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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

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Generation Rwanda: Two Stories

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The site was established in 2004 on the 10th Anniversary of the genocide in partnership with the Rwanda Government, Kigali City Council, and Aegis Trust, a charity in the UK dedicated to the prediction, prevention, and ultimately elimination of genocide. The group visited the Kigali Genocide Memorial.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2013: Free WiFi in Forbes Magazine and Braille Phones

Tech Soup

The IT press was buzzing in late April about the free portable WiFi embedded by Microsoft in select May 6 Forbes Magazine print issues. promotional ad in Forbes that turns the magazine in to a free T-Mobile WiFi hotspot for 15 days. It's a free download at ebenchmarkstudy.com. Strange News. Yes that's right.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

This time I’ll review the Nominet Trust 100 nominations for the very best technologies for social good, the big TechSoup/ Guardian Technology for Good Report, The soft launch of Hacker Helper, a new free service that sends money over email, the world’s most popular websites, and two new Netflix style subscription services for eBooks.

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Nonprofit Technology News for May 2014

Tech Soup

It’s called the TechBridge Nonprofit Exchange and it is designed to address the problem of grantmakers’ reluctance to fund infrastructure improvements for charities. It also allows individuals to log into the app and see which charities close by need either financial or volunteer help. Find out more on this project here.

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Nonprofit Technology News for April 2013

Tech Soup

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. " With PaperKarma.

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