Tech Soup

AUGUST 1, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Boston, Massachusetts: Tech Networks of Boston Roundtable: It's Legal for Nonprofits to Lobby, Organize, and Advocate! Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Mukono, Uganda.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 30, 2017

NetSquared organizers bring together the nonprofit technology community for face-to-face meetings. This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2017

This roundup of face-to-face nonprofit tech events includes meetups from NetSquared , NTEN's Tech Clubs , and other awesome organizations. Bunda, Tanzania: Microsoft Cloud Computing. Morogoro, Tanzania: Role of ICT for Farm Management. Pangani, Tanzania: Storymakers Campaign. Upcoming Tech4Good Events.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 12, 2011

As I mentioned in my previous two blogs about my Africa trip of last July, I had the pleasure of meeting many interesting people and learning about numerous exciting, cool projects during that three week long visit to Kenya, Tanzania and Ghana. The good news is that trachoma can effectively be eliminated.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The result is an impressive document that can be used by many non-profit organizations, NGOs, International Organizations and even government ministries and agencies to address similar problems in their own organization. "Hujambo from Tanzania! ." "Hujambo from Tanzania!

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2009

The result is an impressive document that can be used by many non-profit organizations, NGOs, International Organizations and even government ministries and agencies to address similar problems in their own organization. "Hujambo from Tanzania! " Indigenous Mapping: Emerging Cultures on the Geoweb: Where 2.0

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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. We are a very heartful organization and a lot of what we do is thanks to an incredible group of volunteers. Find out more in the interview below!

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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. We are a very heartful organization and a lot of what we do is thanks to an incredible group of volunteers. Find out more in the interview below!

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NTEN

JUNE 3, 2011

an SMS-based initiative to promote user-driven media in Tanzania. On the Netwits Thinktank, Blackbaud shares 44 Ways to Turn Your Supporters into Fundraising Superstars. Do you have any tips to add? MobileActive shares a new case study on Speak Up!, Read the full case study – and be sure to look at MobileActive's other mobile resources, too!

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 20, 2012

Their Tweetsgiving campaigns were fundraisers benefiting Mama Lucy’s school in Tanzania and connected the students to their supporters through Twitter. They don’t necessarily think they need an organization in order to make an impact. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Another great example is Epic Change.

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Global Giving

SEPTEMBER 12, 2018

Nonprofits on average spend less than 6% of their total operating budget on technology, with a mere 28% of organizations often or regularly using technology volunteers, according to an NTEN study. Featured Photo: Solar Suitcases for Safer Childbirth in Tanzania by WE CARE Solar. But not everyone is benefiting equally. Download Now.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

To celebrate all of the good going on around us, they’ve created a huge, global image gallery of people, organizations and businesses doing good this holiday on their Facebook page – because they believe that #GoodSpotting is everywhere, and something everyone can do. The call to action?

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Care2

JANUARY 15, 2011

Do they feel that one day Twitter and Facebook are going to bring in the big bucks and build a huge base of activists that will come to your organization’s rescue when you need their help the most? Perhaps around passing one of the most important legislative bills in your organization’s history?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 3, 2008

Avi Kaplan has published some basic stats from the recent Tweetsgiving Campaign that raised over $10,000 in 48 hours right before and during Thanksgiving to build a classroom in Tanzania. The holy grail metrics is missing? Velocity and fluence and it's darn hard to track those.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

I have talked many times before about the way we as nonprofit organizations and changemakers set our goals. (If What would happen, instead, if organizations focused on eliminating hunger?) Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania.

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Get Fully Funded

JUNE 1, 2021

Your organization gets the full donation. Encourage supporters to set up “birthday” fundraisers on their pages, with your organization receiving the proceeds. Put a donate button on your organization’s Facebook page as a permanent feature. As a first step, you need to sign your organization up for Facebook fundraising tools.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 10, 2022

The team also noted that many tools exist today yet have difficulty scaling beyond a specific community or organization. He has been on field missions to co-create solutions with governments and implementing partners in Zambia, Mozambique, Kenya, Tanzania, Rwanda, Nigeria, and Bangladesh. Dun-Ying Vicki Yu. Senior Consultant, Slalom.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

However, our organizers are currently very keen on social media surgeries. NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania. Effectively Using Data Across the Organization. A social media surgery is an informal gathering of people who want to learn how to use the web to communicate, campaign, or collaborate. Upcoming Events.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

I had the chance to connect with more than 25 NetSquared organizers during the week, and that face-to-face time was a powerful reminder of the deep learning that happens when nonprofit techies get together in a room. I've just returned from the Nonprofit Technology Conference in Austin and I'm pumped!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. The organization has nine full-time staff.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2015

