Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

But maybe you're skeptical and you're wondering: "How can a free event organized by a volunteer be any good?" Diversity — how to make sure the organizing team, presenters, attendees, and content are inclusive and reflective of the community. The workshops topics included. Find your closest NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2013

NetSquared holds free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to learn more about using technology for social good. Net2Local organizers plan events because they have skills to share, want to give back and want to make the world a better place. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 16, 2013

Guatemala: The Social Good Summit Global Conversation 2013 - Guatemala. Busia, Kenya: Blue Bells Orphans And Vulnerable Support Program /Kenya. Net2 organizer Kate Bladow picks the highlights. Guatemala: Taller de e-emprendimiento y e-promocion del Campus Tec. Monday, September 23. Tuesday, September 24. Event Reports.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

While the rest of you have been enjoying the summer partying on the beach, TechSoup’s NetSquared organizers have been plotting and scheming in front of their computers. During our month of social media for social good -themed events being held in cities across the globe NetSquared organizers are offering free workshops and events.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

So join your local NetSquared group and start participating in the conversation. Busia, Kenya: mozilla western kenya follow ups -openness,opportuni­ty on the open web. Taipei, Taiwan: Nonprofit organizations accountability and transparency. And if you don’t have a local group we’ll help you start your own.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

Or if you’re in Kenya check out the computer training workshops in rural schools. We also hold frequent socials where people come together for informal conversation during a happy hour. NetSquared groups have organized over 2,200 events since we started in 2006, and we continue to grow the community each year.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Bordeaux, France: Les Personas pour Optimiser Votre Conversion. Center photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY. Right photo : Chrispin Okumu / NetSquared Kenya / CC BY.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

This morning, I had the opportunity to start my day with an inspiring conversation about the challenges facing today’s youth and how we can work to solve them. Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2011

Flickr: °Florian From mapping election violence in Kenya to coordinating disaster response efforts to helping people decide where to live , nonprofits have increasingly used Geographic Information Systems (GIS) to support their work. Now, I'd likely just create a Google Map. Thanks Kent!)

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OCTOBER 20, 2011

What does distinguish these organizations, though, is the specificity of what they ask people to do when once they’ve brought them together in conversation. A woman in Kenya (replete with name and photo) who could use your $50 to start a corner store. They don’t just say, “You’re here now, talk amongst yourselves.”

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The nexus for this work is the World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO), the United Nations agency that deals with such matters. Apparently, the particular kind of collective license that the publishers were discussing was different, and involved going through the eighty-plus special Reproduction Rights Organizations (RROs).

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 19, 2014

Every month TechSoup’s NetSquared community organizers volunteer to bring free (or low cost) nonprofit technology events and workshops to over 50 cities. Starting on August 26th NetSquared organizers are holding digital storytelling events as part of the Storymakers campaign. Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. September 23.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

If a capital campaign is on the horizon for your organization, Aaron Bishop and Brian O’Neil will share strategies and resources available to confidently predict your project costs and resources needed. And the way that Brian and I know each other we’re strategic partners when we work with organizations.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Suddenly organizations had websites that needed to be filled up with content and maintained! Many organizations didn’t know how to approach this. Are you conversational, formal, academic, cutesy? Having an expert involved may be the most efficient and cost-effective way for your organization.

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NOVEMBER 29, 2010

Right before Thanksgiving, I was in London on my way back from Kenya. All in all, a fantastic time in London and special thanks again to my colleague and friend, Steve Bridger , for organizing these events. I am applying for jobs related to my accounting major. You are my good parents because I am an orphan.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

I don't think I said much; in fact, I was a mere passenger in the conversation as I found myself hanging on his every word. Truth be told, my eyes had to adjust at first and I found myself unashamedly spinning around in my chair and soaking up this truly unique experience. A Highlight at the Recent Clinton Global Initiative Meeting.

