Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

To confront these challenges, a nonprofit should ensure that its digital storytelling adheres to four essential guideposts: Transparency speaks to a nonprofit’s ability to demonstrate its legitimacy as a good steward of donated funds by, for example, sharing its audited financial statements and other, similar information.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

APRIL 7, 2022

This is where NexellAngels — an initiative from Salesforce.org partner Nexell, which specifically helps nonprofit organizations — came on board to build a bespoke solution with Salesforce.org Nonprofit Cloud for the WHO Foundation’s fiduciary needs. Setting up a Secure, Yet Flexible Platform.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

This is why the making of accessible books is a classic example of market failure: if publishers could make a lot of money selling braille, large print, audio, and fully accessible textbooks, we wouldn’t need a copyright exception. For example, we run Bookshare in the U.S. The biggest challenge for access is that it’s expensive.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Here’s a great example from Hearts Speak: You can see the rest of their home page at www.heartsspeak.org. Questions make good headings like “Do you want to help families in need?” When the donor clicks through to the donation page, a call to action should be prominent like “Your gift helps us feed the homeless!”

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

I was fortunate to meet some individuals who connected me to developers that helped me with the first prototype of the app. I knew there was still a lot of work to be done, so I continued to share it with people in the hopes that I could find a team to help me. How has participating with the Commons program helped this project?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. In looking at some of the project examples , I found several that focus on women's empowerment and rights in India.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

For example, looking at trends in the higher education sector, 23 out of 43 Australian universities have appointed a new vice chancellor in the last two years. For example, more than half of U.S. Learner-Centric Impact.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

If you don't have a local group (I can help fix that problem! ), there are also free online guides and a global Twitter chat October 5 using the hashtag #storymakers2017. TechSoup and the NetSquared meetups are here to help. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

The Nasscom Foundation in India is the epicenter of nonprofit technology and social innovation. NASSCOM Foundation was set up to support the Indian IT industry’s role in nation building and to promote the underprivileged to help them become self-reliant and productive participants in the country’s progress. Tags: india.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 14, 2010

Video Can Help Boost Donations in End-Of-The-Year Fundraising by Michael Hoffman. Adding video to your end-of-year online campaigns can help you achieve, and even exceed, your year-end fundraising goals. In this example, the video would be used to get Beth’s friends to donate to support her participation in the event.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

Technology product donations, training, and nonprofit data are all part of TechSoup Global’s offering to civil society in India. Our BigTech program is run by our local partner, the NASSCOM Foundation in India. million NGOs in India. According to the Indian Central Statistical Office, there are 3.3

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 16, 2011

Canada, Europe and India. For example, all residents with the qualifying disabilities in Australia, Denmark and Qatar, to pick just three examples, now have free access to Bookshare thanks to our joint efforts with local and national disability groups in these countries. These include 6 of the top 10 publishers in the U.S.

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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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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I also think that examining this idea in a place where the 3 areas create a very clear Venn Diagram, like India, invites a wide range of voices to the conversation. One of the participants was Pratima from Shelter Associates in Pune, India. There are so many examples we could include. Do you have one you’d like to share?

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Read on for a little Monday morning inspiration and then take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you serve your community. Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. They’re a great example of an NGO that really knows their IT. Support for Autistic Children in the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 3, 2008

Reflections on an internship with Bookshare.org in Chennai, India Made possible through support from the Amherst College Center for Community Engagement Anna Reid, religion major, class of 2010 Anna Reid with employees of Worth Trust, a South Indian organization that provides vocational training and employment for people with disabilities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

As an example, here’s a philosophical question for you, one that needs practical answers: To what extent can you engage with unethical partners without becoming tainted yourself? Komen for the Cure is a perfect example of this conundrum. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Vijay Talwar defined the differences between and fine lines between cause marketing and corporate social responsibility programs based on his experience working at Nike. Guarav Mishra showed some examples of how mobile technologies were helping to deliver services to the bottom of the pyramid. Tags: india.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 11, 2013

We’ve already built a collection of titles in Hindi and Tamil, two of the most-spoken languages in India, and last summer we released our first accessible collection in Arabic. Mada is also helping us encourage publishers of Arabic-language books to support this important initiative and provide additional content to be included in Bookshare.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

” This helped shift the energy and energize. I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.”

