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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 3) Kenyan data from the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report is very unique in that 42% of Kenyan donors say the prefer to give cash and 26% prefer to give via mobile payment.

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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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Community foundations: Donor-advised fund grants outpaced contributions in 2022 

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In my last article , I examined some of the key findings from the latest CF Insights survey , conducted annually by the Council on Foundations to track trends in community foundation activity and growth. Despite this drop in new contributions, grantmaking from DAFs increased by 33% to $9.4

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A Fundraising Cliff? What does the data say?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Over the past few months I’ve been asked a lot of questions about giving trends: What explains the flat trend in overall fundraising? Disaster giving is not a zero-sum game. Giving to disasters does not take away from other nonprofit causes. Disaster giving has provided some temporary relief to the situation.

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PhilanthroTech: How Nonprofits Are Using Crowdfunding

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There was a lot of buzz about crowdfunding in 2012: a video game called Star Citizen raised more than $7 million, Kickstarter banned nonprofits from using its platform (see #3 on that page), and a Tumblr popped up that takes aim at suspicious crowdfunding projects. I foresee that 2013 will be the year that this strategy really takes off.

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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

As the agents for social good, nonprofits are in a unique position to help reverse this trend of extreme negativity in the online collective consciousness. If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival. What nonprofits can do about it: Share more success stories, please. People need to hear more good news.

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Is “Ambient Data” from Social Media Channels Useful for Funders?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Alliance Magazine, September 2012. Alliance Magazine, September 2012. There is so much data coming in at a fast past, with 4,000 tweets per day – a number that skyrockets during a disaster. Disaster work. ” Lucy Bernholz, “ Data-first Philanthropy.” Larry McGill, “ Data for Good.”