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

Global Giving

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India. 1,171,000,000.

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Unlocking Data for Philanthropy: Notes from Global Philanthropy Forum Session

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

For example, they have some predictable analytics on how people use their mobile phones and this helps understand whether or not they have jobs. They recently launched lab in Indonesia and started to hear through social media chatter that vaccine serum had meat and that people should not get vaccines. kanter data circuit riders?

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

And in each local place, people are on different types of social media, some of which are global in scope. Tools: From @rootwork: Facebook has been pretty effective at creating a place for discussion/strategy between events or meetings. Plus, sending emails, mass texts, etc is much quicker than doorknocking or cold calling folks.

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. Photos are the dominant form of data being shared over the Internet, mostly on Facebook and mostly from phones (68 percent). There are well over 5 billion mobile phone users worldwide, of a population of some 7.1

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