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12 Useful, Well-Designed, Worth-Downloading Android Apps Created by Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

But thanks to a strategy focused on bringing low-cost smartphones to the masses worldwide, Google’s Android surged to a whopping 68% share of the global smartphone market in the second quarter of 2012. That’s four times the 17% global market share held by Apple. Sea Turtle Conservancy App.

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Giving Trends in Brazil: How Crowdfunding & Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 1) The Global Trends in Giving Report is meant to help the nonprofit sector better understand individual giving worldwide, but data and statistics don’t communicate well what is happening on the ground in Brazil.

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2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference Pre-Party

Tech Soup

NTEN, with help from TechSoup and the San Francisco 501 TechClub , held a 12NTC pre-party at TechSoup Global headquarters. The packed house enjoyed refreshments, a chance to mingle, ignite presentations and prizes.

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Martín Burt’s Best Kept Secret

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

It turns out MartĂ­n was asked by Franco to join his administration when he took office in June 2012. His activities with the World Economic Forum include participation on the Education Global Agenda Council and he is a university professor of social entrepreneurship in the U.S. and Africa.

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3rd Annual EveryAction Nonprofit Halloween Costume Parade

EveryAction

For over a century, Audubon has worked to conserve and restore natural ecosystems, focusing on birds, other wildlife, and their habitats for the benefit of humanity and the earth's biological diversity. Tweet us your favorite nonprofit costumes at @EveryActionHQ - you could win some ghoulishly great gear! Born This Way Foundation. Greenpeace.

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Three Ways Social Media Has Negatively Affected the Nonprofit Sector (and What We Can Do About It)

Nonprofit Tech for Good

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. 2) The rise of the Internet troll.

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Telling Better Stories: Fundraising Tips from 12NTC

Tech Soup

In It's Not You, It's Your Stories at the 2012 Nonprofit Technology Conference , Steve Daigneault (VP of eCampaigns at M&R Strategic Services ) and Sue Citro (Director of Digital Strategy, Global Programs at The Nature Conservancy ) shared their tips for telling better and more effective stories. Tips and Gut Checks.

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