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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because there are many more M-Pesa agents than ATM machines, mobile payments are the leading way people send money to both people and businesses. M-Changa has assisted 28,000 projects to raise $5 million from 350,000 contributors since 2013. 5) What you like the world to know about how NGO fundraising is developing in Kenya?

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

2013 was the year of an ever-widening NSA spying scandal with its revelations of how little digital privacy we really have – even heads of state. PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. What this means?

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What Will Happen When PCs and Mobile Phones Converge?

Tech Soup

By "near" he is talking about 2013 or 2014. Of course Jason Hiner acknowledges that there will still be exceptions for people who rely on their computers to do more serious video editing, multimedia production, computer aided design, and software development.

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Webinar: Monthly Donors, Social Media, and Cross-Channel Integration: Critical Tactics to Boost Your Fundraising in 2013

Care2

Make 2013 the year your fundraising comes of age. Leads acquired online are often best nurtured through social networks and converted in the mail, or over the phone if you're after monthly donors. Finding out which people on your email list are on Facebook (without annoying them). Phoning your email supporters.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

As we hurtle toward the end of 2013, it’s time for an update of nonprofit technology trends and news! The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists.

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TechSoup French Partner Leads the Way to Sustainable Tech

Tech Soup

But it's also the second largest mobile phone recycler in France and one of the largest in Europe. In alignment with the organization's Emmaus Social Movement roots, ADB started as and remains a major employer of chronically unemployed and disabled people. ADB now collects approximately 180,000 mobile phones per year.