Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. The first social networking tool the organization utilized was MySpace is 2007. Organization: Women for Women International. Name: Lauren Shopp || lshopp@womenforwomen.org.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Nelson Mandela spent four-plus decades as an activist and freedom fighter and 27 years in prison because the demeaning National Party policy of apartheid in South Africa impeded black South Africans’ ability to live with human dignity. Out of that anguish was born the long struggle of the birth control movement. As we speak, Occupy Wall St.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 19, 2007

An estimated 80,000-150,000 people from all over the world will be attending the 2007 World Social Forum in Nairobi, Kenya January 20-25th. This is the first time it has been held in Africa. The blog is a partnership between The PANOS Institute West Africa, and Fahamu. World Social Forum Africa Nairobi activist

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2009

In his blog piece, he compares the new low-cost laptops called netbooks that were introduced by ASUS in 2007 with the emerging worldwide market of used desktop and laptop PCs. Nicholson's view is interesting because his job at Microsoft as Manager of Emerging Solutions and Refurbishment is their global expert on the subject.

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See3

DECEMBER 11, 2007

The video below is called “The Problem with Subsidies&# and it is a look at how US farm subsidies impact farmers in Africa. What I am struck by in this video is how, with world markets, you have a woman picking cotton by hand in Africa competing with a Texas cotton farmer with giant fields and giant equipment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2009

I have used social media to help raise the money for her tuition through the Sharing Foundation in 2007 and 2008. You can help out a friend or colleague, help Nedspace reach its rental goals and help send a couple of Cambodians to college and school in Africa. What could be better than that?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 31, 2007

3, Issue 1, June 2007. ???Stewarding 3, Issue 1, to be published in June 2007, will focus on innovative practices and uses of ???technologies Brenda Zulu is a Zambian freelance journalist and OneWorld Africa (OWA) volunteer editor. Submission deadline for the title and abstract 28 February 2007. Call for Papers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Life in Africa. More than just a gift, LiA is an experience that makes Africa feel closer.

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See3

JUNE 15, 2007

The program ended with a South African woman named Mama G, who thanked AJWS and its supporters for helping fight HIV/AIDS in Africa. Regards, Fran 16 Jun 2007 Yahoouj Really good work about this website was done. It was an amazing event. And she sang a thank you song that was moving and beautiful and upbeat.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I saw There.com at Virtual Worlds 2007 but did not focus as much on them, being more interested in just covering the whole event and making contacts, which are already proving to be very useful and helpful to me. I sent an IM to Jonathan Fanton about an African intitiated Virtual Africa portal to Second Life (see next post!).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

she worked on a program called the “African Peace and Development Initiative” at the NGO, World Learning for International Development , doing project backstopping for peacebuilding initiatives in East Africa. While in D.C., She is an alumna of Up With People and traveled as an Applied Education facilitator with Up with People last fall.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 13, 2007

Six Proposals That Impact Civil Society in Africa looked at the six Net2 attributes and africa location. NTC 2007 Pipe. Andy Carvin and Jonnie Goldstein interviewed a person from one of two projects based in Cambodia. Ten Tech Proposals Empowering Human Rights, Local Leadership, and Community Education is. Google Blog Search.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

Technology in Arts Conference The 2007 Technology in the Arts Conference is over but the conversations and resource sharing still continue on the conference wiki. Global NpTech Inveneo is a non-profit social enterprise whose mission is to get the tools of ICT to those in remote and rural communities in the developing world, mostly in Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

I am an Angelina Jolie fan, so after watching The Diary of Angelina Jolie and Dr. Jeffrey Sachs in Africa on MTV, I wanted to read his book. I hope to finish The Audacity of Hope by the early 2007, and to read The Omnivore's Dilemma next. End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs. I'll admit it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Activist, journalist, and singer, Marisa Handler , chronicles her activist journey, and the role spirituality played in it, in her 2007 memoir, Loyal to the Sky: Notes from an Activist. In terms of my own life, as I write in Loyal to the Sky , I grew up in apartheid South Africa. Essentially, I came to activism from compassion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The book is an expanded version of their seminal article in the Stanford Social Innovation Review from 2007, “Social Entrepreneurship: The Case for Definition.” Even though I’m a Skoll Award winner, it really made me think about my organization, Benetech, and what we are trying to accomplish.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 8, 2007

Canada: Sheila Watt-Cloutier, an Inuit activist, former chair of the Inuit Circumpolar Conference , and 2007 Nobel Peace Prize nominee. Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the president of Liberia, and Africa's first elected female head of state. Cuba: Laura Pollan, whose home is the headquarters for Damas en Blanco ( Ladies in White).

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. The organisation personifies Mandela’s words, but also acts as inspiration for his legacy to live on in Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Longtime Have Fun, Do Good Readers and Big Vision Podcast listeners may remember my interview with Dining for Women's Founder, Marsha Wallace, in September 2007. In 2007, we went to India, and we visited a program called Matrichaya , which we'll be supporting again in January of 2011. We have taken three trips so far.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional. Take this compelling example of how deep engagement can lead to better results from Wildlife Direct.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Second Life Relay for Life for 2007 volunteer blog is gearing up for this year's event, the third one in Second Life. Tobias Schonwetter, discusses the analogy between copyright law and culture in many regions of the world and an interview with Anna Badimo, chairperson of LinuxChix Africa. Change.org now also sports a widget.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

Denise of the Denise in Africa blog visited one of the program's facilities in Kigali. Kennedy New Frontier Award in 2007. In addition to supplying financial support, sponsors are asked to exchange letters each month with the woman they are helping. Sissel of the Sissel Byington Photography blog sponsors a women each year.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

They’ve created a global movement powerful that can respond to any conservation emergency anywhere more swiftly and efficiently than large bureaucratic agencies to reverse the catastrophic loss of habitats and species and secure the future of wildlife in Africa, Asia and around the world. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

I started doing this back in 2007 , when we won our first big federal contract for Bookshare, to take it from 3,000 students back then to more than 350,000 students now. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip. Next was two days of Capitol Hill lobbying. So, we fill in for them.

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