Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

What’s your favorite example of technology helping people create positive change in the world? One example that I’ve blogged about before is the annual project from EpicChange: Tweetsgiving. I’m really looking forward to hearing about the projects you find inspiring! Technology for Change.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Epic Change is inviting everyone to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. Epic Change is inviting everyone to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. I created a heartspace using a photo of my mom and are dancing. I created [.]

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

Technology helps nonprofits deliver on our missions more effectively, but it can also be fiendishly complicated. In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

Each of these groups provided insights into the challenge, determined a focus area where technology can help, and developed a solution. An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. What are ways of helping farmers get more money from their work? Why Small-Scale Farmers? However, there’s a lot more work to be done.

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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. The call to action? How are you giving thanks this season?

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Facebook fundraising tools are designed to keep people on the site rather than send them to a crowdfunding platform or other website. Facebook fundraising tools provide opportunities for bringing in donations from people who are interested enough in your work to follow you on Facebook, but not yet donating through your website.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

I hope you can take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you serve your community. Its unique way of working is project management heavy. It first works with local community people to see what its children need and then tailors programs that are specific to that locale.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Recently, Freedom Fone was adapted by two farm radio stations through the African Radio Research Initiative , a 42-month project, the aim of which was to assess the effectiveness and impact of farm radio in many parts of Africa. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania.

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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.) Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. San Francisco, California: Let's Help 826 Valencia Launch Their Tenderloin Location! Newest Groups. Upcoming Events.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

They offer $100-$150 start-up grants to businesses in Kenya, Uganda and Tanzania. Each business that VEF funds directly improves the lives of at least 15 people. Barbara also told us about two other related projects. Barbara also told us about two other related projects. Here's how VEF works.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. face and how we could help solve them. discussions, and helped broaden my perspective of how we. data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. Banks of Kiwanja on the tendency of social media people to get.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

Based on these projections, the nonprofit sector would need to replace the equivalent of every executive leader over the next eight years. This is usually done with the help of a performance matrix that assesses current leadership competencies and examines potential for growth. Adam has been a grant advisor for The Pollination Project.

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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. We can count our Twitter followers or how many people have commented on our blog post, or could have counted the number of supporters on Causes or voters on ideablob, but that doesn’t mean we connect with them.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 4, 2014

Charlotte, A Young Teen, Helping To Save Horse Farm Through A Kick Starter Campaign. 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.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 9, 2014

LocalFreeWeb is an SMS service that helps people find free Internet access in San Francisco. This project is a great resource for libraries to share with patrons. The idea behind Johnny Hung's Bond & Me app is that people can more easily find nonprofit and social good events in their area. Bond & Me.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

In our past annual research, we have tracked eight population categories : 1) children and youth; 2) human rights defenders; 3) Indigenous peoples; 4) LGBTQI; 5) migrants and refugees; 6) people with disabilities; 7) sex workers; and 8) women and girls. Even in the U.S., There are two driving factors.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

These are events that pair up nonprofits with good ideas and volunteer techies who can help them realize them. Having project managed TechSoup Global's 2012 Global Cloud Computing Survey , I can heartily agree with that. People tend to donate to a particular charity if they find friends doing it. We gathered so much data!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 25, 2009

Right before Thanksgiving, the TweetsGiving effort helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania seeking $10 donations. Features to donate, bid on an auction, raffle and other fundraising projects will come online as buttons as they are completed.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

People connecting." She has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund, and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Kiva's mission is to connect people, through lending, for the purpose of poverty alleviation. What is Kiva? What is an MFI? How did Kiva start?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Bookshare Hits 100,000 Members Boy reading at a computer with teacher in the background.Since the beginning of 2009, we’ve tripled the number of people with disabilities Bookshare is serving with our accessible library of ebooks. Our team is helping activists and organizations worldwide ensure that the truth matters.

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