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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia.

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Book Giveaway: Mazarine Treyz, The Wild Woman’s Guide to Fundraising

Amy Sample Ward

No one in my family has ever worked at a nonprofit, and we definitely don’t have a tradition of giving to causes in our family.) All fired up from my time in Indonesia, I thought, “Changing the world is so exciting! But what I found was that the books for getting started in making a difference with your writing were just DULL.

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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

Topics include disaster preparedness and relief, and how to choose and use tools for crowdfunding to advance social causes. Our network partner in Indonesia runs Kitabisa.com ("We can"), a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding platform.

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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. BitPesa, Banqu, and UCash are scaling similar concepts in Kenya, Indonesia, and India. Crowdfunding to unlock empathy and investment capital.

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was honored to be invited to cover this year’s Global Philanthropy Forum , a community of donors and social investors committed to international causes. They recently launched lab in Indonesia and started to hear through social media chatter that vaccine serum had meat and that people should not get vaccines.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Before the donation, the organization was using old software, which caused problems when the staff tried to share files externally. The organization has nine full-time staff.

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

Not everybody needs to stick with the easy actions, some volunteers may be interested to set up ‘their own’ soc med campaign for your cause. From @pelleaardema: I do believe you could draw an ‘engagement pyramid’ for social media too. From @neddotom: recap 1. overall goal 4. action oriented 5. decentralized/open.

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