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Results of the African E-Waste and Refurbishment Standards Conference

Tech Soup

A couple weeks ago, I posted about an upcoming e-waste and refurbishment standards conference in South Africa that I was co-organizing. The event's purpose was to join industry and government in putting into action some of the precepts developed at the 2012 United Nation’s Pan-African Forum on E-Waste in Nairobi, Kenya.

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11 Creative Charity Fundraising Event Ideas

CauseVox

Since 2012, thousands of nonprofits have run campaigns on CauseVox ’s fundraising platform. Charity events don’t just raise money for your charity, they also help to engage your supporters and bring publicity to your cause. First, choose a day that means something to your organization or those you help. 5K/Marathon.

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Research Friday: The gift

ASU Lodestar Center

My days as an Ally are behind me, but the passion remains: in December of 2012 I found myself on a plane bound for a Tanzanian NGO. I tried to picture a bench like this in a “Western” classroom. Matthews makes the point that despite slight westernization, Africa remains rooted in indigenous languages and cultural norms.

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Mobile Trends Your Nonprofit Should Be Watching

Tech Soup

At the same time, smartphone cameras are getting better and better and more people are using them as their primary picture-taking gadget. On October 29, 2012, Microsoft released Windows Phone 8 , an update to its Windows Phone platform. Having some sort of mobile payment strategy can help you reach a wider donor audience.

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Tech Across Your Org: Program and Fundraising Innovation Sprung from an Internal Technology Project

NTEN

[Editor's note: The following is an article from the March 2012 issue of NTEN:Change. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty. First things first: we clean water for kids.

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How WhatsApp Is Being Used by Nonprofits in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders. They also find it more convenient to share scanned documents through WhatsApp as they use their phones to click pictures of documents.

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International Organizations and Social Media: News, Engagement, and Social Data for Policy Change

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

In 2014, it rang in the new year with a new series of its Internet data reports , which aggregate a range of statistics to help make some sense of what’s happening in terms of Internet usage around the globe. CERN (@CERN) July 4, 2012. Benchmark Studies and Examples. CMS : “we have observed a new boson with a mass of 125.3 ± 0.6

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