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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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10 Twitter Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Before you follow any account, ensure that your profile is complete with (1) a well-designed profile photo and header image; (2) a bio that expresses clearly your organization’s mission; and (3) a link to your website. Nonprofits tend to mostly tweet content about the sad state of affairs – international, national, state, and local.

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How to Run an Online Fundraising Campaign

Get Fully Funded

But whether people will donate or not is another topic altogether. You have to define your needs; you have to put those needs into words packed with passion and emotion; you have to lead up to your fundraiser and get people interested before it even launches. Use powerful images to tell your story. This is a GREAT thing!

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Meet Your Local NetSquared Organizer at #17NTC

Tech Soup

More than 20 NetSquared-affiliated organizers will be at the conference — look for the people wearing NetSquared pins. Don't worry, there are NetSquared groups in 75 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. The link need to be like so: Africa. Friday, March 3, 2017.

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Winning at Pinning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I decided it would be worth the effort to create a compelling Camfed collection of images on Pinterest, and I wanted to do it strategically, leveraging the viral nature of the platform. As Pinterest is a sharing platform, using the most attractive images in our arsenal was essential to my strategy.

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11 Creative Charity Fundraising Event Ideas

CauseVox

I’m not one to jump into a freezing cold lake, but I know plenty of people who are thrill-seekers and adventurers who would love to have a polar plunge checked off their list. Yes, people will jump into ice cold water for your cause! Partly because they love what you do, and partly because some just love all that adrenaline.

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Back to School in Tanzania with a New Windows Multipoint Server Computer Lab

Tech Soup

Jim Shemaria from Grace Ministries International walked in to Interconnection in Seattle and asked for a 20-station computer lab that he could fit in his luggage and take with him on the plane to a school in Africa. It is a sub-Saharan country on the East coast of Africa that is about twice the size of California. 4 switches.