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Building Common Cause Zambia's Digital Capacity

Tech Soup

For many organizations, a main barrier to digital transformation is the lack of resources to assess what they need and take action on the areas that need investment. TechSoup's Digital Resilience Program addresses these challenges by working with funders to build the digital capacity of the nonprofits they work with.

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How (RED) is Fighting AIDS and Saving Lives

Saleforce Nonprofit

To help tell this story better, (RED) recently took a trip with one of our supporters, Roche, to Zambia to film a series of labs that are conducting life-saving tests and giving patients and doctors critical information in the fight against preventable diseases. That’s a major shift from where we were when (RED) first started.

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Great reads from around the web on March 17th

Amy Sample Ward

Cause Global: Social Media for Social Change: Crowdsourcing Social Change – Marcia Stepanek has a terrific recap of our sxsw Crowdsourcing session with quotes and links to the case studies we shared. Her round up includes the slides we used in the session as well.

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CEO’s Update: Fall 2014

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Brennan has Retinitis Pigmentosa, a degenerative eye disease that causes severe vision impairment and blindness. Revelations about government interception of these confidential stories has caused us to redouble our efforts to lower the barrier to the use of strong, secure crypto software like Martus.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Best Wishes for Healthy, Happy, and Social 2008!

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The Selfish Giving Blog by Joe Waters gives us some tongue and check predictions about Cause Marketing. Marnie Webb points to hashtags with a note in Ma.gnolia.com, "Seems like it could be a way to tweet for causes." For social media and technology predictions, here's a few from the Read/Write Web. bubble would burst.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

He ended up running for about 1,500 miles all the way to Zambia, arriving with nothing but the clothes on his back, about 90 pounds, and showing up at a refugee camp where he knew nobody. His idea is that he wants to recreate, in reverse, the walk that he made from Sudan all the way through Congo and into Zambia. He ran into Congo.

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[VIDEO] Raise More Money And Improve Donors Relationships Through Personal Branding

Bloomerang

Where maybe they’re not, you know, super preferential to a specific cause or anything like that, or maybe the opposite. you can have amazing videos or streaming where you take them and show them your programming if you’re over in Zambia, or wherever you might be. But you can just do.

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