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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

Millions are also internally displaced within Syria. telehealth and electronic cash payment systems). The large-scale global response to the pandemic, amid other concurrent crises, demonstrated that all funders are, indeed, disaster funders. Since 2011, more than 13 million Syrians have been displaced. Beirut explosion.

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Big Data Means More Than Big Profits

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The more we use technology in our education and health systems, the more data we collect about how people learn and what keeps us healthy or makes us sick. Let me share two examples of the Big Data opportunities we’ve seized at Benetech: a long-standing use of data that has global implications and a nascent one that has just launched.

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AFP ICON 2023 Recap

Qgiv

One private school set a reasonable goal of $4,000 to help raise relief funds for the earthquakes in Syria. The AFP Exchange hosted vendors from all facets of fundraising, donor management systems, consultants, email systems, and more. Countless receptions were hosted across the city for affinity groups and chapters.

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8 Top Corporate Giving Trends to Watch in 2024 + Examples

Nonprofits Source

While switching to a new system, International Business Machines (IBM) paused its match program. Target’s Disaster Relief CSR Program Globally-known company Target launched a disaster relief program to showcase its commitment to helping in times of crisis and humanitarian need.

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Changing the World: TechSoup's Newest Global Partner

Tech Soup

Ok, now add to the mix a liberal dose of several years of strong economic growth and modernization, a GDP ranked 17 th in the world, a youth population (12 to 24 year olds) representing a third of the total population, and a growing reputation as one of the most promising IT sectors globally, and do you know where that will land you?

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Benetech: the Equilibrium Change Machine

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The other axis represents systems change: does the world work better and differently now as a result of these efforts? They put most nonprofits in the direct action without systems change box: groups that do a good (or even excellent) job of delivering services under the existing system. The authors present a two-by-two matrix.

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Nonprofit Technology News for October 2013

Tech Soup

Now, here's the latest: Global Digital Inclusion. Ah yes, another month and another massive global digital inclusion initiative. It calculates that IoT technology and services generated global revenues of $4.8 It’s proper names is the Argus II Retinal Prosthesis System , but mostly it is being called the Bionic Eye.

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