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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

My personal goal is to channel the aspirations of the technology community to do more social good. Within a short period, SocialCoding4Good has gone from a Labs pilot project to a growing community driving social impact. In this update, I’m delighted to be able to share Benetech’s latest efforts to do both. billion poor and unbanked.

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12 Must-Know Stats About Online Fundraising, Social Media, and Mobile Technology

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Second, the popularity of social networking is steady and continues to spread globally, but messaging apps such as WhatsApp, LINE, and Snapchat are emerging as powerful digital communities. Source: State of Peer-to-Peer Fundraising 2017. Email and social media are the first apps opened. Source: ReportLinker.

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Data Digest: Moneyball Giving, Data and Philanthropy, Data for Africa

Tech Soup

The rational for "seeing data as a state" rather than a donor in Africa to help answer policymakers questions is also explained. For example, France Telecom-Orange has made anonymized records of five million mobile phone users in Cote d'Ivoire available to the research community as part of the Data for Development Challenge.

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Why Every Organization Should Make Sustainability Part of its Mission

Saleforce Nonprofit

At Salesforce, our business is guided by stakeholder capitalism , a system in which corporate purpose is based on a fundamental commitment to all stakeholders — customers, employees, partners, communities, the planet, and society — rather than just shareholders. With a digital-first approach, 350.org’s

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Growing the NetSquared Community

Tech Soup

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa + Middle East. Austin, Texas: CiviCRM: Free, Open-Source CRM for Nonprofits and Startups. Africa + Middle East.

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Tell Your Community's Story with NetSquared

Tech Soup

If you’re holding monthly events that are gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I’ll include you in the next community calendar! The link need to be like so: Africa. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in: Africa.

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Need Hands-on Help? NetSquared's Free Workshops Are in Your Community

Tech Soup

If you're holding monthly events gathering the #nptech community, let me know , and I'll include you in the next community calendar. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. Boston, Massachusetts: Community Class — Intro to Design Thinking and Prototyping. Africa and Middle East.