Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

Small nonprofits in Brazil are usually created by social entrepreneurs in the slums or other low-income zones, people with no management skills but lots of love to give. When those NGOs receive funding they usually know how to use the funds very efficiently and are able to grow. It’s something incredible.

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APRIL 14, 2022

In the meantime, individuals, governments, and private philanthropy fund relief on the ground, trying to keep up with displacement and need on a massive scale. Refugees & Displaced People. People of Color. Even as diplomatic negotiations continue, the future is uncertain at best. 214,611,350. Children. 109,238,660.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2010

As the worldwide debate continues about the release of government information by Wikileaks, history has shown that the uncovering of government data can be an important factor in human rights investigations.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2013

Before raising the hopes of any community, one of the first things an NGO should ask itself is: After we leave, what will remain in the community, and is it something they want and can sustain? We think it is both unethical and unfair to train people on the technical side without also giving them the tools to keep the operation going.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

The participating NGOs include Women’s Leadership NGOs from Ethiopia I’ll be co-training with Kalyani Menon-Sen, a feminist activist, researcher and adult educator based in Delhi, India to deliver sessions on the Networked NGO, networks, and networking with social media. Feed a child, feed a nation!

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. “When people who were born and raised in dictatorships. It is also raising questions about censorship on the Internet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2019

Government & Regulation. ” A distributed, transparent, autonomous system for exchanging value with no central authority, blockchain can also help facilitate direct trading among people who previously were unbankable. 4 th Industrial Revolution. Asset Chains. Financial Services. Healthcare. Security & Identity.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

Fundación Paraguaya was the country’s first microfinance program and first development NGO. As mayor of Asunción, he won a major victory for democracy when he called in garbage trucks and bulldozers to surround the Congress building while the army was busy shooting people in response to a popular uprising. and Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

People with vision impairments and other print disabilities deserve equal access to that treasure of information. WBU is the global organization representing the estimated 285 million people worldwide with vision impairments. The organization’s priorities are decided upon at the WBU General Assembly, which is held every four years.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) It is abundantly clear that the great majority of people in the world who cannot pick up a book and read it effectively are at a terrific disadvantage in society. Government delegation, as a next step possibility.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 24, 2012

This post is a continuation of Seeds for a Future Part 1: Getting your NGO off the ground. When starting a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in a community other than your own, it is important to recognize that there are cultural barriers (try to call these "opportunities") to consider. Like this article? Get another!

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Find out how to build an app that people will actually use. NGO Pulse (South Africa). NGO Pulse (South Africa). Learn how a nonprofit in South Africa, the Papillon Foundation , helps unemployed people learn new skills and find jobs. TechSoup Sweden. Learn how he created this useful — and very cool — hack.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For his day job, Robert runs Communications without Borders and the NGO Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization. As an unpaid volunteer, he organizes NetSquared in-person events where people from NGOs from all over the region come to talk shop and help each other. What Is NetSquared?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 21, 2012

The disaster relief NGO, World Vision , is a founding member of GivingTuesday and conceives it as an ongoing tradition to encourage Americans to dedicate the Tuesday after Thanksgiving to get back to the true meaning of the holidays. Giving Not Receiving. Give for Youth. Give for Youth is part of the Microsoft YouthSpark.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 29, 2011

an international public media initiative designed to educate and connect people worldwide regarding the issues confronting women and girls. Please take a few minutes to complete the NGO Media and Technology Survey. with governments and organizations to put new media to work in the public. Women and Girls Lead is. communities.

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ASU Lodestar Center

AUGUST 17, 2011

We discuss it in one of my graduate seminars, but a blog post is probably a good place to gather up people's reactions in the comments section. If our goal is to communicate clearly, then nonprofit sticks because most people know what we mean when we use it. Nonetheless, given its currency, NGO is a candidate. Not-for-profit.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. According to a recent UN International Telecommunication Union (ITU) report on Internet availability in 152 countries, Brazil ranked 64th in overall Internet availability to its people.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

and was completely surprised at how African projects like MyDigitalBridge are getting low-cost Internet to low-income people in a mostly rural country. One thing that Namibia has going for it is a stable parliamentary democracy and a government that clearly believes in digital inclusion. An NGO with A National Mandate.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Bring them over to DC, and parade out these enormously wealthy, successful (by economic standards, at least) people, and have them explain to Congress how they make their money. All this information goes into a government information system to generate regular reports. Each indicator had an annual target and a quarterly target.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. billion people, of which over 70% are rural. The Long Road To NGO Cloud Adoption.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Like so many people here at TechSoup, she has broad experience.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

You can help your tech-shy NGO friends cross the digital divide by bringing them to a nonprofit tech meetup. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. Boston, Massachusetts: TNB Roundtable: What Makes People Engage? What Makes People Give? Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance.

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Jan 24 - 25.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

How LinkedIn’s New Profile Section Can Help Nonprofits Fundraise, Find the People They Need. How LinkedIn Can Improve Nonprofit Governance. So, when Geri offered up this second post about nonprofits and LinkedIn, I couldn’t resist. Social Media for Your Nonprofit: Take Charge!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

Michelle Hurtado, Head of Google Ad Grants, explained that the program is focusing on quality and performance to make the offer more valuable to both nonprofits and people searching for nonprofit causes. For 2018, Michelle’s team is driving toward higher CTR and conversion rate in order to connect more people with social causes.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. What should nonprofits do about this?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

Yet as other people have commented these are more like shopping malls (which though they feel like public spaces are privately owned), than town squares – where freedom of expression and expectations of privacy are circumscribed by corporate terms-of-service.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

Our Martus team trained two new partners focused on rights of lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LGBTI) people : Jamaica Forum for Lesbians, All-Sexuals and Gays , or J-FLAG and AIDS-Free World. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

Many people, especially in the late 1970s and early 1980, when widespread belief in Soviet ideals had largely dissipated, were forced to "volunteer," working on collective farms for example. Although charities were forbidden, the Soviet system encouraged volunteering for causes deemed important for the communist cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

As Marnie Webb put it, to participate in this network, you simply has to raise your hand and be willing to meet people in a bar to talk about social media and social change. The governance issue is very interesting. They had vastly different ways in which they approached partnering. Hands-off approach.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

is a social media app with a very clever name to connect you with people who want to carpool. The Locavore app offers government and NGO info on which food items are in season in your locale. The ones I like are: Ecorio. which uses the GPS system on your phone to track your carbon footprint as you travel. greenMeter.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. Last week, the world’s population reached a staggering 7 billion people. Now, it only takes about 13 years to add a billion people! billion are young people between the ages of 10 and 24.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

and have a reason to hang out with other cool people! Seattle, Washington: Governance Responsibilities for Nonprofit Boards. Peterborough, Ontario: Domains, Branding, and Identity — NGO,CA,ORG, and more. Governance Matters: Create a More Powerful Board Through Policy Governance. Sunday, February 12, 2017.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2004

The founder of the WEF, Klaus Schwab (and his lovely wife, Hilde), underwrites our participation to encourage business and government leaders to engage with social leaders in solving the world's problems. People sometimes ask me how much money I raised for my nonprofit by going to Davos. And, they do engage, with enthusiasm.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2006

Last year, The Sharing Foundation sewing school made over 1000 uniform sets and donated them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage. A large number of people contributing just the minimum of $10 each would make all the difference in the world. (We

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