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Charity Technology Trust helps nonprofits save money on software. They give tips to your organization so that more money is coming in. They receive donated hardware from places like microsoft and sell it to nonprofits for cheap. roughly, 6,000 charities have benefited from CTT

A pretty simple, straightforward way of checking out charities before you donate. Especially helpful as so many charities pop-up to help Japan.

Found this article very interesting in how technology business such as Microsoft is donating so much to charities

Imagine this. You log onto Everycharity.org (or whatever it ends up being called). A website opens: Instead of looking like it was designed by PhD candidates in MIT's accounting program, it's as visually seductive and appealing as iTunes.

This blog has videos and step by step training for charities on how to best use technology for their specific needs!

Quadriga Art works with nonprofits to help improve online donations by creating a more advanced technology infrastructure.

Another interesting article about regular people who are ebay users and sellers giving records amount of money to charities

"Biz Stone, Twitter co-founder, announcing tonight that he is joining forces with a nonprofit technology group to start ConvergeUS, a charity that sees to combat social problems with new technology."

Charitable or Commercialism

A survey about mobile text messaging found that 86% of donors said they would donate again in the future, either through text messages or some other form of online giving. Most people had a positive experience with donating through a mobile phone and would like to recieve notices about the charity they were donating to. Future predictions say mobile phone donating is going to continue to grow in popularity.

Maybe saving coupons can go to a good cause.

this is a rather interesting article that could prove to be very helpful to non profits. It will be interesting to see where this technology goes in the future.