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JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

In order for social media to have full impact, it needs to scale within an organization. Your organization's social media strategy should be not implemented by one lonely intern sitting in the corner of your communications and marketing department. Even the user name, "ntenhross" incorporates her organization's brand.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

The first example is Ushahidi – originally designed as a tool for mapping reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election unrest in 2008. The photo or video taken on a phone and then posted to the web can change the conversation, alert news media to issues or new developments, and change the course of response.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

Closures and social distancing measures have wiped out organizations that didn’t have a rainy day fund. We (virtually) sat down with four nonprofit organizations to see how they’re reacting to a year they just couldn’t have seen coming. In terms of how these organizations are communicating with their stakeholders (e.g.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

It's mind boggling how something like this could be harnessed for digital inclusion and social sector organizations. The ideas submission process started last week and will be followed by online conversations, online community voting, jury voting, and a hackathons for the best projects in each of the countries. Accessibility.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

Traveling Postcards is a humanitarian organization that is gathering women’s voices worldwide, and creating a traveling collection of visual and written wisdom that so many women hold in their hearts. She then went on to hold several Traveling Postcards workshops both in her own community, and then in Kenya!

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

You can listen to our conversation on the player below, or on iTunes , as well as read an edited transcript of the interview. As a result, we are finding that sustainable farms, organic farms, are actually helping to pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere and store it in the soils. We've heard a lot about the transport sector.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We started our conversation with my dad describing what cultural entrepreneurship is: Tom Aageson: Cultural entrepreneurship is an effort on the part of an entrepreneur who is very committed to cultural development and sees opportunities. For example, organic and fair trade yogurt, or coffee, which helps the coffee growers in Latin America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. Having friends in Kenya, she came up with the idea to provide summer schools in Kenya. " The organization works directly with local ngos and volunteers matching them by interest, need, and skills.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast, where we talk with individuals and organizations who are creating positive change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 21, 2006

Britt Bravo: Hi, welcome to the Big Vision Podcast, where we talk with individuals and organizations who are creating positive change. So, we created the organization, sort of, to really use food as a tool for social change that we could really leverage to address multiple issues. Brahm Ahmadi: Sure.

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Tech Soup

JULY 31, 2014

In fact, I dare you to sit at a campfire and not be drawn into conversation. Nonprofits, charities and religious organizations are doing inspiring mission-based work, but often we’re so caught up in delivering our programs that we forget the need to communicate our impact to the rest of the world. Unfamiliar with tweet-chats ?

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. The third kind of face to face opportunity we provide is in partnership with an organization called Global Exchange.

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SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

In 2007, 92 people gave up their September birthdays to bring water to a hospital in Kenya. But how are you measuring along the ladder of engagement – from awareness to conversion to donor. charity: water is a nimble and fast moving organization and our approach to measurement reflects this. Obviously $.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

The organization has received numerous awards for its work, and Fisher recently received the $100,000 Lemelson-MIT Award for Sustainability. What follows is an edited transcript of our conversation on July 2, 2008. For example, in Kenya, only 7% of the population, of the labor force, has a job in the formal private sector.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Dining for Women is a seven-year-old organization that facilitates a network of 130 giving circles across the country. Over the past three years, the organization has grown and added a bunch of exciting new programs, so I asked her back to the Big Vision Podcast to talk about them. It's basically the power of collective giving.

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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.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2015

I was lucky enough to sit down with Sean Sheridan , photojournalist, author and speaker who has spent nearly two decades elevating people and brands through storytelling, to learn more about his focus on storytelling through imagery and how his work amplifies the cause-minded organizations he partners with.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

Our October 14th conversation began with Jensine explaining how World Pulse works. What's interesting about the way the organization is shifting into this place of more of a foundation, and more of that team, and sustainability, is it's giving me the space to build in my own sustainability. I've posted an edited transcript below.

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AUGUST 8, 2006

I was thrilled when Ilyse Hogue , contacted me to say that her friend Anna Lappé was in town to promote her new book, Grub: Ideas for an Urban Organic Kitchen , and might be available for an interview. For instance, "organic". You can hear the interview on the Big Vision Podcast , or read the transcript below.

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