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Use Social Media to Reel in Big Fish Donors

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Many nonprofits already use social media, including mobile, to raise money among individual donors. The relationship starts online, but the “ask” happens offline, perhaps on the phone, but most likely face-to-face. However, you can always go old-school and coordinate through email or phone. Too many contracts become irritating.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Digital Wallets.

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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

It includes personal testimonies, photographs, and artifacts. Another exhibit looks at past massacres in Armenia, Bosnia, Cambodia, The Holocaust, and other places of the world where genocide has taken place. The profits from the business help both Germaine and these other families.Germaine uses her Windows Phone as her virtual store.

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The Future of Fundraising, Part Two

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, which means "enough," began online and moved offline to solidify a movement to create a better Bosnia and Herzegovina. Harness Technology and Social Media to Raise Money.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

Then after the project is funded, the money goes to TechBridge to implement and complete the work. It hooks up to a phone, tablet or computer so the information can be messaged to a hospital. Organizations first go through a process of ‘scoping’ their project with TechBridge staff to determine the cost of the project.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. CNN Money: 5 pay-by-phone apps tested.

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