Friday Rewind

1. Are you fed up with infuriating tweets? A new donation platform helps people turn a moment of rage into charitable giving by simply replying to an infuriating tweet. The app is called Trigger and its goal is to allow users to react to hostile media posts in a productive way. Read the Full Story Here.
2. Trends change every year, bringing new opportunities that are tied to new challenges. Many of them impact donor and volunteer perceptions. In this piece for Forbes, Gloria Horsley, Founder of the Open to Hope Foundation,  identifies three challenges organizations should anticipate this year. Read the Full Story Here.
3. State workforce and economic development interests naturally align. However, state-level collaboration between economic development and workforce development agencies is not well understood. This whitepaper from the Urban Institute and published late last year explores opportunities for collaboration and lessons learned from existing partnerships. Download the Report Here.
4. NPR readers asked a question: “When a humanitarian group has helped a community become self-sustaining, how can the group create a good ‘exit-strategy.'” The answer, was to create the exit strategy from the get-go. While not all funders face this exact challenge in their day-to-day work, the advice on how an organization can remove themselves after providing support, aid, or relief are broadly applicable. Read the Full Story Here.
5. Despite the plethora of negative myths and stigmas surrounding the millennial generation, they are a group of consumers set on making a difference in the world around them. More and more, they are a generation characterized by integrating the causes they care about into their daily routines and purchase behaviors. Read the Full Story Here.

Friday Rewind is published each Friday by NY Funders Alliance staff. To submit a story for the Friday Rewind, please email programs@nyfunders.org.