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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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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Tech Soup

AUGUST 31, 2015

Not content to simply focus on "shiny tech," we'll explore what the true potential for social change is in each case, where community organizing work can be made more effective, and where it will have to push technology forward. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa Open Data Conference. Upcoming Events.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

He also ran his own Internet marketing business working with brands such as VitaminWater and SmartWater. Over the last 10 years, Sarah has worked on issues related to food sovereignty, genetic engineering, and local food security. REGISTER to attend this FREE Expert Webinar on TUESDAY, JANUARY 29th at 2PM ET.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

In June 2016 a bipartisan bill passed the House of Representatives to allocate $300 million for state and local SIBs over ten years (Wallace, 2015). Harvard University Press. Despite this small sample size and lack of evidence for success, the concept has captivated politicians and Wall Street alike. Vera Institute.

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Tech Soup

MAY 1, 2017

The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Burlington, Vermont: Working Board Lunch: Embrace the Future — Transition Planning. Africa and Middle East.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

NetSquared is TechSoup's answer to providing local tech support and learning opportunities. 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.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

This hackathon took place at San Francisco State University's Paul J. The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. The participants were tasked with developing digital tools to help nonprofits and government agencies work better together.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty. In the early years, we were working in China, Nepal, Cambodia, and Ethiopia, where we now purify water for over 200,000 kids daily.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. We connect the local with global resources.” They do work to reverse the spread of violence by using the methods and strategies associated with disease control.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. In Africa, conservation drones are being used to locate rhinoceros poachers. Image 2 : Simon Fraser University - University Communications / CC BY.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

Betsy Rolland of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center's Asia Cohort Consortium , a group tasked with wrangling and consolidating data from half a dozen Asian countries, is wrestling with these issues every day in her work. The impact of donor expectations on data collection. OK, these are hard problems to solve.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. 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 ).

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DipJar

APRIL 19, 2021

Unless the right people know about, learn about, or feel good about your work, you won’t have the people to work with or the funding to serve them. Imagine you run a performing arts organization dedicated to saving theater programs in your local public school system. Mary’s University of Minnesota.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Your great work will be validated, and you will be energized to move beyond current paradigms and find innovative ways to increase your impact. State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. State/Local.

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Get Fully Funded

APRIL 15, 2021

Chances are, you’re not starting work with a nonprofit with that level of naivete, but you do want to make a meaningful difference for a cause you care about. Nonprofit work is easy. Right along with small and inefficient, somehow people have an idea that nonprofit work is easy. Let’s dive in! Are there nonprofits like this?

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Take for example, these young girls and women who have been touched by the work of the Sharing Foundation. ??? She is entering her second year as an accounting major at a university in Phnom Penh. s younger sisters are 2 of over 500 students who are learning English in a program in the local village supported and run by TSF. ???

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Achieve

DECEMBER 16, 2021

You can also meet the challenges of day-to-day work with content literally right at your fingertips. . Working in the nonprofit sector is increasingly seen as a viable career path. . would flock to seminars scheduled either locally or afar. They know lots of others who do your same work. Academic Classes. board members.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Foundations can make greater progress on addressing critical social issues by using digital platforms to elevate the work and success of the many players in their sector. a starting point for future work, not just a collection of past work. Let’s look at a number of shining stars who are doing this really well.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 14, 2012

Dr. Pamela Hartigan, head of the Skoll Centre at Oxford University's Said Business School, noted in her keynote that EWB was the largest single source of Skoll Scholars at Oxford. Hint to the profession: if you link engineering to helping people rather than gadgets, women seem to be more interested!

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

AUGUST 4, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

JUNE 16, 2008

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Forum One

JUNE 14, 2007

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

I was working in financial services and my role was in the Managing Director’s office, which enabled me to gain an overview of running a large organisation. I was very fortunate that in October 2004 in South Africa, there was a meeting of social change market places that was convened, and I met Buzz Schmidt, Founder of GuideStar.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

Skip to Navigation Careers News Client login About Us Services Our Work Blogs Events Contact Us Home › Blogs › Influence Social Networking and #AIDS2010 Suzanne Rainey in Influence 15 Jul 2010 There’s a flurry of action this week as we await the start of the XVIII International AIDS Conference (#AIDS2010) in Vienna, Austria, next week.

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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. The organization has received numerous awards for its work, and Fisher recently received the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. Britt Bravo:What is KickStart doing?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

It looks like it’s working. And this also led me to work with a lot of social projects because it happens a lot of times the same, right? I work mainly with nonprofits and social enterprises that want to have a bigger impact, that wants to increase their audiences, and that want to interact with diverse communities.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 12, 2008

On October 21, 2008, I interviewed Marianne Manilov, the National Team Leader at The Engage Network, about their work. So, if you see Van speak, our goal is to have a place that you can plug in, a local leader who says, "Come to my house." A team of us said, "We would study what works in citizen engagement."

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Candid

APRIL 21, 2021

Some 20 years ago, when working as vice president for peace and social justice at the Ford Foundation , I was approached by the Vera Institute of Justice about a global initiative focused on prosecuting the police. What works (and what doesn’t) is already known. My own experience with police reform.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I decided to stay a few extra days and facilitate a workshop on the Networked Nonprofit for local NGOs. 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.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 5, 2012

From Barack Obama's campaign to the thousands of state and local races across the country, campaigners are relentlessly testing new approaches and refining proven tactics in online fundraising and social media to gain an edge over their rivals -- and in some cases to make history. Eric Rardin - Senior Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

I asked four of the women who I had previously interviewed for the Big Vision Podcast to share what brought them to their work, and their advice for the graduate and undergraduate women who attended the conference. So those are the main things, if you're interested in that kind of work. There are a lot of people who don't.

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