Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Also, online communication skills are lacking at many NGOs compared with the online marketing skills at e-commerce sites. At Donadora, work with NGOs to help them tell simple, but impact-full stories in order to inspire donors to give. 4) Tell the Nonprofit Tech for Good community about Donadora: Are the donors predominately Mexican?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 15, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had a few months to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. Many NGOs Find Cloud Computing Confusing: Why? Cloud Contradictions in the NGO Sector. The global NGO average is 36%.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

The lack of trust between NGOs and local Kenyans and the expectancy that NGOs are funded from outside Kenya are the key reasons for limited local fundraising towards NGO in Kenya. 4) What is your best piece of fundraising and online communication advice for Kenya NGOs when it comes to raising money through crowdfunding?

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Tech Soup

MARCH 19, 2013

We released our report on the 2012 TechSoup Global NGO Cloud Survey in September of 2012 and have now had more time to ponder the findings and talk to several of you about what you think of them. What Are the Biggest Barriers to More Widespread NGO Migration to the Cloud? Find the first and second post in this series online.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2006

As I've mentioned in previous posts, I'm the Community Builder for NetSquared , a project of Tech Soup that is helping to bring the social web to nonprofits & NGOs by sharing stories and building tools.

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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. It will be a Braille phone and it is due to come out the end of this year at an affordable price ($185). The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Social Media.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

There will be more technology support from new startups and tech companies aiming new niche and international markets. 72% prefer to be thanked for their donations by email, 10% via text message, 6% by print letter, 6% by print postcard, 5% by social media message, and 1% by phone call. ? 6% donated on #GivingTuesday 2017, 17% did not.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

But we also believe that there's value in getting the nonprofit tech community together for a good old-fashioned party (we've got hard jobs!). Get social at an NGO Ho Ho in Vancouver and Victoria or join Pittsburgh's Bagels & Bytes for its annual party. Upcoming Events. Or apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

But we also believe that there's value in getting the nonprofit tech community together for a good old-fashioned party (we've got hard jobs!). Get social at an NGO Ho Ho in Vancouver and Victoria or join Pittsburgh's Bagels & Bytes for its annual party. Upcoming Events. Or apply today to start your own NetSquared group.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of the emergence of mobile devices, social media stratification, the launch of Office 365 for Nonprofits, some huge digital inclusion initiatives, and lots of other things. They save us the arduous task of taking our phones out of our pockets to look at them.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 18, 2013

An NGO with A National Mandate. MyDigitalBridge is an NGO that started its work fairly recently. In Africa, Internet is wireless, and Africa uses mainly cell phone towers to provide broadband. The new 4G networks can carry much more data and so are suitable for both mobile phone and PC broadband. How 4G Works in Africa.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 11, 2010

For at least another day the telecentre will stay in Lota to later move on to the next town and NGO. Skype has made an in-kind donation, allowing CDI to let people make free Skype-to-phone calls. Javier offered these poignant thoughts on why it's essential to support local NGOs in a time of disaster: read more.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

But we found this success actually worked against us in some cases, such as with the many instances of supporting organizations that share a physical address, legal identifier, URL, phone number, and most of their name (for example, XYZ Aquarium versus Friends of the XYZ Aquarium). Special Thanks. Also, as major v1.0 spanhidden.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 23, 2014

Get as Many Phone Numbers as You Can. By Andrew Shoaff : Passionate about the NGO community. Movie lover & Tech geek. I help non-profits w/ tech., By Andy Welkley : Peer to Peer Commentator, Serial ‘Couch to 5K’ participant, Dad, Ravenous consumer of content. Find Andy On Twitter. Strategic thinker.

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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. One of the main ones that anchors this work is Ushahidi.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 13, 2011

In my companion blog post on Why Apps Are Green , I talked about how apps permit the use of lighter IT infrastructure like mobile phones to accomplish things we previously used to do just on PCs. Mobile phones use much less electricity than PCs, and another benefit is that they make Internet and IT readily available in developing countries.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

The Cell Phone Solution: Easy Emergency Preparedness for Nonprofits. Remote Access Proves Critical to New Zealand NGO After Earthquake. CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs. Cool App Roundup: Disaster and Emergency Edition. How the Cloud Can Make a Difference for Disaster Relief.

