Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

When you hear the term "hackathon," you might imagine a group of coders getting together to break into a protected website or engaging in some other shady activity. One of the projects, GoodGym , is a group fitness app where participants get fit by doing physical tasks that benefit their communities.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 25, 2013

Industry and policy leaders shared information on the current state of African electronics recycling and refurbishment policy and practice. The event's purpose was to join industry and government in putting into action some of the precepts developed at the 2012 United Nation’s Pan-African Forum on E-Waste in Nairobi, Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

This software includes assessment tools for evaluating students’ ability to problem solve, explain the relationships in complex systems, and comprehend informational texts and diagrams. chapter of the International Game Developers Association (IGDA) and urban games group DCGames, organizing events and connecting local developers.

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Global Giving

AUGUST 21, 2018

Kevin Conroy Chief Product Officer Who He Is: Kevin leads GlobalGiving's product team, a talented group of programmers, system administrators, designers, communicators, and marketers that work tirelessly to improve the GlobalGiving website. Featured Photo: Bridging the technology gap in Denver and Kenya by Technology Partnership.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 29, 2016

NetSquared groups are holding free events all month. Kisumu, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kisumu. Kakamega, Kenya: Storymakers 2016 — Kakamega. Kenya: NetSquared Camp — Storytelling 2016. Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Thursday, March 31. Friday, April 1.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 8, 2005

Our human rights group is active all over the place right now. Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. And all this is on top of Martus work we're actively engaged with in Kenya, Nigeria and Egypt.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU). Get general information. established groups on SMSall in Pakistan. For those nonprofits working on economic issues - In Kenya, the M-Pesa. This is important for Diaspora groups. have changed.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

Check out our newest groups: * [NetSquared Abuja]([link] in Abuja, Nigeria. * [GroundWork group]([link] in Columbus, Ohio. * [NetSquared Daytona Beach ]([link] in Daytona Beach, Florida. * [Tech4good Las Vegas]([link] in Las Vegas, Nevada. --> --> What have NetSquared groups been up to recently? Wednesday, June 8, 2016.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. According to him, Markets For Good has a flawed understanding of beneficiaries as primarily consumers of information.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

We know that across the SDGs, there is sparse or unreliable information about girls and women, especially the most disadvantaged. Even the most committed government would struggle to meet every SDG target without the right information to guide decision-making and to set priorities. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 6, 2017

We know that across the SDGs, there is sparse or unreliable information about girls and women, especially the most disadvantaged. Even the most committed government would struggle to meet every SDG target without the right information to guide decision-making and to set priorities. . The future for Equal Measures 2030.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Many of these tools use crowdsourcing techniques, which engages large groups of people via the Internet to do important tasks like raise money, collect information on needs in a stricken area and get them out to first responders, translate information in to several languages, or map the crisis in useful ways.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. For instance, during the recent famine in Somalia, how to keep humanitarian aid confined to starving people away from the Al-Shabab militant group ? The project is active in Iraq and Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

Your organization's social media strategy should be not implemented by one lonely intern sitting in the corner of your communications and marketing department. Reeta Roy , president and CEO of the MasterCard Foundation, is sending tweets from her site visit to Uganda and Kenya. He also writes a column for the Wall Street Journal.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Nearly all of the web communication challenges I’ve encountered with the groups I’ve worked with stem from basic content planning and governance issues. People come to your website, first and foremost, to get information, so Content Strategy is relevant for any communications work you do. Only then can you see what work lies ahead.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Nonprofit Success Story: Ushahidi, a nonprofit headquartered in Kenya, used Kickstarter to launch production of BRCK, a Wi-Fi router and mobile modem built to withstand the elements. Like Kickstarter, anybody or any group can post a campaign, but unlike Kickstarter, it doesn't necessarily have to be project-based.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2007

At the click of a button, the Wage Guide converts ‘artisan per piece payment’ to a ‘daily wage’ and then compares the daily wage to international economic indicators providing advice on how to increase wages to meet these standards." Photo: Priya Haji demonstrates the Fair Trade Wage Guide to artisans in Kenya.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And that’s a group of organizations, nonprofits who are relatively new in their fundraising and really new to the capital campaign landscape. That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” So there’s a need. ” .

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 31, 2010

You create a great balance: keeping folks informed, and bringing up things that are important and provocative, but also keeping us hopeful, which is so important, because otherwise, how do you have any energy to make change? We are really -- as the Slow Food International founder likes to call it -- essentially co-producers.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. It's called the Biosand Water Filter.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

According to the latest blog post on Causes.com , to date: “186 million registered users in 156 countries have raised over $48 million for nonprofits, collected 34 million signatures for grassroots advocacy campaigns and created hundreds of thousands of online groups around important social issues.” This offer is international.

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Kindful

MARCH 4, 2021

Corporate groups make great fundraisers as they often have connections outside of your community. It includes information about how to set up your own Mitzvah fundraiser page, and lists out current Mitzvah fundraisers in progress so that donors can find someone to give to. Do you have a corporate partner that’s a huge fan of your work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

For example, in Kenya, only 7% of the population, of the labor force, has a job in the formal private sector. All of the other people are involved in what we call the informal sector. We started off with equipment, for example, in Kenya, for manufacturing low-cost building materials. Their profit margins are pretty small.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

GuideStar does have Jumo International listed as a nonprofit organization but very little information is shown and likely won’t be until they file their first 990 with the IRS. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Marsha Wallace: Dining for Women is an international giving circle, and our mission is to support and empower self-sufficiency for women and girls who live in extreme poverty in developing countries. They invite new people, and over a period of time they become bonded as a group. This past March, two different groups went to Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

She has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund, and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. let's take Kenya: say there is a head office in Nairobi, and maybe some branch offices in Kakamega or Kisumu, towns all around Kenya. So, fast-forward a whole year.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization. This blending of different groups interests me now. I even later met someone from Kenya who seems to have reinvented this technology.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 7, 2015

An early trip to Kenya with World Vision to photograph their hunger relief efforts really cemented my conviction in this work. Not everybody can be on the front lines, so there’s a strong need to use story to inform and engage others emotionally to rally support. What are some of the most creative uses you’ve seen?

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. There are women environmental leaders who are standing up for their communities, around the world, who do not have access to those key resources and information. The greatest challenge we face is the challenge of access. There are solutions. What's the secret?

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Met with a major international human rights defender group about our Martus technology and digital security more generally. Nairobi, Kenya Next I headed to Nairobi, Kenya. The Africa Forum is the premier meeting of blindness groups across sub-Saharan Africa, and it’s held roughly every three years.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

I think my favorite example of that is a women's group from the highlands of Bolivia who wrote to us maybe seven or eight years ago. They were a group of illiterate women who dictated their requests to a priest in the village, who then hand wrote the request. It works in over 160 countries around the world.

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