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NGO Connection Day: Singapore

Tech Soup

On Apriil 29 Microsoft and TechSoup held an NGO Connection Day at the Microsoft office in Singapore. TechSoup's partner NGO, the Hong Kong Council of Social Services , attended as well, giving local attendees a personal insight on how TechSoup's global network enables capacity and community building around the world.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations. It uses a crowd-funding matching system like the famous Kiva.org system.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, I am currently in Southeast Asia presenting social media trainings to nonprofits in Malaysia, Singapore and Manila – most of which are just getting started with using social media. Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K. Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized! Tell your boss that.

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Join Giving Tuesday!

Tech Soup

The project has also gone global this year, having expanded to Canada , Australia , Mexico , and Singapore. GivingTuesday is an umbrella organization and not a funding organization. Charities agree to spread the word about the movement to their networks and to submit. your past, current or future #GivingTuesday stories.

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Five Years Later: How #GivingTuesday Reached Ubiquity

Connection Cafe

million in funds donated via Blackbaud, the largest nonprofit technology provider. Singapore turned it into a whole week!”. That first year saw $10.1 In 2014, that number climbed to $26.1 million – a 159 percent increase from 2012 – as more and more corporations and nonprofits began joining the grassroots movement.

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Technology for Whom? Owning Our Platforms

Non Profit Quarterly

12 At the same time—as shown by an International Monetary Fund (IMF) report in 2017—technological advancement, especially as regards the growth of the platform economy, had been chipping away at the share of income for workers, resulting in half of the decline in workers’ share of income across the globe between 1990 and 2015.

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