Candid

APRIL 16, 2021

The COVID-19 pandemic has disrupted public health systems and health service delivery for HIV, tuberculosis, and malaria in Africa and Asia, threatening to reverse the progress made to date against those diseases, a report from the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria finds.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

Bookshare International Library We’re always thinking about new ways in which Benetech could go deeper and help many more people. Bookshare , our flagship literacy program, is the world’s largest accessible library and currently serves more than 230,000 members with visual and learning disabilities.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. There is an opportunity to support small-scale farmers in accessing low-cost, connected technology to improve their efficiency and efficacy as producers — both during stable times and times of crisis. Why Small-Scale Farmers? These ideas are just the start.

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Candid

JANUARY 6, 2023

Candid’s Issue Lab provides access to more than 33,000 philanthropic resources, which include reports, studies, surveys, and toolkits that cover a variety of issue areas and are contributed by social sector organizations from around the world.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

Kiva applies the power of AI to make financial support accessible. billion people lack access to regulated financial services , such as credit cards and loans. By using this information, they are closer to achieving their mission of expanding financial access around the world in underserved communities. LEARN MORE.

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AFP Blog

AUGUST 30, 2012

Charity Grants Can Help Tech Solve Social Ills In Africa - Ventures Africa : Loren Treisman, trust executive for grant-making foundation Indigo Trust, believes that time has come for more charitable organisations to tap into technology to tackle social issues in Africa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

The service provides early access to new Twitter tools and a variety of unique features. Tweets with links have an 86% higher retweet rate and higher engagement overall because people are hesitant to retweet or engage with tweets that do not have a source or a call-to-action. Include a link in your tweets as often as possible.

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TechImpact

MAY 15, 2013

In places like rural Africa, reliable internet service is hard to come by.

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Candid

AUGUST 2, 2023

Whether it’s global heatwaves, flooding in Pakistan, Canadian wildfires that block out the sun, decade-long droughts in Africa, or ever more powerful hurricanes, natural disasters have our attention. As extreme weather makes front-page headlines year-round, each news cycle brings fresh evidence that we are living in unprecedented times.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Our vision is to use this power to end violence, discrimination, and disadvantage for young people and children. million young people and currently supports more than 250 programs in over 50 countries and territories. Among its successes: 72,878 children and young people became less socially isolated.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

From people in Latin America who face severe water scarcity to at-risk human rights defenders and students with disabilities, our users and their families are the ones who best convey the impact of our work. He reads accessible ebooks from Benetech’s Bookshare library in braille format, and learns as quickly as his peers without disabilities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 18, 2019

Sometimes it can be a place where people have the heart to serve, but do not have the business savviness to run a sustainable nonprofit. My journey began with a nonprofit called TechnoServe where I began utilizing my consulting skills as a volunteer consultant in East Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 19, 2013

Department of State, about empowering the world’s billion people with disabilities ; or to talking with my peer Skoll Award winners about writing software for development, social justice and human rights needs—CGI 2013 was a nonstop flow of sessions and exchanges with partners on ways to leverage resources towards each organization’s mission.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 29, 2011

We were introduced to Steve and Daproim through the great offices of Leila Janah and Samasource, the "Give Work" people. Leila's dream has been to connect the people of East Africa with dignified digital work, and connecting Steve to our Bookshare team has been highly successful for Daproim, Samasource and Bookshare!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

Together with partners like Salesforce, over the past 16 years (RED) has raised over $700 million dollars for global health, and (RED)-funded grants have impacted over 245 million people. We talk so much about prevention and treatment, but if you don’t have access to testing, none of that matters. 20 cents per day.

