Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 29, 2019

Also, on October 8 in partnership with Nonprofit Tech for Good, Julia will be presenting a free webinar about how nonprofits can use social media to raise money online. It allows eligible nonprofit and individual accounts to raise money without leaving Instagram! . Here are 6 ways. .

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The Fundraising Authority

SEPTEMBER 10, 2022

If we raise everything we need now, we can focus on programs later.”. Statements of these are symptoms of a big problem at your non-profit. They are a sign that you, your board, or your team are waiting for a “magic bullet” to solve your fundraising problems. Or, “I think we should hold a huge gala event.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 30, 2018

By understanding how people make the decisions they do, your NPO can take strategic steps to raise more money and drum up more support, without running yourself ragged in the process. Here are five tips for using behavioral science theories to engage your supporters and raise more money for your NPO: 1. Here’s what you need to know.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 31, 2025

After making his mark in Silicon Valley, Icelandic designer and tech mogul Haraldur Halli Thorleifsson is now solving a far more analog problem: the inaccessibility of local storefronts. “These problems have been discussed for decades, often with very little progress. I had some money, and I was able to quickly raise more.

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Candid

OCTOBER 16, 2024

Despite the importance of raising money well, the majority of small to midsize nonprofits use suboptimal strategies—methods that are expensive, time-consuming, and yield only minimal returns on a lot of hard work. Tackling too much Many nonprofits try to solve more problems than they have the resources to address.

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Bloomerang

DECEMBER 27, 2024

— Mixed up about Metrics Dear Mixed up about Metrics, Too often nonprofits tell fundraisers they must raise $XXX XXX or else! Some fundraisers are expected, at minimum, to raise their salary. Some are told they must raise double their salary. I am looking to justify salary ranges, as well as appropriate metrics.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2020

To start, bring the problems your organization wants to fix into the light. In the last few decades, telethons were a valuable tool for raising money for nonprofit organizations. Some of the biggest streamers can raise half a million or more in a day, and all that money goes toward whatever their target nonprofit is for the stream.

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Futurism

APRIL 15, 2025

However, that doesn't mean we condone the kind of eyebrow-raising workout regimen TheCrookedMon chose for himself there are far better ways to design a unilateral training plan. And it's like, people have that problem?" I've the opposite problem. I get so many DMs I don't even have time to get through them all." "If

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 20, 2022

Nonprofit organizations often tackle complex problems with hard-to-communicate ideas and sometimes, static, 2D images and videos aren’t enough to explain the problem. Creating a 3D avatar or a Snapchat lens that raises awareness for the nonprofit’s cause stem from technology that AR and the Metaverse were built on.

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Candid

FEBRUARY 5, 2025

An organizational plan, the equivalent of a private-sector business plan, lays out a nonprofits mission, goals, programs, and strategies for raising and managing funds. Clearly define the social problem the organization is working to solve. Pick a big, hairy, audacious goal (BHAG) that is clear, measurable, and accountable.

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Mashable Tech

MARCH 26, 2025

But that contradicts the recommendation that standing for too long can cause circulation problems. Of course, it's also adjustable in height so you can use it as a sit-down desk or raise it to a comfortable standing height. Opens in a new window Credit: FlexiSpot FlexiSpot H7 adjustable standing desk (large) $99.98 at Amazon $149.99

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TechCrunch

APRIL 12, 2021

Typically , African financial institutions rely on using foreign technology solutions to solve their problems. Still, while it might present a problem to other companies, Emetarom says the company has no issue training promising junior talent to grow in expertise. Four years later, it raised $2.5

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TechCrunch

APRIL 21, 2021

In total, Okra has raised $4.5 An increasing clientele means increased problems which means more personnel to handle them. “We want to ensure that we’re solving our customers’ problems as fast as possible and give the clients the support they need. . Pngme raised $3 million in February.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 7, 2022

An alternative payment network with connected wallets allowing a mobile money user to transact with a bank account would fix this problem, and that’s the premise of Ghana-based fintech Dash. Today, the unified payments app is announcing that it has raised $32.8 million in an oversubscribed seed round.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

After years of bootstrapping, the company has raised $1.6 Despite raising just ? Having done this much with so little, why is the company raising a seed round now? The Techstars-backed company is actively fueling its expansion across Nigeria and Ghana having raised more than $1.5 Image Credits: Shuttlers.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 5, 2020

It causes non-profits to raise less money than they could, while expending far more energy and effort than necessary. The Problem. A failure to stay focused causes non-profits to miss out on opportunities to raise more money from the work they are already doing, or from the donors they already have. The Solution.

