Suspected Pro-ISIS Group Hacks Calif. Aid Charity
A hacker group calling itself Team System Dz replaced Buena Park-based Giving Children Hope’s home page with a message supporting jihadist force Islamic State, the Orange County Register reports.
Start-Up Seeks to Provide Inexpensive Satellite Images for Nonprofits
The company’s nonprofit arm will use overhead imagery to help causes like environmentalism and human rights.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Google’s Gift Powers a Mobile Shower Service for Homeless People
The bus has two showers, each with its own entrance, for privacy and safety.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
5 Falsehoods That Keep Nonprofits From Making the Most of Social Media
Nonprofits must stop worrying about crazy people online and instead focus on finding well-meaning people who want to help shape and support their cause, says the author of Matterness, a book released last week.
By ALLISON FINE
Contributor
Nonprofit Uses Radio for Education in Liberia
One charity is helping students keep up with their studies as schools in the country are closed to contain the Ebola outbreak.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Heifer Provides Tech Training in Peru
The program is giving women in the Andes access to computers, printers, and cameras to boost their income from the items they make from alpaca wool.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
New Tool Helps Foundations Share Data
The Walter & Elise Haas Fund has created a plug-in that lets foundations publish information from any grants-management database on their websites.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Campaign Uses Texts to Promote Brushing
Parents get brushing reminders and texts that offer encouragement, quizzes, and interesting facts.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Technology Service Charity DoSomething.org Opens 8 Global Affiliates
New groups in Africa, Asia, Canada, and Great Britain are already working on campaigns in literacy and other areas.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
DataKind Announces New Chapters
Two of the new affiliates are in the United States while the other three are overseas, in Bangalore, India, and in Dublin and Singapore.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Nonprofit Shares Data About Troubled Teens With Researchers
No identifying information is included, but academics hope they can use the data to help others struggling with problems like bullying and depression.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Cornell Lab Gives Bird Lovers Free Tools— in Exchange for Their Email Addresses
The university’s popular bird site has doubled donations by getting savvier about collecting contact information.
By Debra E. Blum
Contributor
Performing-Arts Group Sees Boost by Supporting Use of Mobile Devices
A Virginia nonprofit gives opera lovers a chance to see “Carmen” translation on Google Glass.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Web Project Helps Museum Find Aging Holocaust Survivors
An online photo project helped a nonprofit locate more than 380 people who survived Nazi terror as children.
By NICOLE WALLACE
Features Editor
Average Nonprofit Spends 3.2% of Budget on Technology, Report Says
The amount groups are spending has changed little in the past year, according to a study of 781 organizations.
By Megan O’Neil
Contributor
Charities Kick Off Experiments With Google Glass
Nonprofits working on a range of causes, including the arts and health care, won a chance to use the new devices to advance their missions and fundraising.
By Caroline Bermudez
Contributor