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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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. Fundraising is never easy, but NGOs who take a long term view of crowdfunding can achieve self-sustainability. 78% attend fundraising events.

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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. The much-heralded wearable computing era arrived with a crop of smartwatches during 2013. A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. Smartwatches. Green Technology.

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

Tech Soup

The annual 2013 eNonprofit Benchmark Study by NTEN and M+R Strategic Services is now out. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Pinterest is a social media photo-sharing website that allows users to create online image collections around specific events or subjects. Social Media.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

As always, I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends. Last month it was Facebook’s Internet.org initiative to develop very low-cost Internet on mobile phones for people in developing countries. Image: Courtesy of Shutterstock. Well, the time is upon us.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

This month the news is about ultramobile devices, NPTech innovation in Eastern Europe, Windows 8 Apps for Social Good Winners, online fundraising trends, a new Pinterest analytics tool, the emergence of digital wallets, and Ginny Mies pick for the environmental mobile app of the month in honor or Earth Day 2013. Social Media.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2013

Tech Soup

It's time to catch up on some of the nonprofit technology trends and news out in NGO-land. We're in the season for charities to brush off their video cameras to tell their story and it's looking like the other Facebook (Google+) is starting to become a more useful tool for community organizing.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

" Facebook, Solar Drones, and Cheap Internet. Way back in August I posed the somewhat rhetorical question: Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? reported earlier this month that Facebook is buying Titan Aerospace for $60 million. Image one: courtesy of Wello. TechCrunch. This 25 th.

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