Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

But it's also the second largest mobile phone recycler in France and one of the largest in Europe. In alignment with the organization's Emmaus Social Movement roots, ADB started as and remains a major employer of chronically unemployed and disabled people. International. Here is ADB's story. The Circular Economy.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

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. Social Media.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 26, 2014

It's been 12 years since our own Jim Lynch teamed up with Willie Cade at PC Refurbishers and Recyclers to start the very first International Computer Refurbishers Summit (ICRS). 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.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Find out how to build an app that people will actually use. NGO Pulse (South Africa). Learn how a nonprofit in South Africa, the Papillon Foundation , helps unemployed people learn new skills and find jobs. GuideStar International. Keisha Taylor from GuideStar International in the U.K. TechSoup Sweden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

Magic happens when social entrepreneurs, nonprofits leaders, technologists, and young people are brought together for a high energy, creative, and interactive event that exposes everyone to new ideas and stories. I was so happy to hear the story of how the event got started and the beginning of the network from Fernanda Bornhausen Sa.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

This was first posted on the GuideStar International blog. 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. Banks of Kiwanja on the tendency of social media people to get.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 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. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Leads acquired online are often best nurtured through social networks and converted in the mail, or over the phone if you're after monthly donors. Finding out which people on your email list are on Facebook (without annoying them). Phoning your email supporters. Engaging on Facebook, converting in email.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

. International Planned Parenthood Federation has an office on an alley in the Bermondsey section of London. The 15 refers to both the fiscal promises made by governments in 1994 at the International Conference on Population and Development ( ICPD ) and the age of the young people who need these services, who were born that year.

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JULY 22, 2011

Below are few list of tracking numbers you can track from UPS website to confirm people like you who have received their payment successfully. you are advised to contact our correspondent in Africa the delivery officer McCulley Terence with the information below, Email: terencemcculley@yahoo.cn. Name: Donna L.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Indiegogo also measures how much social engagement is happening with your campaign, meaning how many people are looking at it and sharing it on various networks. They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online. Special Plan for Nonprofits: Yes. More Crowdfunding Resources.

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 26, 2015

HALO, which works with disadvantaged youth in Missouri and Africa, gives this award as part of a handful of awards at an annual happy hour to honor the volunteers. “We It happens when people feel like they are contributing in meaningful way.”. Gerken said volunteers and interns make up 83 percent of their organization.

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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. You're making a tangible, lasting difference for both people and nature. Check out their MySpace page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

” I don’t have an answer, but I think it has to do with modeling conscious information and consumption and being mindful about how you connect with people, cultivate relationships, and share information. 17% of adult mobile users have distracted by their device and bumped into people. Healthy Mind Platter.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Indiegogo also measures how much social engagement is happening with your campaign, meaning how many people are looking at it and sharing it on various networks. They also offer a guide for cause-based campaigns as well as customer support on the phone or online. Special Plan for Nonprofits: Yes. More Crowdfunding Resources.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The tool will allow hackers and coders to get up to speed before the hackathon by reading problem statements written from the perspective of the people who are working to solve social problems on the ground: NGOs and activists. After that we hope lots of people will contribute content to it. Technology for Good Report. All Things D.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Recently, Freedom Fone was adapted by two farm radio stations through the African Radio Research Initiative , a 42-month project, the aim of which was to assess the effectiveness and impact of farm radio in many parts of Africa. . At Volta Star, a lot of people called, but a smaller percentage called on a regular basis, Sullivan said.

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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. Britt Bravo recommends Women for Women International. And, yes they did !

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

Below is an edited transcript from a September 5th phone interview with Marisa for the Big Vision Podcast. While my objective was to make positive change, when I came at it from a place that was angry, I saw - I think this has been visible to many people who have worked in social change movements - that my anger was not growing the movement.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people that speak multiple languages or that live in different countries that have different ways of communicating and of seeing the world. And I’ve noticed how different people communicate, how different people interact. So it is grouped in the category of social media because people use it a lot. for a while.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 5, 2013

According to the International Environmental Technology Center of the United Nations Environment Program. We dispose of over 130 million cell phones every year of which 11 percent are recycled. The e-Waste Association of South Africa ( eWASA ) is building a network of e-waste recyclers and refurbishers in the country.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

This time I’ll review some new developments in digital inclusion, smart watches, accessibility technology, apps in Africa, crowdfunding resources, and digital trends to expect in the next five years. And it doesn't have to be another phone interface (a Bluetooth headset does that much better). It doesn't need a camera.

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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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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" We just thought you'd like to meet some of our great people here at TechSoup, through the books we're excited about. Because December has been "Read a New Book Month" they invited submissions on their Facebook page to encourage the people of nonprofitlandia to share book titles with each other.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

The People's Choice award winner is a Windows 8 app , YumvY , a cooking companion to help you prepare nutritious, healthy meals at home with the goal of addressing the obesity epidemic and related diseases like diabetes. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Social Media.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

" We just thought you'd like to meet some of our great people here at TechSoup, through the books we're excited about. Because December has been "Read a New Book Month" they invited submissions on their Facebook page to encourage the people of nonprofitlandia to share book titles with each other.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

People connecting." Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the purpose of poverty alleviation. About 70 percent of MFIs, or lending institutions, loan to fewer than 2500 people. I'm sure we could get people to help them and to loan money to them, so let's just try it." What is Kiva? What is an MFI?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

including finding a small group of people to support you in your process. Its main purpose is to help people really get engaged on the ground in social change. We do that through a model of living room circles, circles in cafes, and circles in yoga studios It's a place for people to actually plug in and get trained to be leaders.

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Candid

JUNE 21, 2022

Many spoke to how COVID-19 continues to exacerbate disparities felt by marginalized communities and vulnerable peoples. For example, vaccination rates in parts of Africa are barely a few percent, while most EU countries’ rates range from 80-90%.

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JULY 16, 2007

I guess I got involved in coworking originally because I was working out of cafes and wanted a more collaborative, productive environment to go to and work around other people in. When you find other people that are into the same thing, it's great, because it just helps to reinforce that and gets things moving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

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. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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