Everyaction

JUNE 20, 2018

Asylum Access focuses on refugees from Africa, Asia, and Latin America (the areas with most of the world’s refugees), and works to help refugees assert their rights in the present and transform systems for a safer and more just future. Asylum Access. citizenship.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 18, 2011

Scott McNeil came to Benetech and we talked about their MetaMouse project (getting multiple mice to work on the same PC, so that kids in low-PC resource places can work together). Plus, we discussed much more exciting tech that's in the De Novo pipeline, contributing to areas Benetech is very interested in!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Is the work in Africa worth the lives of those in India? Our choices and our voices matter. But a lot of money was raised for women’s health.

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Classy

APRIL 16, 2021

Earth Day is a great time to support these initiatives, in addition to the year-round work that nonprofit organizations commit their mission to achieve for us all. CELI does this work by equipping emerging leaders and professionals with the skills and expertise to lead the transition to a clean energy economy. Connect with CELI: .

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Saleforce Nonprofit

OCTOBER 26, 2021

We need every solution and every solver…What this moment calls for is a mosaic of voices — the full spectrum of ideas and insights for now we can turn things around.” – Ayana Elizabeth Johnson and Katharine K. For the last 20+ years, she has worked in management with and for nonprofit organizations. Clayton Aldern.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 5, 2010

Organization Size: Approximately 70 DC/stateside employees; more than 100 field staff employees in eight countries in Africa, the Balkans and the Middle East. I am very lucky to work at an organization that values social media, and have never received push-back regarding investing my time and efforts there. Anything else?

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

If you're like me, then you swore that this year, you're finally going to learn to use technology to make yourself more productive at work. 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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Tech Soup

MAY 14, 2014

Don’t just work on the problems that benefit the one percent,” she said at the event, part of a series of Virgin Group sponsored panels with the participation of Virgin founder and billionaire Richard Branson. “My tip for entrepreneurs would be make sure that your innovation truly benefits humanity.

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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. The One Campaign has launched an open letter signed by 86 leading voices for women around the world. You can make a donation here.

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Judi Sohn

APRIL 3, 2009

::sigh:: My New Year’s resolution to get my blogging voice back isn’t going so well, is it? Eric spent 2 weeks in March on an assignment in South Africa. Yet another thing to work in to an already packed schedule. I have some good excuses: C3 keeps me busy. March is our crazy month, and this year was no exception.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 11, 2011

When Cancer Council SA (that’s South Australia, not South Africa) started the Ambassador Project as an experiment in revitalizing volunteerism and community fundraising , jumping in to the social media pond was not even on the agenda. It was ‘their’ work, not ‘ours’. Let me tell you a bit about our journey …. that night.

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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. Many of us have worked at companies that offer a small form of gift matching, but Symantec's efforts to promote volunteerism push that to an even higher tier.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. They do work to reverse the spread of violence by using the methods and strategies associated with disease control. Perhaps most impressively they are working in Syrian civil war.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2012

In just a few sentences, let donors know how their donations will support your mission and programs and feature one powerful image or video that speaks to your work and progress. International Development Exchange touts that a $100 donation initiates a rural women’s organic farming collective inSouth Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 3, 2008

Foko Blog Club, Foko Madagascar Flickr Photo Joan Razafmaharo is an amazing blogger, social change activist, and woman working in Madagascar and other parts of the world. Africa the next Chapter??? The project was funded by Rising Voices , the outreach arm of Global Voices.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2012

Most people didn’t “get to participate” in the Arab Spring because we didn’t have an effective role in regime change beyond global support and voice amplification (a crucial role, but not the change per se) and to think otherwise would be paternalistic. Here’s the problem – these simple narratives can cause damage.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. Their work is very different in each of these locations. They offer training, education, and employment opportunities, as well as working to inform companies and consumers of the social impact of their supply chains and purchasing decisions.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 15, 2017

While the day-to-day grind of managing an organization can keep one’s focus insular, this is a space where nonprofit leaders’ voices are especially needed. More leadership from service providers is needed in the design of pay for success contracts. Retrieved September 22, 2016, from: [link]. and Phoenix, Arizona.

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Connection Cafe

FEBRUARY 25, 2014

This was very different from the typical nonprofit websites that I’ve worked on. Even if we don’t go in those directions, the challenge of figuring out how to push something new whilst staying true to our voice is enjoyable. We have been lucky enough to work with an amazing photographer named Esther Havens. Smashing Magazine.

