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How Malala Fund’s Innovative Grantmaking is Revolutionizing Education for Girls

Saleforce Nonprofit

To mitigate the impacts of this pandemic on girls and secure a better future, we’ve found that supporting locally-led initiatives works best. Profound Change Starts With Local Partners. The initiative currently supports 57 Education Champions in eight countries with the greatest need. The game-changing part of Nayla’s platform?

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What happened in 2020 disaster philanthropy beyond COVID-19?  

Candid

Refugees have sought asylum around the globe but primarily in the neighboring countries of Turkey, Lebanon, and Jordan. On August 4, 2020, two explosions rocked the port area of Beirut, Lebanon when a warehouse containing explosive ammonium nitrate detonated. Health screenings and social distancing protocols had to be organized.

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E-Mediat Networking Conference at the Dead Sea, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

” The conference marked the end of an 18-month capacity building program that trained more than 220 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Morocco and Tunisia on how to use social media effectively to advance civil society. The program accomplished the following: 220 organizations participated. 12 training centers have been established.

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Meeting the Geeks of Arabia at N2Vlabs Talks in Amman, Jordan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’ll be sharing blog posts about my experience here. The program is managed by the Institute of International Education (IIE), and implemented with a coalition of leading new media experts and local and international partners from the public and private sectors. I’m looking out my hotel window at the Dead Sea in Jordan.

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E-Mediat: Social Media Capacity Building for NGOs in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The project is training 300 NGOs in Jordan , Lebanon , Tunisia , Morocco , and other Arab countries to become networked ngos and use social media for civil society goals. A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. You can read more about it on the Tunisia Team’s blog.

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E-Mediat: Day 2 – The Networked NGO in the Arab World

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

To localize Networked Nonprofit concepts to an Arab NGO context, as appropriate, for improved project outcomes. His organization’s name, Shabakat , translates into the word “network.&#. Rami shared how his organization works in a transparent way, open sourcing its program materials and processes.

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Non-Boring #Tech4Good Meetings for Nonprofits

Tech Soup

NetSquared organizers bring together the nonprofit technology community for face-to-face meetings. Join us at your local group. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. but we all know that meetings are boring!