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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. These young girls are growing up in the Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai India, one of the largest slums in the world. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

Get general information. For those nonprofits working on sustainable development issues - NextDrop uses mobile technology to monitor and improve water flow in urban India and subsequent sustainable development. Bangalore and Pune, India Greenpeace got 937 text backs and 149 new supporters. Print pictures. Get directions.

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SAP Gives Back

Tech Soup

In India, one out of two SAP employees is volunteering on a community project focused on improving educational opportunities through tutoring or enhancing school infrastructure and resources. movement, a world of 7 billion has implications for sustainability, urbanization, access to health services, and youth empowerment.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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. Also, if participants don’t know each other yet, it gives them a chance to informally introduce one another.

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Digital Platforms for Greater Impact: Examples for Foundations

Forum One

Images of Empowerment. A common need for these efforts is how to tell the story of the roles women around the world play today in decision-making, income earning, and accessing and using reproductive health care information and services. . Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

It could be training in information and communication technology, or it could be a training on a local water filter that would be helpful for people to bring to their communities. For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions.

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