Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 23, 2020

The data from GivingTuesday comes from their 2019 GivingTuesday Impact Report and the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report data is based on the survey responses of 2,263 GivingTuesday 2019 donors. From the 2020 Global Trends in Giving Report : 2) 9% of donors worldwide donated to a nonprofit, NGO, or charity on GivingTuesday 2019.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

But the agriculture industry itself only accounts for a little over 3% of all plastics used globally. And most of the world’s plastic goes to landfills, pollutes the environment or is burned. “Through global warming, we have less and less arable land to make crops on. Plastic is ubiquitous. But we need more crops.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 19, 2025

The Funder Safeguarding Collaborative (FSC)fiscally sponsored and co-founded by Global Fund for Childrenworks to create organizational practices and cultures in support of safeguarding. This article will highlight findings from a recent FSC report analyzing the challenges its U.S.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 6, 2023

“When the macroeconomic environment tumbled, the investors that were preaching D&I disappeared, and their implicit bias became more apparent.” founders picked up around 0.79% of VC funds raised in Q4 2022. and $681 billion globally). and $681 billion globally). That’s about 1%, a slight drop from the 1.3%

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.orgSource

DECEMBER 19, 2022

In fact, according to Gallup about 85 percent of people in the global workplace are either not engaged or disengaged. Create a Comfortable Environment. Budget funds for upgrades to home offices. The concepts can range from technology tools to work environment and process improvement, but the request must be specific.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

There are strict rules regarding what you can do to collect funds, and what you’re allowed to do with that money once you have it to retain your nonprofit status. Virtual reality does this by creating a digital environment that you can explore with a headset and headphones. 2) Donations via the Gaming Industry.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 4, 2019

Big Results for Nonprofits That Embrace Flexible Work Environments. A Call for Greater Financial Transparency and Global Effectiveness. Big Results for Nonprofits That Embrace Flexible Work Environments. A Call for Greater Financial Transparency and Global Effectiveness. Donor-Advised Funds. Dig in with us below.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 19, 2023

fintech funding since 2018, according to CB Insights’ State of Fintech 2022 Report. But overall, while total fintech funding globally was down markedly last year compared to 2021, numbers were still higher than 2020. Specifically, global fintech funding amounted to $75.2 fintech funding in 2022 was down 50% to $32.8

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 28, 2021

Read on to learn how Feeding America and The Global FoodBanking Network have recently stewarded their corporate donors on social media. They also have a keen focus on the broader environment, ensuring their content is relevant and appropriate to the moment. The Global FoodBanking Network.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 18, 2025

And Haiku has developed virtual twins of real-world digital networks to help train students and experts on cybersecurity operations and respond to diverse attacks through a game-like environment. Xreal announced in January 2024 it had raised an additional $60 million in funding for further development of its AR glasses.

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The NonProfit Times

DECEMBER 6, 2024

As traditional funding models shift and societal needs evolve, nonprofits are being called upon to adapt and innovate to create lasting change. This increased need is coupled with a potential shift in funding priorities, as philanthropic organizations and governments allocate more resources to address climate-related emergencies.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

29% of online donors say that social media is the communication tool that most inspires them to give [email 27%, website, 18%, print, 12%, TV ad 6%] (According to the Global Trends in Giving Report ). Along with urgency, clearly spell out how the funds will be used. Think of how we operate in a consumer environment. They don’t!

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 13, 2023

Africa seemed to defy the global venture funding decline in the first half of 2022 after its startups raised $3 billion, double the amount secured over a similar period the previous year. Africa predicted to experience sustained funding slowdown in 2023 by Annie Njanja originally published on TechCrunch.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 27, 2021

Union54 , the first Zambian startup backed by Y Combinator, has gotten another major venture capital firm on its term sheet: Tiger Global. San Francisco-based venture capital firm Runa Capital, Ace & Company, Todd & Rahul Angel Fund and Vibe VC participated. Tiger Global declined to comment on the investment.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 30, 2023

Impact investor Goodwell Investments and Oxfam Novib , a Dutch foundation and Oxfam International affiliate, have set up Pepea, a €20 million ($21.7m) fund, to provide financing to early-stage startups in Kenya, Uganda, and Ethiopia. Pepea’s long-term plan is to improve the quality and affordability of these necessities.

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TechCrunch

JULY 12, 2022

As the market swoons, venture capital firms continue to announce new funds. Meanwhile, I corresponded with three firms about their funds and any concerns that limited partners had brought up during the fundraising stage. As the global venture capital market slows, is the US dodging the downturn? billion in capital commitments.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

For nonprofits whose target audience is primarily underserved youth, the task of finding funding shouldn’t be difficult. See if any of the funders serve your community and if you qualify for funding. Funding Priority: Youth Programs. Funding Priority: Youth Programs. Global Fund for Children. Daniels Fund.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 22, 2021

The firm has an Amsterdam, Copenhagen and Tel Aviv presence, and now has a $160 million sack of funds to deploy across its focus areas: sustainability and technological innovation in the construction, real estate and manufacturing industries. Sebastian Peck and Talia Rafaeli are heading up the new sustainability fund for Kompas.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

The large difference is that most funders tend to direct a majority of their arts funding to local and regional organizations. So, while there are a few global and national options below, most are targeted to their communities. As this list makes clear, many foundations tend to primarily fund organizations in their city and/or state.

