ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

It wasn’t simply about throwing money at an international issue - it was about listening to local problems, local solutions, and local thought. I learned I could and should offer assistance to local citizens who asked for it. Local problems, local solutions. I got this. But that bench.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

The challenges that people bring are rarely technology problems: they are market problems. Rebecca was looking for help with a familiar problem. Their students actually go into the field, work with local medical professionals, and learn their real problems, their real pain points. So far, so good.

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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. That’s why she was immediately drawn to Classy’s mission of mobilizing and empowering the world for good and helping nonprofits raise more money online. .

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Director Foundation San Diego New York 98

Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We’re looking for new ways technology can help, and we’re looking to bring together experts who are already leading the path forward. We know technology alone won’t solve these issues alone, but we think it can help those who are working to address the issue amplify their impact. CTO, Greenpeace International. Isabella Gonzalez Potter.

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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. It harnesses locally based solutions to decrease the effects of disasters and rehabilitate communities in disaster-prone areas. It was originally published on NetSquared.

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Amy Sample Ward

DECEMBER 3, 2009

When you visit the Unwrapped Virtual Village, you are given three different villages to help: Hovering your mouse over one of the villages in the circles gives you a dexcription of what issues face that village and how you can help. I have a very close friend who came to me with a “problem&# a couple holiday seasons ago.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

It is an outrage that girls account for 74% of all new HIV infections among adolescents in Africa, and 40% of women on the continent suffer from anemia which results in 20% of maternal deaths. In 2015, Noel helped them to publish their mobile app, Women Fight Back , on the Google Play store. You can make a donation here.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2015

Whatever your social media problem, we'll have a cure for what ails you this June. 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. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It found that if they needed help and couldn’t reach 9-1-1, one in five would try to contact responders through a digital means such as e-mail, websites or social media. Several websites were set up to help family members find out information about each other in the chaos. That’s why the Atlanta councilman used twitter!

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

multilaterals, and high-impact entrepreneurs in the social media space, mostly from the western world and Africa, besides others. most fundamental problems that people in less favourable environments. face and how we could help solve them. discussions, and helped broaden my perspective of how we. development in Africa.

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NTEN

APRIL 24, 2012

] By Peter Drury, a child's right a child's right either had a problem or an opportunity—the distinction hinged only on our perspective. We do this in in urban settings in Asia and Africa, where children live at the intersection of two streets: (1) worst water quality conditions and (2) greatest degrees of poverty.

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Global Giving

MARCH 7, 2019

dollars and British pounds, and donors in India and East Africa can contribute in their local currencies via our partnerships with ImpactGuru and M-Changa. Our team wanted to know: What other currencies could help us connect more GlobalGivers with more community-led organizations? GlobalGiving accepts donations in U.S.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 16, 2010

He's passionate about helping children and obsessed with leveraging the power of "good ideas for good causes.". Worst case: The orphanage collapsed like all other concrete buildings in town and the locals might hesitate to dig out HIV infected bloody kids. You can help. I haven't been able to sleep.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 5, 2011

As a company, they works to have a positive impact on the local communities around the world where it has offices. Women are underrepresented in the field of technology, and it’s a global problem. To help, Symantec has sponsored programs aimed at getting more women into and interested in science, computers, and engineering.

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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. While the challenges were focused mainly on local or statewide issues, they came up with solutions that could be adopted for national issues as well.

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Forum One

JUNE 18, 2009

Health systems in developing world countries will, understandably enough, do whatever it takes to help donors determine the outcomes of their giving--but often doesn't translate into systematic, consistent data collection that best meets the needs of the entire system. OK, these are hard problems to solve.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2007

Some of her resolutions were to reconnect with her city council members, get more involved with youth outreach through the arts, and "stop saying 'Africa.' Africa is not a country. Atlasien of Upside-Down Adoption said she was going to become involved in a local organization for immigrant rights. It is a continent."

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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. Help Special Needs Children Improve Social Skills. FreeGeek in Portland solves two problems.

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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 ). We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. Now 26, Erickson is still FORGE's Executive Director.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

All of these efforts translated into real progress on real problems, opening up new opportunities to address the needs of the bottom billion — and enabling developing countries to become engines of growth in their own right. Green technology spurs mobile payments development in Africa. They do more work locally than globally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

But donating money to a charity, even a small amount (or in-kind items ) can certainly help with part of the need and raise awareness in others. Here's a few ideas to help make charitable giving get on your calendar each month for 2009. For example, Mizfit is donated a dime per comment to a local women's shelter.

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NTEN

JULY 28, 2010

Founded by three of the most respected web analytics professionals in the world, Analysis Exchange creates value for nonprofits by connecting them directly with experienced web analysts willing to donate their time to help efforts identify opportunities to increase online donations, engagement, interaction, and list distribution.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

State/Local / #MCNAC16 / @SmartNonprofits. State/Local. It’ll open with candid stories about the ups and downs of working in social good and close with an afternoon of action and volunteering with local nonprofits. State/Local / #MadisonNonprofitDay / @nonprofitday. State/Local. State/Local. State/Local.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

It basically links consumers, you and me, to third-world families, and through more direct trade helps those families get a fair price for their coffee, their tea, their bananas, whatever it is they produce. Helping families keep their kids in school, helping them farm in a sustainable manner. Everyone goes to the store.

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Forum One

JUNE 14, 2007

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. We also saw some.

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Forum One

AUGUST 29, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. We also saw some.

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Forum One

AUGUST 4, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. We also saw some.

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Forum One

JUNE 16, 2008

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. We also saw some.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

So many of these women are local leaders, and Women's Global Green Action Network is attempting to provide a space for women to step into roles of being global advocates, and to really have a more prevalent platform for the messages and the work that they are doing. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

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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. A starting point for change.”.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 1, 2006

Part two talks about understanding the challenges.Foundations take on the biggest and gnarliest social problems (if the problems could be easily solved, the private sector or governments would have already figured them out. We also saw some.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

So it really helps connect you, as the person purchasing this product, to the sense of impact that you are making not only through your purchase but also on that community through its sustained work. We entered into this thinking about, "How do we really help create stronger wage standards in informal markets?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. Unless we solve this problem of global poverty, the other problems won't be able to be solved.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

What is Women's Earth Alliance, and what problem you're trying to solve? The problem that we are addressing is a great one. How do they help to address some of the challenges and problems that you just spoke about? What we heard was that our colleagues in Africa really needed support around water.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2015

And while over a billion are connected, they are also working on getting two thirds of the world that doesn’t have internet access connected through an initiative called Internet.org , which is bringing together technology leaders, nonprofits and local communities. ” In these three ways.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2009

But often our good intentions are undermined by the fear that we are so insignificant in the big scheme of things that nothing we can do will actually help feed the world’s hungry, fix the damage of a Hurricane Katrina or even get a healthy lunch program up and running in the local school. Gourma is in Africa.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 16, 2007

When you find other people that are into the same thing, it's great, because it just helps to reinforce that and gets things moving. Not having to rely on transit to get there and back and forth I think helps as well. IS: A big part of where we've gotten our inspiration and help has been the Bay Area Green Business Program.

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