Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 9, 2012

Coalition for Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans :: @ CIAV. National Association for the Advancement of Colored People :: @ NAACP. Autism Speaks :: @ AustismSpeaks. Campaign to End Obesity :: @ ToEndObesity. Change the Equation :: @ ChangeEquation. Children’s Defense Fund :: @ ChildDefender. Coalition to Stop Gun Violence :: @ CSGV.

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sgEngage

JUNE 13, 2022

In other, more rare occasions – such as the Taliban’s takeover of Afghanistan in August 2021 – we’ve felt compelled to proactively take action based on changing external circumstances. Organizations may react differently to the same situation, something Candid learned in our response to the situation in Afghanistan.

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JULY 10, 2023

It represents people positively, in a way that feels true and empowering to them.” It paints a complete picture of the people you serve and the opportunities they can capitalize on with some help from within their community. Example: Sam came home from Afghanistan with PTSD that threatened his family, his job, and even his life.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2011

As a group or as an individual, CARE Packages can help send girls in Afghanistan to school for a year, or help expectant mothers in Peru safely deliver. CARE Packages: CARE has a very unique holiday gift program that allows you to compile care packages to send to women entrepreneurs and girls worldwide. Although Concern is based in the U.K.,

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2017

According to Pew Research Center , more than 60 million people or nearly 1 in every 100 people on earth have been displaced from their homes. That displacement has happened mostly as a result of the wars in Syria, Afghanistan, and Iraq. Why NGOs and Humanitarian Workers Need Technology. spanhidden

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 30, 2009

Many cool people attend, and the quality of the conversations is terrific. These are all folks who believe in technology and have a certain level of common language and understanding (even though the range of people is pretty amazing). That's why conversations can cut right to the issue that people are debating.

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MAY 3, 2011

If we focus our work on feeding the hungry, for example, do we actually create a system in which we rely on people needing our services? When working with communities, trying to enable change, looking for opportunities to spark collaboration, love seems like a strange thing to think about for many people.

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DECEMBER 1, 2013

Global Fund for Women GlobalGiving Good360 Goodwill Industries International Goodwill Industries of Akron GRACE Greater Twin Cities United Way Healthy Schools Campaign Healthy Teen Network Helen Keller International Immigration Equality Interfaith Worker Justice Ipas Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America IREX Irving Cares LeadingAge League of Women (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 20, 2012

It is intended to inspire actions like contributing to charities, educating one’s children about giving, volunteering for a nonprofit, or to encourage people in their networks to do the same. This campaign provides resources, a theme, and asking all who participate to unleash their creativity to spread generosity. What about you?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

We currently have nearly 50,000 Facebook fans and posting there helps us reach the most people, though the focus of how we’re using Facebook is changing (more on that below). Who maintains your social media campaigns? Are they paid, full-time, part-time? That would be me!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

He shared incredible stories from over two decades of providing rehabilitation for disabled people in Afghanistan. Mark Horvath Invisible People. I would urge you to take a few minutes to view this video and see what you can learn nonprofit storytelling. Global Giving: Syrian Refugee Crisis. Refugee Girls in Lebanon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 16, 2007

Clay Aiken in Afghanistan with Unicef, Photo from Flickr. The posts are from people working in different countries on child survival work. " The most recent set of posts are from Clay Aiken's field work in Afghanistan and also includes flickr photos. I've been following Unicef's Field Notes Blog.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Marianne Elliot has created a new online course, 30 Days of Courage , "for people who want to step out of their comfort zone, through the small acts of daily bravery that add up to a courageous life." Full disclosure: I'm involved with most of the people and projects I mentioned personally and/or professionally. I'm completely biased!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 4, 2011

Last year, this campaign had hundreds of people sharing their love for hundreds of moms, and nearly $20,000 USD was raised to build a home for the TwitterKids of Tanzania and their classmates who attend Mama Lucy Kamptoni’s school in Arusha, Tanzania.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

I was excited about Fab-Fi , Fab Lab's name for the simple directional antennas they're using to build a mesh wireless network all over Jalalabad, Afghanistan. Fab Lab isn't about free wi-fi; it's about providing people with tools to produce whatever they want, tools that were inaccessible to consumers only a few years ago.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Because they use a platform that many people already have access to and they have a defined end-point, there aren’t many barriers stopping supporters from getting involved. Here are the general steps involved with hosting a Facebook Challenge: Choose a Challenge task.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 13, 2009

A: There are a lot of people these days who want to help other people out. People working with each other. Other people are good at other things. The administration is trying to scale up grassroots democracy, people in the White House like Vivek Kundra, [ two names I missed ], Brian Behlendorf. Simplicity.

