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2010 GreatNonprofits Science & Technology Campaign Launches to Identify Leading Nonprofits
By SS
Aug 2, 2010, 11:56

GreatNonprofits and GuideStar jointly announce the launch of the 2010 GreatNonprofits Science & Technology Campaign to identify top-rated organizations working in science, technology, and multimedia areas.

Partners in the campaign, which will run for the month of August, include Guidestar, NTEN, TechSoup Global, Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology, Association for Women in Science and Tonic.

Any science or technology nonprofit that has 10 or more positive stakeholder reviews by midnight, August 31st will be recognized on the GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Science & Technology Nonprofits List.

“There so many wonderful nonprofit organizations working on science, technology and multimedia issues,” said Perla Ni, CEO of GreatNonprofits.

“Through this campaign, we hope to shine a spotlight on their important work – whether it’s through advancing scientific knowledge, offering education resources, or employing tech solutions to solve local and global problems.”

Participants in the campaign can expect to receive increased exposure to donors and volunteers and increased visibility in their communities and the media.

The user reviews gathered by GreatNonprofits are written by anyone with personal experience with a nonprofit, i.e., a donor, volunteer, board member, client, or member of the public.

Over the past year more than 450,000 people visited GreatNonprofits to read and write these reviews.

The science & technology campaign will run throughout the month of August and all reviews will appear on both the  GreatNonprofits.org and GuideStar.org websites. Nonprofits with 10 or more positive reviews will be included on the GreatNonprofits Top-Rated Science & Technology Nonprofits List.  Review submissions must take place from August 1st through 31st, 2010.

GuideStar is the leading source of philanthropic information on the web. Anita Borg Institute for Women and Technology provides resources and programs to help industry, academia, and government recruit, retain, and advance women leaders in high-tech fields, resulting in higher levels of technological innovation.

Association for Women in Science envision a day when women of all ages will participate fully in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics as manifested through equal opportunity, pay equity and recognition commensurate with their accomplishments.

NTEN is the membership organization of nonprofit professionals who put technology to use for their causes; NTEN helps you do your job better, so you can make the world a better place.

TechSoup Global's TechSoup.org is a nonprofit offering other nonprofits free information, resources, support, and a product philanthropy service making software donations to hundreds of thousands of nonprofits from 40 major technology providers, including Microsoft, Cisco, Symantec, Intuit, Adobe and Sun.

Tonic is a digital media company dedicated to promoting the good that happens around the world each day. We share the stories of people and organizations that are making a difference by inspiring good in themselves and others.