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Giving Trends in Mexico: Millennials and Gen Z Drive Rise in Online Giving

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Our government is discussing providing free wifi throughout in Mexico City which is a very good sign for crowdfunding and even better for NGOs funding. Fundar is a 20-year old Mexican NGO in the filed of research and advocacy to fight corruption, impunity, and to adovcate for human rights.

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

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The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya. 4) What is your best piece of fundraising and online communication advice for Kenya NGOs when it comes to raising money through crowdfunding?

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Digital Volunteerism – Effective Disaster Relief the GreenTech Way

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The January 12, 2010 catastrophic earthquake in Haiti showed some of the astonishing potential for volunteer-based digital disaster relief. 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. Twitter uses hashtags.

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TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey: What We Found Out and What To Do About It – Part Three

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We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had more time to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. What Are the Biggest Barriers to More Widespread NGO Migration to the Cloud? Find the first and second post in this series online.

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Giving Trends in Brazil: How Crowdfunding & Social Entrepreneurs Are Transforming the Nonprofit Sector

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72% prefer to be thanked for their donations by email, 10% via text message, 6% by print letter, 6% by print postcard, 5% by social media message, and 1% by phone call. ? Of those that give to crowdfunding campaigns, 18% say that they give less to NGOs due to their financial support of crowdfunding campaigns. ?

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Update from CDI Mobile Telecentre and How You Can Help

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For at least another day the telecentre will stay in Lota to later move on to the next town and NGO. Skype has made an in-kind donation, allowing CDI to let people make free Skype-to-phone calls. Javier offered these poignant thoughts on why it's essential to support local NGOs in a time of disaster: read more.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

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PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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