Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. RAN is establishing Resilience Innovation Labs within participating universities throughout Africa, coupled with online laboratories and a new online science library to help with its work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

She runs a for-profit social enterprise named Daproim that provides data entry services using disadvantaged students as their primary workforce. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. Incredibly, the high-quality work continued to flow from Daproim uninterrupted.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 12, 2021

org is an international movement of people working to end the age of fossil fuels and build a world of community-led renewable energy for all. For example, AfrikaVuka , the digital organizing platform for 350 Africa, is a climate organizing platform now engaging about 100 groups across the continent. Bentley Motors.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 16, 2012

After the ACE leadership training, I had the opportunity to spend a day in Kigali. I volunteered to do a Social Media and Professional Networking workshop for second year students at the Akilah Institute for Women. I worked with 39 young women between the ages of 18-30. I worked with 39 young women between the ages of 18-30.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

We are grateful for CASE’s recognition of Benetech's work. CASE offers a tremendous program for MBA students and alumni interested in applying their business skills for social purposes. I hope that in my lecture, I convince my listeners, especially students, that they don’t need technology degrees to succeed in high tech.

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Candid

JULY 22, 2021

These included higher education institutions with students from underserved communities, arts organizations, and social sector infrastructure organizations. entities were also supported, including 11 based in India, two in Africa, and one in Mexico. . Editor’s note: Scott awarded a grant to Candid.) . This time, however, non-U.S.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. What are you up to right now in Africa? After over a year working as a volunteer, Avi is excited to join Epic Change as the Community and Events Director.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. What are you up to right now in Africa? After over a year working as a volunteer, Avi is excited to join Epic Change as the Community and Events Director.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Her students at Rice University have been busy inventing new tools and equipment for global health. Their students actually go into the field, work with local medical professionals, and learn their real problems, their real pain points. Rebecca was looking for help with a familiar problem. So far, so good.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. 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.

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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! I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 7, 2009

I ran into a Stanford MBA student at TED, Joy Sun. She had been working in public health in Africa before heading to Stanford. But, all the students had cell phones. I see an immediate overlap with the work we're doing with Bookshare and a new concept we've been talking to publishers about: Bookaccess.

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Qgiv

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

Matt Hugg, President and Founder, Nonprofit.Courses – He’s the author of the Guide to Nonprofit Consulting, and teaches nonprofit management at several universities, via the web, and in-person in the United States, Africa, Asia and Europe. To this point, your work with your volunteers is all procedural. Complete the paperwork.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Did you know that actively disengaged employees cost the organizations they work for $483-$605 billion per year ? Plus, 71% of employees say it’s important to them to work at a company that contributes to nonprofits, demonstrating that corporate giving programs can help businesses retain their employees.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

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. CELI does this work by equipping emerging leaders and professionals with the skills and expertise to lead the transition to a clean energy economy. Connect with CELI: .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. We know technology alone won’t solve these issues alone, but we think it can help those who are working to address the issue amplify their impact. Meet Our Salesforce.org Impact Lab Climate Action Experts.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

The idea for the project came from Nigerian blogger Ore Somolu who is presently working with a group of young women from Armenia, Azerbaijan and Georgia on the Young Caucacus Women Project. The project is about: The African Mentoring Project was created as a way of encouraging and supporting Africans who want to start blogging. Some day.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

While they are not the slick, product-placement-type images prevalent on Pinterest’s lifestyle boards, they are unique and compelling shots from the field, images that allow viewers to meet the real people Camfed supports and partners with, and see where they live, work and learn. Please share your thoughts!

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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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Achieve

MAY 28, 2014

I have had countless conversations with students and peers who want nothing more than to start changing people’s lives. 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. We are Millennials.

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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 is the second college student we are supporting through the Sharing Foundation’s program. (I’m donating the royalties from my new book, Measuring the Networked Nonprofit , towards her education).

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 10, 2013

” The school is funded by student tuitions and church member donations. The real work of the technology ministry, however, is to support the robust service mission of the Beardstown Christian Academy. It strives to teach students responsibility for others. Most of the equipment is using Windows XP. Image: Shutterstock.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

For example , if you are an organization working on public education policy changes, you probably recognize teachers as a core demographic to your work – both in supporting the changes you propose as well as helping identify the changes that can and should be made. But how does it help you move closer to your goal? You have one.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

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. Seattle, Washington: How to Pick a WordPress Plug-In / WordPress Work and Support Lab. Busia, Kenya: Teaching Mobile Apps Development to High School Students.

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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. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. Illustration by Beth Kanter.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Sometimes the day-to-day work at a nonprofit can make you feel worlds apart from the fast-moving mobile tech industry. Students can actually rent textbooks and read them on the tablet. Adopting BYOD practices will make for a more flexible workplace and allow your staff and volunteers to work from their preferred devices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

The fundraiser's goal to is to raise money for one amazing Mama who dreams of building a home for children in her village in Africa. Here's how it works. The money raised from this fundraiser will help build a boarding facility on campus so that every child who attends her school has a place to call home. I love the design.

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AFP Blog

APRIL 22, 2014

Center for the Future of Museums: Khan Academy & Cultural Understanding : Smarthistory at Khan Academy is used by museum visitors, independent learners, professors, teachers and their students. We’ve begun to partner with museums to bring their formidable expertise to a global audience (often by simply repurposing pre-existing content).

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Featured Photo: Students Create Digital Tools to Solve Problems by CDI Apps for Good. The Big Question. GlobalGiving accepts donations in U.S. Make It Yours.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

To recognize the tireless work of volunteers that support the nonprofit sector, we’ll be publishing a blog post every day this week to celebrate their contributions. NTEN committee members are the volunteers who work behind the scenes, contributing their expertise, time, and advice to help shape NTEN programming.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Leonard Library.

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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. Teens As Free Agents.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 15, 2009

Wellesley College student, Catlin Powers , is the co-founder of One Earth Designs. Lori Hanna is one of four college students from the University of Dayton who founded Salud del Sol. Lauren Vegter , a Sloan Management Science and Operations Research student, is one of the founding members of MIT International Development Consulting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. Support Peace Work Around the World Peace Project Fellow, Alison Long Photo in Flickr, Used with Permission.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits are giving back to the web analytics community because our experienced analysts work directly with “student learners” so that they can gain valuable “hands on” interaction with web data. . Joining Analysis Exchange is completely free and the entire process takes about three weeks beginning to end.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2015

Parr uses the metaphor of building a fire to describe how capturing attention works. The book goes into detail about each of these triggers, describing how they work and examples of how organizations and people capture attention. She asked 121 students to fill out a short survey in exchange for five dollars.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 1, 2004

Normally I like to talk to students, but the timing at the beginning of the academic year was not ideal. I came away with a handful of great ideas (such as the possible marriage of digital talking books and community radio in Africa) and offers of assistance with some of the legal issues surrounding our work.

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