Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief. RAN is establishing Resilience Innovation Labs within participating universities throughout Africa, coupled with online laboratories and a new online science library to help with its work.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 20, 2015

She runs a for-profit social enterprise named Daproim that provides data entry services using disadvantaged students as their primary workforce. Bookshare is our large digital library for students with disabilities such as blindness or dyslexia. Daproim has more than 7600 applications from Kenyan students who want to work there.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 30, 2012

CASE is a research and education center that promotes the entrepreneurial pursuit of social impact through the adaptation of business expertise. CASE offers a tremendous program for MBA students and alumni interested in applying their business skills for social purposes.

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APRIL 12, 2013

continuing weekly series, each Friday we invite a nonprofit scholar, student, or professional to. Yet there seemed no concern for the dire condition of a dangerous bench, threatening to injure a student at any time. Dianna Schwartz , Public Allies Arizona Alumna. Executive Director. Military Assistance Project. As part of a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 9, 2012

Not only is this unjust, it’s also a huge waste of potential with serious global consequences. Millions of girls are being denied an education right at a time when it has the power to transform their lives and the world around them. Every day, girls are taken out of school, married far too young, and subjected to violence in school.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 22, 2013

Caltech’s small size makes its faculty and students incredibly agile when it comes to understanding a broad array of fields: there is a need here to be able to explain your work, and to understand the work of others. That’s the Caltech advantage! I want to advocate for “giving the sleeves off your vest” strategy!

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Nonprofits Source

SEPTEMBER 25, 2023

They may prefer for their employees to only give to education-based organizations or environment-oriented nonprofits, depending on the type of work that resonates with the company. Scholarships For schools and education-based nonprofits, scholarships are the ultimate form of corporate giving.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 21, 2012

As the Web & Social Media Manager for Camfed USA (The Campaign for Female Education) I am charged with expanding our online presence in new and innovative ways. For example, in the villages of rural Africa where Camfed works, local community members play an essential role in helping girls succeed in school.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Our second Impact Lab recently announced the Financial Aid Chatbot to support students as they navigate the FAFSA application. Priscilla Chomba Kinywa is a digital transformation strategist with twenty years of experience working with large non-profits in 55 countries across Africa, Asia, Europe, Americas and the Pacific. “As

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

WildAid uses a proven track record of success with a unique model that will support anti-wildlife consumption and anti-poaching in Asia and Africa, with the support of donations and awareness. The fundraising campaign allows anyone in the world to partner in this mission and saves millions of animals in the process. Connect with WildAid: .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Every month NetSquared volunteers hold free or low cost educational events for people and organizations who want to use technology for social good. The link need to be like so: Africa. TARGET END LINKS. ## Central and South America. ## North America. ## Africa. ## Europe. ## Asia and Pacific Rim. --> North America.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 5, 2010

The fundraiser's goal to is to raise money for one amazing Mama who dreams of building a home for children in her village in Africa. I love the design. To help spread the word, the site has integrated "sharing" your love for your mother and Mama Lucy both on Twitter as well as on Facebook (or should I say sharing your "like").

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 8, 2010

Shipping costs are astronomical, and, depending on the items, it can be far less expensive to check items as excess baggage on flights with travelers coming to Easy Africa. A group of graduate students from Berkeley were coming to Kenya. Some weeks later, we got an email from one of the students, freshly in Kenya.

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NTEN

APRIL 8, 2014

Tobias Eigen, Executive Director, Kabissa - Space for Change in Africa. Sean King, Director of Youth Education in the Arts, USBands. Londell Jackson, Director of Education and Programs, Colorado Nonprofit Association. Jason Shim, Digital Media Manager, Pathways to Education Canada. Sophia Guevara, Independent.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

For example , if you are an organization working on public education policy changes, you probably recognize teachers as a core demographic to your work – both in supporting the changes you propose as well as helping identify the changes that can and should be made. But how does it help you move closer to your goal?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2013

The report also highlights the deep impact of technology in a wide range of other issue areas, from agriculture to education to the environment. The projects in Technology for Good aren't just limited to disaster and crisis response. Get Informed and Get Inspired. The Difference Technology Makes.

