Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

1) Access to the internet in Mexico has grown very rapidly over the last decade. How has this impacted individual giving to NGOs in Mexico? Fundar is a 20-year old Mexican NGO in the filed of research and advocacy to fight corruption, impunity, and to adovcate for human rights. Is online giving growing rapidly as well?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Accessibility. Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

This is happening right now and over the next decade, I think Brazilian nonprofits will have more options at more accessible prices powered by the SaaS model. 72% prefer to be thanked for their donations by email, 10% via text message, 6% by print letter, 6% by print postcard, 5% by social media message, and 1% by phone call. ?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2012

My last visit to Cambodia was in 2007 and I remember how frustratingly slow the wifi felt compared to high speed access I enjoyed in the US. The speed and access to the Internet has changed dramatically. Having Internet access on the five hour drive from Phnom Penh from Siem Reap came in handy.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Cell Phone Solution: Easy Emergency Preparedness for Nonprofits. Remote Access Proves Critical to New Zealand NGO After Earthquake. CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs. Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition. How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

But we found this success actually worked against us in some cases, such as with the many instances of supporting organizations that share a physical address, legal identifier, URL, phone number, and most of their name (for example, XYZ Aquarium versus Friends of the XYZ Aquarium). Special Thanks. Also, as major v1.0 spanhidden.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. Its mission is to offer products and services that help telecenters become self-sustainable while providing low-cost public access to computers and the Internet.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Rather than a clever hacker directly targeting your nonprofit, your organization is more likely at risk from a software update you skipped in haste, a disgruntled employee who still has access to your cloud drive, or an unencrypted device left in an airport bathroom. So What Really Causes Data Breaches?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

PCs aren’t going away, but mobile devices (phones and tablets) are flooding in to the nonprofit workplace. That basically entails figuring out how to allow staff and volunteers to get work email, documents and other data on their own mobile devices – and what to do when phones and tablets get lost or stolen.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2010

CDI director Javier Figueroa reports: Thanks to the rapid response from CDI Chile's team and the initial funding from the Canadian Embassy, 10 days after the earthquake, the community of Lota has been the first to receive access to communications using the mobile telecentre. The trip has been supported by the Canadian Embassy and UNESCO.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. They include things like: Access/FileMaker databases on desktops or laptops. Mobile phones. Computers and phones require power, and whether batteries or electricity, if you don’t have it, you can’t work. Wikis/Blogs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Just having thousands of non-profits in a repository that is continually self-updated, which is inclusive and non-judgmental, is comprehensive and searchable and is accessible to the public, seemed like critical infrastructure for India’s philanthropy marketplace. We asked NGO leaders to join a dedicated broadcast list.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 27, 2007

I got a kick out the fact that one of my colleague's mother called her cell phone because she was worried about her transport home. This is primarily because they do not have Internet access or computers at home and their blogs, while work related aren't necessarily part of their formal job. These cell phones are popular.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above. Ready to enter?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones. AFP Blog points a story about a blackberry service outage that left millions of users without wireless e-mail access. Can cell phones ensure a free vote? Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. You could hear crackberry addicts screaming from miles away.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Any nonprofit or NGO can participate in Giving Tuesday, and there’s no payment or registration needed. Send save-the-date reminders and early access to your donation form beforehand, and on the day of, send your main donation appeal. What organizations can participate, and how do we register? You should also make it easy for them, too.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 1, 2023

Or maybe your nonprofit is actually an NGO based in another country. Do your beneficiaries have access to medical care once a month? Don’t forget things like legal and accounting services, insurance, website upkeep, internet, phone bills, and utilities. In this section, talk about whether you have employees or are all-volunteer.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

From Arkenstone to Bookshare The field of access to books by blind people is where Benetech has twice been the key engine of positive equilibrium change at scale, and we are already working on the third change. Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books. Enter the Born Accessible movement.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. It also can enable organizations to meet community needs by broadening access to healthcare, education, micro-banking and other essential services. . - Event Space Hacks: Two great ideas, unlimited open dialogue with peers.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Here are the plans: Salesforce1 for Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 will enable customers to access Salesforce and run their business from their Windows devices. Mifos provides a web app with mobile phone capability. It will allow microfinance field workers to do all their work on a phone. This should be available in 2015.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And it’s free with a phone plan. And another thing, make your communication accessible and inclusive. So in WhatsApp, you need to have the phone numbers of the person you’re communicating with. So WhatsApp uses your phone number. So you need a phone number to use WhatsApp. ” And in some other. .

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

In essence, we're being paid to deliver – free – accessible books to all students with print disabilities in the United States for the next five years. I'm especially excited about our efforts to reach students who haven't traditionally had access to assistive technology. I bet you're wondering what we must accomplish.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

This is a guest post by Eamon Stack, CEO of ENCLUDE , which is TechSoup's NGO partner organization in Ireland. They needed to sort out their communicatons: email, instant messaging, SMS, and phone, with Microsoft Office 365 (70% discount); and.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2015

We expanded this year to be able to provide product donations to pretty much any NGO in the world — 236 countries and territories to be exact. It enables users to designate a percentage (between 10 and 100 percent) of their sales to charity from their phones or tablets. It was a big year for TechSoup itself.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. So check that out when you get a chance and just see what it looks like, and see what it looks like on a phone because we want to bring people into these experiences as much as possible.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. Instagram's blog is a good place to see how nonprofits and NGOs are using the app. I expect we'll be hearing a good deal more about it in 2013.

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