This year, the Austin community will have the unique opportunity to participate first hand in a landmark new cancer research study, Cancer Prevention Study-3 (CPS-3) sponsored by the American Cancer Society. This is an opportunity for those of us who have never been diagnosed with cancer to actively get involved in the very research our donations fund, to help prevent ...
Read More »Look into the Future : Hashtags
:: This is an exerpt from the book I wrote with Randal C. Moss The Future of Nonprofits :: Is this a 2010 event? Or a 2015 event? Tell us in the comments below. The hashtag, as defined by Twitter, was created because Twitter provided no easy way to group tweets or add extra data. Since Twitter did not develop ...
Read More »Where is the food? New Interactive Map from CAFB
How far must you travel in times of emergency to a food pantry or soup kitchen? Do enough services exist for the most vulnerable among our older adults and children? How far is the nearest Health and Human Services Commission office? Where is the closest Women, Infants and Children clinic or farmers market? Can you access a community garden in ...
Read More »RT2 Give Technology Review
When I initially heard about TwitPay’s RT2Give I thought it was a cool concept that my nonprofit’s followers might dig….however…that quickly proved to not be the case. I put off signing up for RT2Give for quite awhile for Lights. Camera. Help. (LCH) using the normal nonprofit excuses of time, thought and money. However LCH got our act together in Jan ...
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