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Six Things to Know in Nonprofit Technology News

Tech Soup

High-Tech Help for Homelessness. Why would a homeless person need a mobile phone? A recent study by California nonprofit Community Technology Alliance found that almost 70% of the homeless people surveyed in their county did have a mobile phone. For one thing, phones allow them to look for work, housing, or medical help.

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Net2Local November Event Preview

Tech Soup

San Francisco, CA: Let’s Go to the BSR Sustainability Hackathon 2013! Singapore: Clean & Green Hacakathon 2013. San Francisco: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Manchester, United Kingdom: MediaCity social media surgery. Friday, November 8.

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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

M-Changa has assisted 28,000 projects to raise $5 million from 350,000 contributors since 2013. He later joined Kiva.org in San Francisco, a crowdfunding platform which has raised over $1 billion to entrepreneurs worldwide. Matt first learned about crowdfunding when he was raising funds to volunteer in Southeast Asia in 2012.

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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! Not in San Francisco? There are even a few international reports.

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Member Round Up: Research galore, a handy handbook, and a sandcastles as therapy

NTEN

The list includes See3 Communications '' 2013 Benchmarks for Nonprofit Video , mGive ''s recent Text Giving Study , M+R Research Lab ''s eNonprofit Benchmarks Study , and the 2013 Visual Storytelling Best Practices Guide by Resource Media , all for free! Not in San Francisco? There are even a few international reports.

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NetSquared October Event Preview

Tech Soup

Guatemala: Drupal Camp de Guatemala - 2013. San Francisco, CA: Let’s Learn About Project Homeless Connect SF: Discussion and Brainstorming. Guatemala: Taller para hacer un “elevator pitch” Wednesday, October 2. Pittsburgh, PA: Bagels & Bytes - Allegheny. Thursday, October 3. Tuesday, October 8.