Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 21, 2012

I’ve been volunteering for community causes since I was a kid, something my family encouraged. When I was in the third grade, I volunteered to bake cupcakes to help fundraise for Lucy the Elephant (who thankfully survived super storm Sandy ). Generosity is baked into my DNA and I can’t help it. I grew up at the Jersey Shore.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

Telework happens when an employee or volunteer regularly does their work outside of the office, usually at home or when traveling. I worked remotely full-time during much of 2014 when my husband and I relocated to Brazil for nine months. It has transformed the workplace. In fact, nearly half of U.S. Telework Tools Jessica Relies On.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

This effort was realized thanks to more than 10 months of work by a team of 43 volunteer translators based in Brazil, France, Mexico and the US. WiserEarth.org , a nonprofit that offers social networking for the international sustainability movement, launched today in French , Portuguese , and Spanish beta versions.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 29, 2011

Since 1997, in Spain , Mexico , Brazil , Chile, Ecuador , Colombia - and soon in Peru - Paco and his team have been serving up their magic brew. Campus Party Brazil in February, 2012 is already sold out - 7,000 Campuseros. It's not a. political party, and it's not Spring Break, and it doesn't happen on. campus, it's.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 3, 2012

Streetfootballworld supports a worldwide network of organizations in well over 50 countries.The photo above is of one of their programs in Brazil. These donations help Die Wille build its IT department and allow its staff and volunteers to work more efficiently.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2011

A View of the Cloud from India Most NGOs in India are small and highly dependent on volunteers. A View of the Cloud from Brazil In the first of our series of dispatches from our international partner organizations, TechSoup Brasil 's Valter Cegal reflects that Internet affordability is still a major stumbling block for Brazilian NGOs.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. Porto Alegre, Brazil: Evento De Design De Aplicativos Para Celular. Guayaquil, Ecuador: The Guayaquil NetSquared Monthly Meetup. Thursday, December 10, 2015.

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Care2

APRIL 5, 2011

In addition to working a variety of jobs ranging from picking organic peas to writing a book on using military networks, Justin has a passion for international development and indigenous rights from studies in Brazil and South Africa where he helped start a human rights nonprofit for Pygmies in Congo.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

The program helps Vietnamese nonprofits to build staff capacity, apply for grants, and recruit skilled volunteers. It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations. Indonesia has the world’s second highest level of biodiversity (after Brazil).

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BoardAssist

FEBRUARY 24, 2015

Ask them to volunteer or get involved in some way. Hungry children in Brazil? It’s time for some phone calls to donors to hear their stories. Or, Send them a survey and ask for their frank personal responses. Invite them to a feedback meeting to hear their thoughts. Bet they would keep giving and even give more if you asked!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2011

A View of the Cloud from India Most NGOs in India are small and highly dependent on volunteers. A View of the Cloud from Brazil In the first of our series of dispatches from our international partner organizations, TechSoup Brasil 's Valter Cegal reflects that Internet affordability is still a major stumbling block for Brazilian NGOs.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

They create a space for nonprofits, educational institutions, partners, and Salesforce employee volunteers to identify, prioritize and build solutions that improve the Salesforce user experience for nonprofits and schools. Next, they plan on meeting monthly to keep up the momentum and build awareness to attract new volunteers.

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Global Giving

DECEMBER 30, 2021

In Brazil, the Receita Federal holds nonprofit registrations in dense files alongside information about every taxable entity in the country. Imagine the joy an employee might find in joining their team to volunteer for an organization in their parent’s hometown. Nonprofit data is mixed with for-profit data.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

Rather than being held in Geneva at the headquarters of the World Economic Forum, Pamela and her team moved the summit closer to some of the social entrepreneurs by holding the event in Brazil. Her group uses volunteers as the main engine of activities. I went to Rio de Janeiro and visited Vera Cordeiro and Rodrigo Baggio.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Here each avatar represented 3,000 Dutch people.

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Care2

APRIL 21, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Here each avatar represented 3,000 Dutch people.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

So people right now are on WhatsApp and we can use it as a way to start a new channel of conversation with people that is complimentary to how we already communicate with volunteers, with donors, with, you know, our support base. And now WhatsApp is rolling out a payment feature in Brazil. It started only in Brazil.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

and "Let's call that person, figure out if they'll volunteer to do that, put it down on paper, get the designers to bang it out, see if it works, and throw it out to the community." Most of our staff did start as a volunteer; about 90 percent of our staff started as volunteers. I am very much a social entrepreneur.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 8, 2006

That's also what is so inspiring for me to see, all these people around the country that are really defining "activism" in a whole variety of ways so that it can mean volunteering at your kid's school, or it can mean trying to run for office, or it can mean a whole range of different things. It doesn't have to look one certain way.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2006

I certainly get inspired by getting to touch and be a part of some of the vast wilderness left on the planet, so the job has allowed me the privilege, which not everyone has, of going to Indonesia, and going to the Amazon in Brazil, and certainly that is fuel that will fill my engine for a very long time.

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