Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

" This is an emerging economic paradigm that promotes systems that help eradicate waste not just from manufacturing processes, but also throughout the life cycle of products and their components. Clic Vert is a significant international environmental and ICT for development project that is not well known outside of France and Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

During the panel, Matt shared his story about how his interest in poetry and introduction to NFTE helped turn his life around, and helped him develop an online platform for artists “ CreaTistZone ”. 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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ASU Lodestar Center

JULY 10, 2013

The company recently joined forces with the Cheetah Conservation Fund (CCF) in Namibia – the largest research and education center for the conservation of cheetahs – to support the endangered cheetah in their race for survival by taking the cheetah’s plight out of Africa and placing it on the backs of activists nationwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

I attended the first conference in May, 2010 was filled with gratitude to Soren for the amazing experience and opportunity to reflect life and balance in age of social networks. ” He started off with a great story about what a tribe in South Africa does when someone in their community does something bad. Healthy Mind Platter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 23, 2007

Schwab Foundation board members Paolo Coehlo (the noted Brazilian author), Zanelle Mbeki (first lady of South Africa) and Hilde Schwab, the co-founder of the Schwab Foundation. On Monday we were joined by a dazzling array of global leaders who are interested in social entrepreneurship. He also announced that Microsoft (and I think Yahoo!)

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). The model that FORGE takes is really a long-term impact framework. Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director. It's the same thing in a development context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2009

On Eugene's site, you can see a much better video of the exercise with participants in Africa. He pointed out this plays out differently depending upon the life cycle of the network. Eugene talked about the importance of modeling to create. "You Modeling the norm. Relationships are built over food and drink.". "If

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Essentially, they noticed that mortality rates were decreasing for all age groups except adolescents, particularly in Eastern/Southern Africa. If S/HE raises $3,000, S/HE could qualify for a trip to one of their programs in South Africa! In Sub-Saharan Africa, girls account for 74% of new infections among adolescents.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Facebook is the most popular site in the Spanish-speaking parts of the America, also the Middle East, and North Africa. These services use a Netflix business model that allow subscribers to read as many books as you want for a monthly fee. Free on iOS) app breathes new life into the stale concept of a mobile calendar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. Begin Connections.

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NTEN

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. . Listeners could call in to the radio station and leave a message on the IVR system. .

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. ” Sickle cell is kind of a low, you know, visibility, but a high mortality rate in East Africa, and it’s not being addressed. And as you all know, capital campaigns have been around for a long time.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

In hardware life extension news, the grand award winner for software in Popular Science's Best of What's New 2013 this year is a server/software technology called Neverware Juicebox. Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. Green Technology. MyDigitalBridge. The list goes on and on.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa. Philanthropist organisations come together using a “fortress model” to counter fraud and lack of trust and to help protect their reputation. And the flow of talent between the business and nonprofit sector blurs the lines between the two types of organizations.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. BB: Can you share a story of how a family's life has been changed for the better by Fair Trade? You can read a transcript of the podcast below. Paul Rice: TransFair is the only organization here in the United States that certifies Fair Trade products.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Thomas Pocklington Trust, whose mission is to support blind and partially sighted people of all ages to live the life they want to lead, uses Salesforce Long-Term Case Management to better manage their cases and programs and elevate the level of service they provide to users. Expanding Your Reach. Aligning Across Affiliates.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The third goal would be, on an international level, to take this news, that is really created from the inside out, as opposed to the traditional model of foreign correspondence, which is an outsider coming in, out into the world. We are training women at all levels in their life. Who are the women who are showing up?

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 23, 2022

Since 1991, the Harold Grinspoon Foundation (HGF) has invested more than $230M into a collection of programs seeking to make Jewish life and Jewish community more connected. As HGF’s investment into Jewish life has grown, so too has the need for a technology platform powerful and flexible enough to scale alongside the organization.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

The way that World of Good has really gone about this is, we have done it in a two-part model. So the pricing models are all based on commodity pricing. In handmade items, you don't have that same kind of model; you don't buy and sell a bushel of embroidered skirts. We are not thinking about this alone. It doesn't work that way.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I hadn’t imagined that I would spend the rest of my life in the non-profit space, but I’ve now spent more years in this sector than in the corporate space and haven’t felt bored even for one minute! Why did you set up GuideStar India?

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Achieve

JANUARY 20, 2016

She realized that the life she had was much more privileged than most, even though she would be considered by many in the United States as a broke student just getting started in her career. Embedded in the model of World Clothes Line is Mallory’s global view. He finally escaped, living on the streets and sleeping in abandoned cars.

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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.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

So all kinds of things that really helps improve the quality of their life. You're actually improving wages and the quality of life for people who are disenfranchised. The folks in South Africa, where we get our Rooibos and Honeybush, actually have sort of earning rights. How did it change your life?

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Helps people get tasks done: Digital platforms can be a toolkit that help users get things done by providing assets like models, datasets, ir even templates . Getting answers from real people: Digital platforms allow users to find and interact with people who have similar work needs and get answers to their questions from real people.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. To change something, build a new model that makes the existing model obsolete."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 24, 2010

Supporting these visionary leaders, raising the profile of their work and facilitating collaborations and sharing has allowed many to pursue a life of changemaking, scaling their impact and, in many instances, affecting national policy and changing the lives of thousands in their communities.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water. In Africa, we're running capacity-building trainings, and supporting women in launching sustainable businesses, and viable projects, to bring clean water to their communities. We are looking to model the solutions at every level of the work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

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. Can you talk a little more about the kind of the organizing model that this is based on? O n the site, you have different influences for this organization.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. The organisation personifies Mandela’s words, but also acts as inspiration for his legacy to live on in Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

There are coworking spaces being started up in Europe and even I think in -- I'm not sure if it has hit Africa yet, but I know that, especially all across U.S. I think so far it's similar to the BarCamp event model where it started out as being a lot of geeks and people online, because it spread through online vehicles.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It's the only one we have at this point, but we're looking at trying to expand that model a little; well, not a little bit, because we have people that are interested in Dining for Women who live in areas where we don't already have chapters. This past March, two different groups went to Africa. They're a very high-producing chapter.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Recently, Haji sat down with Care2s Clint OBrien to reflect on lessons learned over the years, including simple life lessons, as well as more complex lessons about how technology is revolutionizing the way that charities advance their missions, not to mention how nonprofits interact with their donors and supporters. How much time do we have?

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Recently, Haji sat down with Care2s Clint OBrien to reflect on lessons learned over the years, including simple life lessons, as well as more complex lessons about how technology is revolutionizing the way that charities advance their missions, not to mention how nonprofits interact with their donors and supporters. How much time do we have?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

laughter] And it was just like the height of all excess in my life. At that time, I had only been married to Matt for six months, and then I quit my job and I left for three months to East Africa. We would be out on a four-hour drive, way out in the middle of a village in rural East Africa, but our cell phone would work.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. The other thing that Off the Mat, Into the World does is that we create and model our own outreach projects, but on a grander scale. In front of me are all these pro life activists. I'm pretty confident we can do it.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

To start off, I asked Van to talk about the Ella Baker Center's Reclaim the Future program and how Oakland could become a model green city. People, when you have a lot of crisis in your life, hearing about an even bigger crisis is just depressing. It is actually really understandable. It is a mobile market.

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