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. TechSoup Sweden. TechSoup Sweden's Andreas Ericsson built his own Instagram printer for an event.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. He started his career at a digital solutions start-up in South Africa, and for the past 4 years, he’s been part of the WFP technology team. Why Small-Scale Farmers? That number is expected to increase in the face of climate change, conflict, and COVID-19. Emma Visman.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2015

TechSoup Global's vice president for Africa David Barnard did. David Barnard has completed six of these grueling races: The Kalahari Desert in Botswana and South Africa (its name is derived from a Tswana word meaning "the great thirst"). Would you do it for charity?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2011

The run, set to begin today, October 2, is a 250-kilometer journey through the Sahara Desert ending at the Pyramids of Giza for the purpose of raising money for South African nongovernmental organizations (NGOs). TechSoup's partner in South Africa SANGONeT , that like TechSoup was founded in 1987, organized the No Pain No Gain fundraiser.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

with print disabilities, with more than 70,000 copyrighted works in our library, the majority of which have been created under the US copyright exception by volunteers, mainly people with disabilities themselves, helping each other. • We now have global permissions for around 8,000 copyrighted books out of our 70,000. •

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

I ran into Brian Behlendorf, one of Benetech’s board members, and he gave some very constructive feedback on the city software idea, along with pointers to a couple of people I should talk to in the eGov software space. I also got to talk to Pablos because he knew Brian, and ask about ideas that might be worth licensing for social purposes.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

International Paper Foundation (IP) makes sustainable investments to “protect and improve the lives of our employees and mobilize our people, products, and resources to address critical needs in the communities where we live and work.” Areas served: US, India, South Africa. Areas served: Worldwide. The Kresge Foundation.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

years, I have been working extremely hard to build an organization from scratch that makes it really easy for people to find and share opportunities to make a difference. I started 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa with the simple goal of working fulltime on Social Actions by July 1st. fundraising campaign started: For the last 2.5

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 14, 2013

"There is one thing all radically successful people have in common: their ferocious drive and hunger for success makes them never give up.". On his list he included such people as Henry Ford, Walt Disney, Oprah Winfrey, and Bill Gates. Nelson Mandela: A South African anti-apartheid. Bernard Marr, business author.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 2, 2010

I invite people along for the ride. A group of us touring, studying, and volunteering in Cape Town, South Africa Seriously! Most people have a cause they are passionate about--they just don't know where to begin. Seeing people realize that they can do good no matter where they are is a blessing. How is this fun?

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 15, 2011

Historically speaking, great movements occur because the conditions in which people live are intolerable. 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.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2011

When Cancer Council SA (that’s South Australia, not South Africa) started the Ambassador Project as an experiment in revitalizing volunteerism and community fundraising , jumping in to the social media pond was not even on the agenda. South Australia is a big state and hundreds of kilometers separate one town from the next.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 10, 2009

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. The site is in English, Español , Français and Arabic. Check it out, [link]. . . .

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Finding out which people on your email list are on Facebook (without annoying them). Eric has an MBA from the Carey School of Business at Johns Hopkins University, an MA in Government and International Studies from the University of South Carolina and a BS in Political Science from the University of Wyoming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 26, 2017

Note from Beth: One of the things that I enjoyed most about IFCAsia was the networking opportunities to connect with other people in the region who share interests. We know that young people like Generation Z are future donors, so programs that help introduce philanthropy at a young age will a big pay off down the road.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

It was created by Roy Blumenthal , an artist who lives in South Africa with many talents! I gonna pass it out and have people color it in as a party activity! By Roy Blumenthal. This is my pay it forward portrait. I met Roy via the portrait he did for Dave Wallace's web site and communicated via flickr.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

How do you talk about the enslavement of 30 million people in just 140 characters or in a simple Facebook post? How do you ask people to engage with such a horrifying subject, not just once, but over and over again? Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. or read on for a recap.

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Forum One

JANUARY 21, 2009

Arnold Christianson from the National Health Laboratory Service and University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, South Africa will be PRB's guest for the discussion. Consider the topic for tomorrow, 1/22, at 1:00 EST: " Birth Defects: A Hidden Toll for Developing Countries."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2006

Sangonet , an organization that focuses on capacity building with ICT for NGOS in South Africa, recently announced the finalists for the NGO Web awards. There is also a virtual training centre where you can search for case studies from Southern Africa by theme, skills, genre, and other categories. occassionally.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 20, 2004

More stories from my recent trip to Africa. Being part of the Schwab Social Entrepreneur program, I had met Garth Japhet from South Africa, who works in this field, and I wanted to understand more of what he does. People shared stories from the front lines of the HIV/AIDS epidemic.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2009

Note from Beth: As visiting scholar at the Packard Foundation, I'm connecting with other people who are studying and learning about how networks work. 2) Consult with the bridging organizations as key informants and perhaps engage them in initial convening to form a GRI South Africa network; and.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

If web users knew of someone else who needed help, 44 percent would ask other people in their social network to contact authorities, 35 percent would post a request for help directly on a response agency’s Facebook page and 28 percent would send a direct Twitter message to responders. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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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

JANUARY 15, 2013

Like the Pew Internet & American Life Project , we believe that over the next decade most people will access software applications online using several different types devices rather than depending primarily on tools and information housed on their individual, personal computers. Find the first post in this series online. no Internet! -

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. The relief items are helping more than 10,000 families (50,000 people) to date -- with plans to increase this number.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

As a company with many individuals personally invested in nonprofit work, we had tons of people who were excited to act as team captains as well as a community of people who would motivate one another as they competed to help their team raise as much money as possible. People need that reminder and extra nudge to take action!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2007

We also had help from the preson who runs the booth and who is in South Africa. It's exciting to meet other people in world who care about kiva.org and work together. Exposing the Kiva organization to new people in this interesting digital world and raising money to fund loans.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

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. It wasn't bringing people toward us. Why do people who are not chosen end up out in the cold?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 7, 2007

They have programs in Northern Ireland, South Africa, the Middle East and Cyprus. The same people who produced "Going Within", 49th Parallel Productions , have also created Not Just a Number , a community journalism project for The Oakland Tribune which focuses on the topic of violence and violence prevention.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

Reem talks about how the company balances the triple bottom line of profits, people and planet. Just recently, we introduced flowering teas, which are hand-sewn tea leaves and flowers, and they blossom when steeped in hot water, so that has been a huge hit and people love them, and it's a very innovative product.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2018

Inspiring people to take online surveys is tough! We are grateful to the 3,573 people who have taken the 2018 Global Trends In Giving Survey thus far. South Africa 3%. The survey is available in five languages – ???????????? Native American 0%. White/Caucasian 83.3%. Top 10 Countries. United States 24.5%. Singapore 14%.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

The Science Center World Congress looked standard in makeup--keynotes, plenaries, parallel panels--and yet the content was made distinctly different by the people involved. This supposedly international meeting of 400 people featured mostly white and western faces. And these conversations weren't exclusive to the program events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 13, 2017

More and more people are adopting social media messaging, including Facebook Messenger , to contact nonprofits with questions, comments, or requests. Momconnect is a bot developed by the Praekelt Maternal Health , an initiative that uses mobile technology to improve the health of pregnant women, newborns and infants in South Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

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. Emails and messages were sent to NGOs, explaining the type of video we wanted, and people replied in two days via WhatsApp.

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