Global Giving

NOVEMBER 14, 2017

Raising money for personal causes, and medical fundraising, in particular, is having a moment in places like India with crowdfunding websites like GlobalGiving’s partner, Impact Guru. Just last month, Google launched Tez , an “audio QR” payment solution for mobile phone users in India. 1,171,000,000.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. She was told that a brain tumor was pressing on her optic nerve and may cause her to become blind. Since Viji was raised in India, she began looking at the educational challenges faced by people from that country.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

To enter the contest, readers had to share their " Theory of Change." Megha is a passionate human rights advocate in India and also lawyer. I am a lawyer by profession and presently a student of human rights law in my masters at India. LLM student, NLSIU, Bangalore(Human Rights), India. Tags: contest india.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. We just announced a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative , to increase our impact in India by an order of magnitude. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

Vijay Talwar defined the differences between and fine lines between cause marketing and corporate social responsibility programs based on his experience working at Nike. Guarav Mishra showed some examples of how mobile technologies were helping to deliver services to the bottom of the pyramid. Tags: india.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 24, 2009

I also think that examining this idea in a place where the 3 areas create a very clear Venn Diagram, like India, invites a wide range of voices to the conversation. One of the participants was Pratima from Shelter Associates in Pune, India. Find out more about the conference here.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 6, 2006

I asked the folks there if they knew of less expensive accommodations, since the Taj Palace Hotel where the India Economic Summit was held was fabulous but also more than I'd ever paid per night in the U.S.! The meeting was held at what used to be the Viceroy of India's lodge in New Delhi, and steeped with history.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 13, 2011

Norway, and Russia, while most of its gains came in countries in the developing world, including Mexico and India." lack the tech knowledge or resources that could immensely help their operations and their cause." That's the first time Facebook has lost U.S. users in over a year.

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Get Fully Funded

MAY 16, 2022

Illuminate India and Clubhouse Guatemala both completely cover the cost of many of the children in their programs with monthly sponsors. The more people care about your nonprofit’s cause, the more they give and the more often they give. For animal causes it’s about $22. Click To Tweet.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

By last month, the user ratio between male and female had come up to about 70/30 and the country with the second highest number of users was India at about 13 percent. So far, the demographics of Google+ skew toward American males working in technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 11, 2008

Mani is a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0 His passion is using the Internet to raise money to provide free heart surgery for young children in India who would otherwise not be able to afford this life saving medical care. Here's the story of one child, Sakthi who was helped by Dr. Mani's efforts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions. We now have volunteers throughout India adding local language titles such as Tamil into Bookshare.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. The organization has nine full-time staff.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

In February 19th, Joel Comm has organized an event called " Tweetathon " on Twitter to promote and sell copies of his new book, Twitter Power: How to Dominate Your Market One Tweet at a Time and help a nonprofit that supports children in Africa, China, and India. What are the best practices for "cause-related" social media marketing?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Discover a social treasure of other cause-driven folks like you connecting with likeminded professionals, sharing content, and tracking followers by analyzing your nonprofit’s social media presence. 3 – Monitor Social Conversations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2015

I’ll be talking about the next generation of donors and how they use social media, mobile, and other technology to raise money for causes they care about. This guest post is part of many recent posts you have read from my about Generation Z. Help them promote their campaign.

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NTEN

JULY 18, 2013

Someone in Indiana could connect with someone in India around a cause they care about." "The Challenges and campaigns "When we came to market, there were 76 causes on Facebook. AA: Orgs keep looking outward hoping to activate around causes instead of looking inward. What she''d studied was now tipping into online space.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2013

This company is all about nonprofit and cause marketing. This online service is a way to direct people interested in your cause to where they can buy things and support your cause. These are the people behind the great nonprofit Story of Stuff animated environmental videos. Registration is free for charities. about this one.

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NTEN

SEPTEMBER 12, 2011

Let's begin by asking a question: "Why do donors choose to give money to one worthy cause over another?". But many donors – specifically new prospects – need a compelling reason why they should choose to give to one cause over another. Many donors choose to contribute based on their support of an individual over a cause.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Let the community give to the cause in different ways We asked people to dedicate their Facebook statues to mark the date and give suggested "tweets" to share their followers. It has also allowed me to highlight some of the really hot areas of the map—like the UK, India, China, US, etc. We, in turn, gave them heavy publicity.

