NetWits

MAY 10, 2010

On mothers day 2010 they set out to raise money for Mama Lucy - a change maker who’s dedicated her life to helping kids in Arusha, Tanzania. We can learn some things from this online fundraising project. The folks at Epic Change continue to do great things using the web as their medium.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. Baltimore, Maryland: WordPress 101 and Tech Help and Consultations. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Mason, Ohio: Help Create an App for Homeless to Manage Money More Effectively. and the globe.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

"Meetings" come in diverse and innovative formats like Mississauga, Canada's Geek Talk — Coffee and Convo; Pangani, Tanzania's Social Media Surgery ; and Birmingham, United Kingdom's Summer Tech for Good Social in a local pub. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Monday, July 3, 2017.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 5, 2010

Last year, using the theme of gratitude and TweetsGiving, Epic Change catalyzed the global community to help build a school in Tanzania. For Mother’s Day, Epic Change wants to help Mama Lucy realize another dream – to build a home on campus where in-need children will live.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

In 2009, for example, two trapped girls in Australia chose to post to facebook for help rather than dialing emergency numbers directly. Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

Leveraging the emotional connection we feel with our own mothers or our own pride of being a mom, Epic Change is inviting donors to participate in an online collaborative art project to honor moms around the Globe. To Mama With Love is a project of US 501c3 nonprofit Epic Change. Here's how it works. You have to make a donation first.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Epic Change is a US nonprofit dedicated to helping social entrepreneurs harness the power of their stories to create change in their communities.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. Epic Change is a US nonprofit dedicated to helping social entrepreneurs harness the power of their stories to create change in their communities.

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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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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. Enter the Contest.

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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. In recent years, we have seen the growth of technology interventions that help small-scale farmers access life-saving information to protect their livelihoods and their families. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

Go participate and if you happen to be the winner, go donate the money to Stacey Monk’s, founder of epic change, new amazing project, LaLaLove. Stacey is one who launched the first social media infused gratitude campaign during Thanksgiving back in 2008,successfully raising money for a school project Tanzania.

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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. Microsoft Project and Huddle 's cloud collaboration solution to manage it’s many children’s rights projects worldwide.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

You don’t need to over-explain the project you are looking to fund. Notice the low goal and the small, solvable problem: Here’s another sample $5 Friday from Beautiful Feet Ministries of Tanzania. Keep your words brief and to the point. Be direct and specific, and focus on how the donor’s gift will impact a life.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. San Francisco, California: Let's Help 826 Valencia Launch Their Tenderloin Location! London, United Kingdom: Crowdfunding Your Community Projects. Newest Groups. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. 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. Barbara also told us about two other related projects. I am looking forward to our next giving circle and learning about more ways that women can help women. Here's how VEF works. 75% of VEF's businesses last 4 years or longer.

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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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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

Military Assistance Project. Encapsulated within that fact lies the largest problem with Western ideas on development: a project premised upon a set of values cannot succeed in the absence of those values. Dianna Schwartz , Public Allies Arizona Alumna. Executive Director. Welcome to Research Friday ! As part of a.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

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. Personally, though, the summit helped me realize that we should not only extract and visualise insights from raw data but. On the core.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Each year, the Tides Foundation awards a $10,000 cash grant to an individual or group who has created an open-source software project that benefits nonprofits and movements of social change. Most notably, it has been used by nonprofit D-Tree International to reduce rates of serious illness and preventable and treatable diseases in Tanzania.

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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

To connect with supporters, organizations and individuals working on projects will need to be sure that data gets back to them. How are you encouraging your supporters all over the web to connect with you directly? If a platform were to disappear, would the community be able to continue on?

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Whether it was 350 or ACE, or a group like Epic Change and their annual To Mama With Love projects. Helping the women receiving the funds. If you’re making connections and supporting conversations across the network, you’re helping the community create strong ties that will not require your time and energy to maintain.

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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. She is trying to raise money by selling one of her horses and crowdfunding money to help with her legal fees. Charlotte is helping Diane garner attention for her campaign, by putting in to practice some good tips from her Dad!

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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. Aparna Jain represented WellDone , an app that helps maintain water infrastructure in developing countries. Reporting Problems. Managing Finances.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Starting with this year’s research, Candid and HRFN have introduced the population “racial and ethnic groups” to our analysis to help us better understand the scope of these important resources. In addition, we are attentive to ways our research can help push the field toward greater accountability.

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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. TechSoup hosted one in September and our office in Warsaw, Fundacja TechSoup also hosted a hackathon this year.

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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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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 13, 2011

Based on hitting that number two years early, we’re now projecting that we could serve perhaps twice as many students, 200,000, by the 2012 milestone date. Our team is helping activists and organizations worldwide ensure that the truth matters. With your help, we will! And the price to the Dept.

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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. I'm sure we could get people to help them and to loan money to them, so let's just try it." She is currently pursuing an MBA at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.

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