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Candid

MAY 4, 2022

The COVID-19 crisis has shined a spotlight on the value of philanthropy and, for this reason, many foundation representatives believe society at large will expect philanthropy to address global distress in the future. In addition to addressing the inequality gap, ensuring global equitable access to COVID-19 has become a moral responsibility.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 20, 2022

As consumers’ interest in the environment and nutrition rises, food-tech companies join the race to invent meat alternatives. In 2021, alternative seafood companies received $175 million in investment globally, increasing 92% from 2020. The new round of funding, which brings its total raised to $14.1

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

was spun out of gaming studio Bongfish with the intention, founder and CEO Michael Putz told me, of taking their world building technology beyond game environments. All these industries need synthetic environments. ” The $20M round was led by M12 (Microsoft’s venture fund) and Point72 Ventures. Blackshark.ai

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Remote and hybrid work have become the norm in business, and today a startup that’s building tools to improve how desktop computers behave in those scenarios is announcing a round of growth funding to expand its business. healthcare companies and four of the top six global telecoms carriers.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2022

It has been a hot sector for investors, and today’s news shows they aren’t slowing down in backing these startups just yet as Sokowatch , one of the major players in the space, announced that it has raised $125 million in Series B funding. TradeDepot raises $110M from IFC, Novastar to extend BNPL service to merchants across Africa.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 27, 2023

Three years after announcing its sixth fund, OpenView Venture Partners is back with $570 million in capital commitments for its new, seventh fund. It represents a 25% increase over the firm’s $450 million sixth fund, its largest to date. That gives you a range, and that range is from right about where we closed the fund.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

By Elizabeth Ngonzi , is an Adjunct Faculty at New York University Center for Global Affairs where she teaches Digital Storytelling, Innovation and Fundraising. She has worked with Candid, Cornell University, the United Nations, and Vital Voices Global Partnerships, among others.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

If you’re a nonprofit or local government agency or work alongside them, there is a good chance you have seen an uptick in funding possibilities within your field. COVID-19 took the world by surprise, and along with it came a government response with unprecedented spending and a massive increase in grant funding.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 26, 2022

But soon the company plans to expand its platform to include a passive investing product (robo funds) and crypto. Founders Fund Partner Matias Van Thienen said his firm had been looking for an investing and savings platform in Latin America that could offer global equities with a high-quality product and a suitable regulatory approach.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 19, 2021

He formed Regology to provide large global companies with a way to stay on top of these myriad regulations. He says that being diverse is essential in a business that is already looking at the regulatory environment in 25 countries. Goenka says that his company started by compiling a database of laws.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 17, 2021

The Atlanta-based startup, which has raised $30 million in a Series B round of funding led by Coatue, claims that in 2021, its software helped design and construction professionals avoid 5x more carbon than Tesla. . Enter cove.tool , a startup that wants to make sure buildings are sustainable by design from the moment of inception.

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.orgSource

JUNE 19, 2024

AGU is a global community supporting over half a million advocates and professionals. The Intersection of Culture and Technology I’ve been writing and thinking a lot about the intersection of culture and technology and how softer skills support a healthy work environment. A lot of what we do well as associations is collaborate.

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The NonProfit Times

SEPTEMBER 26, 2024

The announcement is a new Commitment to Action and comes as part of the 2024 Clinton Global Initiative Annual Meeting and includes mobilizing a diversity of resources to address the affordable housing need across 30 countries in the Global South, impacting at least an additional 171,000 families’ access to affordable housing finance solutions.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). 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. Is online giving growing rapidly as well?

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 20, 2023

The US one of the few markets where you can achieve decent scale, as well has have the potential to exit either trough a sale to one of the global tech platforms, or to the public markets. This is an unusual use of PE funds, and puts FLEX into a slightly different category to the average PE outfit.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2022

Last year, more than 20% of venture dollars went into fintech startups globally, according to CB Insights. But while this year’s pace of funding in the fintech space is noticeably slower — and falling — the fact remains that the sector still accounts for a significant share of venture funding globally.

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Fast Company Tech

APRIL 14, 2025

federal agencies, including the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the National Institutes of Health (NIH), following funding reductions by the Department of Government Efficiency (DOGE). Shenzhens emergence as a global innovation hub is a relevant factor. The recruitment effort has drawn scrutiny from U.S.

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sgEngage

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

People impacted by the grants typically have no say in who gets the funding, for what, how much, and for how long. It can perhaps best be described by the slogan of the global disability rights movement: “nothing about us without us.”. Those at the top decide. In recent years, that model is being challenged. But what is it?

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