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Care2

JUNE 17, 2010

In India it grew by 1250%. Facebook certainly offers more options to nonprofits like Fanpages and Causes but as a whole nonprofits have far more people on their email lists, generate more actions taken via email (and by action I don't mean "liking something" and giving it a thumbs up) and raise a lot more money than on Facebook Causes.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU. The Three Step Test This arcane bit of international copyright law caused a lot of concern among advocates that it might be a Trojan horse for more extensive commerciality requirements. This is satisfied by having a law like the Chafee Amendment in the U.S., Articles 5 and 6.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 15, 2012

New Delhi, India – December TBA. Chicago, IL – September 19. Washington, DC – October TBA. Austin, TX – October 23. Seattle, WA – November 1. New York City, NY – November TBA. Vancouver, British Columbia – March 2013 TBA.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

Twitter is establishing itself as a charitable giving and cause marketing channel. . It was launched by Dr. Mani who raised money for heart surgeries for poor kids in India. First time you can raise money for worthy cause by sending a tweet. for clean drinking water in developing countries. Each tweet raises 10 cents for CARE.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

For those nonprofits working on sustainable development issues - NextDrop uses mobile technology to monitor and improve water flow in urban India and subsequent sustainable development. Bangalore and Pune, India Greenpeace got 937 text backs and 149 new supporters. has found that in India upon achieving a critical penetration rate of.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 17, 2015

Is your audience likely to be an ambassador for your cause? Does your cause have a tie-in with a current news topic, holiday, crisis, or event? For example, in 2014 WOD for Water raised $212,174 around a CrossFit workout event to bring clean water to villages in India, Cambodia, and south Sudan. Find a hero.

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ASU Lodestar Center

MAY 4, 2012

In 2010, we gave nearly $300 billion in support of a wide variety of charitable causes—3.8 Almost all of this was given to causes within the United States. However, the 5 percent given to international causes reflected a 15.3 billion), India ($12.0 percent increase over the prior year. in overall U.S. giving and a 15.3%

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. They not afraid to stand up for cause they are passionate about. The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

In 2005, Shannon Keith visited India and was confronted by the harsh realities of brothels and prostitution. Selling environmentally-friendly clothing to raise money for your cause, like Lonesome George & Co. Other ideas include: Selling branded merchandise, like Amnesty International or the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 9, 2012

Previously, she produced the Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the U.S.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2006

The other thing is that I'm almost exclusively talking to people with an active interest in social entrepreneurship or a particular social cause. I tried to connect Bill with Bunker Roy, Mr. Barefoot College in India, who trains illiterate people to be solar power engineers. So, back to the name dropping issue.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

My colleague, Evone Heyning, calls this “ more sticky interactions.&# It will also be interesting to track how Jumo helps organizations and causes attract new supporters and what is required in terms of time commitment and strategy to be successful. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania. Because their goal is to end human trafficking, they go beyond supporting survivors to also target the root causes of exploitation. (Please visit the site to view this video). Choose Your Message. Their work is very different in each of these locations.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2005

Here's the text of my article: My good friend from India, Joe Madiath, bumps into another man at a Davos party thrown by the Egyptians. The idea that a social entrepreneur serving the poorest of the poor in India might bump into a world famous politician is not a surprise here at the World Economic Forum. They say hi and shake hands.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 26, 2008

So is Dr. Mani who will be using social media to raise money for heart surgeries for poor children in India. Change bloggers have some excellent tools at their disposal, like Social Actions widget which makes it possible for any wired passionate soul to highlight causes on the social web. I guess I'm a change blogger too.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2008

January 2008 As the first place winner in the America's Giving Challenge for Global Causes, I use several twitter strategies. Lessons learned is to know your twitter followers and who are the the ones passionate about your cause and have responsive networks. September, 2008 Dr. Mani, a heart surgeon in India - and Web 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 10, 2007

It's really hard to narrow it down to 5-10 projects, but here's a sampling of the diversity of projects and causes represented. Community Technology Centres for Children And Young Adults in Low and Moderate Income Communities in Madurai India. Fair Trade Language Tutoring Via WebCam. Creative Commons suggests. Avatar Action Center.

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