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QuickBooks Helps BITS Serve At-Risk Youth

Tech Soup

" From Peer Mentor to Program Manager. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. However, while mentoring and running educational programs, Veronika realized that she was very empowered and rewarded by the progress among the youth she engaged with. " Challenges for BITS.

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QuickBooks Helps BITS Serve Struggling Youth

Tech Soup

" From Peer Mentor to Program Manager. Veronika got her start at BITS by volunteering as a peer mentor in 2013. However, while mentoring and running educational programs, Veronika realized that she was very empowered and rewarded by the progress among the youth she engaged with. " Challenges for BITS.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

The project will morph in to something called Brigade , a project of Brigade Media , which is a consortium led by Salesforce CEO Marc Benioff and Sean Parker, who founded Napster and mentored Facebook founder, Mark Zuckerberg. This should be available in 2015. Parker is an original investor in the political social media site, Votizen.

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Turning City Data into Apps with Apps4Warsaw

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The winners were announced at a gala event on June 26, 2015 : First Place: Warsaw Ninja lets public transport users share information about problems and delays while en route. The next step for the winners is incubation: mentors will help the app developers hone their products for distribution in app stores and marketplaces.

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Finding a Community of Nonprofit Technology Experts

Tech Soup

Highlights from FY16 (July 2015 to June 2016). Most NetSquared organizers now have a peer mentor. We have groups in 24 countries, and last year, we held 835 events helping more than 12,000 nonprofit employees, board members, volunteers, and community leaders.

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To lead in DEI: Disrupting inequality requires disrupting culture  

Candid

Then, based on our findings, we implemented new initiatives to respond to the needs of our staff, such as “Career Conversations,” which requires managers to discuss career plans with all direct reports, not just those with whom they already had a mentor-mentee relationship.

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