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Explained In 30 Seconds: What Is An API?

Global Giving

A: As the original nonprofit crowdfunding platform, GlobalGiving has an extensive community of vetted global nonprofits and a trusted donation platform. Benevity provides companies with a one-stop shop for global employee engagement, featuring all international organizations vetted by GlobalGiving. API For Employee Giving. LEARN MORE.

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Science Technology and Society Forum in Kyoto

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

I'm in Kyoto, Japan for the STS forum, an incredible gathering of top scientists and policy leaders from around the world. The event is the brainchild of Koji Omi, former Finance Minister of Japan. The biggest idea I heard was that while mitigation is a global issue, climate adaptation will be a local issue.

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API Explained: This Technology Will Transform Your Company’s Charitable Giving

Global Giving

A: Founded in 2002, GlobalGiving has an extensive community of vetted global nonprofits and a trusted donation platform. ChimeforChange.org , a program founded by Gucci, Beyonce, and Salma Hayek, used our API to allow visitors to see, fund, and read updates on projects designed to improve the lives of women and girls globally.

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Crowdsourcing Events: The Citizen Gulf Project

NTEN

At the time, the most impressive thing about the concert was not how much money was raised, or how many musicians were involved, but how global it was. Concerts took place mainly in the UK and the US, but also in Australia, Japan, France, and a half a dozen other places around the world. How would Live Aid look today?

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Khan Academy and the Revolution in Online Free Choice Learning

Museum 2.0

Salman Khan's videos give people access to good instructional content on standard (and often confusing or poorly taught) educational topics. Beth Harris and Steven Zucker's content about art history is social and dialogue-based in format. But there are other content models we can explore. How to solve a quadratic equation.

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10 Facebook Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

3) Upload visual content that tells the story of your organization. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 47% of nonprofits purchased Facebooks Ads in 2019. According to the Global Trends in Giving Report , 32% of online donors gave through Facebook Charitable Giving Tools in 2020. Facebook Messenger has 1.3

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. It is a new type of content for us that will hopefully inspire you to think beyond the day-to-day use of technology to the ways that technology can transform our approach to solving big social problems. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust. See the map here.

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