Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 17, 2009

That they are number 10,000 is completely random, but I am pleased that it is an organization with a mission dear to my heart. Their first project is a secondary school for 1,200 girls in Afghanistan where the female literacy rate is only 12%. Also known as Project Wonkhai, the school opened it’s doors in March 2009.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Amazingly, the organization has surpassed this goal and (as of this article) has raised $11,547. If your organization is a registered 501(c)(3), you're likely already in Razoo's system.

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Qgiv

JULY 10, 2023

Finding the balance in your organization. Recognize that in the traditional Organization-Donor-Constituent triad there is now a 4 th component: Community. Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life. There is, frankly, revenue risk with any sudden change in messaging.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

10,000 Villages Online Store: One of the world’s largest fair trade organizations and a founding member of the World Fair Trade Organization (WFTO), 10,000 Villages offers gifts and accessories representing the diverse cultures of artisans from 38 countries.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Amazingly, the organization has surpassed this goal and (as of this article) has raised $11,547. If your organization is a registered 501(c)(3), you're likely already in Razoo's system.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 22, 2016

A photo posted by Nonprofit Organizations (@nonprofitorgs) on Oct 17, 2016 at 5:01am PDT. What a friendly, welcoming #NGO – the Dutch office of the International Fund for Animal Welfare (@IFAW) – an organization working for the conservation of wild animals worldwide. HagueDayTrip. This one of donkeys caught my eye.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Conversion Rate Once your organization has a bustling community of supporters on social media, how do you channel their enthusiasm into meaningful impact? How to Improve Your Conversion Rate If your organization is experiencing high engagement, yet low conversions, there are several easy ways you can improve your results.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Organization: Women for Women International. Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. What was the very first social media tool your organization utilized, and when? Title: Multimedia/Online Coordinator.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2017

That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Microsoft is also working with many other fantastic nonprofit organizations to highlight the experiences of refugee youth. Our vision is simply to build a community and resource hub to equip more refugee-serving organizations.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

I've posted a couple of times about giving circles, groups of people who get together to learn about an organization's work, and pool their donations to have a greater impact. Salbi is the President of Women for Women International , an organization that helps women affected by war to rebuild their lives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

He shared incredible stories from over two decades of providing rehabilitation for disabled people in Afghanistan. Some of those structures include: – Three-Act Structure is a classic approach to organizing your story for emotional impact. Your essay must focus on one specific nonprofit organization.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

With that much success, it’s easy to see why your organization should use it for your biggest fundraising push of the year! This means that in most cases (though we’ll walk through a few exceptions) your supporters start individual fundraisers on their own to raise funds on behalf of your organization.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

These individuals undertook organizing, fundraising, and advocacy – activities that were once only in the control of nonprofits – outside the “control” of nonprofits. Free Agents still find creative ways to make a difference today. And that’s why I’m supporting Giving Tuesday. What about you?

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2011

The Rucksack" -- a cutting-edge project that I led recently for the Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America (IAVA) -- is an especially powerful example of an organization using technology in a strategic and transformative way. It describes the project from more of a strategic perspective than a technical one.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

I was excited about Fab-Fi , Fab Lab's name for the simple directional antennas they're using to build a mesh wireless network all over Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Tags: Community Tech Centers Digital Divide Running Your Organization Spotlight. Of course, to get the full effect of what's cool about Fab Lab, it's useful to take a step back.

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NTEN

DECEMBER 1, 2013

Find them all at GivingTuesday.org 2-1-1 Tampa Bay Cares, Inc.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

A recent study shows that, for every 1000 email subscribers, nonprofit organizations have 13 mobile subscribers. Text messages allow organizations to contact donors in real time, making texting an efficient tool in fundraising campaigns. Cesvi Fondazione Onlus is a humanitarian organization that works with over 30 different countries.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This empowers them to create greater outcomes for your organization. For example, consider creating groups for supporters in certain geographic locations, those who host P2P fundraisers, those who volunteer, or even those who participate in advocacy efforts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Traveling Postcards is a humanitarian organization that is gathering women’s voices worldwide, and creating a traveling collection of visual and written wisdom that so many women hold in their hearts. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations. 826 National is a family of seven nonprofit organizations dedicated to helping students, ages 6-18, with expository and creative writing. NRDC a nation-wide environmental action organization that uses law, science and the support of 1.2 the rest of the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 16, 2008

