fusionSpan

DECEMBER 20, 2023

Originally from Hyderabad, India, I am currently based in Dubai. What is a fun fact about yourself that people might not know? Interestingly, this skill has led to some amusing situations, as I’ve been unexpectedly thrown into the spotlight when people discovered my understanding of physiognomy.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

Trish Perkins (TP): I was working with a disability nonprofit in Nepal that wanted to put together a database of people who needed their services. So, I started sharing my idea at different networking events. It’s not just useful for offline situations like interviewing people in rural India.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

But, if you’re like most people, you haven’t looked at your website in a while. You see, many donor prospects will check out your nonprofit online before they donate to see who you are, what you do, and how you make a difference. The internet is the main source of information for a lot of people. Your website is no different.

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Socialbrite

MARCH 8, 2020

While they all have different hints and tactics for success, there is one thing they all share in common: They’ve incorporated donation software into their arsenal. 501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Bangalore, India. Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project. After 12th grade, Shanti Bhavan also covers their university education.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 28, 2021

At Accelevents, we treat people like people and all people are equal. Humans come in so many different sizes, colors and interests, but at the heart of it all we’re all the same. “Pride is about feeling empowered to be authentically you. That is it.” That’s not the case.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Among the people I’m privileged to call a colleague here at Benetech is Viji Dilip, the International Program Coordinator for our Bookshare International service. Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. I said to myself what if?” Viji told the magazine.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

He lives in India. A group of caring, generous, passionate people who wanted to make a difference, reach out with a helping hand, change the world and make it a better place. Mani was introduced to the Sharing Foundation and became a donor to the America's Giving Challenge campaign. He also retwittered to his network.

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TechImpact

MAY 12, 2014

In 2017 1.779 Million people will access email via their mobile device.- The percentage of people that use on E-mail on their smartphone is very different per country. The percentage of people that use on E-mail on their smartphone is very different per country.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The sad truth is that millions of people with print disabilities around the world continue to be left behind. We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. We’re also expanding our efforts to help more people in the U.S., While the majority of our members are U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

I received a copy of her reflections and asked if I could share it with more people. Article 19 of the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights says that all people deserve "the right to seek, receive and impart information." Today, millions of people are denied this basic human right because they are not literate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The core of the design is "popular vote" - the group whose idea gets the most people to vote for them wins. I've just returned from a trip to India where there is a different approach to solving complex social problems using social media and the Internet. How can these goals be balanced? The submission form is simple. (3)

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

TED gives me the chance to brainstorm with loads of people who gather to discuss ways to change the world through technology and design. We, of course, ended up talking about helping people who are blind around the world. Andrew’s focus is on curing blindness: 80% of the people he sees in rural Kenya can have their blindness reversed.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. These nonprofits have gotten really good at making it easy for people to understand how their donation will make a difference. Not to mention the $240 is predictable income!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

So, your effort to address the needs of your community through a new water or sanitation project is going to be evaluated by a group of people who have been through doing the same thing in their communities. Get this: the funding decisions on their new clean water projects are made by peer project leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People pay attention more, they learn something, they retain it better, and there is a better chance of them applying what they learned. Then we had a discussion to pull highlight and discover different practices. I used this exercise right after lunch to avoid the after lunch energy drop and use the time for instruction.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

Mobilisation Lab: Started by the digital strategy team at Greenpeace International, the Digital Mobilisation Lab is comprised of a growing global network of staff and volunteers dedicated to people-powered campaigning. Cost structures are different and often text messaging is cheap while calls are expensive.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

How can our existing successful programs reach ten times more people? How can we use technology in a new way to improve people’s lives that is an order of magnitude better? The next 10X opportunity is to go global, by ramping up Bookshare International to serve the millions of people with print disabilities worldwide.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The phrase "Bottom of the Pyramid" refers to the largest, but poorest segment of the population or the billions people living on less than $2 per day, as first defined in 1998 by Professors C.K. I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. Tags: india.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. In addition, during a roundtable on social media at the conference, I was fortunate to meet social media experts in India ( @ nirav @ amnigos @ pranavbhasin @ paritoshsharma and @ avinashraghava ) who shared some examples.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 27, 2008

