Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 15, 2017

Even before Facebook helped raise $10 million dollars for the Center for Disaster Philanthropy for Hurricane Harvey relief, Facebook “Donate” buttons and fundraisers created by Facebook users were popping up in the feed with increased frequency.

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Allegiance Group

NOVEMBER 12, 2024

As a nonprofit, you’re called to be a good steward of the money you raise. But beyond reporting standards, transparency is critical to building long-term, loyal support among your donors. Donation pages that include a precise breakdown of where dollars go build trust among all donors, especially younger ones.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 1, 2021

They posted to Facebook to help raise awareness and ask for donations. Subsequent videos could give updates on how much has been raised, another on progress made from relief efforts and another on how the money is being put to use. Perry’s Place is a cat adoption center and sanctuary in North Hollywood, CA.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2022

Finclusion Group , a fintech that uses AI algorithms to provide financial services to African customers via an array of credit-centric products, has raised $20 million in debt and equity pre-Series A financing. I think that’s where we have an edge that we can build towards a pan-African play quicker than others.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 11, 2023

Infogrid , a startup that uses AI to collect and analyze data on things like air quality, occupancy and energy consumption, today announced that it raised $90 million in a Series B round led by Northzone and AO Proptech. “Now was the time to raise the capital and use it to drive our expansion,” De Gruchy said.

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Candid

MARCH 24, 2025

Yet, most nonprofits build business models that rely on one or two major funding sources. We raise significant funds from the U.S. Build partnerships to stand stronger together It may be tempting to focus inward in times of upheaval, but doing so can be a mistake. We should focus on what we can influence.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 19, 2022

Revel , an NFT or “social collectibles” platform, raised $7.8 Revel blends them both, helping consumers build a “portfolio of media [and] of the people they collect,” Sideman said. (As Revel raises $7.8M million in seed financing led by Dragonfly Capital, the startup’s CEO, Adi Sideman, exclusively told TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

JULY 16, 2021

Yummy, a Venezuela-based delivery app on a mission to create the super app for the country, announced Friday it raised $4 million in funding to expand its dark store delivery operations across Latin America. The total investment includes pre-seeding capital raised in 2020. dollar, Zavarce said.

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TechCrunch

JULY 23, 2021

Open-source framework startup Serverless Stack announced Friday that it raised $1 million in seed funding from a group of investors that includes Greylock Partners, SV Angel and Y Combinator. Serverless Stack’s technology enables engineers to more easily build full-stack serverless apps.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The future is not about a return to the past; its about building a new kind of engagement, where philanthropy breathes life back into compassion and commands meaningful change. The intention wont just be to raise a few extra dollars, but to cultivate values that are at risk of being lost amid our hyper-digital, attention-fragmented culture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 16, 2024

It will also help them build better relationships with major donors and their broader donor base. Gain insights into donor behavior, understand stakeholder preferences, and more, while freeing up time for relationship-building. These tools let nonprofits streamline their donation raising. They help build trust with your donors.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2021

Bitpanda’s focus up to now has been primarily on building a platform to target investors in Europe, a largely untapped market, as it happens. Both have been building a name for themselves as significant backers of crypto startups. “In the EU, we probably have less than 10% of the population owning stocks.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 5, 2021

It helps build your location page. That’s an incredibly high donor retention rate for a set of tools that are still in their early adoption phase. Similar to the “Link in Bio” strategy, your nonprofit will need to embrace a “Donate on Profile” strategy to raise funds on Instagram.

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Candid

JANUARY 21, 2025

But AI adoption comes with challenges. Concerns about authenticity, disparities in access, and biases in AI tools raise urgent questions: Will this technology help bridge societal gaps, or will it deepen them? The inequity in AI adoption today has parallels to the early days of seat belt installation in cars.

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Bloomerang

MARCH 13, 2025

Many organizations adopt new technology with high hopes, only to find it underutilizedleaving valuable efficiencies untapped and fundraising opportunities unrealized. Build long-term skills that keep your nonprofit strong, no matter whos on the team. The challenge isnt the softwareits the learning curve.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 17, 2022

African startups raised between $4 billion to $5 billion in 2021, according to various reports. However, for all their effort and importance to the tech ecosystem, raising significant venture capital seemed elusive to startups in Africa’s digital media landscape that rely on grants and personal funding to scale.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 2, 2021

For now, enjoy a livestream of our adoptable puppies: [LINK TO SOMETHING THAT PULLS THE HEARTSTRINGS]. You helped us raise $102,768!To We surveyed hundreds of nonprofits who successfully shifted their events online and they shared 25 donor-engaging, money-raising ideas to inspire and encourage you and your team. For example: 1.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 31, 2020

Survey Says: Here’s how NPOs told us they are making the most of the data in their DonorPerfect system to fundraise during COVID-19: “Our strategy is to build a strong relationship with individual donors through our DP database, learn about their giving patterns, and establish appeals related to those patterns.”. Changing your narrative.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Yoco’s portable card machines have proved masterful in solving this problem; when TechCrunch covered the company three years ago after its $16 million Series B raise, it had little over 30,000 merchants using its platform. South Africa’s Yoco raises $16 million to boost digital services to small businesses. Image Credits: Yoco.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

