Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 11, 2012

It was the power of people sharing the stories with one another that actually brought it to some sort of critical mass where mainstream media then took attention. It was much more important for people to be sharing the stories with each other for the traffic to blow up really, really fast." It continued on the same trajectory.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

An estimated 811 million people are hungry globally. He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Why Small-Scale Farmers? That number is expected to increase in the face of climate change, conflict, and COVID-19.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

She did a joint Masters in Public Health and Economic Development at Columbia University. Before and during her studies, she conducted field research for governmental and non-governmental organizations, as well as foundations, on maternal and child health in Sri Lanka, Ghana, Haiti, Somalia, Uganda, Kenya and India. Share Tweet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

a new company-wide initiative to create opportunities for 300 million young people around the world over the next three years. The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

We’ll share some of these case studies below, but for more, check out these projects and learn more about the people behind them at the Games for Change Festival ( [link] ), NYC’s largest gaming event that convenes the social change community and game makers, next month (April 22-24 & 26). Around Gender.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 7, 2017

According to the nonprofit American Association of University Women , the U.S. I have noticed that a significant percentage, I daresay a majority, of the people attending the big annual Nonprofit Technology Conferences (NTC) have been women every year. Janet Mawlyoo , executive director, Kenya Community Development Foundation.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

to report on Tech for Good trends and also to find out how things are going in one of the most challenging areas of philanthropy: providing much needed help and support to people in the Muslim world. One of the things TechSoup does well is to bring relevant tools and resources to the needs that people have on the ground. Dara Westling.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 29, 2010

So, while I am delighted with the response to book , I’m even more pleased that the book is able to help young people in Cambodia. Sharing knowledge, social media, and supporting young people in Cambodia. Right before Thanksgiving, I was in London on my way back from Kenya. I love all of you!&#.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

That’s millions of people who work day-in and day-out to provide the critical services at which nonprofits excel—cultural, social, medical, and otherwise. They’re examples of what it means to be mission-driven: true helpers that provide support to some of our nation’s most vulnerable people and communities.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Thousands of people - with the aid of their computers, mobile phones, and online applications - were able to do important work to save lives and bring resources where they were badly needed, without needing to travel. Of course people use Twitter to do 140-character (or less) messages called tweets to people who follow them.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 24, 2006

What people see as fearlessness is really persistence. The beginning of the book is peaceful and slow-moving, a description of an African girl growing up on a farm in Kenya, but education changes everything. in Biological Sciences from the University of Pittsburgh, and a Ph.D She went on to earn a B.S. in Biology from Mount St.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

It is still clearly in beta, with the usual tech glitches and 500 errors , which will smooth out as more people play with it and give them feedback. As the platform matures , we’ll get a better sense of the power and potential of this network that lets people find, connect, and support social change organizations and issues.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

PopTech is an amazing blend of people, ideas, and projects. I learned a lot about how to begin to adapt the game process for people with a program orientation. Paula Kahumbu – WildlifeDirect Nairobi, Kenya. The cards include a set of "people cards" which includes snippets of market research.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

This session we focused on issues of health data collection--represented by the form shown here, which is a brand-new data collection instrument from Kenya (brought to the group by PATH's David Lubinski). This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Richard Heeks of the University of Manchester, and one of the premiere scholars in the ICT4D space, describes this shift aptly as a transition from ICT4D 1.0 This allows us to leverage basic phones that are already in most people’s pockets and work in environments where there is still no GSM data connectivity. .

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Mashable reports that the world's first mobile phone specifically designed for sight-impaired people is under development. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Accessibility. CNET Coverage on Digital Wallets.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room. Erickson founded FORGE (Facilitating Opportunities for Refugee Growth and Empowerment) in 2003 when she was a 20 year-old junior studying public policy at Stanford University. We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. Having friends in Kenya, she came up with the idea to provide summer schools in Kenya. We have a substantial network of people we speak to by SKPE or SMS. Organizations in Kenya are carefully vetted.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Our friends at NTEN give out NTENny Awards every year to recognize people making a significant contribution to the nonprofit tech community; once again, close to half of the winners were affiliated with NetSquared and our Tech4Good meetups. Naples, Florida: How to Reach More People via Video Live Streaming? Please join NTEN (and me!)

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 22, 2006

One of the things I've enjoyed the most about interviewing people for this podcast is seeing the similarities and connections that arise between people. Ari and Eric are really wonderful people--they catered our wedding and Ari married us. I hope that you enjoy their interview. So we started offering backpacking yoga trips.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

I recently posted my interview with Steve Williams, the Executive Director and co-founder of POWER: People Organized to Win Employment Rights on the Big Vision Podcast. Steve Williams: POWER stands for "People Organized to Win Employment Rights" and we are a membership organization of low-wage workers and tenants.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. Wangari Maathai was a renowned environmental political activist in Kenya. Want to see more women at the forefront of scientific discoveries? Fund their work! Sheroes in the Arts. Lorraine Hansberry.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

There is also your new classification compliments of the BRIDGE Project, and the first universal software for micro finance, another free cloud service. To that end, Salesforce1 for Nonprofits keeps track of people not so much as customers, but as nodes on a social graph.” The Demise of Facebook Causes.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

An estimated billion people carry water on their heads, so this is potentially transformative technology. In either case, both Wello and the The Hippo Water Roller Project are searching for creative ways to make these devices affordable to the people who need them now that the technology is ready. Digital Inclusion. News flash.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

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. The reality is, actually, that these people who are living on less than $1 a day, for the vast majority of them, it's more like $1 per family, than it is $1 per person.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2014

Harvard lecturer and activist Marshall Ganz says people are rooted in their values and interests, rather than particular issues. We understand other people when we can relate to them, and the best way to relate is to know how we are similar, how our deep-seated personal values align. Storytelling can be a powerful tool for good.

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sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

We’ll be matching people based on their skills and interests with organizations around the world that need their input. It’s a discovery process that first matches, then helps people build relationships, then let’s people share their resources.”- Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

He took a psychology degree from the University of Chicago in 1969 and became a reporter and columnist for the Arizona Republic newspaper in Phoenix. Daniel has also taught journalism at the University of California, Santa Cruz. In their wake, there is no grand scheme to replace them that people are excited by.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

The People's Choice award winner is a Windows 8 app , YumvY , a cooking companion to help you prepare nutritious, healthy meals at home with the goal of addressing the obesity epidemic and related diseases like diabetes. Find the winning apps and the array of entries on the contest page. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A. degrees in Political Science from the University of Minnesota. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 30, 2007

And also, we'll be here a little bit for the reception, so you can also come and talk to people one-on-one. And really, when I started, I thought that blogs were for kind of strange people in their basements who were typing about conspiracy theories and stuff like that. There are a lot of people who don't.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

Nairobi, Kenya Next I headed to Nairobi, Kenya. She is a University of Minnesota law school professor who was born in Africa and is a terrific advocate for the Treaty and its empowerment of the blind community. First, Bookshare has more than 200,000 accessible titles in English available to blind people in Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Britt Bravo: I think one of the things that make the Global Fund special is how women can submit grants, the lack of bureaucracy involved, and maybe you can talk a little bit about how you choose the people who are funded. I am quick to remind people in the United States that those rights were fought for.

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