Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 15, 2012

The profits from the BeadforLife Store go into training and community programs in Uganda and education in North America. Global Goods Partners is dedicated to alleviating poverty by strengthening women led development initiatives in Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Nature Conservancy Online Marketplace. promoting human rights.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

We’re acknowledging eight nonprofits leading the charge with dedicated fundraising campaigns as communities unite to support a cleaner, healthier, and more sustainable planet. All participants receive a virtual Earth Day kit with a face mask, trash bags, information to clean up litter in the local community, and some fun stickers.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Recognizing that the effects of climate change aren’t equal, this lab aims to co-design a technology solution to support low-income communities of color that are most impacted by the climate crisis. Impact Labs convenes community experts across sectors to co-create new technology solutions to support specific issue areas.

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Candid

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Bezos Earth Fund awards $443 million for climate justice, conservation. The Bezos Earth Fund has announced grants totaling $443 million in support of nonprofits working to advance climate justice, nature conservation and restoration, and the tracking of critical climate goals. Grants totaling $23.5 December 8, 2021.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Proceeds benefit First Book, a nonprofit that provides new books and educational resources to schools and programs in low-income communities. Organic, ethically-produced clothing that benefits Peruvian communities where their cotton is grown, their alpacas are herded, and their products are made. 8) Getty Store :: shop.getty.edu.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

TechSoup's NetSquared community of Tech4Good meetups is growing! However, we aren't everywhere yet , so we're looking for community leaders to start new groups. As a NetSquared organizer, you will become known as someone who's a leader in the Tech4Good community. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

AUGUST 3, 2011

From famine in Africa to war in the Middle East to global economic collapse, people are increasingly becoming overwhelmed by all the tweets, status updates, photos, and videos of gloom, doom, and despair. What nonprofits can do about it: We can’t stop the trolls, but we can prevent them from infecting our online communities.

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Museum 2.0

JANUARY 29, 2014

Last week, I learned that ninety-six elephants are killed every day in Africa. I had a vague sense of how conservation fit into their educational missions, but I didn''t realize the extent of the direct advocacy and activism happening every day. How can you invite them to participate alongside you to save species?

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Tech Soup

JUNE 14, 2010

Just a few weeks ago, we put out the call to nonprofits and libraries in the United States and Canada to demonstrate how their innovative use of Adobe software acquired through the TechSoup product donation program helped them change lives, communities, and the world for the better. Other Media.

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Care2

JANUARY 24, 2013

Her background is in community organizing, strategic campaigning and legislative campaigns, having previously worked with Green Corps, the White Earth Land Recovery Project, and the American Community Gardening Association. Eric Rardin -- Senior Director of Nonprofit Services, Care2.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Points of Light, the organization that established this program in 1974, says "National Volunteer Week is about taking action and encouraging individuals and their respective communities to be at the center of social change – discovering and actively demonstrating their collective power to make a difference.". Sophia Guevara, Independent.

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

Corporate giving allows nonprofits to maximize community support by leveraging nonprofit-oriented programs that companies have already established. Community Grants Some companies offer community grants to help out local nonprofits in need. Annual Giving Campaigns Just as nonprofits promote annual giving , so do companies.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 20, 2009

One of the benefits of taking this approach is that it shifts the instructional design from sage on the stage to learning in the community. It also helped me discover an authentic example of social media for social good - WildlifeDirect. Kristen Taylor is the Digital Content/Community Manager and writes the blog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

We purposely set a more conservative goal so that our staff could feel the motivating rush of achieving it, and then we could push to exceed the original goal. Getting your community—and in our case, an entire company—excited to fundraise is no easy task, and it’s important to kick-start the campaign with some serious energy.

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Connection Cafe

APRIL 25, 2012

Sure, there are the outliers: people living “off the grid”, whole villages in Africa using solar cookers, but largely, we all sigh and agree that while progress is made toward other forms of energy, coal and oil are in our lives. To reinforce the two points above, "conservation" alone is not the solution.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 12, 2006

Joitske Hulsebosch, who lives and works in Netherlands, writes a blog called " Communities of practice for development " where she writes about topics related to her work of facilitating processes at different levels; teams, groups, organizations, networks, and communities of practice. Communities of practice theory.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Even better, nonprofits are giving back to the web analytics community because our experienced analysts work directly with “student learners” so that they can gain valuable “hands on” interaction with web data. . Cindy Olnick, Director of Communications, Los Angeles Conservancy).

