Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Creating a sense of urgency also works well for a matching gifts campaign or when showing a donation progress bar with a countdown timer to when a fundraising campaign ends. It can be as simple as telling a story of “a day in the life of” your client, staff or volunteer. It’s time to decide.”. Tap into shared experiences.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

These words became the philosophy of Laureus and the driving force behind our work. Being in that room was one of the most impactful moments of my life, and I remember thinking about the important role sport played for me and its incredible potential. Among its successes: 72,878 children and young people became less socially isolated.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 3, 2009

Eric spent 2 weeks in March on an assignment in South Africa. Yet another thing to work in to an already packed schedule. Tags: Life. March is our crazy month, and this year was no exception. Call-on Congress was hugely successful this year, and we’re just doing more (but still with less). Is this another false start?

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Candid

DECEMBER 23, 2021

Frank, on the contrary, came from a struggling, working-class, immigrant family in Brooklyn, reached unimaginable heights in his career, but never forgot from where he came. I was hired to work for Ford Foundation in 1991 as a program officer in Brazil, when Frank was still President.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 1, 2022

To help tell this story better, (RED) recently took a trip with one of our supporters, Roche, to Zambia to film a series of labs that are conducting life-saving tests and giving patients and doctors critical information in the fight against preventable diseases. The best storytellers are people on the ground who are doing the real work.

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Get Fully Funded

AUGUST 14, 2023

In other words, don’t throw this together at the last minute and expect it to work! Interest Keepers: Post photos and videos of your work in action throughout your campaign. Tell stories about how lives have been changed and show powerful images of your work. Make sure your Donate button is working before the campaign starts.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

All that said, when doing your shopping this year, please be conscious of the power of your spending and put your dollars to work for good by purchasing from any of the 22 online gift stores that benefit nonprofits – especially on #GivingTuesday. American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals (ASPCA) Online Store.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2014

Two 14-year-old girls, one in the US and one in Malawi, had their lives changed when they joined forces to fight the AIDs epidemic in Africa. This is the story of how a Michigan faith based organization called Hope Endeavors leads significant humanitarian work from a home office. Work Inspired By A Child’s Death.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 5, 2017

Published by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. Published by Good Works. For Nonprofits in the Middle East and Africa: 1. Social Media: An Ongoing Series of Reports :: Download. For Nonprofits in Canada: 1. 2016 Canada’s Charitable Sector :: Download. Published by the Canada Revenue Agency.

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Kindful

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

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. Areas served: Asia, Africa, Latin America, the Caribbean, the Middle East. National Forest Foundation. The Kresge Foundation.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Since tweets have a very short life span, it’s a good practice to retweet your own tweets. Use hashtags strategically to mention important causes, campaigns, and events, but hashtag spamming to try to increase your reach doesn’t work and has a negative effect on engagement. Retweet your own tweets.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Grant research tip : As you look over the list and peruse potential funders, take notes of those who best align with your work. They work with colleges, universities, and other organizations that embrace equity in higher learning, with a focus on historically underserved populations, including nontraditional and incarcerated students. .

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

The outdoors became our main source of activity and entertainment, reminding us that we’re surrounded by life even in isolation. Earth Day is a great time to support these initiatives, in addition to the year-round work that nonprofit organizations commit their mission to achieve for us all. Clean Energy Leadership Institute.

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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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Everyaction

JUNE 20, 2018

Asylum Access focuses on refugees from Africa, Asia, and Latin America (the areas with most of the world’s refugees), and works to help refugees assert their rights in the present and transform systems for a safer and more just future. Asylum Access. citizenship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2012

I’m honored to be working on some social media capacity projects to assist NGOs that are supporting women’s issues – from a learning exchange for Packard Foundation Grantees in Pakistan to a Women’s Leadership Network in Africa to the e-mediat that is working with many NGOs that support women and girls in the Arab World.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. That’s the Caltech advantage! Richard Feynman once tried to reduce an advanced physics concept to a freshman lecture.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 5, 2009

Unfortunately, the gopher did not live a long life, it was soon overshadowed by the World Wide Web. He worked at Cern or the UN at the time and everyone wanted to view his public FTP folder - after all it was the "secret" folder.). Even in the early days of the web, there was the urge to organize collections of files and links.