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

Read on for a little Monday morning inspiration and then take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you serve your community. Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. They’re a great example of an NGO that really knows their IT. Support for Autistic Children in the U.S.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

AUGUST 23, 2021

Fortunately, her new book shows you how to do exactly that, and how to help others do so too. Seeing what most people don’t look helps you get ahead of problems. Use your humanity to help others. Flux is both timely and timeless: It is useful immediately today and also can help readers every day moving forward.

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AUGUST 14, 2013

In a recent blog post , Bernard Marr gave several examples of business leaders who have persevered to become wildly successful. organization that focused on helping the poor, she was accused of. campaigns in India to ease poverty, expand women''s rights, build. Bernard Marr, business author. Prize in 1979.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 27, 2008

The first thing I noticed was that the start-up costs had been supported by Lavelle Fund, which is also funding our first major project in India (more on that later). Aravind has a plan to quadruple their activities in India over the next few years, and I am not skeptical at all about their ability to meet those objectives.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

How about Facebook friends in India? For example, there are many differences between US and UK English. The next step is finding your audience online, or more importantly helping them find you. Vine is the perfect example, a social network that responded to more people wanting to create videos with their smartphones.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

Below are a number of helpful pointers to include in your donor list health check up. ” – Azim Premji, one of the wealthiest and most generous business leaders in India. Ensuring you’re aware of their present circumstances, and to help in this effort your donor management software is a key component.

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MAY 16, 2022

Here are just a few really good, real life examples: Draft Gratitude relies on their Monthly Giving Team to cover about half of their monthly expenses for the horses. Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. More on that in a moment.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. The first example of direct content is the use of Wikipedia during the 7/7 bombings in London. Another example of indirect content is that of social networks.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Mani is a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0 His passion is using the Internet to raise money to provide free heart surgery for young children in India who would otherwise not be able to afford this life saving medical care. Here's the story of one child, Sakthi who was helped by Dr. Mani's efforts.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

good to highlight a few examples of its uses and briefly examine its. There are many examples of the benefits of the mobile in emerging and. It is an extraordinary example of one of these tools. countries are examining ways to use mobiles and nonprofits can help to. was used to help find missing political dissidents.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

The foundation's mission is to “inspire and empower people affected by cancer” by helping find the information, support, and strength they need to fight cancer. I asked Brooke McMillan, Online Community Evangelist, for the Lance Armstrong Foundation, to share some examples of how they engage with their community.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2013

A lot of helpful and insightful digital storytelling advice was shared; below are some of the highlights: India: NASSCOM Foundation, TechSoup Global partner, led the way with How to Create High Impact Stories. North York Community uses digital storytelling to help their constituents find healing from immigration experiences.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Our team wanted to know: What other currencies could help us connect more GlobalGivers with more community-led organizations? GlobalGiving accepts donations in U.S. Why It Matters.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

Plus, it will especially help countries with less-developed libraries and services for people with disabilities by making it easier to tap large collections (like Bookshare) in other countries. or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. Noteworthy Articles in the Treaty: Article 2(a). Articles 5 and 6.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The Mashable audience truly wants to do good in the world and they were inspired to hear and see many different examples and opportunities to support. There were many examples of how social, mobile, and other new digital technologies are being used to scale good bridge digital divides. Remember to watch today at 2:45pm!

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

A few of the more experienced SEs join the Foundation staff in helping the new attendees get the maximum value out of the conference. Harish Hande of Selco of India advocated passionately to involve the poor in the planning for ventures and initiatives designed to help them. I’m already getting into the spirit.

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