Tech Soup

JANUARY 17, 2012

TechSoup Blog. Guest blogger Grant Howe, VP of research and development for Sage North America's nonprofit solutions, kicks off a series of posts about providing great IT leadership. From the TechSoup Global Network. From TechSoup Global. Here's what we've been talking about so far this year. From NetSquared.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 11, 2021

This blog post was originally published on 12/11/2021. To mitigate the impacts of this pandemic on girls and secure a better future, we’ve found that supporting locally-led initiatives works best. Profound Change Starts With Local Partners. For many students, these school closures could mean the end of their formal education.

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JUNE 24, 2021

Salesforce will be hosting attendees in San Francisco, New York, London, and Paris, marking the first-ever global Dreamforce. Salesforce has stated, “[We] will follow all local COVID-19 public health guidelines. It is a big moment as America moves into the recovery stage of the pandemic. In the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2016

But don't be afraid — huddle up for warmth and knowledge with your nonprofit tech friends at a local Tech4Good meetup. Find your local #Tech4Good group. We're a global movement with chapters in 24 countries. Every month, our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities.

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JULY 19, 2023

Government The government provides grants at federal, state, and local levels to ease the burden of overhead or administration costs for nonprofits like yours. For example, the federal government often provides funding to state and local governments for formula grants that benefit federal programs. The Ford Foundation granted $1.07

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 30, 2022

The hunger crisis will not resolve itself without unprecedented collaboration on the local, national, and global level. Special thanks to our panelists: Benjamin Schorr, Associate Director, Philanthropy and Social Impact, Kellogg’s Ben Collier, Co-CEO, Farmlink Elizabeth Pettengill, Senior Director, New Partnerships, Feeding America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Globally, 1 in 3 girls around the world is denied an education by the daily realities of poverty, violence and discrimination. I raised money through my blog and later on Twitter to help send her to college from 2006-2010 through the Sharing Foundation’s program. The photo above is Leng Sopharath.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

Note from Beth: Back in 2003 when most people in the nonprofit sector were asking, “What the heck is a blog?,” ” Marnie Webb, Co-CEO of TechSoup Global was not only writing one, but evangelizing to nonprofit techies about social media (called Web 2.0 Cloud Computing Survey Results from TechSoup Global.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Central and South America.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 3, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community is hosting free monthly technology meetups in 74 cities globally, but with more than 39,000 members, it can be hard to get a sense of the community's needs. You can discover more about the NetSquared community by reviewing the responses on the NetSquared blog. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2016

What if there was a place for your nonprofit to get free technology support from local experts? NetSquared groups held 23 Storymakers events, helping local nonprofits use video strategically. We're a global movement with chapters in 24 countries. Central and South America. Well, there are! Africa and the Middle East.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. NetSquared groups focus on topics that address their unique local tech challenges, but once a quarter, we select a common theme. Webinars are awesome, and so are blog posts — but there's a special magic that happens when we get face to face.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

But did you know that our work is global? That's why TechSoup created NetSquared , our global network of volunteer-led Tech4Good meetups. Our NetSquared leaders are currently holding free events in 24 countries and meet with their local TechSoup partners to collaborate on how to best support nonprofits in their country.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Toronto, Canada: Professional Blogging: Finding Your Niche in a Digital World. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Check out the [blog]([link] to get a taste of our grassroots community. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link]. Central and South America.

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Tech Soup

MAY 21, 2013

Get your world-changing ideas together and warm up your programming fingers because the National Day of Civic Hacking is happening across America on June 1 and 2, 2013. Using publicly-released data and code, participants will be able to swap ideas, share skills, and solve challenges that affect Americans on both local and national scales.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

If you're a regular reader of this blog, you've probably encountered one of my twice-monthly roundups of nonprofit tech meetups. There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. We''re a [global movement]([link] with chapters in 20 countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 1, 2015

At the age of 13, my grandfather left his country and ended up as a refugee in America. Despite harsh conditions, he made a new life in a new country, but never forgot his homeland. Local organizations are working to provide support, training and services to these women. A branch of my family tree is from the Ukraine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We want to give people an opportunity to really develop, innovate, and preserve their own culture." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. I've posted an edited transcript of the interview below.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

