Candid

JULY 21, 2021

Since 2010, Candid and Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) have partnered to produce Advancing Human Rights, an annual report that tracks the evolving state of global human rights philanthropy. Here we share highlights from the report on what we found. . Human rights funding is increasing. We documented $3.7

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2007

I wanted to highlight a couple of observations that Lucy Bernholz makes in her analysis of yesterday's discussion about philanthropy in Second Life by the MacArthur Foundation. I sent an IM to Jonathan Fanton about an African intitiated Virtual Africa portal to Second Life (see next post!). A report about the event from Hastac.

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Cloud 4 Good

MAY 3, 2022

Education For Employment’s (EFE) mission is simple: to create economic opportunities for unemployed youth in the Middle East and North Africa (MENA), allowing them to create a brighter future for themselves, their families, and their communities. It’s been a real game-changer for us.

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Candid

AUGUST 3, 2021

Since 2010, Human Rights Funders Network (HRFN) and Candid have partnered on research that maps funding for human rights globally. Our analysis provides an evidence base to understand and strengthen resourcing for social change. We are changing our analysis and shifting our practices to be fully accountable to racial justice movements.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 17, 2007

As FrogLoop blog concludes in its recent analysis of MySpace, "Social networking sites are essentially a microcosm of the internet, and hosting a profile on either is akin to managing a website. NpTech Global Kabissa joins Aid for Africa for the third year running! Check out the introduction video for more.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Self-Help Africa needed a single source of truth to more effectively manage and measure their programs and services and, crucially, demonstrate the value of their programs to donors. Camfed , an international nonprofit organisation supporting girls in Sub-Saharan Africa to go to school, uses Salesforce to collect data more easily.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

A platform to aid in, “solving global health and development problems for those most in need.”. Organizations that provide grants to address critical global problems are able to make smarter investments if they know who else is investing in similar problems and locations. Grand Challenges Awards Repository.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

The nonprofit technology news this month reports on the reinvention of the wheel in India and Africa, how nonprofits are leading the wearable computing field, the privacy threat you may not have heard about yet, and plenty more. Reinventing the Wheel in India and Africa. was designed for Africa and costs more. News flash.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

one a global norm and allows for easy import and export of accessible materials. Benetech successfully spun off our data team as the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, an independent NGO. And so we campaigned for the Marrakesh Treaty. This breakthrough instrument was negotiated in 2013 and has now been signed by over eighty countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

I’ve spent some time taking a look at various reports, studies, and International organizations and the use of networks and social media. Here’s what I learned: Global Social Media and Mobile Usage Studies and Internet Penetration. billion global internet users today – roughly 35% of the world’s population.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2009

It has taken few days for Twestival to report on the results. Based on the an analysis of previous fundraising campaigns (see " Twitter As Charitable Giving Spreader: A Brief History and Meta Analysis of Fundraising With Twitter "), the first time I heard about Twestival I knew it signaled something different.

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