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APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" The MobileActive listserv is a good one for phone-based app's. Has one of your volunteers, interns or tech-oriented employee developed a cool app?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. But ranked 96th in Internet affordability, especially for fixed broadband Internet and mobile phone Internet. Needless to say, the expense of Internet affects cloud adoption.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2014

Unless your nonprofit or NGO has specific adversaries or is being spear phished , the hacking you may encounter is probably less sophisticated and less targeted. If you must store data on a mobile device or drive, make sure the device is encrypted: Device encryption is available by default on Android , iOS , and Windows Phone devices.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

Upon hearing the news of the earthquake, many of us here at TechSoup Global immediately turned our thoughts to our colleagues at El Comité para la Democratización de la Informática , our Chilean partner NGO. Checking with everyone had required several hours of driving, as many homes are without phones or electricity.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

NGO Pulse (South Africa). From funding challenges to the need for better governance, find out about the current state of NGOs in South Africa and what must be done for it to improve. David Malmborg from Dell Computers shares wisdom on how to maximize the life of your organization's IT equipment. TechSoup Sweden.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Our team discovered that NGO leaders and staff responded instantly to WhatsApp messages vis-à-vis email. They also find it more convenient to share scanned documents through WhatsApp as they use their phones to click pictures of documents. Ever since that experience, we WhatsApp documents to NGOs.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

VTVigils VT Vigils VTvigils.org is a project of a diverse group of national campaigns and organizations not affiliated with Virginia Tech. Nonprofit Software and Hardware and Cell Phones. Can cell phones ensure a free vote? Trish Perkins offers up a list "cool free tech tools." " Findhabeas.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 20, 2016

percent of the 3 million Note 7 phones sold. That's fewer than 1,000 defective phones worldwide and under 100 in the U.S. Now the perpetual horror story of nonprofit tech and all of IT for that matter. The migrant humanitarian crisis has been rocking governments and dominating NGO humanitarian work for the last two years.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

Want to know more about how one Philadelphia-based NGO was able to use their TechSoup donation to help homeless teens develop valuable life skills? The stories on the LIM are highly engaging and optimized for social media sharing. Poke around the map and see for yourself. Click here to read the full story pictured above. Ready to enter?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Of course, this is a familiar concept to me as someone who started his career building for-profit tech companies in Silicon Valley. We were trying to analyze the Benetech secret sauce: how do we go about changing the world for the better as Silicon Valley’s deliberately nonprofit tech company?

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This time I’ll review a yet another massive new digital inclusion initiative, the launch of a new free mobile phone calling and text plan, new technology in encrypted web browsing, a new NPTech news source find, scary stats on the looming Internet of things, and the coming of the bionic eye. The nonprofit World Wide Web Foundation.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And it’s free with a phone plan. So in WhatsApp, you need to have the phone numbers of the person you’re communicating with. They had a phone that had WhatsApp so they could interact with the people from the NGOs and answer the questions that they were, you know, being asked immediately. You need a phone.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 12, 2013

It's time to catch up on some of the nonprofit technology trends and news out in NGO-land. We've added a handy infographic to make it easier to see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends for the sector. Winning apps can receive $15,000 cash prizes and Windows 8 phones! Personal cloud was among them.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

I invite you to have a look at my list of 2013 forecasts on nonprofit technology trends with its handy new infographic so you can see how right (or wrong) I am about this year's tech trends for the sector. Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. Of course mobile phone payments are not new.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Here are the plans: Salesforce1 for Windows and Windows Phone 8.1 Mifos provides a web app with mobile phone capability. It will allow microfinance field workers to do all their work on a phone. Because both companies provide significant software donations to charities, this bodes well for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

The participants, most of them women, are exposed to a variety of tech tools, which are easy to adopt and help in organizing community activities, such as: messaging via cell phones, mapping tools, remote conferencing, arranging meetings for large groups, social networking, and more.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

Our vision is to put accessible books into the hands of disabled students on borrowed PCs or devices they already have, such as inexpensive MP3 players and cell phones. Benetech is drawing top talent by offering Silicon Valley tech jobs with a social purpose.

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Tech Soup

MAY 10, 2011

This is a guest post by Eamon Stack, CEO of ENCLUDE , which is TechSoup's NGO partner organization in Ireland. They needed to sort out their communicatons: email, instant messaging, SMS, and phone, with Microsoft Office 365 (70% discount); and.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2015

It's fun to compare against TechSoup's 2015 Tech Predictions from the start of the year and Capterra's Biggest Nonprofit Technology Trends of 2015 from March. We expanded this year to be able to provide product donations to pretty much any NGO in the world — 236 countries and territories to be exact.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

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. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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