Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 1) The Global Trends in Giving Report is meant to help the nonprofit sector better understand individual giving worldwide, but data and statistics don’t communicate well what is happening on the ground in Brazil.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 31, 2018

An Interview with Matt Roberts-Davies , General Manager of M-Changa – an official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. 3) Kenyan data from the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report is very unique in that 42% of Kenyan donors say the prefer to give cash and 26% prefer to give via mobile payment.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

I’ve been a huge fan of GivingTuesday since I first heard about it back in September, 2012 during a conference at Stanford. Gen Z is the first post-9/11 generation, one raised in an age of economic instability, orange terrorism threats, in the shadow of global warming, and globally connected via social media and mobile phones.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

I was in NYC over the weekend and Monday to attend and speak at the Mashable Social Good Summit , a three-day conference featuring discussions and presentations with global social activists, organizations, and new media experts. Al Gore (@algore) September 23, 2012. Remember to watch today at 2:45pm!

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EveryAction

OCTOBER 31, 2016

Launched in 2012 by music legend Lady Gaga and her mother, Cynthia Germanotta, the Born This Way Foundation develops programs that support its mission to connect young people in safe ways and empowering them with the skills and opportunities that will inspire them to create a kinder and braver world. Children's Literacy Initiative.

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CauseVox

DECEMBER 13, 2021

To provide some background, #GivingTuesday is a global giving movement that builds off of Black Friday, Cyber Monday, and the overall spirit of generosity during the holiday season. Started in 2012, this movement inspires millions of individuals to donate to their favorite causes annually. About The Fiver Children’s Foundation.

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Qgiv

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

By this point, suicide was a global health issue, and the United Nations and World Health Organization had worked to establish guidelines for suicide prevention strategies. It was updated in 2012, and the Office of the U.S. Agencies from within the U.S. However, the U.S. had yet to establish their own guidelines.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

It turns out Martín was asked by Franco to join his administration when he took office in June 2012. His activities with the World Economic Forum include participation on the Education Global Agenda Council and he is a university professor of social entrepreneurship in the U.S. and Africa.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 3, 2013

Guest Beneblog by Betsy Beaumon, VP and General Manager, Benetech’s Global Literacy Program. That’s why braille is an important focus for us in Benetech’s Global Literacy Program — we know that we must keep braille relevant and make it more available. And today, braille is not being taught to most blind children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 14, 2012

At the 2012 GEO conference, I learned about a Big Experiment for Learning in Public undertaken by the Packard Foundation, together with TCC Group and Beth Kanter. Note from Beth: I’m hosting a small army of guest bloggers, grantmakers, who are attending the GeoFunders National Conference taking place this week in Seattle.

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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.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 25, 2014

households experienced food insecurity in 2012, according to the most recent data available from the U.S. households with children under 18 experienced food insecurity that year. households with hungry children. Food Insecurity in a Land of Plenty. The statistics on hunger in America are startling: 14.5% That's 3.9

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

This level of increased global philanthropy is worth a further look. The Hudson Institute’s Center for Global Prosperity recently published its Annual Index of Global Philanthropy and Remittances for 2010 and reported “financial flows to the developing world from the United States increased notably in 2010 to $326.4

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

TechSoup Global's partner in Germany, Stifter-Helfen.de – IT for Nonprofits , has been collecting case studies from the organizations it works with over the last year. Die Wille is a Berlin-based nonprofit organization for children and young adult services. Supporting Families of Visually Impaired Children.

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NonProfit Hub

DECEMBER 7, 2017

GivingTuesday lives online through social media—as evidenced by the hashtag in its name—and aims to create a sense of global collaboration for an annual day of giving. Photos, especially those of young children. By the looks of the trends, #GivingTuesday could keep growing stronger. Storytelling works.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 12, 2012

GEO’s 2012 National Conference will offer a range of perspectives and new ideas for smarter grantmaking that leads to better results and present opportunities for participants to learn from the wisdom and experience of their peers. Victoria Dunning, Vice President for Programs, The Global Fund for Children.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. Be Prepared to Be Blown Away by Gen Z. Be Prepared to Be Blown Away by Gen Z.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2012

Richard’s case has been making the rounds in the TechSoup Global network, most recently at TechSoup Canada’s blog. He is director of programmes at CTT, which is our TechSoup Global partner in the UK. Richard Cooper of Charity Technology Trust (CTT) in the U.K. But is that the end of the story?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 19, 2012

Invisible Children’s film tapped into a network of celebrities, whose tweets and status updates helped to amplify a simple story and call to action. TechSoup Global is building NGOSource , an online data repository to facilitate the sometimes costly business of getting grants to overseas charities. It is an exciting time.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. Be Prepared to Be Blown Away by Gen Z. Be Prepared to Be Blown Away by Gen Z.

