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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. According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. Why is that?

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How to use social media to inspire 40,000 people to give on one day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Since I’m enroute to Kenya, I invited Jeff Achen to share his thoughts. This incredible online fund raising event raised more than $14 million last year, and we’re hoping to raise the bar higher this year by engaging more than 40,000 donors to donate to any of Minnesota’s more than 26,000 nonprofits using GiveMN.org.

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How Nonprofits Have Reframed Their Messaging in the Wake of COVID-19

Connection Cafe

That network supports local leaders in improving education policy through advocacy. Local communities were. We wanted to share stories of that help and local support, otherwise everything would have been confounded in misery. We had to work closely to support local clubs in navigating this. People have lost their jobs.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. I was in high school, I was 17 and my first trip to Africa was to Kenya with my family, just on a picture safari. Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room.

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Abby Rosenheck, Urban Sprouts, Interview Transcript

Have Fun - Do Good

As I mentioned in yesterday's post, I splurged and got the interviews I've been doing for my podcast transcribed by CastingWords, so I'll be posting an interview each day this week. Yesterday I posted the transcript from my interview with Ilyse Hogue of the Rainforest Action Network. I like CastingWords overall. Britt Bravo: Hi!

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The Social Media Response to Disaster in Haiti

NTEN

Ushahidi was originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more.

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Tools to End Poverty: An Interview with Martin Fisher of KickStart

Have Fun - Do Good

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. For example, in Kenya, only 7% of the population, of the labor force, has a job in the formal private sector. They live about 40 miles outside of the big city in Kenya, Nairobi.