Tech Soup

JUNE 10, 2013

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. TechSoup Global's Ale Bezdekian attended another San Francisco event, but it was much different from the one at San Francisco State.

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Classy

APRIL 20, 2021

McGruder, the Ford Foundation’s Chief Operating Officer and Treasurer, oversees Ford’s global operations and finances for its offices in New York, Africa, Asia, and Latin America.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

The global COVID-19 pandemic didn’t slow the momentum one bit. million metric tons of electronic waste was produced globally in 2019 alone, but only 11.4 Around 37% of global greenhouse gas emissions come from food production, while the U.S. Kick Start Your Movement With Peer-to-Peer Fundraising. percent gets recycled.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

A couple of weeks ago a group of Seattle global health data experts met at the Seattle Biomedical Research Institute to continue a conversation we started earlier this year on global health data. We'll continue to explore that key question in a couple of months when we meet again.

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JUNE 20, 2018

They have since expanded to become a leading advocate for resolution of global refugee crises by world leaders. Their model of empowerment amplifies the voices of refugee communities, allowing them to act as their own champions. Asylum Access.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. This week we learn about the Resilient Africa Network (RAN), which is helping African students use open data for disaster relief.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The initiative brings together an array of existing, new and enhanced global programs and partnerships that connect young people with better education, employment and entrepreneurship opportunities. Peter has extensive international experience in Latin America and Africa and discussed the problems and solutions he sees from the ground.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 1, 2016

But supporting a rapidly expanding global network of volunteers is difficult, so we've enlisted seven of our most engaged organizers to act as Regional Ambassadors. We've been testing the Ambassador model for the last two years, and it has been been instrumental in the growth of NetSquared. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

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 Now with C40 Cities, she supports cities in the global network to develop and implement inclusive climate action plans, policies, and programs.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 27, 2015

There are very few charities I've come across that are as wide-ranging in their tech-for-good work as our French TechSoup Global partner, Ateliers du Bocage (ADB). ADB's Clic Vert Program fosters digital inclusion in French West Africa while contributing to a responsible end-of-life of computers and mobile phones.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

by Dinesh Venkateswaran, Manager - Global Data Acquisitions, TechSoup Global. multilaterals, and high-impact entrepreneurs in the social media space, mostly from the western world and Africa, besides others. development in Africa. we in Africa are not different from the rest of the world.

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JANUARY 23, 2007

The event here in Zurich is the Schwab Social Entrepreneur Summit, where roughly a hundred social entrepreneurs get together with global leaders to advance the movement. On Monday we were joined by a dazzling array of global leaders who are interested in social entrepreneurship.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 24, 2015

” Leadership modeling is important. When they launched their staff as champion strategy, they had to make the case that it was worth the investment of their time. Daniel Bekele , Africa Director. Minky Wordan , Global Initiatives Director. Lotte Leicht , EU Director. Andrew Stroehlein , European Media Director.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. According TechSoup’s Global NGO Cloud Survey , cloud storage and back-up is one of the most useful cloud technologies out there. in Namibia is showing the way for providing Internet access in Africa. This is on a personal computing level.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. Images: TechSoup Global and Nominet Trust. The Best Technologies For Social Good. See the map here.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

This was originally posted on the TechSoup Global Blog and was authored by Keisha Taylor. Engaging the imagination, it puts forward four global scenarios, with an accompanying fictional case study that describes how philanthropy and technology may co-evolve for development. Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. 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 ). What brought you here?

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

You think about the various models that are out there, the templates, the timelines, the job descriptions, the consultants. And for those that aren’t aware in relation to the construction industry, you know, construction globally and in the United States has continued to grow and hasn’t stopped throughout the pandemic.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

Fair Trade is this exciting new model for addressing poverty around the world. At the heart of Fair Trade is the notion of direct trade, kind of like a farmer's market gone global. You can read a transcript of the podcast below. Paul Rice: TransFair is the only organization here in the United States that certifies Fair Trade products.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

The team laid out the figure below: Benetech's Equilibrium Change Model Looking at this summary of how Benetech operates, it was clear to me that our theory of change matched the framework from Osberg and Martin. We can just blow up the old model while striving for the next phase of equilibrium change. The first was the ebook.

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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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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 15, 2008

The third goal would be, on an international level, to take this news, that is really created from the inside out, as opposed to the traditional model of foreign correspondence, which is an outsider coming in, out into the world. Our age ranges in all of our global training sites range from 19 to 56. CH: Right, exactly. CH: Yes, we do.

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Forum One

SEPTEMBER 9, 2021

Helps people get tasks done: Digital platforms can be a toolkit that help users get things done by providing assets like models, datasets, ir even templates . A platform to aid in, “solving global health and development problems for those most in need.”. 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. Digital Inclusion.

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Achieve

JANUARY 20, 2016

This model allows the individual to participate with Mallory as a partner and supporter rather than just give without knowing what happens in the end to the person who receives it. Embedded in the model of World Clothes Line is Mallory’s global view. It is not about covering the hurt, but rather the opportunity that exists.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. " Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. Images: TechSoup Global.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2013

It's an intellectual journey through the history of communication and information, from the language of Africa's talking drums all the way up to modern information theory and the information age with its deluge of news, tweets, images, and blogs. " Ginny Mies, Global Content Curator. Images: TechSoup Global.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program.

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JUNE 21, 2022

As I process the many sessions I attended and the new connections that were made, three key trends stick out: interconnectedness, evidence driven hope, and new funding models. There was extensive discourse on the global pandemic and how health crises in one part of the world can disrupt all our lives. Interconnectedness.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 29, 2022

In 1990, four months after being released from prison, Mandela visited Madison Park High School in Boston to address the community , and he expressed his deep concern about school dropouts both in South Africa and the U.S. The organisation personifies Mandela’s words, but also acts as inspiration for his legacy to live on in Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

It's the only one we have at this point, but we're looking at trying to expand that model a little; well, not a little bit, because we have people that are interested in Dining for Women who live in areas where we don't already have chapters. This past March, two different groups went to Africa. They're a very high-producing chapter.

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Care2

APRIL 16, 2008

Also, while I always believed Software as a Service (SaaS) is the ideal way to deliver software, especially to nonprofits, I have been surprised by how quickly and broadly the on-demand model has been accepted. For example, the UK does not allow tax deductions for nonprofit giving but does have a government credit system called GiftAid.

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Care2

MARCH 4, 2008

Also, while I always believed Software as a Service (SaaS) is the ideal way to deliver software, especially to nonprofits, I have been surprised by how quickly and broadly the on-demand model has been accepted. For example, the UK does not allow tax deductions for nonprofit giving but does have a government credit system called GiftAid.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 12, 2022

Before the global pandemic, intergenerational poverty and entrenched patterns of inequality dampened the future livelihoods of millions of children and their families across the globe. Established in 2015, CRUS is an independent global grantmaking sister organization to UK-based Comic Relief, which was founded in 1985.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

I organized and moderated a panel called “ Women Who Tech Globally.” What challenges do women who tech in Africa and Middle East face? She shared Akili Dada’s model and impact for developing high-potential young women from underprivileged families who are passionate about social change.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

It seemed to be a really good and sustainable model, and we raised around $300,000 doing that kind of work. The other thing that Off the Mat, Into the World does is that we create and model our own outreach projects, but on a grander scale. I knew that the work that I was doing was effective. We will be working on a permaculture farm.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 25, 2007

He has won many honors, including the 1998 Reebok International Human Rights Award, the International Ashoka Fellowship, selection as a World Economic Forum Young Global Leader, and the Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellowship. It is actually really understandable. It is a mobile market.

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