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The Nonprofit Technology Network in Portland, Oregon, has announced a two-year, $1.1 million grant from the Google Inc. Charitable Giving Fund of Tides Foundation to promote the benefits of technology to nonprofit leaders. The grant will support NTEN’s efforts to educate technology leaders about the evolving role of technology in nonprofit work and to produce research and training on cloud technologies, visualization, and collaboration. Th…
Cornell University has received $350-million from an anonymous donor to support its bid to create an applied-science and technology campus in New York. The institution is part of a high-stakes competition to get the rights to build a campus in New York City, and its announcement of the gift today was widely viewed as a way to cement its front-runner status after Stanford, the other top contender, announced earlier Friday that it would drop out o…
Executives from Apple, Google, Twitter, and other leading technology companies are among 100 business leaders who have signed the “Palindrome Pledge,” a commitment to spend a year lending their management expertise to nonprofit groups. The program was started Wednesday by Palindrome Advisors, a new nonprofit group formed by the technology entrepreneur Zaw Thet. He likened the effort to a “Match.com for industry leaders and the boards of nonprofi…
Google’s chief executive, Eric Schmidt, has committed $25-million to establish a technology-innovation fund at his alma mater, Princeton University. The Eric and Wendy Schmidt Transformative Technology Fund will primarily provide support to professors to research new technologies or acquire innovative equipment that could have a major impact on the development of a particular field. Full-text post by Andrew Sartorius is available via The Daily …
As members of NetHope continue their annual meeting in Redmond this week, it’s fascinating to look at how the landscape of technology has moved from responding to crises to creating solutions tailor-made for development itself. Full-text blog post by Kristi Heim is available via The Seattle Times,5.20.09. …
In a special section on philanthropy, USA Today offers a look at the ways in which donors are giving, including how technology has transformed the way we give and the importance of giving wisely and strategically. The newspaper also examines giving during major disasters like Hurricane Katrina and the earthquake that nearly destroyed Haiti. Full text article by Judy Keen is available via USA Today, 4/13/10. …
This exhibit demonstrates just one of the many ways in which modern technology can be used to fundraise. The Tap-n-Give application is a simple, yet innovative product that can attract new donors and raise awareness of your cause. Full text article is available via The SOFII Foundation, 10/1/10. …
A national trust to funnel federal funds into programs to help schools, libraries, and museums tap into emerging digital technologies will be introduced Monday after nearly a decade in the making. The National Center for Research in Advanced Information and Digital Technologies grew out of a 2001 recommendation by Lawrence K. Grossman, a former network-news executive, and Newton N. Minow, former chairman of the Federal Communications Commission…
Almost every charity’s pool of donors includes plenty of people who have both the means and the inclination to make a far bigger gift than they ever did in the past. The trick, of course, is to figure out just which people will make the leap. To that end, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York, has become one of a small but growing number of institutions to embrace a technique known as predictive modeling to help it set prior…
Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center, in New York, has become one of a small but growing number of institutions to embrace a technique known as predictive modeling to help it set priorities and decide which donors deserve the most attention. Nonprofit organizations’ use of statistical analysis in their fund raising has grown significantly in recent years, most often to identify the donors most likely to respond to requests for large gi…
