Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

To celebrate all of the good going on around us, they’ve created a huge, global image gallery of people, organizations and businesses doing good this holiday on their Facebook page – because they believe that #GoodSpotting is everywhere, and something everyone can do.

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Global Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Technology has the power to unlock new possibilities for people and for the planet. Pro bono service from the corporate sector can help enable nonprofits with technology, processes and people, giving them what they need to thrive. Featured Photo: Solar Suitcases for Safer Childbirth in Tanzania by WE CARE Solar. Download Now.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? When working with communities, trying to enable change, looking for opportunities to spark collaboration, love seems like a strange thing to think about for many people.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2016

Kanem highlighted how the SDGs are goals for everybody – developed and developing countries alike – and that success depends on global involvement. By increasing understanding globally, turning information into knowledge and hopefully wisdom, a true dialogue can be had regardless of where people are sitting around the table.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I did a post a few weeks ago on youth programs in TechSoup Global's new Local Impact Map and decided I hadn’t covered this resource nearly enough. demonstrates what nonprofits, NGOs, and libraries around the world are doing with their TechSoup Global software donations to further their missions. Our Local Impact Map.

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Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

In celebration of the occasion of getting to meet this huge hero of mine, I’ve outlined five ways that companies, institutions, and nonprofits can harness technological innovations to advance financial inclusion and empower the world’s most vulnerable people: 1. It’s making life better and business easier for people everywhere.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

More than 20 NetSquared-affiliated organizers will be at the conference (look for the people wearing NetSquared pins.) These global leaders are coming from Uganda, Australia, London, and Florida. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

A social media surgery is an informal gathering of people who want to learn how to use the web to communicate, campaign, or collaborate. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. However, our organizers are currently very keen on social media surgeries. Louis in St.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

This post is Development Director Ryan Ginard's first impression of seeing how powerful a virtual reality video is in putting the viewer in the middle of a compelling story at the most recent meeting of the Clinton Global Initiative. A Highlight at the Recent Clinton Global Initiative Meeting.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. Banks of Kiwanja on the tendency of social media people to get. “I freak out hearing people talk about using mobiles for ICT for. However, the surprise was that.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

How many people hear that word and think it is just as generic as the word community? We have community groups, schools, local leaders and people at every age, interest, and skill level. All those people and groups have just as many different goals, small and large. Have people heard of 350.org What is a movement?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

But to many people active in online social action communities, these events had deeper meaning. This is a guest post from Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared’s Global Community Development Manager.&#. In reaction to the Causes announcement, Economist bureau chief Matthew Bishop tweeted “Who knew it was on MySpace?”

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

That's why TechSoup supports a global network of tech trainers called NetSquared. In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. Each month, more than 70 groups hold free events in 24 countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 7, 2009

Now don’t get me wrong, I love you people. There’s these kids sitting at the other lunch tables in our global cafeteria. An ecosystem where its members connect, interact, and support not just the people in their circles but people they ‘bump into’ based on some ‘random’ interest and connection. starts around 17:27).

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Jessica is the co-founder and a board member of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global poverty. Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. I wondered whether or not those results would be replicable ?

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Over this time, we have had a glaring omission: our research has not captured funding related to race or ethnicity, despite significant and global human rights work in this area. Even in the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

As nonprofits hone and refine peer to peer fundraising best practices , we are also seeing more more people make philanthropy a part of their everyday personal expression – whether on social networks or in the real world. According to Tom, Diane and the other instructors at Flying Change are very special people.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

Having project managed TechSoup Global's 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey , I can heartily agree with that. TechSoup Global conducted a huge global cloud survey of NGOs in over 80 countries in March of 2012 and released the results in September. We gathered so much data! Now what to do with it.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? This technology will make it easier for blind and sight-impaired people to browse the web. Finally, I think one of the more interesting international crowdfunding projects is Watsi, a Global Crowdfunding Platform for Healthcare.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 1, 2006

Jane Goodall Institute's Geoblog : The Jane Goodall Insitute has created a geoblog, the Gombe Chimpanzee Blog , Using Google Earth, the geoblog allows readers/viewers to view Gombe National Park in Tanzania while they read entries by Emily Wroblewski, a field researcher who is studying the Gombe Chimpanzees. People connecting."

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. As we've heard, something like 18% of the people in the world live on less than $1 a day, and a much bigger percentage live on less than $2 a day. Many, many of these people are actually living on more like 15, 20 cents a day.

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