Certainly the driving force of both Facebook’s tangled outreach – outreach that defaults to sharing most everything with most everybody – is money: Facebook’s advertisements are at the forefront of its revenue intake. MORE

Fundraisers with an international perspective noted that cheque-writers were already in the minority … Richard Pordes described the wide use of credit cards and GIROs in Asia and South America. “packages&# will continue to exist and be used, with components tailored to existing banking processes and ways of giving that give consumers choice and a sense of control over their money and charitable choices." MORE

He decided to focus on bringing clean water to those in need in Africa and Asia, and founded a new organization, charity:water. Fabulous … can you beat this for knowing where your money went?! NY Times columnist Nicholas Kristof just wrote the fascinating story of Scott Harrison, a fundraiser and skillful marketer who, as Kristof puts its, is making clean water sexy. Some important fundraising lessons here. MORE

The Gates Foundation has been criticized in recent years for both their overseas seed distribution to impoverished farmers programs (in both parts of Africa and southeast Asia) and also in their education programs, here at home, in the United States (and by this blog's author on both fronts), to name two. The first attempt to "monetize" food production took place a generation ago in Southeast Asia and India. MORE

Mortenson’s control of the Central Asia Institute (the nonprofit he founded) went largely unchallenged by its board of directors, which consisted of himself and two people loyal to him," and "When an employee would question his practices, Mortenson either resisted or ignored the person, the report found." This week, headlines have risen declaring that Greg Mortenson was found to have mis-manged his nonprofit organization, after a year long investigation, and must repay it $1 million. MORE

I’m not going to get more money; I’m not going to get more cops. Canada, Europe or Asia — DonorTrends offers a FREE Master File Audit & Action Plan, a custom audit of your full donor file t o show you how donor scores can improve fundraising results while saving you time, money, and frustration. Last week CBS News aired a piece on “Predictive Policing” that offers an important analogy to our world of fundraising. MORE

with all respect to those lovely people who are giving up their money ? You can’t just rely on sending out packages and getting the money in. After that come things like the type of charity: a young offenders charity is going to be tougher to raise money for than kids with cancer. Interestingly, in Southeast Asia 90% of individual fundraising growth comes from monthly giving. That’s the single biggest driver of growth in Asia, Australia and Europe. MORE

She is passionate about helping nonprofits raise money and increase community awareness. Somya has over 12 years of experience in strategy, marketing, nonprofit management and engineering across America, Europe and Asia. Somya Qureshi. MORE