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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya. By establishing trust, M-Changa can assist NGOs in Kenya to raise more funds and therefore achieve more.

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

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However, drones are also being used for humanitarian purposes, such as delivering aid, tracking environmental conditions, and helping out in disaster relief. Here is what we've found out about how drone technology is being used to benefit humanity. Assessing disaster-stricken areas. What Are Drones, Anyway? Tracking storms.

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

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53% donate to crowdfunding campaigns that benefit individuals. Of those that give to crowdfunding campaigns, 18% say that they give less to NGOs due to their financial support of crowdfunding campaigns. ? 4% create online peer-to-peer fundraising campaigns to benefit organizations. ? 11% of donors in Brazil give tribute gifts.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

A 2013 survey from The Millennial Impact. It’s a plain English primer on what cloud computing is and how it benefits nonprofit organizations. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. Adobe Creative Cloud. MyDigitalBridge.

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Nonprofit Tech Forecasts for 2013

Tech Soup

We also noticed a significant increase in the way that mobile technology is being used in disaster relief. More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Mobile Computing. The Cloud in 2013.

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