February 12 (Friday) at 12:00 Moscow time we will hold a webinar at which we will tell you how non -profit organizations can attract a new audience using VKontakte advertising tools. The webinar is completed VKontakte is the largest social network in Europe with more than 170 million users. VKontakte advertising tools allow you to identify the necessary segments and narrow your target audience.

“I am running for orbi” - the charity community of the Fund for Assistance to Patients who has undergone a stroke and their relatives.

The graphic elements of the album ★ (Blackstar) David Bowie are now available for free download and use for their purposes for any non -profit use. The author of the visual style of Bowie’s last album, Jonathan Barnbrook , is a British graphic designer who also created covers for the last David albums. On the official page of Bowie on Facebook on January 29, 2016, an entry appeared: “Barnbrooke loved to work with David Bowie, he was one of the most inspiring and kind people.

The Big Change charity fund helps pupils and graduates of institutions for orphans learn to study, interact with other people, and answer their decisions and actions. Read more about the project .

NEXTGIS CROWD (NGC) allows you to jointly edit the location and description of the points on the map, attributes can be any. The NGC was used in the Craudsourcing Project of the PEC ge to collect data on tens of thousands of locations of precinct election commissions. Read more about the project.

On January 27, in Penza, with the support of the “greenhouses of social technologies” and the Civil Union Foundation, MITAP “City Communities was held: how to motivate people to participate in projects?” And the meeting of activists "planning together." Representatives of city communities and activists spoke about the main city projects of this year.

Tracking the unlawful actions of the police, the collection of state unstructured data, increasing digital literacy in local communities and other victorious projects of the annual Knight News Challenge contest. Knight Foundation , an American non -profit organization that supports advanced ideas and projects aimed at involving the community in civil activity, published a list of winners of the annual Knight News Challenge contest: 17 projects that will receive $ 3.2 million.

Over the past week, non-profit organizations have submitted eight new applications for IT specialists. If you have experience in creating sites, developing mobile applications or design, we suggest that you respond to these tasks or choose from others on the IT volunteer website. Share these tasks with colleagues Hero-volunteer of the week Last week, the volunteer Andrei Blokhin successfully closed the plugin setting task.

Many saw reports that the next site was hacked. Perhaps someone personally faced this. How can the site hack, and what protection measures can be taken? Denis Kulandin, an expert at the greenhouse of social technologies, talks about what needs to be done to protect your site and not become a victim of hackers. Hacking of the site is to obtain unauthorized access to the site files or to the section of the administration of the site management system.

The main goal of the social movement is the treatment of cancer patients at the level of world standards with the provision of a further high quality of life in the future. The site was created for the Chelyabinsk traffic of assistance to cancer patients "Spark Fund". Read more about the project .

Volunteers of the Mentoring project conduct individual support of the pupils of orphanages of the Sunny City Children's Charitable Foundation in Novosibirsk. A separate information site was launched for the project. Read more about the project.