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Explained In 30 Seconds: What Is An API?

Global Giving

A: As the original nonprofit crowdfunding platform, GlobalGiving has an extensive community of vetted global nonprofits and a trusted donation platform. And SDGfunders , a project of the Foundation Center, integrates projects that align with each of the Sustainable Development Goals into its philanthropy platform.

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API Explained: This Technology Will Transform Your Company’s Charitable Giving

Global Giving

A: Founded in 2002, GlobalGiving has an extensive community of vetted global nonprofits and a trusted donation platform. Companies have customers and employees who want to give to a good cause, but they often don’t want their customers and employees to have to become familiar with another platform or leave their own website.

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Crowdsourcing put to good use in Africa | Madeleine Bunting | Global development | guardian.co.uk

AFP Blog

Since then, the open source platform has been deployed 12,000 times across the globe, from earthquakes in Haiti, New Zealand and Australia to the tsunami in Japan this year.

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Using Social Media Internationally: How Not To Get Lost in Translation

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Here’s some good tips when your network is global. Hands up who’s got a Twitter follower from Japan? Connecting with fans and followers – or customers – around the world on a handful of social networking platforms isn’t the same as engaging with them and being part of their online world. Use the right platform.

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Research Friday: Generosity Expanded: The Impact!

ASU Lodestar Center

This level of increased global philanthropy is worth a further look. The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4

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How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief

Tech Soup

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. If Second Harvest Japan had set up its own server to run its Emergency Response Portal, it probably would have crashed pretty quickly — like the lone customer service rep that got too many calls to handle.

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Free Live Interactive Event: Future of Fundraising

Tech Soup

” Nonprofits once limited to raising money through cookie sales, charity balls, and foundation grants now have access to almost limitless fundraising streams with new technology platforms, micro-funding models, and evolving culture of giving. ” Globally, people have more access to phones than the Internet. Pacific time.