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22 Statistics About #GivingTuesday Donors Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Australia and New Zealand – 7%. Education and literacy – 5%. Digital wallet payments, such as Apple Pay and Google Pay – 1%. 14) 96% regularly vote in local and national elections and 37% donate to political campaigns. By Region: Africa – 12%. Asia – 26%. Europe – 6%. Cash – 3%.

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Bookshare without Borders: #1/3

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities. But this is just the tip of the iceberg, as literacy remains an elusive dream for the majority of the world’s people with print disabilities.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

TechSoup Asia Asia is a nonprofit collaborative venture between TechSoup Global and its local nonprofit organization partners, Connecting Up Australia and the Hong Kong Council of Social Service. VietNet-ICT’s vision is to narrow the digital divide by providing ICT access to poor people in Vietnam.

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One Organization’s Quest for Good

NonProfit Hub

Library For All co-founder and CEO Rebecca McDonald was living in Australia when tragedy struck Haiti in 2010. It hit her like a lightning bolt that this could be a solution for Haiti…that she could build a digital content platform,” Stephans said. Simply put, Library For All is a digital library for developing countries.

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Citizen Tech: Social Media in Disaster Response

Amy Sample Ward

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others.

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