Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. The rational for "seeing data as a state" rather than a donor in Africa to help answer policymakers questions is also explained.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 1, 2016

In our quest to build better products and better meet the needs of the world for information, we built the most amazing system for effortless government surveillance as a byproduct. And, without encryption of this information, the makers of smartphones had effectively handed those secrets to governments. government.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 2, 2013

TechSoup Global has had a busy year so far with new ventures, exciting contests, and global recognition. Apps are a powerful way for everyday people to act for social good, making their lives, and the lives of their communities, stronger. Our global partners are also taking part in digital storytelling. Initiative.

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Candid

DECEMBER 10, 2021

The funding includes $261 million to further the 30x30 initiative to protect 30 percent of land and sea globally by 2030; $130 million to advance the Justice40 initiative , a U.S. Grants totaling $23.5 million in support of tracking and monitoring efforts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

A citizen of Paraguay, he is the founder of Fundación Paraguaya , a financially self-sustaining social enterprise that promotes entrepreneurs in Paraguay and Africa through microcredit and entrepreneurship education. and Africa. and Africa.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our first Impact Lab cohort designed Service Match , an open-source app designed for case managers who connect people experiencing homelessness to vital human services. Today, people of color and low-income communities are more likely to be impacted by natural disasters, live close to hazardous waste, and die of environmental causes.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. 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. Leonard Library.

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Global Giving

MARCH 12, 2021

They pull in available government geological data, such as temperature and water height, so that water quality can be estimated multiple times per day. billion people lack access to regulated financial services , such as credit cards and loans. billion people lack access to regulated financial services , such as credit cards and loans.

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Forum One

MARCH 8, 2009

web projects we think the federal government should fund. Below I outline Project #1 - the "Global Development Commons". In the past, civic infrastructure included town halls, the highway system, and government R&D labs. Project #1 Global Development Commons. education in Africa? , re doing to identify ?shovel-ready?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 10, 2022

We need to show people what is possible. Many people don’t even know that a landscape is degraded, because for them, it’s always looked like that. People need to know what is possible, and they need to see how it works in real life. But if you go back 150 years, it was a densely thicketed forest.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. Guardian’s ACTIVATE is an annual conference that aims to bring together leaders in media, government and technology to a ctivatedly. most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. development in Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Although reports of the massacre appeared in the United States, Salvadoran army and government leaders denied them and, all too soon, El Mozote was forgotten. If we could get the stories of abuse to the right people, quickly and reliably, we would help human rights defenders fight impunity and advance justice.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” ” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 Cloud Computing Survey Results from TechSoup Global.

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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

DECEMBER 6, 2012

The audience includes top corporate CSR executives, venture capital investors, government leaders, foundations, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs. The audience includes top corporate CSR executives, venture capital investors, government leaders, foundations, nonprofits, and social entrepreneurs. … Read More

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

Every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 60 cities. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa + Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. What Makes People Give?

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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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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Seeing what most people don’t look helps you get ahead of problems. I find this is especially the case for people who haven't really thought much about their relationship to change before. Keep in mind also that some superpowers are easier for some people than others, and some may be more difficult. Run Slower. Start with Trust.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. People attend NetSquared events to develop relationships and trust networks with fellow nonprofit techies. The top options were.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

More than 20 NetSquared-affiliated organizers will be at the conference — look for the people wearing NetSquared pins. These global leaders are coming from the United Kingdom, Uganda, Florida, and DC. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and the Middle East. Africa and the Middle East. Mukono, Uganda.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

The European Union (EU) is the largest economy in the world and home to over 500 million people who discard vast numbers of electronic devices each year. The summit provides an opportunity for people working in computer reuse and recycling to meet and learn from each other. Million Ton Problem. In 2012, EU countries discarded 10.9

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2012

people over the next three years. supporting young people is falling behind. Among others, the International Youth Foundation identified these troubling global trends. In Latin America, more young people. In Sub-Saharan Africa, youth are grossly underemployed leaving 72% of youth living on less than US $2 per day.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

This was originally posted on the TechSoup Global Blog and was authored by Keisha Taylor. Engaging the imagination, it puts forward four global scenarios, with an accompanying fictional case study that describes how philanthropy and technology may co-evolve for development. Four Scenarios: Do You Want to Live in Any of These Worlds?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Because yesterday, the 77th UN General Assembly (UNGA) opened at the UN headquarters: the largest gathering of world leaders, and a prolific environment for truly global conversations. Those global leadership conversations are still as passionate now as they were this time last year. It’s been said from a true global perspective.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

The 2009 N2Y4 Conference showcased the Featured Projects from NetSquared's Global Challenge focused on mobile technology. The Extraordinaries is smartphone software (iPhone, Blackberry, and more) that allows millions of people to perform brief micro-volunteer tasks on their smartphones in a few minutes of spare time. About NetSquared.

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Candid

JULY 21, 2021

Since 2010, Candid and Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) have partnered to produce Advancing Human Rights, an annual report that tracks the evolving state of global human rights philanthropy. For instance, organizations based in Sub-Saharan Africa and the Caribbean receive a third or less of the funding meant to benefit their regions.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

Shortly after I posted my first Solutionary Women profile , I got an email from a young woman named Tiara who was a student with Up with People last year. She sent me the names of four women from Up with People with descriptions of their work and why she thought they were Solutionary Women. before coming to Up with People.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Global delegates. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. The BoardSource Leadership Forum (BLF) is a global conference focused on nonprofit leadership at the highest level – the board of directors. South Africa / $250.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

Now, a day and two thousand miles from the closing ceremony, I realize I was lucky enough to participate in a very special kind of conference, one which deals specifically with the global politics of science centers. Casual discussions were steeped in government policies, national literacy rates, and worldwide attitudes towards science.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I think that in an age where what we're facing often seems very vast and faceless - huge institutions, corporations, or undemocratic governments - I think that the real answers don't so much lie in, they can, but not always, big ticket solutions. It wasn't bringing people toward us. Essentially, I came to activism from compassion.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

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? The secondary goal is to provide better free, or fair information to people in these countries.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Over this time, we have had a glaring omission: our research has not captured funding related to race or ethnicity, despite significant and global human rights work in this area. Even in the U.S.,

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve Williams: POWER stands for "People Organized to Win Employment Rights" and we are a membership organization of low-wage workers and tenants.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Along with her work as an aquatic biologist, her book, Silent Spring , is largely credited for advancing the global environmental movement worldwide , inspiring the rise of ecofeminism and many feminist scientists. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa. Rosalind Franklin. Queen Anna Nzinga.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. was designed for Africa and costs more. Digital Inclusion.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Rather than just telling people how the world needs to improve, the successful social entrepreneur demonstrates how to do it. If cost benchmarking doesn’t make sense (as in the field of human rights), can we dramatically change the way people operate in a given area? Blind people were dependent on sighted people for access to books.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

It includes international trade and development, security, micro-finance, LBGT rights, renewable energy advocacy, water policy, security, human rights for indigenous people, terrorism financing, refugee protection policies and rights, law enforcement, trafficking, peace in conflict areas, and poverty reduction.

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