Describing NetSquared events is difficult, because each one focuses on a different topic and has a unique flavor set by the organizing team. But perhaps you're leery about attending an event because you're not quite sure what it will be like. Instead of words, let me try a few pictures that will illustrate our community.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

More than 20 NetSquared-affiliated organizers will be at the conference (look for the people wearing NetSquared pins.) The NetSquared regional ambassadors will also be on-site sharing the joy of being a NetSquared organizer and participating in the fun. Check out our newest groups: NetSquared Tanzania in Tanga, Tanzania.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 25, 2009

Tweetsgiving is using micro-blogging tool Twitter to raise money for a classroom in Tanzania. Tags: Fundraising Online Fundraising Online Fundraising Running Your Organization Social Networking Using the Web and Internet. Along the way, they're also compiling a log of what Twitter users are thankful for this year. recordings.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 14, 2009

For inspiration, I had to look no further than the " On the Road: Tanzania ," a video blog from the UN World Food Programme. Here's a few how-to resources that relate to the camera and software that were used to create the On the Road: Tanzania video blog. FLIP Camera. Here some basic information from TechSmith.

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Connection Cafe

OCTOBER 26, 2016

While we don’t yet know the exact ways in which the SDGs will be accomplished over the next 14 years, we do know that the dedication of philanthropic organizations from Toledo to Tanzania will be key to the end results. The afternoon knows what the morning never suspected.

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See3

DECEMBER 2, 2008

Built around Thanksgiving, the idea was for Twitterers to tweet (post) something they are grateful for, and at the same time post a link to Tweetsgiving where a donation could be made to build a classroom in Tanzania. The goal was SPECIFIC — a classroom, not support of an organization. The goal was $10,000.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2009

Helps to better brand organizations with supporters and potential supporters. A couple of great examples are Twestival which brought together thousands of twitter members all over the world and raised over $250K for Charity:Water and TweetsGiving which raised over $11K last in 48 hours to fund the building of a classroom in Tanzania.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Since the launch, Freedom Fone has received about 100 inquiries from individuals and organizations interested in a broad spectrum of potential uses outside of news and information distribution. . Freedom Fone in Tanzania and Ghana. Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. But he wouldn’t do this again.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 31, 2016

A nonprofit organization, much like a for-profit company, is only as strong as its leadership. Inadequate investment in leadership development has extensive adverse impacts, namely the loss of talent to other organizations and eventually other sectors. posted by Adam Rubin CEO, RENEW. The social sector spent $400 million, just.03%

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 30, 2011

Previous winners have developed open-source applications and systems that are free, shareable, and benefit organizations that work to benefit others. 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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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2017

In Peru, the group explored how Azure can help NGOs and in Tanzania , people learned about the concept of cloud productivity services. Burlington, Vermont: Finance Friday: What Kind of Audit Is Best for Your Organization? For spring 2017, we're focused on nonprofit cloud services. Friday, June 16, 2017. Saturday, June 17, 2017.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

From this moment on, I truly felt an emotional connection to the foundation's work in Kenya and Tanzania and appreciated the reality of these everyday problems that are so often looked over in favor of more dramatic conflict. I don't think I have been more blown away by a technological advance than this one.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

What that translates to is that a movement is built on collaboration, incorporates co-design between individuals and organizations, and remains focused, even during an event or campaign, on lasting, real impact. In the most simple terms, a movement is when organizations work with, and not for, the community. What’s our role?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 16, 2009

Two weeks ago , Causes, the application that lets individuals and organizations campaign and fundraise, removed itself and all Causes-related content/data from MySpace. Now that Causes removed itself, it’s content, and any related data from MySpace, organizations cannot connect with their supporters who were using Causes.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

Working with an intelligent and experienced staff of a Phoenix-based nonprofit involved focused on global issues, I was encouraged to ask questions of development organizations and to think through a lens of international aid. In 2010, I was a fresh young Ally in ASU’s Lodestar Center Public Allies program.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

Right before Thanksgiving , the TweetsGiving effort and Avi Kaplan helped Epic Change raise over $10,000 in 48 hours to build a classroom in Tanzania. As Lucy Bernholz notes, this might be one more example of fundraising on Twitter is less marginal and moving to the middle. They got enough comments in two hours to fill a truck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 17, 2008

There were 11 wonderful organizations suggested by my readers. Here's the nominated organizations: 1. Blandford Nature Center : Maria is raising funds for the organization in a very innovate (and tough) way. A community organization in the Twin Cities of Minnesota. suggested by Dave Web 2. Her journal/blog is here.

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