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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The following advice can help an NGO move away from constantly seeking grant funding by building a constant inflow of funds from individuals: Plan you crowdfunding campaigns early – what will you raise funds for, how will the funds be spent, plan your media campaign including a compelling story and images/videos.

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Raise Your Hand for Girls on October 11, 2012

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Making it through both primary and secondary education is critical to girls being able to help break the cycle of poverty. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. …more likely to understand her rights and be a force for change.

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It turns out Martín was asked by Franco to join his administration when he took office in June 2012. A citizen of Paraguay, he is the founder of Fundación Paraguaya , a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurs in Paraguay and Africa through microcredit and entrepreneurship education. and Africa.

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Results of the African E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference

Tech Soup

A couple weeks ago, I posted about an upcoming e-waste and refurbishment standards conference in South Africa that I was co-organizing. The event's purpose was to join industry and government in putting into action some of the precepts developed at the 2012 United Nation’s Pan-African Forum on E-Waste in Nairobi, Kenya.

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A Slice of the Joy of Being at Benetech

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

KoBoToolbox is a toolkit for making it easy to collect survey data on mobile devices (turns out, I later found out we're already proposing to use this to do a survey in Africa). D-Rev wants to create solutions to help the poorest people in the world.

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Three Ways Social Media Has Negatively Affected the Nonprofit Sector (and What We Can Do About It)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. People need to hear more good news. They need to feel hope.

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Why I Believe Technology Can Change the World

NTEN

The generosity of spirit of the NTEN community has helped us raise $10,547 to convene more local gatherings in 2012, but we still have a ways to go to reach our goal of $15,000 by December 31st. > > Please make a gift to support nonprofit technology in 2012. During our time in Africa, mobile phones became ubiquitous.

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