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. If your nonprofit works in disaster relief, share a story of survival. Block, delete, ban, report, and move on.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Scott McNeil came to Benetech and we talked about their MetaMouse project (getting multiple mice to work on the same PC, so that kids in low-PC resource places can work together). Plus, we discussed much more exciting tech that's in the De Novo pipeline, contributing to areas Benetech is very interested in!

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NTEN

DECEMBER 28, 2011

The generosity of spirit of the NTEN community has helped us raise $10,547 to convene more local gatherings in 2012, but we still have a ways to go to reach our goal of $15,000 by December 31st. > > Please make a gift to support nonprofit technology in 2012. During our time in Africa, mobile phones became ubiquitous.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JUNE 11, 2012

Originally launched in February 2012 as an App Gallery with three “Giving” Apps , the “Giving” category has been dropped and the three Giving Apps replaced with two Lifestyles Apps and one Utilities App: App Center > Lifestyle > Causes. 1) New App Center Launched, “Giving” Category Dropped.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2012

In 2008, she asked for advice about raising money to go to Africa to help support the first community access television station opening in Ghana. I am a documentary filmmaker and video journalist, and I think of my work as a form of story telling and documenting. Now, fast forward to 2012. My background is in community media.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

Note: This article will focus on international development from my perspective working in an African country, although the questions raised are pertinent to any “developed” country or continent’s relationship to a “developing” region. It began with a bench, and how I came to be standing before that particular bench.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

Since 2012, thousands of nonprofits have run campaigns on CauseVox ’s fundraising platform. Obviously this event won’t work in warmer climates, but if you’re somewhere with distinct seasons, all you have to do is find a lake that will let you host your event. Yes, people will jump into ice cold water for your cause! Livestream Event.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 10, 2013

Sure, work is being done and lives are being improved, but the impact is often times minimal. Kony 2012 turned slacktivism on its head. In the end, Kony 2012 made some noise and was a success, but it was still considered slacktivism. A portion of sales from each shirt also aided the zoo’s work to conserve wild orangutans.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

The survey was fielded in February and March 2012. Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else. He also explains how npCloud’s new npVault service works that stores critical data and files in the cloud.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Sometimes the day-to-day work at a nonprofit can make you feel worlds apart from the fast-moving mobile tech industry. Adopting BYOD practices will make for a more flexible workplace and allow your staff and volunteers to work from their preferred devices. Windows Phone Evolves.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

Being only a small recurring donor to the Clinton Foundation, I was excited to find myself sitting across the desk of the former president at his New York office and hearing firsthand about the impact of the foundation's work in East Africa. A Highlight at the Recent Clinton Global Initiative Meeting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

I’m more thoughtful, less scattered, and enjoying my work more fully. Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012. I will be designing and facilitating capacity building programs in the Middle East, Africa, and India. Counter-intuitively, I’m more productive.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

In 2012, EU countries discarded 10.9 The summit provides an opportunity for people working in computer reuse and recycling to meet and learn from each other. There is extraordinary work being done in EU countries in a complicated regulatory environment. Million Ton Problem. million tons of electronic waste. and Canada.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. In any case, we are very interested in serving NGOs and their crucially important work in developing countries.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

[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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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. They do work to reverse the spread of violence by using the methods and strategies associated with disease control. Perhaps most impressively they are working in Syrian civil war.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

In this case, it's a recap of some of the big nonprofit technology stories of 2012. Top Nonprofit Technology Buzzwords of 2012. "Hackathon" was, in fact, one of Lucy Bernholz' top 10 philanthropy buzz words for 2012. By the way, Lucy Bernholz' top buzz word of 2012 was " data."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. It is far less work to slap together a powerpoint presentation and prepare the content. Working in Cohorts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I was working in financial services and my role was in the Managing Director’s office, which enabled me to gain an overview of running a large organisation. I was very fortunate that in October 2004 in South Africa, there was a meeting of social change market places that was convened, and I met Buzz Schmidt, Founder of GuideStar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

After completing the course, the students will be doing an internship as part of their field work, being placed in international organizations in the US and other places in the world. They will be doing a variety of work tasks (not just social media and networks). CERN (@CERN) July 4, 2012. sigma significance.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

I work as a trainer and capacity builder for nonprofits and technology and more lately social media and networked approaches. What challenges do women who tech in Africa and Middle East face? Are these similar or different than in the US? This is an important employment skill for them.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

Join us on February 16, 2012 at 2:00 PM ET for "eCampaign 2012 - Killer Tactics to Drive Elections Using Online Fundraising & Social Media" and hear from two experts who are working in the heart of Campaign 2012. In this webinar you will learn: New tactics for acquiring and converting online donor leads.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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