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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. As a result, the focus has been writing grant proposals rather than appealing for individual support. Other challenges for NGOs receiving payments include security, trust and misuse of funds. Why is that?

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Nonprofit Harnesses Tech to Plant Tens of Thousands of Trees

Tech Soup

In San Francisco, it took a small group of motivated people to come together to create a nonprofit. After the city cut funding for urban forestry 36 years ago, seven individuals decided to take matters into their own hands. Starting with a Small Budget, FUF Plants Nearly Half San Francisco's Street Trees.

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Announcing the 4th Edition of the Nonprofit Trends Report

Saleforce Nonprofit

Our goal at Salesforce.org in delivering our own nonprofit trends report each year is to better understand: the role nonprofits have in serving their communities, what’s shifting within the nonprofit space, mental health and wellbeing, and how technology supports an organization’s ability to fund and run their missions across departments.

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Announcing the Third Impact Lab on Climate Justice

Saleforce Nonprofit

Executive Director, Trellis for Tomorrow. Jennifer Anderson is the executive director of Trellis for Tomorrow, a nonprofit that works to build resilience and compassion in local communities through food justice and environmental sustainability efforts. Executive Director, Valley Clean Air Now. Jennifer Anderson. Amit Patel.

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Young Nonprofit Leader Award Winners Announced

Tech Soup

She's also the executive director of Community Technology Network , a nonprofit that brings information access and digital literacy to underserved Bay Area populations. YNPN honored Kami as the Young Nonprofit Executive Director of the Year. It's an exciting time for public computing access in San Francisco. read more.

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Introducing the 2021 Classy Awards Leadership Council

Classy

Executive Director. Previously served as deputy director of the U.S. National Community Relations and Development Director & National Spokesperson. Prior to his current role, he served as executive director and chief operating officer for The Salvation Army National Capital region in Washington, D.C. Anna Rathmann.

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SOCAP: The Market at the Intersection of Money and Meaning

Tech Soup

I had a chance this week to preside over TechSoup’s booth at the latest Social Capital Markets conference (SOCAP) in San Francisco. Kiva is a San Francisco based crowd-funding microfinance nonprofit that allows just under a million people to make little micro-loans to poor people around the world.