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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. Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. Giving Trends in Kenya: 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. ? Why is that?

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Throwback Thursday: GlassPockets editor’s top five for funders

Candid

Check out the helpful advice for funders on ways to leverage transparency to improve equitable access to philanthropic resources. This article synthesizes this collective wisdom from grants management professionals’ reflections. When Numbers Fall Short: The Challenge of Measuring Diversity in a Global Context.

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How (RED) is Fighting AIDS and Saving Lives

Saleforce Nonprofit

Governments were slowly waking up to the emergency, creating organizations like the Global Fund, one of the largest global health partnerships on the planet, but companies were still fast asleep. And the late, great Steve Jobs gave (RED) some pretty good advice on storytelling: Keep it simple. 20 cents per day.

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How Funders are Driving Systems Change in Response to the Climate Crisis

Saleforce Nonprofit

Funders are seeing this challenge and answering the call, using their influence to not just support the sector’s own path to net zero, but also increase the capacity of the sector to drive an equitable transition to net zero globally. Funding Community-Led Climate Action.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Highlights of this Update: Global Literacy Human Rights Benetech Labs Communications Global Literacy Bookshare celebrated a double milestone this summer, reaching over 200,000 available titles in our collection and serving over 250,000 members with disabilities! million grant from the U.S. especially veterans with disabilities.

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[ASK AN EXPERT] What Are Best Practices To Acquire More Corporate Matching Gifts?

Bloomerang

Today’s question comes from a nonprofit employee who wants advice on how to attract corporate matching gifts: Dear Charity Clairity, I have a question about how to attract corporate matching gifts. Identify major players in global industries related to your mission and research their matching gift programs.

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, April 3-9

Tech Soup

Becky summarizes Frogloop's advice from SXSW about social media marketing. This TechSoup user needs advice on managing a mailing list for an annual event. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Sarah celebrates the completion of MaintainIT's three-year Gates Foundation grant.

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