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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. United for Social Change, sister organizations working to positively influence how black boys and men are perceived and treated by law enforcement and in society.

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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. People need to know what is possible, and they need to see how it works in real life.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

Second Life kiva.org volunteer: Julles Boucher Kiva.org , a micro-finance organization, has funded nearly 17,0000 loans to entrepreneurs in developing countries and last week crossed the $11 million rank. I discovered this when I clicked on Skeeboo Tammas's profile while chatting with him in Second Life. His profile said.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Our partners around the world have been busy working on some interesting projects, articles, and blogs for the nonprofit sector. David Malmborg from Dell Computers shares wisdom on how to maximize the life of your organization's IT equipment. NGO Pulse (South Africa). TechSoup Sweden. GuideStar International.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

Note: This article will focus on international development from my perspective working in an African country, although the questions raised are pertinent to any “developed” country or continent’s relationship to a “developing” region. I worked with a locally founded (and inspiring!) We say, “it’s better”.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

There are very few charities I've come across that are as wide-ranging in their tech-for-good work as our French TechSoup Global partner, Ateliers du Bocage (ADB). ADB works in and around what the Europeans call the "Circular Economy." ADB's work is in three main areas: Local. The Circular Economy.

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Qgiv

JULY 19, 2023

While applying to grants can be time consuming, they offer plenty of benefits to nonprofits, such as more awareness for your organization and a positive reputation for the work you do on top of the financial benefits. You’re more likely to receive funding if the purpose of the grant aligns with the work you’re doing.

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Achieve

MAY 28, 2014

We knew how to crochet, and we came to understand how this generic hobby could actually create life-changing jobs for people in Uganda. You have to travel to Africa to do it. Our story isn’t a great example of this because we did start our work in Africa, but it was because we had been there.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

She is working two jobs, one is at the Bamboo Indochine store at the airport. She graduated from college and is married. The photo above is Keo Savon with me this summer in Cambodia. Won’t you raise your hand in support of girls around the world?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa and Middle East. ## Europe and UK. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. — Make Facebook Ads Work for Your Nonprofit. Milton, Massachusetts: Giving Nonprofit Life Seminar.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

Starting Zoetica came on the heels of one of the most dramatic changes I made in my life in recent years. I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE. I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Note from Beth: As a supporter of the work that the Sharing Foundation does for children in Cambodia, I’ve seen first hand the value of literacy programs in developing countries. Over the past year, one of the ways we’ve been working to be a force for good in the world is through our partnership with Room to Read.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Just knowing that -- you have a tool, a guidebook, a set of superpowers – for the rest of your life is itself comforting. Learning how to thrive in constant change isn't a "one-and-done" quick fix, because that's not how change works. Run Slower. It enhances your productivity. See What’s invisible. But that's not all.

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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. My organization, Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization , is devoted to humanitarian work. Here in Uganda and Africa in general, governments do not provide for elderly people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

One of them was Vincent Law who is doing interesting work with teaching young children about giving and philanthropy. These fundamental values help children develop their philanthropic characters in life. But for older children who are cognitively advanced and understand geography and landmarks, we use real life philanthropy stories.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2012

The speakers also discussed how some players of the popular Diablo 3 game are donating the "gold" earned in the game to charities in Africa. By incorporating real legal and societal elements into the game, ProperLORDty's creators have ensured that the real life situation is getting more attention.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 28, 2017

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. Burlington, Vermont: Work Life Balance — Integrate Renewal into Your Busy Day. Africa and the Middle East.

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Nelson Mandela spent four-plus decades as an activist and freedom fighter and 27 years in prison because the demeaning National Party policy of apartheid in South Africa impeded black South Africans’ ability to live with human dignity. Reading about other social activists forces me to examine my own life. As we speak, Occupy Wall St.

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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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