059: Domains That Save the Environment: Announcing .ECO
The top level domain (TLD) .ECO is being released starting in 2017 and we talk with the founders of this initiative to see how it works under the hood.
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Stories about data and technology being used to increase the impact of top non-profits.
The top level domain (TLD) .ECO is being released starting in 2017 and we talk with the founders of this initiative to see how it works under the hood.
We interview Daniel S. Reyes, the Deputy Executive Director from NY Common Pantry about their choice pantry program. Daniel shares what the organization learned about how this move to digitization improved their stockroom efficiency and helped them better understand what their customers wanted.
In this episode, we speak to Sam Fankuchen, the founder and CEO of Golden, about how Golden strives to improve volunteerism for both the volunteer and the nonprofit that is hosting the volunteers.
SNORKL is a product designed to help bridge the gap between nonprofits and vendors. Whole Whale speaks to one of its own, Laura Clevenger, to talk about the process of designing that could change the sector.
ACE is a company that strives to educate and empower young people to make a difference in climate change. We speak to Leah Qusba, ACE’s Communications Director, about the use of SMS in their education programs, and the use of surveying for long and short term projects.
Joe Moran, the Chief Creative Officer of The True Colors Fund is a master of automating his work. He discusses his tricks, starting with a list of repetitive tasks as he comes across them and then seeing how they may be automated by tools like ITTT.com and Zapier.com.
Dan Treglia PhD from the University of Pennsylvania School of Social Policy and Practice discusses his research on the impact of hope and resilience on family shelter stays. We talk with him about how he did this research and at a broader level how other organizations can think about impact studies like these.
PROPEL builds software for low-income Americans who are often overlooked by traditional tech innovation. We talk with Jimmy Chen the CEO, Founder and his CTO, Ram Mehta about how they have gone about building the app that is now helping thousands of people manage their food stamps.
We talked with Rob Wu the CEO of CauseVox about data from the 2015 Fundraising Effectiveness Survey Report put together by the Fundraising Effectiveness Project. We discuss the data and more importantly how nonprofits should think about keeping their donors.
During the NTC 2016 conference in San Jose, we caught up with Amy Devita from Top Nonprofits – a great resource for nonprofit lists and guides. She shares the thinking behind how Top Nonprofits chooses the content they write and then how they use Bit.ly to track it and Canva to make it look good.