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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. As a result, the focus has been writing grant proposals rather than appealing for individual support. Please explain the role of cash and mobile payments, particularly M-Pesa, in individual giving in Kenya. Why is that?

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Nonprofit Harnesses Tech to Plant Tens of Thousands of Trees

Tech Soup

In San Francisco, it took a small group of motivated people to come together to create a nonprofit. Starting with a Small Budget, FUF Plants Nearly Half San Francisco's Street Trees. The organization started off with just a small budget from a leftover city grant. (Please visit the site to view this video).

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

O'Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night. San Francisco, California. O'Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant. Thursday, September 7, 2017.

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Announcing the 4th Edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our goal at Salesforce.org in delivering our own nonprofit trends report each year is to better understand: the role nonprofits have in serving their communities, what’s shifting within the nonprofit space, mental health and wellbeing, and how technology supports an organization’s ability to fund and run their missions across departments.

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SOS: Save Our Site! How Libraries Can Preserve Local Online History

Tech Soup

The IMLS recently awarded the Internet Archive's Archive-It service a Laura Bush 21st Century Librarian grant from its Continuing Education in Curating Collections program for the project Community Webs: Empowering Public Librarians to Create Community History Web Archives. Register for webinar.

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How (RED) is Fighting AIDS and Saving Lives

Saleforce Nonprofit

Four decades ago, San Francisco was the epicenter of the AIDS crisis. Together with partners like Salesforce, over the past 16 years (RED) has raised over $700 million dollars for global health, and (RED)-funded grants have impacted over 245 million people. How Does Technology Play a Role in Amplifying and Providing Solutions?

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly). O’Fallon, Missouri: Learn How to Apply for a $10,000 per Month Google AdWords Grant. San Francisco, California: Code for America Civic Hack Night (Weekly).