Everyaction

JUNE 20, 2018

In June of 2018, this mandate feels more pressing than ever, as thousands of families seeking asylum are torn apart and children are held in cages at the U.S. Pueblo Sin Fronteras is a collective which operates permanently in solidarity with displaced peoples. border, all during the ongoing Syrian refugee crisis. Asylum Access.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

PADI AWARE Foundation is a publicly funded nonprofit whose mission is to drive local action for global ocean conservation. 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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

On Tuesday, right before the KONY video exploded on the mainstreams and went viral online, my 6th grade son came home from school and announced, ”Did you know that there are more people on Facebook today compared to the number of people on the planet ten years ago? I immediately asked him how do you know that?

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

NetSquared is TechSoup's answer to providing local tech support and learning opportunities. Uganda is no different except for one thing: its amazing NetSquared Regional Ambassador for East Africa, Robert Kibaya. Since I was brought up in a rural setting, I always engage in activities aiming at empowering rural community people.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

In alignment with the organization's Emmaus Social Movement roots, ADB started as and remains a major employer of chronically unemployed and disabled people. ADB's work is in three main areas: Local. ADB employs 210 people in its workshops, of whom more than half are formerly long-term unemployed. The Circular Economy.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

An Orphanage Destroyed, Children Still Alive. He's passionate about helping children and obsessed with leveraging the power of "good ideas for good causes.". Worst case: The orphanage collapsed like all other concrete buildings in town and the locals might hesitate to dig out HIV infected bloody kids.

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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. “[In Africa] the race is on to find what mobiles can do in areas as disparate as public health, governance and education.”

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

The church sponsors the Beardstown Christian Academy , which is a pre-K through 8 elementary school that serves 110 children. It has a population of about 6,000 people. Most of the school equipment are P4 computers that were donated by the local utility company and are now around 10 years old. It also has a large Cargill.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

From locally owned neighborhood shops to the largest corporations, all companies can easily establish corporate giving programs and give back to the causes they care about. Community Grants Some companies offer community grants to help out local nonprofits in need. What Are the Benefits of Corporate Giving?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. While the challenges were focused mainly on local or statewide issues, they came up with solutions that could be adopted for national issues as well.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

Apps are a powerful way for everyday people to act for social good, making their lives, and the lives of their communities, stronger. a Skokie Public Library program that provides specialized services, programs, and resources for children with special needs. 3D printing at your local library? Technology for Good Goes Global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. I have two favorites: The Sharing Foundation which supports children in Cambodia and Creative Commons.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 27, 2008

Children's book depicting breastfeeding babies and toddlers b. Go Localing.com: Help support local business by listing user-generated local favorite things to do, see and eat e. Meaningful Education in Africa for the Average Child: Lead Now Fellows f. Which do you think is a better idea? Girl Talk: Read to Achieve d.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 2, 2005

My friend Gabriela Masala sent me some more good giftie ideas: For the children on her list, she bought High in the Clouds a children's book by Sir Paul McCartney, Geoff Dunbar and Phillip Ardagh. She and her husband and their local community also "adopted" a village in Africa of approximately 3,600 people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 29, 2017

I was seeking a way to combine my interest in technology and helping people. For example, with email, I think many people check it reflexively because of their device notifications, boredom, or having the false notion that busyness (e.g. So I tell people that you can do it all and you can have it all. Is it doing anything well?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

After studying irrigation and soil and water conservation, which pays attention to the interface between social systems and irrigation technology in developing countries, she worked for ten years in Africa. " She has worked in Africa as a trainer and later as an organisational advisor. PersonallyI see a huge potential for web2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Ask people to donate to a cause instead of gifts. Last year, when I turned 51, I posted a challenge on my blog - could I get 51 people to donate $10 to the Sharing Foundation? But it doesn' t always have to be you asking people to donate. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. She offers lots of encouragement to older people who like her want to a make difference. ???People

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

Campaign supporters are asked to bring pies to their local Congressional offices and let their Congresspeople know that "Peace wants a Piece of the Pie" (the federal budget). PeacePlayers International is a nonprofit organization that uses basketball to unite and educate children and their communities in conflict and post-conflict areas.

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Museum 2.0

MARCH 22, 2010

Its founders, Willie and Mell Pruitt, came to the area in the 1950s and were concerned that no one seemed to be documenting the history of the local African American community. My favorite part was a wall of photos and transcribed oral histories from local elderly community members. Jesus” to help them deliver fourteen children.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And one of the things I like about the feasibility study is that if you’re discussing your project with the right people, it actually warms the donor and the community to your project before the beginning of your solicitation process. But Phil openly admits, “You know, our core competency is planning churches and feeding children.”

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

"Now, 18 months later, all of Juana's children are in school. She went from being somebody's servant to somebody who when she walks down the street of her community, people stop her and shake her hand and thank her for the stories that she is telling, or ask, 'When are you going to interview me? I have a story that you have to hear.'"

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We do it in a number of ways. It's called the Biosand Water Filter.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 17, 2009

What was clear is that the competition for nonprofits to deliver their messages to people is nearly as tough as that of consumer products and services – and is some places they are competing with consumer services or are part of the consumer good message. ” “So what?” ” That’s a good question.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

What we really believe is that there is a kind of new consciousness to consumerism in the United States, and as consumerism is sort of evolving, people are really thinking about how to purchase or consume, but at the same time make a constructive impact on the world and express their social or other kinds of values into the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

As nonprofits hone and refine peer to peer fundraising best practices , we are also seeing more more people make philanthropy a part of their everyday personal expression – whether on social networks or in the real world. According to Tom, Diane and the other instructors at Flying Change are very special people.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. As we've heard, something like 18% of the people in the world live on less than $1 a day, and a much bigger percentage live on less than $2 a day. Britt Bravo:What is KickStart doing?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

billion people are without clean water. More than half of those people are women and girls. Women hold these toxins in their body, and this is what they have to pass on to their children. What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water. Over 90 percent of U.S. It is about human rights.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

He is a genius at connecting evaluation to other people's contexts. We tend to think that great social change is the province of heroes – an intimidating view of reality that keeps ordinary people on the couch. Children were born into this space but they became unhappy and plotted to push the parents apart. They cut a door.

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See3

OCTOBER 17, 2009

Once again the Jewish Television Network let people remotely watch Kol Nidre (Jewish High Holiday) service from their home via live webcast. Now I don’t think the point was that people should stay home and experience religious services that way. Here are some of the comments people made this year about it: KOL NIDRE COMMENTS.

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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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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Center People Directly Impacted by Poverty.

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Global Giving

MARCH 26, 2018

Without appropriate technology, people too often still rely on pen and paper, or technology that’s not part of a greater system. In order to democratize the nonprofit technology space, a few things have to happen: Companies need to understand how international and local development actually works.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

Off the Mat, Into the World is an educational, experiential and motivational process for people interested in conscious activism and service. SC: I'd started working with an organization called YouthAIDS which provides services and products to children worldwide who are affected by the HIV/AIDS crisis. I raised a lot of money.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. This blog post includes some reflections about my first visit to Africa, the importance of face-to-face meetings and building relationships, and some thoughts about how some of the ideas in the Networked Nonprofit transcend boundaries.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. And if you’re one of those people and you’re really struggling and you need a lot of assistance and you’ve limited capacity, I feel you, so. Peace Corps in Senegal in West Africa. I am a former development and marketing director.

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