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Tag Archives: mobile phone
Eight Must-Read Reports for Digitally Fundraising Nonprofits
( May 29, 2012 ) Tags: mobile phone, online, social mediaNonprofit Tech 2.0: A Social Media Guide for Nonprofits presents a list of eight must-read reports about online communications and fundraising, social media, and mobile technology.
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Reasearch Shows Mobile Phones are Growing More Important as a Platform for Donations
( March 19, 2012 ) Tags: mobile phone, text donationThe Pew Research Center’s Internet & American Life Project recently released a new report – Real Time Charitable Giving – that focuses on donations made via mobile phones. This report is based on interviews with 863 individuals who gave to the “Text for Haiti” campaign on their cell phones.
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“Spring” – A New Project Launched to Promote Online Giving
( September 30, 2011 ) Tags: donations, mobile phone, onlineBridger is here to launch ‘Spring’*, a new project to promote giving online and through mobile phones run by the Big Society Network (a nonprofit that is increasingly the brains trust of British Prime Minister David Cameron’s Big Society project).
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Snooze App Lets Users Donate To Charity By Oversleeping
( September 13, 2011 ) Tags: donations, mobile phone, technologyGiving has become increasingly effortless with text-to-donate and other click-of-a-button tools, but a new app has made donating even simpler. So simple, that you can do it in your sleep.
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(UK) Thousands of Charities Join Vodafone’s Free Text Donation Service
( July 6, 2011 ) Tags: donations, mobile phone, text donation, UK, VodafoneThousands of charities have now registered for Vodafone’s online donation service JustGiving to allow the UK’s 50 million mobile phone users to give money to charity, free of charge, by text message.
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RT @pernillan: Ready for the #IATI virtual roundtable on geocoding - using a round table of course! @ World Bank http://t.co/RRBuNdRdIG
Watch this great animation from our friends at @UNICEF_UK on nutrition in the first 1000 days of life: http://t.co/1PUnvI8J5a
Who says Millennials are apathetic? 
Is growing pot indoors bad for the environment? 
Costs & Benefits of Labour Mobility between the #EU & the Eastern Partnership Countries- Today final seminar http://t.co/CErk0inV6L
RT @jpstijns: Great news for #Africa: #EU rushes out corporate #tax transparency law http://t.co/7g7wvTWKDF @FT Recommendation of AEO 2010!
IRS Veteran to Replace Lois Lerner in IRS Nonprofit Division 
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After 50 years of brutal military rule, Myanmar’s democratic opening has been swift and startling http://t.co/beFRojtk6o via @TheEconomist
Fascinating how many people are framing Compartamos results positively. Few years ago, would have been perceived very negatively
@luvhornsnhorses Thanks for the RT!
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Top #charity news: SCVO writes scathing response to OSCR guidance on political campaigning (this + lots more) http://t.co/2BvA9K3E36
RT @1ambodo: @TheAtlanticGLBL @TheAtlantic @aiddata this map explores climate vulnerability, aid, & conflict links in Malawi http://t.co/Ax…
Foreign Assistance Dashboard now includes data from Treasury and Defense http://t.co/MnSlBy4RwJ via @SJStaats @willmckitterick
RT @siwhitehouse: RT @pernillan Ready for the #IATI virtual roundtable on geocoding - using a round table of course! @ World Bank...
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