article thumbnail

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.

article thumbnail

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

Saleforce Nonprofit

Remote learning for refugee children in Lebanon: Malala Fund Education Champion Nayla Fahed created Tabshoura, an award-winning e-learning platform that helps Syrian refugees and girls in vulnerable communities in Lebanon learn for free. The game-changing part of Nayla’s platform? It doesn’t require internet access.

professionals

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

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. I’ll be Jordan and Morocco in March, 2011).

article thumbnail

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. Organizations raised almost $125,000 through integrated social media campaigns from donors.

Jordan 113
article thumbnail

Celebrate International Women’s Day

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I’m honored to be working on some social media capacity projects to assist NGOs that are supporting women’s issues – from a learning exchange for Packard Foundation Grantees in Pakistan to a Women’s Leadership Network in Africa to the e-mediat that is working with many NGOs that support women and girls in the Arab World.

article thumbnail

Volunteer Retention Tips: How to Retain Volunteers in 2022

Volunteer Hub

Donner Sang Compter Lebanon. Be consistent with all forms of communication including social media and emails. Your organization can retain more volunteers by making this process simple for them. Check out how these organizations are using VolunteerHub to streamline volunteer registration: Holocaust Museum Houston.

article thumbnail

The Power of Our Collective Professional Networks and Transdisciplinarity Learning

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Building a solid core, participants can use social media tools to easily connect NGOS with new people who have knowledge, resources, and ideas to share to help with the project goals. You can do a whole network analysis which looks at organizations and people in specific geographic or social change area.