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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 3) Kenyan data from the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report is very unique in that 42% of Kenyan donors say the prefer to give cash and 26% prefer to give via mobile payment.

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Why were doomscrolling about plane crashes even though air travel is relatively safe

Mashable Tech

If you look at Google Trends for searches about aviation accidents and incidents, we're searching for them nearly 50 times more often now than we were at any point since Google started collecting data — including when the infamous lost Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 that took over our breaking news banners in 2014.

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Facebook is Great, but Does it Really Work for Fundraising?

NetWits

That got me thinking more about how we, in the non-profit space, should look to learn from examples, trends and best practices found outside of our sector. By comparison only 70% of small businesses use Facebook as part of their online strategy. So here’s another great bit of learning for us. Fundraising via Social Networking.

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Raise the Board’s Financial IQ

.orgSource

Circulate articles and information on best practices and trends in finance. Developing a consistent format that allows for easy comparison across months and years. Offering online dashboards that make financial trends easy to spot. Ask fundraising or deferred giving experts to discuss estate planning. Online courses.

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A crash course on trends analysis using Candid’s Foundation 1000 data set 

Candid

One of the most common reasons people analyze Candid’s grant data is to understand year-over-year giving trends in the sector. So, you may be surprised to learn that when we do trends analyses at Candid, we often don’t start with our full data set. Be aware that it takes time to see trends. What is the Foundation 1000?

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A trajectory of trends in Advancing Human Rights  

Candid

Writing in a year of so much global unrest, we see this report as a baseline and an offering, a trajectory of the trends that helps identify places where philanthropy can better meet the needs of human rights movements around the world. . Key Findings . In 2018, 826 funders made 27,586 human rights grants totaling $3.7 We documented $3.7

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4 Generations of Volunteers: Global Research Insights on Generational Support

sgEngage

Current Volunteering Trends The volunteering landscape is continually evolving, influenced by social, economic, and technological changes. Interestingly, in comparison to participants who have donated, advocated, and promoted causes, volunteers and promoters are least likely to say that they don’t need recognition.