Rather, it is a do-good adventure story of a former mountain climber who has spent almost 15 years building schools in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. education book Pakistan Afghanistan Kyrgyzstan Mongolia I'll pick three people from the comments at random.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

Jake Wood , author of, Take Command , weaves together hard-learned lessons in leadership and teamwork from his experiences in college football , as a former Marine sniper and as cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon -- a disaster relief organization that unites military veterans with first responders deployed to areas hit by natural disasters.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

There needs to be transparency and expectations that not only protect donors, but also other individuals and organizations who involved in crowdfunding campaigns. They've also hosted some successful nonprofit campaigns: Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace raised over $10,000 on its Indiegogo campaign. The HealBe Scandal.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

As a result, they often fail to notice organizations or causes that are not constantly in their faces in a flashy and memorable way. He used his best-selling books T hree Cups of Tea and Stones into Schools to promote the cause of his organization. Thus, philanthropy and charity work are driven by attention like never before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

I have been providing strategic support to charitable organizations about how to use the internet and technology to engage, educate, and ultimately mobilize audiences – and especially raise money online – for almost a decade. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. This is not some crazy idea or gimmicky technology solution.

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

” Also, add the Twitter handle of organizations and influential people who are likely to be interested. Featured Photo: Using Texting to Increase Literacy in Afghanistan by Afghan Institute of Learning. This will broaden your audience. People come to Instagram for creative, authentic and non-commercial visuals.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

This empowers them to create greater outcomes for your organization. For example, consider creating groups for supporters in certain geographic locations, those who host P2P fundraisers, those who volunteer, or even those who participate in advocacy efforts.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

lead her to demonstrate outside the Chinese embassy in London, travel to Tibet, jump out of a plane to raise money, organize a 50-foot banner of the Dalai Lama to be unfurled from Nelson's column, and meet the Dalai Lama. They created the Small Planet Fund to support the people and organizations that they met on their trip.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2008

Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations by Clay Shirky What I loved about Shirky's book was that it wasn't about Web 2.0 The conference organizers had so many requests for copies of his speech that Farrell was nice enough to let them post it online. tools, it was about how Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Betty Christiansen's book, Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time , captures 28 stories of people and organizations who are using knitting to comfort, empower and heal. Last week I wrote about my Favorite Do-Good Books of 2006. This one definitely tops my list, and I don't even knit.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

But there are major barriers between registered nonprofit organizations, well-intentioned companies, and passionate donors that could collaborate to meet those needs. Additionally, the information on each of those organizations is stored in a 2GB file—the equivalent of a pile of 20,000 documents. And it multiplies impact immensely!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. With that in mind, here are three other organizations that are working to break the bias for girls and women across the world. Credit: GOLEES.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

It felt to me like coming out of the closet when I began talking about spiritual practice with my activist friends"--Marisa Handler The more I write about organizations and individuals who are creating social change, the more I realize that to create true change, we need to change our inner world and our outer world.

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Non Profit Quarterly

DECEMBER 15, 2021

As we have engaged with movement communities, nonprofits, and funders, we have sometimes encountered unease about engaging with an organization from the “tech world.” Our approach to funding gave us freedom to cultivate a growing network of collectives, fiscal hosts, contributors, and organizers. A tech start-up.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. Because they make it easy to find your local farmer’s markets and organic food producers. National Organization of Women (NOW). Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. Local Harvest.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

When the Afghanistan crisis reared its ugly head again this year, a group of veterans, active-duty service members, former government officials, civil servants, and nonprofit organizations came together to work online to help individuals and families evacuate the country. But what about those tools that weren’t?

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