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Tech Soup

JULY 30, 2013

Good thing this has proven false because tablets have contributed to advances in accessibility, early education, and closing the digital divide. Students can actually rent textbooks and read them on the tablet. Remember when tech analysts said that the iPad was a dead-on-arrival product and tablets would never catch on?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. They gave the students tests based on content and scored them. And the resulting graph is the analysis of 1200 students.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

The diverse crowd, made up of students, activists, government employees, and librarians, worked on datasets presented by the U.S. The challenges included connecting African farmers to markets, creating an online networking space for women veterans, mapping Africa’s natural resources, and a few others. Leonard Library.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

Photo by Life in Africa For this week's BlogHer Holiday Guide post, I needed to come up with a list of nonprofit organizations or causes that BlogHer readers may consider making a donation to as part of their year-end giving. book go directly to SEPTAR, the fledgling Special Education PTA of Redwood City. Can I Sit With You?

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 15, 2009

Wellesley College student, Catlin Powers , is the co-founder of One Earth Designs. The organization helps Himalayan communities, "achieve their unique visions of sustainable living through science/engineering education and infrastructure development." and business skills. Cross-posted from BlogHer.com.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 9, 2005

This is the group charged with advising the Department of Education on the adoption of the new digital standard for electronic textbooks for students with disabilities. This will have a huge impact on students with disabilities around the U.S. and we're excited that Bookshare.org is part of this effort.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. Amazingly, the organization has surpassed this goal and (as of this article) has raised $11,547.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

Symantec’s grant is applied toward their Global Partnership Businesswomen’s Network in the Middle East and North Africa. Education received approximately 50 percent of Symantec’s dollars. Vital Voices identifies, invests in, and brings visibility to working women around the world.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Aid Afghanistan for Education and Peace has the lofty $10,000 goal to fund a school of 300 students for a month. Depending on what you donate, you'll receive notes, photos, or a calendar from the students. Amazingly, the organization has surpassed this goal and (as of this article) has raised $11,547.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE serves 60,000 refugees in three different refugee camps in Southern Africa, and is an official operating partner of the United Nations Refugee Agency (UNHCR ). Ultimately, it takes a willingness to allow some failures to occur, but allow those failures to be educational for a community. We have the opportunity to fail.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 29, 2006

Almost ten years ago, she founded a nonprofit organization, The Sharing Foundation , dedicated to meeting the physical, emotional, educational, and medical needs of orphaned and seriously- disadvantaged children in Cambodia. While things have changed here in the US, in Cambodia, women and girls face tremendous odds trying to get an education.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

The Net Impact Conference is the premier gathering of students and professionals who are committed to making a lasting social and environmental impact now and for a lifetime. INBOUND's purpose is to provide the inspiration, education, and connections you need to transform your business. South Africa / $250. South Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

Shortly after I posted my first Solutionary Women profile , I got an email from a young woman named Tiara who was a student with Up with People last year. She is an alumna of Up With People and traveled as an Applied Education facilitator with Up with People last fall. Educate yourself on the world around you. While in D.C.,

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 20, 2008

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Because obviously that means much more volume is being certified and much more money is going back to poor farmers in Latin America, Asia and Africa as a result, and that, at the end of the day, is what we're all about. Students, people in churches, people in environmental groups who have embraced Fair Trade as a positive model of change.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders). We work in North Africa Latin America, Asia: most of the places where large scale human rights abuses are going on.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 2, 2009

Here are some of their stories: Aleda Schaf fer A student at Cornell University’s Johnson Graduate School of Management, Aleda Schaffer has worked as an American Sign Language Interpreter in Washington, DC, Alaska and Boston. Stan, who recently completed his MBA from Duke, is now the interim education program manager for Bookshare.

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sgEngage

MAY 6, 2021

196 0s – Anti Vietnam War protests and the push for peace in the United States is well-known for the actions taken by University students and protesters, but also involved outspoken members of the business community. the Occupational Safety and Health Act, and the Clean Air?Act.? Two years later Congress passed the Clean Water Act.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 30, 2012

And the entries came from all over the world, from our own backyard San Francisco to Canada and even as far as Lesotho, Africa! Women who were denied basic education in their youth can now access online education from some of the best schools in the world and open doors to a better life," he adds. From Canada to Lesotho.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

So, for example, when we were working on a community policing project, I used to work in Minnesota, and about 15 years ago, we had another wave of immigrants, refugees that came from Southeast Asia and different countries from Africa. ” We were floored that half the students were raising their hands. We listened to them.

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