has partnered with, Gavi, the Vaccine Alliance, and the California-based robotics company Zipline to examine the use of drones as a viable manner in which to deliver lifesaving supplies and medicines to remote regions around the world. The foundation is supporting the initiative—which plans to launch its first drones in Rwanda later this year—with an $800,000 grant."



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San Francisco to host new urban innovation lab

San Francisco to host new urban innovation lab: "With access to a variety public, private, academic and nonprofit entities — two of the world's largest and most influential digital companies, Twitter and Uber, are located across the street from the new Superpublic space — Hirshberg and the team behind the project saw "there was an opportunity to do serious work ... across government agencies.""



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Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time | Beth’s Blog

Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time | Beth’s Blog: "Note from Beth:  Peter Panepento wrote a thoughtful piece earlier this week about #givedaylessons and gave me permission to republish it here.  Also, if you have not read it, Kivi Leroux-Miller has written a stellar piece called “The Heroes and Villains of Give Local America Story.“

Give Local America Disaster Offers Lessons for Next Time – Guest Post by Peter Panepento"



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Electronic Payments Allow Charities to Focus on the Things that Matter

Electronic Payments Allow Charities to Focus on the Things that Matter: "The global movement toward Electronic Funds Transfer (EFT) is far more than just a “flavor of the day.” According to the latest survey done by the AFP (Association of Finance Professionals), 80 percent of North American companies are transitioning their B2B payments from paper checks to electronic payments, and several large countries have already ceased using checks completely. Consumers are writing 7 percent fewer checks each year (and have been for several years), and since 2003, the U.S. Federal Reserve is providing incentives to banks to move away from manual check processing."



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Kimbia CEO to Forfeit Salary in Plan to Address Give Local America Debacle - NonProfit PRO

Kimbia CEO to Forfeit Salary in Plan to Address Give Local America Debacle - NonProfit PRO:



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Why Can’t the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons | Beth’s Blog

Beth as usual provides some great takeaways here

Why Can’t the Nonprofit and Philanthropic Sector Scale Generosity? #givedaylessons | Beth’s Blog: "Experiencing a cascading technology failure in real time for just one community is painful enough.  But it was heart wrenching to watch, in real time, community after community experience this fiasco.  Instead of scaling community giving and philanthropy and empowering their local nonprofits to use crowd funding,"



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One Lesson from the #iGiveLocal “Give Local America” Fiasco | Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog

Kivi has some great lessons learned here One Lesson from the #iGiveLocal “Give Local America” Fiasco | Kivi's Nonprofit Communications Blog: "Instead, this post is about lessons learned for communications pros. And there will be many that come out of this.
One big obvious one is that you need the ability to redirect quickly all the traffic your campaigns have generated elsewhere when your primary page or even your whole site goes down.
Many — probably most? — of the thousands of nonprofits participating in Give Local campaigns across America were sending donors directly to donation pages on Kimbia’s platform.  When the platform failed, they had no easy way to send the traffic elsewhere."



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Facebook, Twitter play different roles in connecting mobile readers to news | Pew Research Center

Facebook, Twitter play different roles in connecting mobile readers to news | Pew Research Center: "Facebook sends by far the most mobile readers to news sites of any social media site, while Twitter mobile users spend more engaged time with news content, according to a new Pew Research Center analysis of audience behavior metrics from 30 news sites. This gap holds true for both longer and shorter news articles."



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