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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. 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.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

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How One NGO Serves 70,000 Children. This is an NGO that is relies heavily on good communication and effective project management. All of them happen to use Microsoft Office to good advantage. I hope you can take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you serve your community.

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How Drones Are Being Used to Benefit Humankind

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Here is what we've found out about how drone technology is being used to benefit humanity. In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. What Are Drones, Anyway? In the U.S.,

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I’m heading to Geneva later this month for the next major meeting at the World Intellectual Property Organization (“WIPO”), to hear the latest and make my three-minute oration as an accredited NGO representative (first time for me!). law (this is a wildcard issue right now). . • law (this is a wildcard issue right now).

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Interview: Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink on the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Agency for International Development and for an international NGO. We’ve already seen AI’s potential to transform our own products and benefit the world through applications like flood forecasting or monitoring whale species. One great example is Thorn , an organization founded to stop child sexual trafficking and abuse.

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Easier Global Giving Through NGOsource; Service Launches March 18, 2013

Tech Soup

Using custom-designed technology, research on best practices in global grantmaking, standardized methodology developed by leading legal experts, and local partnerships within the global NGO community, NGOsource has created a first-of-its-kind and efficient equivalency determination process. Grantmakers can immediately apply for membership.

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Global Philanthropy

Tech Soup

As a capacity-building organization for the global nonprofit and social benefit sector, we at TechSoup are very conscious of the need to understand and work within different cultural contexts for philanthropy. Though these funds are registered as NGOs, they pride themselves on having zero administrative costs.

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