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Giving Trends in Brazil: How Crowdfunding & Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Nonprofit Sector

Nonprofit Tech for Good

As a fast-growing developing country, this problem it’s quite real. A lack of government resources in the slums and low-income areas to address the problem of animal abandonment and cruelty has inspired many Brazilians to give to nonprofits that support animal welfare and wildlife conservation.

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TechSoup Global Summit: Inspiration Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Modeling the Network Mindset. I think that TechSoup Global’s three leaders – Daniel Ben-Horin, Rebecca Massisak, and Marnie Webb – have been modeling this practice. Alan Gunn holds Noel Dickover's number for a discussion about NGO adoption of social media barriers.

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More thoughts about Web 2.0 Adoption by Nonprofits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Participants felt a generation gap with the new technology. ???I???m Money is the ultimate user generated content.??? There is a chicken and the egg problem. In Cambodia, NGO staffers were eager to learn about Web 2.0 m always trying to catch up to my younger staff members.??? As one participant said, ???Money to Web 2.0

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Of Mice and Men and Laptops (A Kind of Buyer's Guide)

NTEN

I was trying to count the number of laptop models for sale at Best Buy, all the while avoiding the glance of any of the eleven sales associates (AKA "Blue Shirts") that hovered around the computer displays. Pricing is simple: laptops spontaneously generate at four price points. Performance makes the difference.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

The problem they’re addressing is that many households in developing countries pay up to 30 percent of monthly income for Internet. It calculates that IoT technology and services generated global revenues of $4.8 Remember the Star Trek Next Generation character Geordi ? trillion in 2012 and will nearly double to $8.9

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Tech@State – Civil Society 2.0: Reflections on Networked Nonprofits and Free Agents

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I started with an overview of the Networked Nonprofit and shared some thoughts about social cultures and transparency — referencing the models in our book – The Fortress and The Sponge. I referenced the point made by the speaker before us, Tim O’Reilly , that being “generative&# is important.