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Everyaction

JUNE 20, 2018

Refugees International ’s website, there are currently over 65 million people across the world who are displaced by war, conflict and persecution, and tens of millions more who have been displaced by climate events and natural disasters. Asylum Access. Refugees International According to. Pueblo Sin Fronteras.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

“Workarounds are effective, versatile, and accessible methods for tackling complex problems,” shares the author of the new book, The Four Workarounds. They can be a temporary patch to allow people to achieve goals more quickly, provide the opportunity to explore options outside the mainstream, or create a new precedent.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2016

With access to the information collected by a person’s smartphone, it’s probably straightforward to figure out everything important about that person. The government does not, and should not, have automatic access to every secret. Who they love. What religion they profess. We don’t allow our police to torture suspects for confessions.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

They currently partner with 48 local organizations in 17 countries that work to secure equal educational access and high-quality education for all children. Areas served: US, India, South Africa. The Global Fund For Children believes that educating children and youth is the key to building a more peaceful and just society.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

As Feynman said when asked about winning the Nobel Prize: “The prize is the pleasure of finding the thing out, the kick in the discovery, the observation that other people use it [my work].” Support open data, open access to research, open content and open source. I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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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 currently raising funds for a story that I believe needs to be told about the 2011 people’s uprising in Madison, Wisconsin. My background is in community media.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

The Conservation, Food and Health Foundation seeks to protect natural resources, improve the production and distribution of food, and promote public health in Asia, Africa, Latin America, and the Middle East. Areas served: Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East. National Forest Foundation.

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NetWits

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

You might be proud of your custom Facebook page and how many people follow you on Twitter. The United Nations Foundation made the massive health issue of malaria in Africa accessible with its easy-to-use Nothing But Nets game. Maybe you just won a prestigious award and issued a press release. The cost of entry is low.

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Greater Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The more people know about the organization they’re contributing to and how those organizations are making a difference in the community, the more likely they’ll be willing and excited participants at future events! You don’t want people thinking “ Well if my friend gave money last year, then I should too.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

I’m not one to jump into a freezing cold lake, but I know plenty of people who are thrill-seekers and adventurers who would love to have a polar plunge checked off their list. Yes, people will jump into ice cold water for your cause! If you want to make something more accessible, Yeah! Donation Match Drive. Personal Challenge.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. ” I learned later from Cheryl that she has conducted this exercise for many leadership programs throughout Africa and had learned it from her mentor, Birgitt Williams , who is an international expert in holistic leadership and design of participatory programs.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 6, 2015

Alongside Africa is a tiny nonprofit: half a dozen people generally working from their homes in the UK to support an even smaller handful based across Uganda. "Nevertheless, we know that at any one time we might have 600 or 700 people reliant on us. Images: Alongside Africa'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

Over the next two weeks, I will be sharing what I learn about the connections of networks, networked approaches, and social media for Women’s Rights NGOs in Africa. I took a deep dive with Twitter to discover where African women are tweeting after seeing this report, “ How Africa Tweets ” and focused in on Rwanda.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

We had just won a large contract to deliver high-quality accessible textbooks to students with disabilities in the U.S., We get great services from Daproim, and we know that our money is also supporting the development of the new Africa through its smart yet disadvantaged students! and we needed more help.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

Although our efforts on RtF are mainly around serving people with disabilities, we are open to thinking more broadly about how these technologies could benefit more people. She had been working in public health in Africa before heading to Stanford. After all, that's the whole point of universal design ! Thanks, Joy!

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

Uganda is no different except for one thing: its amazing NetSquared Regional Ambassador for East Africa, Robert Kibaya. As an unpaid volunteer, he organizes NetSquared in-person events where people from NGOs from all over the region come to talk shop and help each other. We have people who come from NGOs such as the Cape of Good Hope.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

Effective storytelling means nonprofits can reach more people, touch more hearts, and create bigger impact. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

multilaterals, and high-impact entrepreneurs in the social media space, mostly from the western world and Africa, besides others. most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. development in Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 9, 2007

The best part of my job is brainstorming with brilliant, passionate people around social issues. They can participate in a world accessible to them without having a disability. Of course, Second Life is completely inaccessible to blind people right now. When teacher is present, it's about textbook access.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 2, 2014

Cambridge, United Kingdom: Story Time: Empowering People with Technology. Honolulu, HI: Extraordinary Machine: Public Access to Public Domain Movie Screening. Honolulu, HI: Extraordinary Machine: Public Access to Public Domain Workshop. London, United Kingdom: Digital Storytelling. September 25. September 30. North America.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Organization Mission: The California State Parks Foundation delivers innovative solutions for an excellent park system by facilitating park improvements, inspiring stewardship, supporting partners, advocating for sound policies, and connecting people to 280 state parks to enjoy now and for generations to come. Connect with WildAid: .

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