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Nonprofit Technology

Catchafire | April 22, 2022

This National Volunteer Month, Catchafire.org, alongside its dedicated volunteers, is celebrating the milestone of reaching over one million volunteer hours. It started with an idea: Catchafire Founder, Rachael Chong, sought to create an innovative pathway for her colleagues to volunteer with organizations they care about. Little did she know that this once small group of coworkers would grow to a pool of thousands of worldwide volunteers who would deliver over one million volunteer hours. Ten y...

Nonprofit Management

VolunteerNow | February 23, 2022

VolunteerNow, a technology nonprofit celebrating five decades of transforming lives through volunteers, has announced its CEO, Tammy Richards, will retire later this year. We are grateful to Tammy for her eight years of outstanding service as CEO. She has led VolunteerNow's transition from a traditional nonprofit and volunteer center focused on providing services to North Texas to a nonprofit thought leader that uses technology to create a global impact.&...

Fundraising, Nonprofit Technology

Owens & Minor | October 31, 2022

The Owens & Minor Foundation today announced a donation of $100,000 to the National Association of Free and Charitable Clinics (NAFC), a non-profit organization dedicated to ensuring that the medically underserved have access to affordable quality healthcare. The donation was presented at NAFC’s annual Charitable Healthcare Symposium by Dan Starck, EVP and President of Patient Direct for Owens & Minor and CEO of Apria. “We deeply value the support...

Amazon | April 02, 2020

Jeff Bezos is doing what he can to help those in need amid the coronavirus pandemic. The Amazon CEO, 56, announced on Instagram on Thursday that he would be donating $100 million to Feeding America, a hunger-relief organization, in order to help the families who rely on food banks and have been majorly impacted by the virus. “Even in ordinary times, food insecurity in American households is an important problem, and unfortunately COVID-19 is amplifying that stress significantly,” he ...