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Futurism

FEBRUARY 11, 2025

That's despite having founded his own AI company, dubbed xAI, a for-profit entity that has raised billions of dollars , much like OpenAI. In December, xAI raised $6 billion at a valuation of $50 billion , less than a third of what OpenAI was valued at the time. Many, many lawsuits, all sorts of other crazy stuff, now this.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 27, 2023

Mozaic (previously Jammber) is trying to solve this problem through its range of solutions including APIs and Chrome extensions. The company has raised a $20 million Series A round of funding from Volition […] © 2023 TechCrunch. And splitting payments with others is one of the biggest challenges for creators. All rights reserved.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Plot/Desire: In any good story, there’s a problem that becomes part of the plot of the story. And the hero has a desire to overcome that problem. For nonprofit storytelling, conflict really refers to the challenges that need to be overcome or maybe the circumstances that perpetuate the problem. So, always continue your story.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 1, 2021

Per Crunchbase , Twiga has raised over $100 million in both debt and equity financing rounds. Kenya’s Twiga Foods eyes West Africa after $30M raise led by Goldman. Today, the seven-year-old company is announcing a $50 million Series C round to scale its efforts in the East African nation and other neighbouring countries.

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The Fundraising Authority

DECEMBER 13, 2020

Last night, I was watching an old episode of The Office (US version) that brought a common non-profit problem to mind. that loses money, and claim that it will help raise their profile. In this episode , Michael is getting chided (over the phone) by the corporate office for spending too much money holding office parties.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 17, 2022

Many startups are solving these problems for African SMBs in one form or another, and the demand for their services has seen Ghanaian startup Float pick up a significant round of funding. That threw me into solving those problems with Float.”.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 18, 2022

Zambian card issuing fintech Union54 has raised $12 million in a seed extension round led by Tiger Global. Meanwhile, the company has learned these past few months that developing a card scheme is not a technical problem as it is a trust problem. — Perseus Mlambo (@perseusmlambo) January 13, 2022.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 19, 2022

In the latest development, Bumpa , one of them which says it is building the infrastructure to power online commerce and enable African small business owners to start, manage and grow their businesses from their mobile devices, has raised a $4 million seed round. .

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 24, 2019

The platform you choose should provide you with the capabilities to message supporters, see the collective amount raised, and understand how that number rolls up to your overall campaign total. If you think you can raise $5,000 but $15,000 is a major stretch, go for $5,000. Get fundraisers engaged early. Calm their concerns. “You

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Mashable Tech

APRIL 17, 2025

When the $80 price was first revealed, gamers immediately raised questions. And with ongoing tariff chaos , Nintendo likely has bigger problems. That's a political problem more than anything, and any potential solutions to it are well above my pay grade. You still can't pre-order the Switch 2 in the United States, after all.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 20, 2021

In total, Alerzo has raised more than $20 million since its launch. The need to solve this problem stemmed from observing firsthand the challenges his mom faced while operating two mom-and-pop stores. “Growing up in Ibadan, I watched my mother operate two informal retail stores to raise my three siblings and me.

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Fast Company Tech

MARCH 13, 2025

But a closer look at the underlying assumptions and design choices raises questions about whether this new system can truly deliver on its promises. Images: Meta] An unsolvable problem? Metas own oversight board has pointed out huge problems with the plan. And because just 12.5%

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 11, 2024

When raising money online (or offline) you must be able to succinctly answer this question for your potential donors: Why this? Data helps the reader or viewer understand that this problem needs to be addressed, and fast. Yep – the old-school, traditional, never-going-away principles of effective fundraising still apply.

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TechCrunch

JULY 27, 2021

Yoco’s portable card machines have proved masterful in solving this problem; when TechCrunch covered the company three years ago after its $16 million Series B raise, it had little over 30,000 merchants using its platform. South Africa’s Yoco raises $16 million to boost digital services to small businesses.

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TechCrunch

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

AltSchool, which is now Altitude Learning) has raised $1 million in pre-seed funding to scale its efforts, said chief executive Adewale Yusuf to TechCrunch. That’s one of the reasons we launched AltSchool because if a lot of people can have marketable skills, then I think we can solve a massive problem in the market.”.

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TechCrunch

OCTOBER 7, 2021

To that end, Ejara , a one-year-old company founded by Nelly Chatue-Diop, has raised $2 million to pioneer the usage of crypto and investment services in the region. ” In 2015, she got acquainted with blockchain and thought it was the perfect technology to solve the problems she faced while growing up. So it stayed on my mind.”

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 21, 2019

It creates a more holistic approach to raising more awareness, increasing your reach, and raising more money for your cause. Use peer-to-peer fundraising to leverage your supporters to raise money on your behalf. What you can do is layer social fundraising onto everything you’re already doing. Leaderboards. Dare Me campaigns.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

There was just one problem. Here are four different donor motivations and how you can use them in your fundraising to raise more gifts from members for your museum, cultural, or arts organization : 1. Was your museum or arts organization able to raise more gifts from members? Drop your strategy it in the chat!

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TechCrunch

MAY 4, 2022

His experience from this activity, coupled with working as a technical adviser to the vice president’s office in Nigeria a couple of months back, led him to launch Norebase , a trade tech startup that has raised $1 million in a pre-seed round.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 14, 2019

You need a moving story to get your supporters excited about helping you raise funds. What problem does this peer-to-peer fundraising campaign solve? Many of your supporters will be happy to participate and help you raise funds — but you have to ask ! And, your supporters need it to share with friends and family. Ask, clearly.

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Candid

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Without one, all kinds of problems can—and frequently do—arise. But all members can and should help raise funds from other sources–by soliciting other individual donors or using an employee matching gifts program. Or is doing too much? Can we ‘fire’ a board member?

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