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BoardAssist

JUNE 27, 2017

These statistics from MobileCause show how texting can boost fundraising results through text-to-give campaigns: The average opt-in retention rate for nonprofit organizations is 76 per cent – people are opting in and staying opted in, allowing you to grow your membership database list with each campaign push. Text-to-Give Case Studies.

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Achieve

DECEMBER 22, 2020

Facebook was created to connect people with one another. Nick co-founded Stop Soldier Suicide stemming from his experiences leading Paratroopers as a Ranger qualified Army Officer with the 173rd Airborne during 27 months deployed to combat zones in Afghanistan. With Facebook groups, you can create a closed group for ticketed events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2007

Good Magazine as its tagline says is for "people who give a damn" and describes itself as a publishing platform to "change the world." Hands On Network brings people together to strengthen communities through meaningful volunteer action. people on where their food comes from and how our food choices affect.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better! We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 16, 2008

Rather, it is a do-good adventure story of a former mountain climber who has spent almost 15 years building schools in remote mountain villages of northern Pakistan, Afghanistan, Kyrgyzstan and Mongolia. I'll pick three people from the comments at random. education book Pakistan Afghanistan Kyrgyzstan Mongolia

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Global Giving

APRIL 28, 2016

It also will enable you to turn your clips into a video that other people can seamlessly watch. It is vital to have a separate sharing strategy for each social media platform that you use, as people use each social platform a little differently. People come to Instagram for creative, authentic and non-commercial visuals.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2014

Share pictures, updates, quotes from people involved in the project or benefitting from it, etc. They've also hosted some successful nonprofit campaigns: Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace raised over $10,000 on its Indiegogo campaign. How many kittens have you rescued with the money donated so far?

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 1, 2006

I've posted a couple of times about giving circles, groups of people who get together to learn about an organization's work, and pool their donations to have a greater impact. Brodsky documents the inside story of the Revolutionary Association of the Women of Afghanistan (RAWA). This was my favorite book of 2005).

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ASU Lodestar Center

NOVEMBER 4, 2011

On this day, people across the globe are asked to go without shoes in order to feel what it is like for a child to go without shoes. Such clever attention-getting strategies have exposed numerous people to TOMS’ message in a unique way that is bound to stay with them and are crucial to TOMS’ business and philanthropic success.

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Eric Jacobsen Blog

OCTOBER 7, 2014

When people know how they''re supposed to contribute, and what their contribution means, then they are much more likely to contribute effectively. Jake Wood is cofounder and CEO of Team Rubicon and a former Marine sniper with tours in Iraq and Afghanistan. My coach, Barry Alvarez, used to yell "know your role." It certainly did for me.

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NonProfit Hub

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Because they use a platform that many people already have access to and they have a defined end-point, there aren’t many barriers stopping supporters from getting involved. Here are the general steps involved with hosting a Facebook Challenge: Choose a Challenge task.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 21, 2009

GamesThatGive is going to have a huge influence on the charitable giving space for a few reasons: 1) People are already playing casual games, in big numbers, and for long periods of time. Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans Association. GamesThatGive is simply seeking to tap into that existing behavior to help raise money for charity. -

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 14, 2006

I met Bryant, who created all the recipes for the book, just last week at a fundraiser for the Oakland-based food justice nonprofit, People's Grocery. I've posted this quote by her before, but I think of it often, "“People often say they feel like just a ‘drop in the bucket', with the sense of futileness that the idea conveys.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Indiegogo also measures how much social engagement is happening with your campaign, meaning how many people are looking at it and sharing it on various networks. Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Special Plan for Nonprofits: Yes. More Crowdfunding Resources.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2006

Betty Christiansen's book, Knitting for Peace: Make the World a Better Place One Stitch at a Time , captures 28 stories of people and organizations who are using knitting to comfort, empower and heal.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Indiegogo also measures how much social engagement is happening with your campaign, meaning how many people are looking at it and sharing it on various networks. Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Special Plan for Nonprofits: Yes. More Crowdfunding Resources.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

While my objective was to make positive change, when I came at it from a place that was angry, I saw - I think this has been visible to many people who have worked in social change movements - that my anger was not growing the movement. It wasn't bringing people toward us. Why do people who are not chosen end up out in the cold?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

The takeover by the Taliban in Afghanistan earlier this year instantly sent the future of girls and women in that country into chaos. In addition, female athletes globally have faced abuse and harassment from the very people who are charged with coaching and supporting them to succeed. Credit: GOLEES.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 25, 2013

Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America. People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals (Peta). Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || LinkedIn || Flickr. It Gets Better Project. Because life begins after high school and it really does get better. Facebook || Twitter || YouTube || Google+ || LinkedIn. Facebook || Twitter.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2008

"I think that people have long associated feminism with older white women and the idea of bringing that back to women of color, and bringing it back to young women of color and asking them what it means is an exciting time for me." The baby boomers are retiring and young people are kind of coming up into that movement.

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