Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Since 2007, offerings like M-Pesa , a mobile money transfer service, which began as an initiative from the telecommunications company Vodafone, is a huge opportunity for those living in primarily cash-based societies like Kenya and Tanzania. Disberse is a social enterprise that launched last year with a blockchain-based distribution solution.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This post is Development Director Ryan Ginard's first impression of seeing how powerful a virtual reality video is in putting the viewer in the middle of a compelling story at the most recent meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. A Highlight at the Recent Clinton Global Initiative Meeting.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. should enable power in members and facilitate a global impact of highly local activity.” ” Jeremy Heimans, Purpose, Australia, while he argued that micro payments are a better funding model than plain charity, for social change.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. As another example, the Net Tuesday network is now up 56+ groups meeting every month around the world—a global network of events, bringing the NetSquared Community together offline—and growing in an entirely organic way.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Over this time, we have had a glaring omission: our research has not captured funding related to race or ethnicity, despite significant and global human rights work in this area.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Jessica is the co-founder and a board member of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global poverty. Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

There’s these kids sitting at the other lunch tables in our global cafeteria. But I think it’s also the road to really fully becoming global.” How can we develop audiences, cultivate care and empathy, and find alternate funding that doesn’t require public popularity so that important stories get told? starts around 17:27).

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. Helping the women receiving the funds. Regional and local leaders were supported and given the opportunity to shine. And everything was shareable, collaborative, contagious. What is it about?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Perhaps that explains the appeal of community Giving Days or participating in global giving days like GivingTuesday. We are starting to see a rise of crowd funding projects done by and for kids, perhaps as part of the trend of “ PhilanthroTeens ” or “PhilanthroKids.” Raising Money To Fight Food Insecurity.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. Smart Watches. Another post-PC device to buy and pay attention to.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. As long as we have massive global poverty, we really can't solve any of our other biggest problems because if you have people who are starving, they're going to do anything to stay alive. So, what we do is we use donor funds to overcome this market failure.

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