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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. These young girls are growing up in the Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai India, one of the largest slums in the world. The Tech Girls of Dharavi.

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Shouldn’t the Word Phone Be Removed from Mobile? The Use of the Mobile by Nonprofits for Development

Tech Soup

For those nonprofits working on health issues - In Uganda the Electronic Mobile Open-source Comprehensive Health Application (eMOCHA) has been developed by the Johns Hopkins Center for Clinical Global Health Education and it enables health workers to build HIV awareness and provide prevention information in rural areas. increase in a.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

Tech Soup

Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Kampala, Uganda: Using Social Media Applications for Development. Seattle, Washington: Bolder and Wiser: Nonprofit Advocacy Rights (Part 1). Asia and Pacific Rim. Wednesday, September 6, 2017. Adelaide, Australia: Storymakers in Adelaide.

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Digital Platforms for Greater Impact: Examples for Foundations

Forum One

Images of Empowerment. To address this need, the William and Flora Hewlett Foundation, in partnership with the David and Lucile Packard Foundation and Getty Images, created Images of Empowerment. Images of Empowerment was created in 2015 and was extended in 2018. Grand Challenges Awards Repository.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

Have Fun - Do Good

For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. And we got an incredible flood of nominations, and these were joint applications, where someone would recommend a woman, and she would also speak to her leadership.

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The Dragonfly Effect: Win A Copy, Leave A Comment, Swab Your Cheek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Employ empowerment marketing. So, it was no surprise that this book launch also included a bone marrow registry campaign. Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith also announced their plans to go to India to help establish a bone marrow registry there in December. Tell your story. Act, then think. Design for collaboration. Measure one metric.

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