YouTube and aid: How NGOs can harness the power for good | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian

YouTube and aid: How NGOs can harness the power for good | Global Development Professionals Network | The Guardian: "The biggest difficulty for charities wanting to collaborate with YouTubers is discovering a personality that fits with their own brand. YouTubers have their own styles, narratives and tone of voice. They know how to talk to their fans and charities understand how they want to be positioned in the sector, so finding a mutually beneficial relationship is the most important factor for collaborations."



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Geek teams on two continents write poverty-breaking apps for Kenya | Reuters

Geek teams on two continents write poverty-breaking apps for Kenya | Reuters: "The Nov. 20-22

Poverty Hackathon will be the first international development-focused virtual hackathon - taking place on two continents simultaneously, the organizers say.

"While it’s not common for hackathons to have virtual teams working together, we think it’s a core component of actually making impact," said Canadian Danielle Thé, who set up the charity Devs Without Borders in Toronto earlier this year."



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White House-Backed Kickstarter Campaign Raises Refugee Aid - The Chronicle of Philanthropy

White House-Backed Kickstarter Campaign Raises Refugee Aid - The Chronicle of Philanthropy: "At the request of the Obama administration, crowdfunding site Kickstarter is hosting its first humanitarian campaign, aimed at raising money to help Syrian refugees, The New York Times reports. The weeklong fundraising event for the United Nations refugee agency was launched Tuesday, and by Wednesday morning had surpassed its initial $735,000 goal, an amount the agency said would provide immediate assistance to 3,000 people."



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Chatting about Social Media Ethics with David Tinker, CFRE, and Lisa Chmiola, CFRE - Resource Center - AFP

Chatting about Social Media Ethics with David Tinker, CFRE, and Lisa Chmiola, CFRE - Resource Center - AFP: "Engaging with donors online is now a must, and more and more social media platforms provide not just access to individuals, but also to a great deal of personal information about those individuals. But as someone once said to a certain web-slinging superhero, “with great power comes great responsibility.” That applies to access to information as well."



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Video: Facebook Says Thank You to Its Users for Donating Millions During Nepal Earthquake - India Real Time - WSJ

Video: Facebook Says Thank You to Its Users for Donating Millions During Nepal Earthquake - India Real Time - WSJ: "Six months on, funds worth more than $15 million have been raised through the feature, according to the social-media company, and on Tuesday, Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg posted a video chronicling how the money had been spent, from distribution of medicines to providing reproductive health services and surgical care.

According to the video, the donations allowed International Medical Corps to provide aid to 200,000 people in the aftermath of the two major earthquakes in April and May in the tiny Himalayan nation."



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Smart mapping tech helps deliver more food to Singapore’s most needy | Press Releases | Asia | Sustainable Business

Smart mapping tech helps deliver more food to Singapore’s most needy | Press Releases | Asia | Sustainable Business: "Thanks to state-of-the-art mapping technology, one of Singapore’s most loved non-profit organisations is making their food donation programme ‘smarter’ than ever before.

Anson Quek, Executive Director of Food from the Heart (FFTH), said the charity’s high productivity can be attributed to their recent adoption of a customised smart mapping application."



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Digital Annual Reports Click With Donors - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times

Digital Annual Reports Click With Donors - The NonProfit TimesThe NonProfit Times: "The trend of interactive, digital annual reports has been gaining steam since at least 2011, according to Scott Martin, executive vice president and chief marketing officer at Hauppauge, N.Y.-headquartered design firm Curran and Connors. “It started with a PDF version and migrated to microsites,” said Martin. “There’s a trend of (reports) becoming more rich and robust because more content is going in. There’s a lot more you can do with the content.”"



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