Volunteerism
Tech Support for More than a Day: Beyond the Hackathon Model
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The Nerdery marries its hackathon-style support with the potential for long-term nonprofit-techie partnerships.
Fundraising
No Offense, but We Need a Plan B: Nonprofits Hedge against Tech Failures on MN Giving Day
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After a few years of platform failures in Minnesota’s Day of Giving, nonprofits are hedging their bets by establishing systems slightly outside of the danger zone.
elder care
Nonprofits Play Lead Role in Fastest Growing Job Sector, But Will We Grow It as a Wage Ghetto?
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A Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) report notes that elder care, a sector where nonprofits play an outsized role, is one of the nation’s fastest growing industries. Will nonprofits make this industry the centerpiece of a more equitable economy? Or will we allow the industry, as BLS predicts, to remain a wage ghetto?
expansion of surveillance
Big Brother, Meet Citizen Score: China to Cull Online Data to Create Individual Rating System
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China is developing a national program to monitor and rate the behavior of its citizens, where access to loans, jobs, schools, and visas will depend on one’s “citizen score.”
technological capacity
Nerds Rule! Nonprofits Benefit! From Website Challenge to Tech Resource
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The forthcoming launch of NerdKind expands technology options for nonprofits while giving technologists the chance to match their skills with nonprofits needing their help.
interactive map
EPA Adds Online Environmental Justice Map Focused on Prisons
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Nonprofits working on the environmental justice concerns associated with the proliferation of prisons are celebrating the new EPA map.
Philanthropy
At Last! Rate Your Grant-Seeking Experience at GrantAdvisor.org: The Yelp for Reviewing Foundations
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The virtual doors are now open on one of the nonprofit sector’s boldest, most timely, and most badly needed projects—a tool for rating the experience of grant-seekers at the nation’s foundations.
Nonprofit News
Who You Gonna Call? Nonprofit Addresses Nonprofit Cybersecurity
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What would you do if your nonprofit had over 500 W2 tax forms stolen electronically? And then, to add to the problem, the W2s were put up for sale on the dark web?
Forms
ProPublica Announces Step Forward in Nonprofit Form 990 Analysis
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Machine-readable data will make it easier to compare and contrast the financial, governance, and compensation practices of nonprofits as they report them to the IRS.
access to healthcare
Some Predict Digital Patient Portals May Unintentionally Widen Health Disparities
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Despite the progress made by the Affordable Care Act in addressing disparate health care access and outcomes across race and ethnicity, those disparities persist. A new study from California suggests that online patient portals, intended to narrow disparities, may be having the opposite effect.