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“Technology has actually enabled us to be in touch with more people; our social networks have actually increased, and that’s true organizationally too,” she maintains. “We have the ability to reach a much greater set of people and have relationships with a much greater set of people. And, no, they’re not as meaningful. But I don’t have a really deep, meaningful relationship with the person that makes my coffee in the morning, and that’s fine — but I’m still very friendly with him.”

No. 2: Cell-phone fundraising
Thanks to greedy carriers and a less-than-efficient infrastructure, giving via mobile phone isn’t something that’s caught on yet in the United States — though our charitable counterparts around the world already have seen the light. According to Verclas, a smallish number of U.S. nonprofits are promoting activism and advocacy through text messaging, but only a handful are using it to raise money.