Forum One

FEBRUARY 4, 2009

I'm in Kuwait for the 10th Annual Conference of the " Global Development Network ", a "global network of research and policy institutes that work on facilitating and applying research to policy development and practice." Suzanne Rainey wrote about this in another blog post on Getting More Out of Online & Offline Events ).

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VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Just this week, Points of Light released its Civic Life Today: A look at American Civic Engagement Amid a Global Pandemic report, which states that: Prior to the pandemic, voting and donations to nonprofits were the primary ways people participated in civic life. More on that in our next blog. Know the Research. So, stay tuned.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2009

From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog. Kevin considers Maneno, a new blogging platform intended specifically for low-bandwidth Web access. TechSoup.org and Adobe announce the 2009 Show Your Impact challenge. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. Tools Using the Web and Internet.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

This level of increased global philanthropy is worth a further look. The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4 Remittances.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 29, 2009

From the TechSoup Community: TechSoup Blog. Jim shows off a few more green gadgets from CES 2009. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. In case you missed it, here's what we've had to say over the past week. Robert warns of the Downadup worm, a potentially devastating new piece of malware.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 22, 2009

Today is Blog for Choice Day 2009 , an event organized by NARAL Pro-Choice America. Individual bloggers sign up and commit to devote at least one blog post on January 22 to the topic of choice. I like efforts like these to organize individual bloggers around a particular theme - Blog Action Day is another example.

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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2009

We just finished up our Global Summit, it's the last week of the TeleGreening campaign, and we're getting ready for N2Y4. Meanwhile, Connecting Up 2009 is going on in Sydney. TechSoup Blog. It's been a busy week in the TechSoup universe. From TechSoup Stock : Don't miss next week's special two-day offer from GrantStation.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 2, 2009

Well, time to get out your most awesomely-designed (yes, I did type MOST awesomely-designed) campaign materials and enter the 2009 Adobe Show Your Impact Nonprofit Design Contest ! We highlighted one of them here on the TechSoup Blog too. First round voting on submissions (open to all) is from April 16 – 30, 2009.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Global Entrepreneurship Week – This week is Global Entrepreneurship Week! " Download the report! . "The " Download the report!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. Indeed, I struggle with it often.

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sgEngage

APRIL 12, 2011

All Blackbaud Blogs Contact Us Blackbaud.com About Nonprofit Trends Books Research Reports Speaking 5 Good Nonprofit Infographics Posted by Steve MacLaughlin on April 12th, 2011 Who doesn’t love a good infographic? Read the entire report to learn more about global trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

Screen capture of video blog I was an early adopter of video blogging and screencasting. For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. In the last year or so, I've gotten away from it. I really miss making videos and screencasts. FLIP Camera.

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Camtasia Screencast Video Tanzania 56

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. .” Their solution is Microsoft YouthSpark. This youth panel was truly inspiring for me. A video of her story is here.

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Kenya Empowerment Global Africa 96

Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 19, 2009

There’s More to a Millennial than Updating Your Profile « - Here is a great response to a recent PRSA blog post that, in my opinion, took the premise that Millennial staffers are great as tools for social media but, gasp, heaven forbit they represent your organization! These are some links I wanted to share from September 19th.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 3, 2009

"we20 meetings will create people plans, policy plans, business plans and other plans on local, national and global issues. Nominations open for 2009 Social Innovation Fellowships | The Pop!Tech Tech Blog | Accelerating the Positive Impact of Worldchanging People and Ideas - "PopTech has opened nominations for the 2009 Pop!Tech

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

Last week, from my home office in Montreal, Canada, I wrote up 9 ambitious goals for 2009. Our efforts in these income-generating areas should start to prove themselves by February or March of 2009. In the meantime, we are asking for individual one-time donations to cover our costs through 02/02/2009. So, I gave $20.09

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2009

TechSoup Blog. Kevin reports from RSA 2009 on security awareness in schools and security concerns around cloud computing. Article: Go Green with Virtual Meetings and Web Conferencing. Ten Tips to TeleGreen Your Work. Conferencing Virtually : The Iowa Small Libraries Online Conference. read more.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 30, 2009

NEWS Below is a roundup of blog posts and podcast interviews I've published since my last Have Fun Do Good Link Love (where did the month go?): Blog Action Day is October 15th. The Case Foundation, Causes, and PARADE are joining together to present the 2009 America’s Giving Challenge , a national competition launching on October 7.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

On November 19th 2009, at The Paley Center for Media’s International Council Event, ThinkSocial will be recognizing three outstanding examples of innovation, featuring – an individual, an initiative and a collaboration between institutions, which together represent powerful models for how social media can be used to address global problems.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. You can register here. Players, who collectively average about 30 years old in the U.S.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 27, 2012

If you want to learn more about ocean acidification, watch this mini-documentary by the Natural Resources Defense Council, Acid Test: The Global Challenge of Ocean Acidification , and check out the links below the video. on NRDC Ocean Acidification This Way Comes: A Wake Up Call for California on The Blog Aquatic.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 16, 2009

The goal is to use the power of "Social Influence" via Twitter, Facebook, MySpace, Blogs and other online media to raise an unprecedented amount for our fund benefiting The Humane Society, LIVESTRONG, Oxfam America and WWF from June 1st until August 28th, 2009." " Tags: roundup bookmarks.

