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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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Improve Your Fundraising Approach and Skills at NetSquared Meetups

Tech Soup

Seattle, Washington: Fall Nonprofit Technology Speed Geek. Matloding, South Africa: Technology for Rural Development. Morogoro, Tanzania: Technology for Livelihood Improvement. Jakarta, Indonesia: Web Hosting. Left photo : Gregory Munyaneza / NetSquared Rwanda / CC BY. Tuesday, October 17, 2017. Europe and U.K.

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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. "Every year, we hold a photo exhibition of children from the villages we support to raise awareness in Japan. Photo of Haitian children courtesy of ATCAC.

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Reflections on a Weekend with Ze Frank and His Online Community

Museum 2.0

Or that we take a group photo together at the end of the day. About 700 people participated over two days, including some who had traveled to Santa Cruz from London, Indonesia, and across the US. Ze was really hands-on with everyone, giving hugs, taking photos, jumping in to do activities with participants.

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#4Change Chat Wrap-Up: Community Building

Amy Sample Ward

From @davidahood: I’d say you need someone who knows the issue inside and out (campaigner), someone who is a media and communications specialist, someone great with web, social media and other technology and someone to organise events and coordinate volunteers and engage directly with members of the community one on one (community organiser?).

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Nonprofit Technology News for June 2013

Tech Soup

It's time to catch up on some nonprofit technology trends and news! I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends. In technology for good and social media, it’s Sina Weibo or ????.

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Solutionary Women: Alli Chagi-Starr, Ilyse Hogue, Melinda Kramer and Reem Rahim

Have Fun - Do Good

I put each woman's photo at the beginning of when she talks to mark each section. You can use different technologies for these things, as easy or as difficult as you want. So for me, I actually often pick my parents [when writing about technology], because they have dial-up, and they're not very tech-savvy.

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