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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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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. What's one of your favorite FORGE success stories? It's an empowering and inspirational story about how ultimately an organization doesn't have to create all the changes themselves.

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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. 100% of donations went directly to disaster relief. By the morning of the 14th, donations had already hit $3 Million. . Updated numbers from last week show mobile donations at over $31 Million!

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

Connection Cafe

We wanted to share stories of that help and local support, otherwise everything would have been confounded in misery. imagine living in a refugee camp in Kenya. Especially in a pandemic, stories are key for your marketing strategy. Individual teachers and schools were. Local communities were.

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An Interview With Paull Young from Charity:Water

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. For example, for my personal birthday fundraiser , I’ve been communicating regularly with my closest friends and family to connect them with the story of the rig. Tell me about charity:water’s approach/philosophy to measurement?

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