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Why Ongoing Professional Development Is Essential For The Nonprofit Community

Bloomerang

Amy Eisenstein, CEO and co-founder of the Capital Campaign Toolkit, and Adrian Sargeant, co-director at the Institute for Sustainable Philanthropy, conducted a study titled “ Major Gift Fundraising: Unlocking the Potential for Your Nonprofit *.” . For more information, visit charityhowto.com. Leaders need to learn too. .

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Accessibility Excitement in Geneva

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Developing countries like Kenya and Ghana, which are starting to make good progress on these efforts, aren’t in the LDC category. I was surprised that the Director General of WIPO, Francis Gurry, actually presided over the half-day formal meeting: the effort was obviously getting priority from WIPO. There was one big area of consensus.

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SAP Gives Back

Tech Soup

In Ghana, SAP is using their technology and volunteers in partnership with a leading NGO to help women create thriving businesses through the harvesting of shea nuts. Thanks to an interactive population dashboard that SAP designed and built for UNFPA, anyone anywhere can access and interact with this information using UN data.

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7 Ways Nonprofits Can Use Podcasts

Have Fun - Do Good

This is great if your founder, or director, is a strong and inspiring speaker. Short, informational pieces about one issue combining voiceover by a narrator/host and interviews with the people you serve. Example: UNICEF Digital Diaries: Berenice's Story from Ghana, Part I. Example: Senator Barack Obama's podcast. Be creative!

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Guest Post by Stephanie McAuliffe: SoCap09 - Day 2 Roundup

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. Others were more focused on investors needing to act differently based on the information, to “shut down” ineffective organizations. Stephanie McAuliffe is the Director of Human Resources at the Packard Foundation. .

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Women's Earth Alliance: Co-Directors Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond

Have Fun - Do Good

When I sat down to talk with the co-Directors, Melinda Kramer and Amira Diamond, in early March, they had literally just returned from the West African Woman and Water Training in Ghana. There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. The greatest challenge we face is the challenge of access.

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Mr. Jim Goes to Washington (and New York, and Nairobi, and Seoul, and Kampala, and Boston…)

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

In quick succession I met the medical director who oversees the doctors in the hospital, and then the hospital CEO, Dr. Sam Thenya. It was the third Africa Forum I’ve attended: I went to Accra, Ghana, in 2011 and South Africa in 2004. This time, I had the benefit of help.

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