Using the Whole Whale - A Nonprofit Podcast

019: Get to school or else Kinvolved will text your parents

How text messages are being used help school attendance with amazing results. 

Kinvolved is helping schools and teachers change the game around attendance. Find the resources around text messaging for nonprofits from this cast

018: Crisis Text Line is saving lives with text messages and data

CrisisTextLine.org is a text message hotline that connects teens with counselors at any time of the day. 

They are now opening up their data to help professionals and politicians understand more about teen crisis. 

017: How Greatnonprofits.org deal with courtesy (bias)

016: How DonorsChoose.org drives classroom donations through email

How DonorsChoose.org drives classroom donations through transactional emails. Get the nonprofit podcast resources.

015: Text messaging to prevent deportation with United We Dream

United We Dream digital director talks about how they are using text messaging to help US immigrants keep up with DACA changes and registration requirements. 

014: Turning Mobile Ads into Social Impact with Charity Miles

Charity Miles is an amazing fitness app that is also raising money for non-profits through ads. We learn about what it takes to create an app for social change.

013: Using technology and data to make voting easier

Democracy Works & TurboVote, Co-founder Seth Flaxman talks about using data and technology to help people vote via mail. 

Get the podcast resources: http://wholewhale.com/podcast/013-turbo-vote-democracy-works

012: What Teach for America can teach us about Yammer

Learn how Teach For America has been able to use Yammer to increase communication, knowledge sharing, and deepen relationships across the country. Find more yammer resources at Whole Whale.

011: Why Pagespeed matters to DoSomething.org

Site pagespeed is a key performance indicator that DoSomething.org's tech team uses to make sure everything is running well. Learn how many things this one small metric impacts!

010: DoSomething.org About Managing a Tech Team

Discussion with Matt Holford the CTO of DoSomething.org about agile project management and how he approached his new role over the past year.