I've met with Thulsi, the executive director, in Europe at different events, but this was my first time on his (impressive) home turf. Loss of sight can be the greatest tragedy next to death, yet hundreds of thousands of people in the world are suffering from blindness. It seems required when you're trying to help millions of people!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

The Marrakesh Treaty was signed last year, and now the efforts are ramping up to ratify and implement the Treaty, with the goal of helping overcome the book famine faced by people with print disabilities. At least, both groups would be showing up in Geneva with our different positions clear. I decided to follow through and attend.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 22, 2009

Every year, the American Library Association picks a different theme for the occasion. When as the Bookshare librarian I fill out membership forms for different library organizations, I want to check all the boxes, as Bookshare is at once a school library, a public library and an academic library. Bookshare is no different.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2016

A short-hand for this might be that technology is most useful in the hands of people who are ready to use it. He notes: “the right people can work around a bad technology, but the wrong people will mess up even a good one.” Wishful thinking makes many people dream of quick fixes.

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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. campaigns in India to ease poverty, expand women''s rights, build. Do you agree?

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

Mobile-first can mean different things to different people: for developers, it may mean writing code for smaller viewports first with the goal of creating cleaner code; while for designers, it may mean starting with mobile designs with the goal of prioritizing its user experience. billion people across the globe.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Although it might seem like a complicated document , we’re really excited about it because we think it will greatly improve global access for people with bona fide print disabilities. The goal of the Treaty is to end the book famine for people who are blind, visually impaired or otherwise print disabled. Works Covered.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 22, 2014

The 2013 Digital Storytelling Challenge received many many entries from 12 different countries. It is a moving one and a half minute video about the struggle of untouchable caste Dalit children in India to grow up and be as successful as more advantaged children. Our story challenges get lots of attention.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

” – Azim Premji, one of the wealthiest and most generous business leaders in India. Across the year details change, addresses change, and people have their own struggles and successes which impact their giving potential. Your donors’ dollars are making a crucial difference, allowing you to humanize your nonprofit.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

The Resource Alliance has been presenting the NGO Awards in Thailand, India and Vietnam for 10 years, but 2017 marked a substantial change in the award program’s focus and delivery. The IFCAsia delivered on all the reasons why someone should attend. There was also awards ceremony co-sponsored by the Rockefeller Foundation.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Foundations in the United States focus their funding priorities on many different issues. 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.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

To mark the date, the One Campaign has shared a research report called “ Poverty is Sexist ,” that documents how extreme poverty hurts girls and women harder and in different ways than it does boys and men, and to demand targeted action to support girls and women. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The agenda was packed, with 30 more plenary sessions per day (highlights here ) ranging from 5 minutes solo presentations, 10-20 minute panel discussions, and live interviews via skype. But the speakers were not just technologists, they included global leaders – many who are used to a different format for conferences.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 11, 2012

Note from Beth: I have the honor of leading a “Networked NGO Training” in Delhi for grantees of the Packard Foundation and have lined up some guest posts to supplement my reports from India. Every two years since 2005, a different group of 12 such leaders have been surprised by a phone call from Barr.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 31, 2008

When Brij heard I was going to South India, he insisted I visit his team in Pondicherry. Hundreds of millions of people now see these videos, eager to learn the words of their favorite videos and becoming literate along the way. They first created original visual story content, and then added different languages.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 12, 2006

I had an introduction to the one of key leaders in India's outsourcing revolution, Mr. F.C. We had a great conversation high above south Mumbai in the Air India building, which overlooks Mumbai's peninsula. The reason I came to Mumbai was to visit Tata Consultancy Services, the giant outsourcing firm.

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