You're reading the TechSoup blog, so you're probably already comfortable with using technology in your work. Every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 60 cities. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 25, 2010

To follow more of the things I find online, you can follow @amysampleward on Twitter (which is just a blog and resource feed), or find me on Delicious (for all kinds of bookmarks). Anecdotely, I see a lot of blogs and Flickr photo streams, some YouTube and Vimeo use. " Check it out! " Check it out! Why limit yourself?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 4, 2012

As I wrote back in September when first covering Giving Tuesday, Giving Days are not a new idea and have been successful in local communities and entire states, like GiveMN which raised many millions of dollars in 24 hours using the Razoo platform its first year. Internal social media coordination, organization and planning.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 26, 2011

As the leading global advocate for making and supporting games created for social impact, we want to share some of the exciting events at this year’s Festival that we feel will resonate with nonprofits. What Nonprofits Can Learn at Games for Change Festival by Jeff Ramos. We’ll tweet our results after Memorial Day weekend.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Find your local #Tech4Good group. Check out the [blog]([link] to get a taste of our grassroots community. * **Katharine Bierce** recorded her recent [tech and philanthropy panel]([link]. Every month our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. Central and South America.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

Examples like the TSA and EPA blogs. US Military Southern Command blog. White House blogs, open government initiatives. Also working with Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America to help get them the respect and services they deserve, working on reform of the VA. They're now allowed to do their jobs.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

Net2Local, TechSoup Global’s grassroots #nptech community-building initiative has almost reached the end of 2013. Net2Local has adopted the core strategies of theme months to increase network cohesion and regional hubs to scale our ability to support local organizers. What did we do? Read on for our review of the last six months.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 8, 2012

For the full list of strategic lessons learned in our last Nonprofits Live session, visit the Amoration blog. Games are a $60 billion global industry. (MB). ARIS is used for designing local, geolocative games at Global Kids connected to libraries and schools to talk about the history and issues in their. Game Audiences.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. The Digital Public Library of America held a hackathon to test the prototype DPLA platform and build apps for it. meets LinkedIn for students. Library Hackathons.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Elevate America a workforce development program, that provides one million vouchers for Microsoft e-learning courses and select certification exams at no cost to recipients.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2009

If you'd like to learn more about national and global hunger issues, check out the national and international organizations listed below. For a local perspective, peruse the list of food bank blogs. Mary’s Food Bank Alliance in Phoenix White Center Food Bank Blog Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Acumen Fund is a non-profit global venture fund that uses entrepreneurial approaches to solve the problems of global poverty. Ashoka 's mission is to shape a citizen sector that is entrepreneurial, productive and globally integrated. If you do the math, that's $1 million donated to these organizations. the rest of the world.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2009

Outlined in the brief article below is a new way of using the Web and web services to gather peoples’ stories – anecdotes, video clips, podcasts, blog posts and all sorts of other snippets – and help not-for-profit organizations move into action planning based on the “raw material” of what people are saying and talking about.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 26, 2008

In early May, I wrote a post asking all of you for suggestions for "changebloggers," people who are using their blog, podcast or vlog to raise awareness, to build community, and/or to facilitate readers/listeners/viewers' taking action to make the world a better place. blogging activism nonprofit changeblogger blog

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

This year kicked off with the launch of the new United Nations agenda for global philanthropy, the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) that will take us through 2030. Visual social media such as Instagram, Pinterest, and YouTube videos moved up in priority again this year, surpassing blogging and phone banking for the first time ever.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

We will be launching the full version of the site in March at NTC, at a hackathon we are co-producing with Code for America. Google dominates most of North America, Europe, south Asia and the south Pacific. Facebook is the most popular site in the Spanish-speaking parts of the America, also the Middle East, and North Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 8, 2008

Since her parents work in the Sharing Foundation's farm program, she attended the Foundation's Khmer Literacy School which helped her enter the local village school. Blogger Roger Carr of Everyday Giving Blog has written a beautiful post about the Khmer Literacy School ! Leda, a young child, was abandoned in a local market.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

Some include the Red Cross, The Weather Channel, local newspapers, Craigslist, and others. 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. link] Hurricane_Katrina_disaster_relief.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. Brazil is the eighth largest economy in the world.

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