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Amy Sample Ward

SEPTEMBER 9, 2009

If you aren't using the micro-blogging tool at your organization, you can read some of the interviews with others who are to get some ideas! How a Small Nonprofit Used Social Media & Crowd-Sourcing to Win the 2009 Global Giving Challenge - frogloop Home~Care2’s blog for nonprofits - frogloop - "The goal was simple.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2009

The Twitter account was started with a focused goal of raising awareness about the release of the Global Climate Impacts in the United States report last June. They also tweet about real-time impacts, which usually is extreme weather and how that fits within the pattern of global warming. They rely only on credible sources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2011

Among the proposed new gTLDs is.NGO.NGO will be the exclusive domain for local and global non-governmental organizations looking to advance their missions or to inspire their communities. As senior marketing communications manager, Thuy took over marketing communications and web development for PIR in 2009. Guest post by Thuy LeDinh.

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Qgiv

MARCH 8, 2022

International Women’s Day is a global holiday to commemorate the achievements of women, and today we’re here to celebrate the amazing achievements of women in tech. Jennifer: I was doing marketing for a theme park in 2008 and due to a series of unfortunate events I found myself without a job in 2009 (anyone else?).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 5, 2016

Nonprofit data nerds will love this new resource from Media Impact Funders and Foundation Center called “ Foundation Maps for Media Funding ,” a free, interactive mapping and research tool that shows the full scope of philanthropically funded media projects worldwide since 2009. Location : Global, country, region, state and city.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 24, 2010

They have heavily promoted Facebook on their websites and blogs, at events and conferences. Time to start thinking of us as partners in your quest for global domination of the Internet, not just puppets. The answers are always the same: 1) From this blog. I track my blog traffic and very little comes from Facebook.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 10, 2009

Two weeks ago, I wrote up my prediction for fundraising trends for 2009. Then click here to start a Vigil this weekend -- and add it to the global map of thousands (<- there may already be one!). It's real time and location based social networks are also impacting advocacy.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

made me think again about the open-ended topic Ashoka posed in it’s “Blog your way to Hyderabad&# competition announcement: the interconnection between technology, invention and social change. This blog post is an entry in their competition to find the official blogger to travel to and cover the event.

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Change Technology India Social 108

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 8, 2009

I have 3 new posts up on WE tv's WE Volunteer blog : 60+ Network TV Shows Highlight Volunteerism Oct. Enter the 2009 America's Giving Challenge. Join DonorsChoose's 2009 Social Media Challenge to raise money for education. You could win a $5,000 or $2,500 donation in your name to the charity of your choice.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2010

Several TechSoup Global staffers recently participated in Foundation Week in Brussels. Originally publised on the GuideStar International Blog. As of November 2009, 194 countries have ratified it including all the members of the UN except Somalia and the United States. This post comes from executive assistant Janet Yao.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 15, 2009

They're debating climate change agreements and working to create a new set of global policies to help reduce climate change and its many negative impacts. Elliot wrote about the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 and it's potential importance to nonprofits on Blog Action Day in October.

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Denmark Change Green Policy 43

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 5, 2009

The 2009 NMC Symposium for the Future , the fourteenth in the NMC’s Series of Virtual Symposia (October 27-29th), will explore actual and potential applications of technology that could impact issues of global importance over the next five years and beyond. Jerry talked one benefit of this connectedness and openness is innovation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 12, 2010

We at the Diabetes Hands Foundation started the Big Blue Test in 2009 with a simple premise meant to raise awareness about the importance of physical activity for diabetes management: testing your blood sugar, exercising 14 minutes, testing your blood sugar again and sharing the results with the community. Once we launched the video on Nov.

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Tech Soup

MAY 13, 2011

In 2009, The Academy Award winning film The Cove used the activism platform to create one of the most successful causes , bringing together over 1 million people to end the dolphin slaughter in Japan. Make sure to read the full recap on the TechSoup blog.). ” Globally, people have more access to phones than the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2011

Earlier this week, I wrote a guest post over at FrogLoop blog about Five Social Media Books , although not everyone liked the post. I had the honor to interview him for this blog post back in 2009 -he’s a fantastic storyteller. Photo By h.koppdelaney. Michael Quinn Patton is the godfather of evaluation.

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