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How to secure essential technology funding to deliver on nonprofit missions

Candid

And when funders provide support for technology, remove barriers to funding and/or provide more general operating funds, nonprofits can make operational investments that advance not only their mission but also the values and priorities of grantmakers.

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Nonprofits Need Equity Too: The Case for Providing “Enterprise Capital”

NonProfit Quarterly

With this new understanding, Working Credit made three critical investments: Internal infrastructure, including information-technology systems to increase efficiency. Development of impact-measurement tools to guide program delivery and demonstrate the organizations value proposition to funders.

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We Just Lost $54 Billion. Now What?

Stanford Social Innovation Review

It’s hard to overstate the value of prioritizing solutions at this time. In 2024, the IRC made a concerted effort to save $15 million through the renegotiation of global contracts in core-spend categories like information technology.

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From HeLa Cells to Digital Health: Navigating the Promises and Pitfalls of Modern Clinical Research

NonProfit Quarterly

16 Incentivization, such as financial ones, could lead to exploitation, since individuals may not understand their datas true value; thus, education, support, and transparency would be essential to protect peoples interests and minimize misuse. Not all data are generated, valued, or treated in the same way. Data Sovereignty.

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10 Marketing Realities Nonprofits Need to Accept to Succeed

Nonprofit Marketing Guide

Instead, you need to focus on specific groups of people and work toward communicating with them in ways that connect with their particular needs and values. Become a valued and trusted source for others. In fact, if that’s what you try to do, odds are good that you will, in fact, reach no one. Tell good stories.

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How an International NGO Plans to Fight the Digital Divide with a Satellite Company

NonProfit Quarterly

At the event, WPDI’s founder and CEO Forest Whitaker and Executive Director Caroline Descombris sat down with Intelsat’s CEO David Wajsgras to discuss the new nonprofit-corporate partnership and WPDI’s core values. However, it is important to keep in mind how information technology can also pose additional risks for people in conflict zones.

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How Policy Is Building a Social Economy in South Korea

NonProfit Quarterly

For example, Korean citizens mobilized to donate 227 tons of their personal gold items (with an estimated total value of $3 billion) to help pay off the debt. Total Value of SSM Procurement : 2012-2018 (13) The national government followed suit in 2017, passing legislation to create a nation-wide preferential procurement plan.