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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. In the local context, Kenyan’s give an extremely high proportion of their earnings as donations (cc. Finally, M-Changa seeks to build trust from both local and international donors.

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Digital Must-Haves for Fall Fundraising Success Part 5: Digital Advocacy Forms

EveryAction

But no matter how your nonprofit is doing good in our world, there will always be ways your work and mission are affected by legislation, policies, and local and national events, which means there will always be reasons to make your voice heard. Overcome barriers to connect with supporters. Ease of experience.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

Unfortunately, this isn't Domino's Pizza and disaster response can't work as if it is. The American Red Cross is now looking into how best to give the public an increased role in disaster response. It was used after the earthquake to map actionable information, using the volunteer efforts of thousands of people around the world.

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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

tax law that cleared the way for this service — ultimately reducing costs, complexity, and duplication of efforts for both grantmakers and their global grantees. Connecting a global network to spur local technology innovation: The TechSoup Global Network is comprised of 69 independent capacity-building organizations around the world.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft’s technology capacity work in the nonprofit technology sector includes partnerships with Tech Soup Global , NetHope in disaster relief as well as others.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

" The ruling establishes that a search engine such as Google must be regarded as a "data controller" under the data protection laws in those EU countries where it operates. Team Confufish Royale from Australia developed an app called Foodbank Local that allows businesses to easily donate excess food. Here in the U.S.,

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen. It’s time to develop a BYOD (bring your own device) strategy for your office if you don’t already have one. Google Drive.

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