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

Nonprofit Tech for Good

According to the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law , there are 6,500+ NGOs registered with the NGOs Coordination Board in Kenya. Traditionally, NGOs in Kenya have depended on outside support from grant makers and wealthy individuals. 5) What you like the world to know about how NGO fundraising is developing in Kenya?

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The Internet Domain.NGO Should Serve Best Interests of Nonprofits Worldwide: Sign An Online Letter of Support

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Among the proposed new gTLDs is.NGO.NGO will be the exclusive domain for local and global non-governmental organizations looking to advance their missions or to inspire their communities. Here’s where you – my fellow NGOs and.ORG registrants – come in. As a fellow not-for-profit, we understand the needs and wants of the NGO community.

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Towards Global Access for the Print Disabled

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Policy Update from an engineer, Jim Fruchterman of Benetech June 8, 2010 The international copyright negotiations in Geneva around a proposed Treaty for the Visually Impaired (“TVI”) have been steadily heating up. Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!)

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The Davos Blur

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country. In the morning, I attended a session put on by the Young Global Leaders with six interesting proposals. Each hour there’s something memorable.

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Senators Urged To Protect NGOs Via Systems, Staffing, Sanctions

The NonProfit Times

Rutzen proposed a series of initiatives, including calling for the U.S. Gigauri testified that Georgian citizens had been struggling against the anti-NGO laws influenced by Russia which “… amplify Russian anti-Western disinformation, cultivate social division and undermine partnership with the U.S.

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A Few Social and Collaborative Fundraising Approaches

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Each team has put forth a proposal and they need to get 30 members to vote for the proposal within a month. Disclosure: I'm on the board of the Sharing Foundation and our NGO was nominated. The Omidyar Network has launched team-based collaborative funding projects. So, if you're Omidyar Network member, check it out.)

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Interview: Brigitte Hoyer Gosselink on the Google AI Impact Challenge

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Agency for International Development and for an international NGO. It is not necessary to use Google tools in order to create an AI project or create an eligible AI Impact Challenge proposal. My early career was in international development, working for the U.S.