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Connection Cafe

JUNE 6, 2012

It was orginally featured on The Huffington Post , June 4, 2012. Our children, and the next generation, ignore the "once-a-year" cycle we've always thought was the way to give and, instead, seek multiple touch points in a search for meaning. a global software and services provider for nonprofits. Author: Guest Blogger.

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NonProfit Hub

NOVEMBER 22, 2016

Derrick is the author of “Social Movements for Good: How Companies and Causes Create Viral Change” (2016) and co-author of the book “Cause for Change: The Why and How of Nonprofit Millennial Engagement” (2012). Derrick Feldmann. Achieve Agency. He is a regular contributor to Philanthropy News Digest and the Huffington Post IMPACT Channel.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 20, 2017

According to the 2017 RWR 30 released in March, revenue from the top Run, Walk and Cycling events are down 8% since 2012. In this example, Center for Global Impact centered their campaign on a major gift that was earmarked as a match. But this doesn’t tell the real story of the P2P evolution happening across the industry.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

They all represent either a farmer, educator, activist, or chef, but they still share the connection that they're aware of global issues. They become more aware of global economies, of how our global economy impacts other countries, the opening of how we become more aware of our actions and how they impact others. They traveled.

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CauseVox

OCTOBER 5, 2021

Since 2012, #GivingTuesday has become a worldwide day of (mostly) online giving. The spirit of #GivingTuesday isn’t just meant to be one day — it’s a global movement of generosity. SOS Children’s Villages shared that 75% of their new donors all year came through their year-end peer-to-peer fundraiser.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 29, 2012

I’m speaking at three events as follows: Monday, April 2, 2012, 11:30 am. I’m on a panel with Brian Kennedy, VP of Marketing for Children Now and Johanna Morariu, Director, Innovation Network. You can find the details here. Innogive Conference. At the Cross Section of Web, Social and Mobile.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 28, 2014

Remember the “ Take Back the Pink ” Campaign in 2012 or numerous imitators of the popular yellow Livestrong bracelets like this one ? The organization has also hosted the “ Polar Bear Plunge ” fundraiser that raised $20 million in 2012. Sand for Palestine children. Blue it Up (Lung cancer). Rubble Bucket.

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Connection Cafe

JULY 10, 2014

Invisible Children also had great success storytelling via video with their Kony 2012 campaign. Figure 6: The Charity: Water website uses a video to explain “Why water.”. ” “The film had over 97 million views on YouTube, over 21.9 thousand likes on Vimeo, and was called the most viral video ever by TIME Magazine.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2014

I’m at the AFP Conference where I will be on a plenary session about “ Social Media for Social Change ” moderated by Social Media 4 Nonprofit leaders Darian Rodriguez and Ritu Sharma, along with Carolyn Miles, Save the Children and Ben Rattray, Change.Org. You read a transcript of the tweets here.

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Connection Cafe

JANUARY 1, 2014

This is the 2013 edition of my annual review of year-end email subject lines that started in 2011 and continued in 2012. Children flogged in Syrian secret prisons. Make the holidays brighter for sick children — every gift doubled! Global update: What we’ve accomplished together in 2013. ‘Tis the season!

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Most people agree that Bitcoin was in some ways a reaction to the financial crash of 2008 and sort of this pervasive distrust of the banking system and global finance. So if you even were to take a cash donation, you know, that came in a sack or whatever and you fed children with it, there’s actually no liability there, right?

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Bloomerang

AUGUST 13, 2021

Most people agree that Bitcoin was in some ways a reaction to the financial crash of 2008 and sort of this pervasive distrust of the banking system and global finance. So if you even were to take a cash donation, you know, that came in a sack or whatever and you fed children with it, there’s actually no liability there, right?

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