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5 Ways To Expand Financial Inclusion For The World’s Poor

Global Giving

In celebration of the occasion of getting to meet this huge hero of mine, I’ve outlined five ways that companies, institutions, and nonprofits can harness technological innovations to advance financial inclusion and empower the world’s most vulnerable people: 1. Want more corporate giving insights? 1,171,000,000.

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Stick To Our Knitting? What Is TechSoup?

Tech Soup

This is what I wrote: "The specific and primary purpose of the corporation is to engage in educational and charitable activities which educate the public regarding the appropriate use of computer technology." based grantmakers to give internationally by issuing legal equivalency determinations. " This was 1988.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

More than one-third of charitable giving happens in the last three months of the year , and the emergence of Giving Tuesday (on November 28 this year) makes the year's end even more critical for charities. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: Giving Tuesday Brainstorming. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: Giving Tuesday Brainstorming.

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Conservation Planners Use Benetech's Miradi Software to Help Save Reefs in Guam

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Rare, which is based in Arlington, Virginia, uses Miradi in all its worldwide campaigns to promote biodiversity and has translated the Miradi software into Bahasa Indonesia, Mandarin and Spanish. Elaina learned how to use Miradi while working on a Guam watershed plan with CMP member The Nature Conservancy.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

Saint Paul, Minnesota: Gearing Up for Give to the Max Day. Orlando, Florida: Microsoft Gives Back: Community, Education, and Philanthropy. Chippewa Falls, Wisconsin: Giving Tuesday Brainstorming. Jakarta, Indonesia: Youtube for Nonprofits. Mahikeng, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Europe and UK.

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

I’m a huge proponent of blogs (obviously) but didn’t want to give up on the chat when Twitter was misbehaving. Successful and Unsuccessful Examples: From @davidahood: Greenpeace internationally had great success recently with the Nestle campaign getting Nestle to end deforestation in Indonesia for palm oil.

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Reflections on a Weekend with Ze Frank and His Online Community

Museum 2.0

About 700 people participated over two days, including some who had traveled to Santa Cruz from London, Indonesia, and across the US. He gently acknowledged the fundamental weirdness of meeting people in real-life, in confronting their "fleshiness," giving voice to anyone else's concerns about over-stimulation in the space.