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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

This is because the process to open a bank account is very tedious in comparison to getting a sim card and adding cash through a local M-Pesa agent. 7% have donated directly to an organization using Facebook Fundraising Tools. Please explain the role of cash and mobile payments, particularly M-Pesa, in individual giving in Kenya.

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Are Mobile Apps Serving the Underserved?

Tech Soup

According to a November 2012 Pew Internet and American Life Project report , a higher percentage of African American and Latino cell phone users have downloaded at least one app in comparison to Whites. Image: homeless man on cell phone, artie*.

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Why Your Nonprofit Should Be A Big Listener

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The tools we use to do this work are not immediately obvious. We’re repurposing a commercial tool to monitor an issue, but using it in a very different way. Listening to that is very different than just plugging your organization’s name and the most common misspellings into one of these tools and watching the graphs move.

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The Zen of Nonprofit CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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The Zen of Nonprofit CRM

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

In the final analysis, in the days, weeks, months and years following these, and other mergers, no fewer people will be homeless, no fewer women will be battered, no fewer children will be hungry, no less environmental damage will be done, no more people who need it will get mental health services.

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[VIDEO] Measure Of Success: Creating Tools And Process To Report Impact

Bloomerang

We are here to talk about reporting impact, specifically creating tools and some good processes to do that for your donors. We’ve got some tools, questions to ask, and things like that when you’re looking at data-tracking systems. Was there anything helpful about that comparison between service engagement and impact?

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What do web stats mean, anyway?

Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

It is an internal assessment tool which helps organizations figure out what parts of their online strategy are working, and what parts might need tweaking. I don’t think we want homeless shelters, food pantries, mental health organizations, etc., at 11:31 am Web stats are intended to be an internal control and analysis tool.

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