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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc. The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya.

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TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey: What We Found Out and What to Do About It Part Two

Tech Soup

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. Many NGOs Find Cloud Computing Confusing: Why? Cloud Contradictions in the NGO Sector.

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Seeds for a Future Part 3: Creating a sustainable future

ASU Lodestar Center

Maybe they did some good while they were working with a community, but when the organizations left, the communities or groups they helped were unable to “sustain” the program because they were not taught exactly how to sustain it. Like this article? Get another!

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

It wasn’t simply about throwing money at an international issue - it was about listening to local problems, local solutions, and local thought. I learned I could and should offer assistance to local citizens who asked for it. Local problems, local solutions. I worked with a locally founded (and inspiring!)

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TechSoup at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference

Tech Soup

Bonus: See an overview of our Local Impact Map and see how you can get it for your nonprofit. You’ve heard that a technology plan can help you plan and budget better for technology acquisitions, but how do you go about creating your organization's plan? " Local Community Organizers Affinity Group. Lynn Van Housen.

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Giving Trends in Brazil: How Crowdfunding & Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the Institute of Applied Economic Research , there are 820,000 existing NGOs, also know as ONGs (organizaciónes no gubernamentales), in Brazil. What would you like the world to know about NGOs and fundraising in Brazil? Doare was founded in 2012 with a focus on recurring donations.

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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My role over the past year been in the areas of: program design, design and delivery of a train the trainers intensive workshop in-country last March (see posts #1 , #2 , #3 ; #4 ); and develop and support the target NGO curriculum (intensive strategic and skills based curriculum). I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).