Contextual AI lets organizations put a companys proprietary intelligence into a secure data store, then lets them build AI apps that can call on that data. The company behind it, Anysphere , made the smart design choice of building the UX based on Microsofts Visual Studio Code, a familiar programming environment. Blackbird.AI

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TechCrunch

MARCH 9, 2021

The team started out building a messaging platform that provided a deep level of information about people that others might be emailing. Since its $6 million Series A raise in May 2019, the SaaS company says it has grown its subscription revenue (ARR) by “more than 10-fold” (although it declined to reveal hard revenue figures).

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TechCrunch

JUNE 2, 2022

The startup uses blockchain technology to help brands build customer loyalty without having to rely on buying up pricey ads on third-party social media platforms, Haney explained. Brands use TYB, which is built on the Avalanche blockchain, to build their own on-chain communities of loyal customers, Haney said.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Nix, the open-source tool for creating reproducible builds and deployments, is becoming increasingly popular among developers, but it’s not always the easiest service to work with. The company today announced that it has raised a $16.5 Shaw, he was responsible for building the group’s release engineering infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 18, 2022

As the enthusiasm around AI image and text generators grows, Jasper , a startup developing what it describes as an “AI content” platform, has raised $125 million at a $1.7 “We want to build a world-class business, [and] to do that we need capital and highly strategic partners.” billion valuation.

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Candid

OCTOBER 17, 2024

These articles explore the ethical considerations AI technology raises for the sector and ways to address them. How should nonprofits mitigate risks in adopting AI technology? These articles illustrate how we can implement inclusive AI adoption to support humans, not replace them. Harnessing generative AI for good.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Fazz , the Southeast Asian digital financial services group created by the merger of PayFazz and Xfers , announced today that it has raised a total of $100 million in Series C funding. Fazz will use the round to continue building out its business accounts, which include payment, savings and credit features.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

Adopting Internet of Things (IoT) tech for the office isn’t easy — especially at enterprise scale. Companies have IoT device administration to worry about, and also building out the infrastructure necessary to keep those devices connected and operational. So far, it’s raised a total of €40 million (~$43.71

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 5, 2021

The back-to-back raises are a reminder that edtech’s relevance in LatAm isn’t just growing in classrooms, but also within organizations across LatAm. The company announced this week that it has raised a $13.5 Crehana announced today that it has raised a $70 million Series B just months after a $13 million Series A extension round.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 23, 2023

As with all new major technological changes (we’re looking at you, electricity and the internet), we must adapt and adopt. ” This exercise will show you how useful this tool is for quickly generating information you can build upon. Now that ChatGPT and its ilk are out of the box, there’s no cramming them back in.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 6, 2021

The adoption of telehealth services has boomed in the pandemic — with usage up 38-fold since January 2020, according to a report by McKinsey. The seed funding brings its total raised to $4.3 Cue Health raises $100 million to speed development of rapid, portable COVID-19 diagnostics.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

Del Balso co-founded Tecton while at Uber when the company was struggling to build and deploy new machine learning models. Case in point, Tecton today announced that it raised $100 million in a Series C round that brings the company’s total raised to $160 million. One of its proponents is Mike Del Balso, the CEO of Tecton.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 18, 2021

Today, one of the trailblazers in this area, Kuda Technologies , is announcing funding to continue building out its specific ambition: to provide a modern banking service for Africans and the African diaspora, or as co-founder and CEO Babs Ogundeyi describes them, “every African on the planet, wherever you are in the world.”

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 23, 2022

That number says something about the fragmentation in the space at the moment — and something about how long-tail the audience is right now, too — two reasons why having companies building services that work across all of these different walled gardens makes some sense.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 15, 2022

raised more money from venture capitalists in 2021 than ever. On the bright side, founding teams counting both women and men as members raised 17% of VC investments in Africa in 2021. Women-founded startups in Africa to have raised $100 million or more are led mainly by white CEOs. Women-founded companies in the U.S.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

Quick Definition Online fundraising is the process of raising donations for a cause, project, or organization through digital platforms such as websites, social media apps, and email campaigns. Regular updates, personalized appeals, and segmented lists can help build lasting relationships with donors and drive consistent contributions.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 25, 2025

” Instead, your focus needs to be on consolidation, adoption, activation, removing friction, and regular review. The results were increased inbound giving and removing friction from the donation process for offline events like radiothon, raising nearly $500k in 2024, 40% of which came through digital channels.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

Lightyear , a Dutch startup developing a long-range hybrid solar-powered car, today announced that it has raised €81 million ($81 million) as it prepares to begin production of its first vehicle in the coming months. The sooner this technology is adopted, the higher the production volumes, which allows for lower prices for the consumer.”

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