Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

FEBRUARY 23, 2011

Global climate change is beginning to affect our lives in a real way. Computing changes at a breathtaking pace. We leave that to China, Ghana, and other countries. We are approaching a time when just about everyone should be thinking hard about use of fossil fuels, consumption and waste. Cloud computing. So what to do?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 23, 2013

“Changing the world is like eating an elephant.” Net2Local has adopted the core strategies of theme months to increase network cohesion and regional hubs to scale our ability to support local organizers. China, Cameroon, Uganda and Kenya. Quote from Naples, FL organizer Birgit Pauli-Haack.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. This generation is doing more than clicking on line, they making change in the world! What can we learn from nonprofits who have been early adopters reaching out to and engaging Gen Z donors?

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. Gen Z is more interested in using digital tools for social good than social currency, partly because living in a digital information age the world’s social change issues are thrust in their faces.

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NTEN

JANUARY 27, 2010

Security is always changing and evolving. We recently saw this in the Google/China case where Chinese crackers (bad hackers) broke into activist Gmail accounts. For more info, web search for: hacking "inside job" (As of late, the China/Google scandal commandeers at least the first three search pages.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. They are an awesome team of people and they have already implemented some changes to help charities showcase their work. In China, heart surgery costs just $5000.

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. They are an awesome team of people and they have already implemented some changes to help charities showcase their work. In China, heart surgery costs just $5000.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if you committed to leave this conference with a tangible commitment to changing one thing about the way your organization's operates. He believes that: "Inspiration + Know how + tools = you can change the world" The tools are just tools, but you need to add your network. The corporate sector have adopted it.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 7, 2011

Researching and writing Green IT For Dummies changed my life. If folks really start to see how much energy, water and natural resources are needed to create paper, I think their habits can change. The demand for electronics in emerging markets will put a higher demand on rare earth minerals, which are currently mined mostly in China.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

But I don’t see it as a capital "S" solution to what ails us on a planetary basis and I think some of the libertarian enthusiasm for the concept obscures the depth of institutional change that will be needed. Daniel Ben-Horin: The promising change I see is in the changed consciousness of the young.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

Yes, NGOs can and should be raising more $ online (and here in Greenpeace China we are doing just that) but I have yet to see strong data that supports us shutting off the DM facet just yet. The point is that the world is changing - there are new channels - and that we need to look at how to best strategically incorporate them.

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