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A Day Trip the Hague, Netherlands: International City of Peace and Justice

Nonprofit Tech for Good

For many years I’ve wanted to visit the Hague, Netherlands. I was in the Netherlands for the International Fundraising Congress and without a scheduled agenda and only the hope of meeting some NGOs staff, I took the train down from Amsterdam and wandered the streets with a smartphone in hand and an international data plan.

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Interview: Social Media and Social Entrepreneurs

Amy Sample Ward

This past weekend I had the opportunity to be in Rotterdam, Netherlands, for the European Summit. There I met Petra Kroon in person, someone I follow online in the nonprofit technology space. It’s always great to meet offline with folks you’ve already had conversations with online.

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2009 State of the Not-For-Profit Industry UK Survey Results

NetWits

The results were unveiled at the International Fundraising Congress in the Netherlands. Blackbaud teamed up with The Resource Alliance for the second year in a row to produce this pan-European benchmarking study.

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Global philanthropy responds to the Ukraine crisis

Candid

The United States, United Kingdom, Denmark, the Netherlands, Germany, and Japan account for 91% of total grant funding for Ukraine to date. The United States accounts for 54% of total grants and dollar value, followed by the United Kingdom, Denmark, and the Netherlands, which together account for 15% of grants and 26% of total dollar value.

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Building Better Relationships Through Data & Insight

Saleforce Nonprofit

For Oranje Fonds, the largest social cohesion organisation in the Netherlands, this has been its key mission from the start. At the community level, this includes Oranje Fonds’ annual Neighbours Day in September, which sees people all over the Netherlands come together to help others in their neighbourhoods.

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Invention, Technology and Social Change: What’s driving you?

Amy Sample Ward

I was interviewed recently by Petra Kroon , a blogger focused on social media and entrepreneurship in The Netherlands, in which she asked some really great questions, including what I thought the trend would be for social entrepreneurship in 2010 as well as where we may be in 25 years.

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5 takeaways on trust in NGOs to manage new innovations and technologies 

Candid

Respondents in six wealthier nations—the Netherlands, South Korea, the United Kingdom, Sweden, Germany, and Japan—fewer than half of respondents trusted NGOs. In China, however, the level of trust in NGOs fell significantly from the previous year. By comparison, business was trusted in 15 countries and distrusted in two.