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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup

According to the nonprofit American Association of University Women , the U.S. Jane Meseck , senior director of global programs at Microsoft Philanthropies. International NGO Leadership. Janet Mawlyoo , executive director, Kenya Community Development Foundation. Progress to close the pay gap has slowed since 2000.

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

Tech Soup

Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Monthly giving programs in particular have seen explosive growth, with revenue growing by 43 percent.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University.

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Alison Lowndes: Helping to care for children in Kenya

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. Having friends in Kenya, she came up with the idea to provide summer schools in Kenya. Trade not Aid !"

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Supporting Nonprofit Tech Educators Across the Globe

Tech Soup

Every month, our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. Busia, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Joins MLH Hackathon 3 December 2016. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Storytelling 2016.

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Nonprofit Technology News: The Demise of Facebook Causes and Cloud Storage for Charities

Tech Soup

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. Back in 2012, in order to better meet the needs of the global philanthropic sector, the Foundation Center began an extensive review of their Philanthropy Classification System.

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Nonprofit Technology News for March 2014

Tech Soup

We have another date for the end of the global digital divide! It is 2025 according to a new report by the nonprofit Pew Research Center and Elon University in North Carolina. The most interesting thing about the report is not the end-date estimate, but rather the several dire predictions on the results of universal Internet access.

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