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Connection Cafe

MAY 14, 2010

For example: if you purchase to “ train a midwife ” it tells you this “Help[s] train a midwife working in rural communities to provide prenatal care and birthing support to pregnant women. Defenders of Wildlife Adoption and Gift Center – Here you can adopt animals from Sea Otters to Tigers to Snowy Owls.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

An easy way to support the Nature Conservancy if you're on Facebook is to install (Lil) Green Patch. Why not give a small donation to help a school in Africa, like Epic Change's projects or find a project in a corner of the world that is meaningful to you. Or sometimes the problem is that there isn't a safe playspace in a community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 19, 2007

A short case study about the Nature Conservancy uses e-metrics. To keep up with what the arts community is doing in technology and the social web, follow the blog. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005. Here's your chance to vote on sessions and suggest speakers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 22, 2018

This year we are getting more participants from outside of the United States, but we definitely need more diversity in our survey respondents for the data to truly reflect the global donor community. Somewhat conservative 10.5%. Very conservative 3.4%. South Africa 3%. Generation. 3% are Gen Z. are Millennials.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

Instead of providing a scanning tool for independent reading, Bookshare would aggregate the scanning activity of the entire community. Our Silicon Valley tech community roots give us an inside track on technology and business model change.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

Are you passionate about conservation and environmental causes? Nonprofits like the Nature Conservancy , Union of Concerned Scientists , American Association of University Women , and NRDC do, too. History remembers Queen Anna Nzinga as one of the great female rulers of Africa. askformore. Rachel Carson. Fund their work!

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

And in those communities high school is a luxury, so the local school in the local community typically goes through sixth grade. Three hundred dollars a year is a huge barrier for kids in this community, and kids all over the developing world. So, this community got organized. It sounds pretty cheap to you and me.

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Get Fully Funded

SEPTEMBER 14, 2023

Photos of people are particularly compelling, so gather pictures of volunteers, beneficiaries, and community members. Consider your nonprofit’s expertise and the type of educational blog posts or downloadable resources you can create as a service to your community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 24, 2008

Jonathon Colman is the Associate Director of Digital Marketing for The Nature Conservancy, where he works on a team that is charged with the strategic marketing and promotion of The Conservancy's primary web site, nature.org. Social Media tools during your time with The Nature Conservancy. Amazing job by the conservancy.???

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

The folks in South Africa, where we get our Rooibos and Honeybush, actually have sort of earning rights. The other portion that we want to do is, we want, mostly for the city of Oakland and this community, to enhance creativity as much as we can. We use at least 50% post-consumer waste in all of our marketing collateral.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 14, 2014

While this represents around 150 million more users than this time last year, these numbers may still be conservative. It has value for government, the policy community and public service delivery organisations. Adding up all the users in individual countries around the world, there appear to be around 2.5

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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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Global Giving

MARCH 26, 2018

These smaller organizations—the organizations that I have grown up with—are faced with obstacles to truly embracing technology, from prohibitive pricing to a complicated learning curve, which act as a roadblock to true impact and community transformation. Photo by Environmental Camps for Conservation Awareness.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

The March of Dimes community rallied to raise money in Maddie's memory, unleashing a groundswell of support and sympathy expressions. . In 2007, WildlifeDirect had 7 blogs in the Democratic Republic of Congo written written about a specific animal by a conservation professional. More than $550,000 was raised last March. .

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 19, 2007

They enrolled in special job skills classes designed to meet the market needs of their community. In the Voices of Genocide Prevention interview , Christine Karumba said that Honorata now works for Women for Women International training other women to, " understand their role in participating in rebuilding of their community.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2009

A compelling example good social media fundraising practice comes from WildlifeDirect, a nonprofit based in Nairobi, Kenya founded by Dr. Richard Leakey. According to Paula Kahumbu, Executive Director, their approach to fundraising was to build a worldwide online conservancy community.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

So, we have been working very hard with the City Council, and with community colleges and local labor unions and others to come up with a proposal that will start in September as an actual program called "The Green Jobs Corps." We are going to use some of that money to train some of the young people in energy conservation, in renewable fuels.

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