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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. Crowdfunding to unlock empathy and investment capital. 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." Our network partner in Indonesia runs Kitabisa.com ("We can"), a Kickstarter-like crowdfunding platform.

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Non-Boring #Tech4Good Meetings for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

NetSquared organizers bring together the nonprofit technology community for face-to-face meetings. Naples, Florida: How to use Technology to Communicate and Manage Volunteers. Nanaimo, British Columbia: "Free Money" (Microsoft Volume Licensing and Google for Nonprofits). Jakarta, Indonesia: YouTube for Nonprofits.

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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Seattle, Washington: Fall Nonprofit Technology Speed Geek. Matloding, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Morogoro, Tanzania: Technology for Livelihood Improvement. Jakarta, Indonesia: Web Hosting. Tuesday, October 17, 2017.

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Youth Programs Benefit from Microsoft Donations

Tech Soup

It helps endangered Asian children get off the streets in Cambodia, Philippines, Vietnam, India, Indonesia, Pakistan, East Timor, Jordan, Bangladesh, and Myanmar. Designing it ourselves will save us a lot of money, and this professional software makes it all possible." The organization has nine full-time staff.

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

Tech Soup

Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. Jakarta, Indonesia: Youtube for Nonprofits. Mahikeng, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Ilorin, Nigeria: Recession: Reviving the Nation's Economy Through Technology. Morogoro, Tanzania: Technology for Livelihood Improvement.

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

Action = money, sale, clickthrough, unique visitor, download, lead generation, email address, form fill out, questionnaire, etc. 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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