Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

A couple weeks ago, I posted about an upcoming e-waste and refurbishment standards conference in South Africa that I was co-organizing. To explore ways to integrate the already large informal recycling sector in Africa in ways that provide income and also ensure personal health for these workers, and environmental health for Africa.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 15, 2009

This morning I had the pleasure (and some anxiety, to be honest) of presenting to the SANGONeT Conference taking place this week and next in South Africa. I’d love to hear your stories about how you’ve used social media on your own, discovered something that could work for your organization and made it happen!

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

These words became the philosophy of Laureus and the driving force behind our work. I’ve been fortunate to travel around the world and experience the transformational work of the programs we support. It wasn’t long after their civil war, and the program was working with child combatants, using sports to teach new skills.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

By bringing together the expertise of leaders from across sectors with the power of Salesforce technology and pro bono talent, this Impact Lab will aim to generate shareable insights and create a solution that supports the work of small-scale farmers in enabling them to make proactive, informed decisions. Why Small-Scale Farmers?

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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. 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.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 4, 2010

Next year it will be in South Africa. I joined the board ten years ago, and my term limits were extended to act in the chair's role these past two years, following in the big shoes of social enterprise rock stars like Chuck Lief (Greyston) and Charles King (Housing Works).

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Tech Soup

APRIL 26, 2016

On May 4, we and our partners from Australia to South Africa, Kenya to Warsaw, and Florida to San Francisco will host a 24-hour, around-the-world #Storymakers2016 Twitter chat. We'll dig into how organizations are storytelling — what they are learning, how they are succeeding, and what is and isn't working.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 26, 2008

Sign on up for Breadline Africa's Blogger Bakeoff , a year-long campaign (October 15, 2008-October 15, 2009) to raise 1 million dollars for Breadline Africa's projects by, "baking bread and giving dough." Here's how it works. Make a donation to Breadline Africa. Join the campaign. And many more!

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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

And, everybody is working on something and usually is interested in several issues. Since I’ve been working on IP policy and licensing on Bookshare, I was quite interested and had ideas of how to work with companies to apply their IP to social needs.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Africa and Middle East. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 13, 2008

I have been working closely with the team for quite a while now because I think that versatile connections online are the only way for independent platforms to really be successful. I started 2008 in Cape Town, South Africa with the simple goal of working fulltime on Social Actions by July 1st.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 14, 2013

This got me thinking about those who work in the social sector. That measure just wouldn’t cut it for those working in the social sector. wages and working conditions for farm workers. Nelson Mandela: A South African anti-apartheid. revolutionary and politician who served as President of South Africa.

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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. I can — and do — take a vacation when I want a break from work.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Learning how to thrive in constant change isn't a "one-and-done" quick fix, because that's not how change works. v, AnyRoad, and Unsettled, as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, Italy to India. Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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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!)

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

I've worked with several of our partners as they've developed their educational resources for NGO, but had never been involved with one of these meetings before. It's great to spend time with partners and learn more about the work they're doing and challenges they face.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else. He also explains how npCloud’s new npVault service works that stores critical data and files in the cloud. What Didn't Surprise Me.

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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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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. 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). Laini’s Bat Mitzvah is next month.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

The presentation is in the form of a network map – so you can tell that they already approach their social change work with a network lens. Their meeting featured a special conversation via Skype with girls in South Africa as part of the Girl Up Campaign’s emphasis on uniting girls around the world.

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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. It was ‘their’ work, not ‘ours’. We finally kicked them out at 7.30 that night.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2004

I'm working from Maputo, Mozambique on this U.S. Last week in South Africa I was discussing adaptive technology for the blind and software for human rights groups. Memorial Day. Today I've been talking to humanitarian demining groups about our proposed mine detector.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 26, 2004

I've been in South Africa for just two days and have had several exciting meetings. My base of operations has been the IDP Africa Forum 2004, a conference for organizations serving the blind throughout Africa. Patrick Ball is here working on the Sierra Leone Truth and Reconciliation Commission data analysis.

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Care2

JULY 23, 2012

Prior to this, Ghazal worked at the award-winning public relations firm Hayes & Associates as a development consultant leading event fundraising efforts. In addition to his work in the environmental advocacy arena, Eric has extensive experience working on political and issue campaigns from Wyoming to South Africa.

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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. We are now working with an university in Hong Kong to include this program in the training of kindergarten teachers. And whatever good work you do, please make teaching young Korean children philanthropy a priority.

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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'm lucky in that he sometimes works on a pay-it-forward basis - so in return I donated the value of his portrait in in-kind time to my favorite development organization in Cambodia and paid it forward to a few folks with some good deeds.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2009

They're low-cost, they work well for most purposes, and there's a brilliant environmental case for electronics reuse in that it is roughly 20 times more beneficial environmentally to reuse computers than to recycle them at 3 to 5 years of age. TechSoup has for a long time been a fervent advocate for refurbished PCs.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 17, 2008

If you are excited about GFW's work, take a moment to enter their raffle for a chance to win two free tickets to their 20th anniversay gala fundraiser in New York City on June 5th. Many of you contacted me to say that you enjoyed my interview with Kavita Ramdas , the President and CEO of the Global Fund for Women.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. Their work is very different in each of these locations. They offer training, education, and employment opportunities, as well as working to inform companies and consumers of the social impact of their supply chains and purchasing decisions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

Abby Elsener is currently the Assistant Director of Development for Health at ASU, and has spent the majority of her career working for community-based nonprofits and social enterprises in Cape Town, South Africa, Washington, D.C., Retrieved September 22, 2016, from: [link]. and Phoenix, Arizona.

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Care2

APRIL 5, 2011

See case studies and data on what’s working and what’s not. Jeff also built and served as president of a start-up called EnVisto and worked for the consulting firm McKinsey & Company. Prior to this position, Adam worked as part of HRC's sustaining gifts program. Justin has an MBA from the University of Colorado.

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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. One surprise: they aren't over-subscribed.

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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. Or, if you work in a large networked organization, maybe you want to understand inter-personal ties to understand work processes better. A lot of the ideas resonate with.

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