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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. Why is that?

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How to use social media to inspire 40,000 people to give on one day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts. This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org.

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Congrats to the NetSquared Winners!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was on a team of video bloggers who conducted formal interviews with representatives from the 21 featured projects. I had the pleasure to do a formal interview with Erik Hersman from Ushahidi which took first place. (I Ushahidi: Mapping Reports Of Post-Election Violence In Kenya. Donate a fundraise using Twitter.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari. Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall. Britt Bravo: Hi!

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. 100% of donations went directly to disaster relief. By the morning of the 14th, donations had already hit $3 Million. . Updated numbers from last week show mobile donations at over $31 Million!

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How Nonprofits Have Reframed Their Messaging in the Wake of COVID-19

Connection Cafe

We’d interview the head of a charter school network or a school district that was doing a great distance learning program to show people that innovators were coming up with creative and actionable solutions to the challenges of school shutdowns. imagine living in a refugee camp in Kenya. While things may not be ideal here in the U.S.,

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