Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 7, 2020

World Food Program USA (WFP USA), the US affiliate of the 2020 Nobel Prize-winning United Nations World Food Programme, has beautifully adapted the story of Rani—a precocious student in India who receives meals fortified with micronutrients—for their blog, Facebook, and Instagram. World Food Program USA: Rani’s Story.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 1, 2010

A Guest Beneblog by Anita Gohdes, Jeff Klingner, Megan Price and Patrick Ball The recent release of almost 400,000 secret US military files on the war in Iraq through Wikileaks has attracted wide media coverage. This new evidence is consistent with the hypothesis that IBC’s press data underreport small events in Iraq.

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Care2

OCTOBER 29, 2007

Currently in the lead as of Wednesday afternoon are: True Majority American Friends Service Committee Union of Concerned Scientists Refugees International But like all elections, everything can change in the final week.

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APRIL 25, 2008

The Women of Color Resource Center has been around for a little over 17 years and we are a pretty impressive place, I think, because we are one of the very few places in the nation, and globally, that holds the interest of women of color, and girls of color as a central piece of our work. What can people do to change that?

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Care2

MARCH 7, 2011

Ever wonder how your favorite celebrity became a spokesperson for a national brand? Together, they are literally changing lives through a program that will give up to $1 million in experiences to veterans. Why your beer of choice is supporting veterans? How your home team chooses the charities that they support?

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Tech Soup

MAY 24, 2011

One handy example is the mapping and visualization of the Iraq War Logs and most recently AV referendum results in the UK. The National Council for Voluntary Organisations (NCVO) in London recently hosted the workshop “ Civil Society 2.0: CNN used Twitter data to report on the 2010 World Cup Fever in South Africa.

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Care2

JUNE 28, 2009

According to the latest Target Analytics Index of National Fundraising Performance , the number of new donors dropped by almost 13%, as compared to 2008. Prior to this study, the Index of the National Fundraising Performance had only been showing a gradual decline in donor numbers since the US Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005.

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Michael Stein's Non-profit Technology Blog

JANUARY 19, 2007

Andrea was there working with the National Democratic Institute , training on election norms and other democratic practices. Yesterday, in Iraq, Andrea Parhamovich and our security personnel were enshrined on that list. They were not the enemies of anyone in Iraq; they were there to help. She was 28. Nothing could stop her."

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Care2

JUNE 29, 2009

According to the latest Target Analytics Index of National Fundraising Performance , the number of new donors dropped by almost 13%, as compared to 2008. Prior to this study, the Index of the National Fundraising Performance had only been showing a gradual decline in donor numbers since the U.S. Gulf Coast hurricanes of 2005.

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See3

DECEMBER 17, 2007

One of the most successful organizations at showing their activities as tangible items is Heifer International – where you can actually gift a water buffalo to a poor family in a developing nation. 750 “Turning the Page in Iraq&# mail pieces in Davenport $1,100.00 75 Yard Signs for Davenport area Caucus Locations $253.79

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Care2

SEPTEMBER 4, 2008

Perlmutter, who was a recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , sat down in Washington in early August for an interview with Care2’s Clint O’Brien to talk about how blogging is reshaping media and changing the way citizens think about politics and social causes. Clint OBrien: What inspired you to write this book?

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Care2

AUGUST 29, 2008

Perlmutter, who was a recent guest on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart , sat down in Washington in early August for an interview with Care2’s Clint O’Brien to talk about how blogging is reshaping media and changing the way citizens think about politics and social causes. Clint OBrien: What inspired you to write this book?

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JUNE 30, 2007

In April I organized a panel for the Stanford Women's Leadership Conference called "Solutionary Women: How Can I Create Change?" That's kind of what I have found, is as I've progressed writing and doing my podcast, it kind of changes. You can listen to it here , and I have included the transcript below.

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SEPTEMBER 14, 2006

How do you balance working for social change, with the work of being a mom? Lisa Russ, the Associate Director of the Movement Strategy Center, shares the joys and challenges of being a new mom working for social change. It definitely has changed my sense of time. That's a big change. How has being a mom changed your work?

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DECEMBER 3, 2005

Most weeks his podcast is a direct chat with his listeners, but this week he posted a recent speech, "Moving Forward in Iraq" that he gave at the Chicago Council on Foreign Relations. Moving Forward in Iraq Tuesday, November 22, 2005 Senator Barack Obama Chicago Council on Foreign Relations Chicago, IL Good afternoon.

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JULY 18, 2007

She writes for Our Bodies, Our Blog (about women's health and feminism) and manages the web site, Women's Voices for Change. Journal of a Young Activist write about her travels and human rights work in Palestine, Israel, Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Afghanistan, and her life as a Chicago Seminary Student.

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JUNE 29, 2006

Welcome to the Big Vision Podcast where we talk with individuals and organizations that are creating positive change. So, last spring Ella Baker Center, to launch its new program Reclaim the Future, took a big role in the United Nations World Environment Day Conference that was happening here in San Francisco.

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APRIL 2, 2008

For them, that was a measure of change and a measure of impact. If you compare that to the budgets that we spend in just one day on fighting a war in Iraq, or the cost of an F16 fighter jet, you get some sense of how inordinately skewed those are. I think that is what really motivates me to do this work.

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