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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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Giving Thanks with Cloud for Good

Cloud 4 Good

Now, with the recent launch of Talent for Good, Cloud for Good has cemented itself as a hub of excellence within the ecosystem for the next generation of technology difference-makers to grow and thrive.

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How Digital Inclusion Is Done in Africa

Tech Soup

An NGO with A National Mandate. MyDigitalBridge is an NGO that started its work fairly recently. What's really interesting is how Namibia is approaching the huge infrastructure problem of providing broadband in places that don’t have much basic electricity yet. Citizen Connect. In the U.S.,

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Measurement Wisdom for Nonprofits from Bill Gates

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

You have to measure accurately, as well as create an environment where problems can be discussed openly so you can effectively evaluate what’s working and what’s not.” All this information goes into a government information system to generate regular reports. Each indicator had an annual target and a quarterly target.

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10 Website Design Best Practices for Nonprofits

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Use a top-rated Content Management System (CMS). Install an SSL Certificate on your website.

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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

These are people who want to give their money, time, or personal endorsements to a cause or organization that can help solve significant problems facing our world today. I referenced the point made by the speaker before us, Tim O’Reilly , that being “generative&# is important.

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The Next Wave of Technology for Nonprofits

John Kenyon

Add to the the cost for someone to investigate the problem, help fix it and set up all that new equipment including emails and websites, etc.- There also remains a generational difference, with only 37% of people over 65 using at least one social media site. For a small organization of under 10 people, lets say $15,000.