Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

We began with Hindi and Tamil, two of the most-spoken languages in India, and have recently added Arabic, which opened up our services to countries all across the Middle East and Northern Africa. We would like to launch an intensive expansion of Bookshare throughout Sub-Saharan Africa, where we already have initial partnerships.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

MARCH 23, 2023

Let me illustrate with an example I learned from Zambia: many medicines cannot be found in remote regions of Sub-Saharan Africa because of hard-to-solve bottlenecks in healthcare, such as poor infrastructure and logistics systems. A workaround doesn’t try to tackle these bottlenecks; it circumvents them instead.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

I asked participants to share what they learned and most shared that they had never considered tools like Facebook as ways to help them with their social change projects or professional networking. If I were teaching this a full course, the next session would focus more on privacy and security basics.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2017

TechSoup, in partnership with Idealware , now offers a four-course tactical tech planning learning track. During the first, free, introductory course, Tech Planning 101: Getting Started and Assessing Your IT Infrastructure , you'll start to build the foundation for your tactical technology plan. Let's get started!

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Qgiv

DECEMBER 15, 2022

According to Nonprofit Courses’ guide to nonprofit professional development , your organization’s greatest asset is its people — and that includes volunteers ! Of course, you’ll want to provide them with the tools they need in a safe environment and educate them on all your safety and health standards. Train Them On the Job.

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Non Profit Quarterly

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

Of course, we’d be remiss if we didn’t observe that the editors are predominantly concentrated in whiter, wealthier countries (and thus, so are the page’s subjects), or that of the 7,000 language spoken on Earth, Wikipedia has pages in only about 300. The website also highlights a plan to “ increase contributor diversity. ”.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. He has a BS from Juniata College and an MA in Philanthropy and Development from St.

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Byte Technology

OCTOBER 13, 2016

Of course there’s still the fun and frivolous uses, but more and more we are seeing the technology entering the realm of life-saving pursuits, strategic military and industrial applications, and so much more, to the point where entire niche markets are being spawned that leverage these flying machines for big business.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Of course: from its founding Caltech has been a testament to the generosity of donors who succeeded in business. It wasn’t too many years ago when our pharmaceutical industry more or less argued that people with AIDS in Africa should die rather than to license their medicines for low cost manufacture.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Including links, of course, also helps increase traffic to your website. CircuitEditor regularly hosts Twitter Chats on the subjects of social change and philanthropy in Africa. If possible, join a Twitter Chat once a month, bi-monthly, or quarterly. 8) Get to know your Twitter Analytics Dashboard.

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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. All day, everyday the online masses are being bombarded with terrible news. 2) The rise of the Internet troll.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As I mentioned in my previous two blogs about my Africa trip of last July, I had the pleasure of meeting many interesting people and learning about numerous exciting, cool projects during that three week long visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

For example, in the Eastern Cape of South Africa, the landscape resembles what many people consider a typical African savanna, with a few trees every hundred meters or so and brown grasslands in between. Of course, private finance will need to be involved; for example, through green bonds.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2011

Picture the scene…our heroes with pain coursing through their bodies and sweat dripping down their brows as they head toward the finish line. TechSoup's partner in South Africa SANGONeT , that like TechSoup was founded in 1987, organized the No Pain No Gain fundraiser.

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CauseVox

JUNE 28, 2021

Of course you can also host an in-person race with all the bells and whistles too. And one thing’s for sure, many of your largest supporters want nothing more than to spend a morning on the golf course. Innovation: Africa has an entire page set up encouraging supporters to create their own fundraisers on their own schedule.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

McGruder, the Ford Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer, oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 17, 2019

We reconnected, of course, through a recent blog comment. Alison founded a nonprofit doing development work in Africa. This week I interviewed long-time blog reader, Alison Lowndes who I first met via my blog as a regular commenter.

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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. The art of storytelling though, and documenting an event or a slice of time is, of course, not restricted to bound pages. At that time I made a blog and raised $2,000 using Chipin.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

She had been working in public health in Africa before heading to Stanford. Of course, people are already doing some of this, but we have to go a lot further. 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.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Las Vegas, Nevada: Online Courses (Storytelling). Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Then check out our new online learning courses, starting with Tech Training for Nonprofits and Libraries. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and the Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Europe and the UK.

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Get Fully Funded

NOVEMBER 11, 2021

He is president and founder of Nonprofit.Courses , an on-demand, eLearning educational resource for nonprofit leaders, staff, board members and volunteers, with thousands of courses in nearly every aspect of nonprofit work. He has a BS from Juniata College and an MA in Philanthropy and Development from St. Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

It of course provides TechSoup product donations to French nonprofits. ADB's Clic Vert Program fosters digital inclusion in French West Africa while contributing to a responsible end-of-life of computers and mobile phones. 124 tons of e-waste have been recycled from Africa. International.

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Qgiv

AUGUST 10, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. He has a BS from Juniata College and an MA in Philanthropy and Development from St.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Las Vegas, Nevada: Online Courses (Storytelling). Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

And if you need some help with your video, you can take our short, free online course or sign up for help from one of our experts. The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Africa + Middle East.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Of course, this also means that as long as you are living and breathing, embracing and practicing the 8 Flux Superpowers, your relationship to change is always improving, too! v, AnyRoad, and Unsettled, as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, Italy to India.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 29, 2008

One of the key leaders I met described China as "Europe in the cities, Africa in the countryside." Of course, I was part of a group getting top-flight treatment. In addition to the products and brands I knew, there were quite a number of China-specific brands (like 361 degrees and Sept Wolves).

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 10, 2004

One of the issues I was exploring on my trip to Africa was the expansion of the use of our Martus software there. When we started working on Martus four years ago, we didn't look too closely at Africa. And, of course, there are many human rights and social justice issues in Africa. Times have changed dramatically.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

From here she was selected to take a Microsoft ICT course, where she learned about the power of technology for connecting people around the world. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 11, 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. After my jaunt into the civic hacking world, I came away with a few lessons: Your project will change rapidly over the course of the weekend.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

A group of us touring, studying, and volunteering in Cape Town, South Africa Seriously! Of course, there will always be tension, but when we get involved with the world around us, we start having more meaningful conversations and pushing ourselves. I invite people along for the ride. From there, we build communities of people who care.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

This series of four free webinars will follow the path of our Storymakers short course for video preproduction, production, and postproduction, and you can also join for the final webinar on photo storytelling. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 14, 2012

Not everyone was able to come to Chiang Mai, of course. I head out again soon to meet with potential Martus users in Southern Africa – in other words, I’m returning to focus on specific projects. We gathered input from other current and past users via online surveys and phone interviews, and we’re still gathering feedback.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 13, 2011

I’ve had the opportunity to work in Canada, Australia, Cambodia, Romania, India, UK, and Africa and enjoy the extra dimension of understanding different cultures as part of the instructional and learning process. Transparency is one of the ideas and, of course, we’ll be modeling this.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 10, 2013

These conceptions are facetious, of course, but according to a current trend sweeping the nonprofit scene, all that’s necessary to support a cause you’re passionate about is clicking “like” on a Facebook page. Never mind laboring in the heat to plant trees or paint houses. Five minutes and you’ve done your good for the day.

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