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 1, 2008

You can also keep informed about breaking news on Global Voices' roundup of bloggers' coverage of Kenya, and read background information on the Genocide Intervention Network. Ida Wahlstrom's post, Kenya's Crossroads: What You Can Do is full of resources for how you can help. What are some other ideas for how people can help? Kenya donation

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

The more work you can do before publicly launching, the more time you’ll have to focus on communicating with your donors and fundraisers. Keep up the great work! Keep up the great work and please don’t hesitate to come to me with any questions! Be thoughtful about your campaign pages, goals, and timeline. You guys rock!

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NonProfit Hub

MARCH 26, 2015

HALO, which works with disadvantaged youth in Missouri and Africa, gives this award as part of a handful of awards at an annual happy hour to honor the volunteers. “We When done properly, volunteer engagement can help your nonprofit operate more effectively and make your mission work more rewarding for everyone.

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NTEN

JULY 23, 2009

Recently, over 300 innovators and changemakers interested in the intersection of technology and social benefit work converged for a few days of idea-sharing, learning, and collaboration at NetSquared's annual conference. Who are they and what are they working on? VozMob: Mobile Voices/Voces Moviles. Amy Sample Ward, NetSquared.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

I started working with the UN. I saw this opportunity to help humanize voices in the digital realm and not just create pop-up communities but communicate with intention." Thought with all that you''d have all these people around the world rally around clean water crisis, but it didn''t just "work." That''s a serious issue.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Two years ago, Bev Clark, the co-founder of Kubatana.net , was awarded a large grant in the Knight News Challenge for Freedom Fone, an open-source software platform for distributing news and information through interactive voice response (IVR) technology. . Capturing Voices from the Field in Tanzania. What worked well (and why).

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 19, 2011

It evolves to meet our changing needs, to fit our changing lifestyles, and to integrate into the way we do our work. Working together, citizens could piece together news stories as well as facts from witnesses as they emerged to create the most complete picture of events. Social media, like all technology, is developed by people.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2009

jazz and put it to work for your organization or cause. Ken Banks, a Hewlett Foundation grant recipient who focuses on using mobile technology to foster positive social and environmental change in the developing world, particularly Africa. You won’t see marketing flackery here.) Hope you'll pay us a visit and follow us on Twitter !

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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. It is far less work to slap together a powerpoint presentation and prepare the content.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 17, 2010

Since then, the platform (which is open source ) has been modified for use in South Africa (mapping xenophobic violence), DR Congo , Vote Report India (to monitor the recent local elections) and more. This proved to the Ushahidi team that their tool would be valuable to communities around the world.

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Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 24, 2008

I believe if we go in that direction, and our intention is to be true to ourselves, and also to remember our own interconnection, and the state that the world is in right now, that it will guide us to a place where the work that we are doing is actually helping, and has an application. Essentially, I came to activism from compassion.

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EveryAction

MARCH 16, 2017

To this day, it is still considered one of the finest works in the history of Japanese literature. Lucila Godoy y Alcayaga (under her literary pseudonym Gabriela Mistral) was the first Latin American woman to win a Nobel Prize for literature for her poetic work, Sonnets of Death. Gabriela Mistral. Do you love ladies in literature?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 30, 2009

She was also featured in the book, The Girl's Guide to Kicking Your Career Into Gear and her art visioning work is showcased in The Vision Board: The Secret to an Extraordinary Life. That's the voice inside your head, or the many voices that say, "I can't," or "You don't have enough degrees," or "How are you going to earn a living with that?"

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 9, 2007

Prendergast, who worked at the White House and State Department during the Clinton administration writes: I have seen firsthand this continuum of pressure and its results. Once again, our counterterrorism policy brings more terror. I also found it heartening to hear that the US government actually does listen when the public applies pressure.

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Everyaction

OCTOBER 5, 2016

Your great work will be validated, and you will be energized to move beyond current paradigms and find innovative ways to increase your impact. Affect is a new community event highlighting the diversity of work and design behind social change. New voices energizing conversations. General / #WHATIFConference / @ImpactFoundary.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 24, 2007

So, our role at TransFair is to work with the companies to certify their supply chain, to audit their books and to give consumers that guarantee that when you see the Fair Trade Certified label on a product, you know the farmers got a fair deal. BB: What are the challenges of your work? BB: What brought you to this work?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 3, 2006

At the time, the Federal government had just signed the welfare deform legislation, pushing millions of welfare recipients from welfare to work. We began, essentially, organizing a union of low-wage workers, unemployed workers, to try to improve both the living conditions and the working conditions for low-wage workers here in San Francisco.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

60% of the world’s youth are living in Africa without proper access to education, and also in other regions of the world we’re still feeling the impact of two and a half years of young people being out of education due to the pandemic. What he says is not just being said from one country, one party perspective or one company.

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