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Giving Trends in Kenya: How the Growth of Mobile Payments Are Transforming Community Giving

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According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. Why is that?

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Ushahidi BRCK: Bringing Internet to the Developing World

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Ushahidi is an NGO headquartered in Kenya. It is a nonprofit tech company that develops free and open-source software for information collection, visualization, and crowdsourced interactive mapping to help mitigate disasters. Here’s some news on a now famous NetSquared alumnus project. Find out more about this here.

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Building the Tech Capacity of Nonprofits Everywhere with TechSoup's NetSquared Events

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The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Treading Lightly | The Delicate Art of Internal Communications. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Father's Day Show: My Dad, Tom Aageson, Co-Founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship

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He is also the co-Founder of the Santa Fe International Folk Art Market. Before coming to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. Music credits: "Mango Delight," by Kenya Masala , and "Bricks" by Crowsong. I hope you enjoy the interview with my pops.

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Your #NPtech Community Calendar for July

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The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. Yaoundé, Cameroon: Open Technology. Busia, Kenya: Net2Kenya Small Charity Week 2015. Open Data Leads to Development: Is This Wishful Thinking?

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Getting Social with Your Local Nonprofit Tech Community

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The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. Busia, Kenya: Stop Cyberbullying Day SCD 2016. Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmakers — Mozilla and NetSquared Kenya.

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

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and Sahana Foundation (which hosts a free open source disaster management system), have changed the way disaster relief is being done all over the world. Disaster relief is one of the primary activities of the NGO sector, and crowdsourced volunteer digital disaster work is an important and expanding part of it.