Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

1) Access to the internet in Mexico has grown very rapidly over the last decade. How has this impacted individual giving to NGOs in Mexico? When we started Fondeadora in 2011 (the first creative crowdfunding platform in Mexico, renamed to Donadora in 2016), processing online payments was very difficult.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Twitter uses hashtags.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Can cloud vendors simply close your account without notice?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I need to find a space like this in Silicon Valley for 2011. Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya.

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