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Blog Action Day 2010: Water

Amy Sample Ward

The first step in making change in your life, local community or world is to learn. I hope you’ll pause at each one and think about the way water is changing the lives of those in the pictures and community around the world: 350 Rising Sea Level Campaign at Kuala Terengganu, Malaysia. 350 action in Oman Dive Center.

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What Is TechSoup Up To in Asia (Now)?

Tech Soup

Growing from serving just the United States and Canada to now 38 countries (including nine in the Asia/Pacific region) in just under five years offers plenty of opportunity for learning and change. And we’re still at it. It is one of several projects at TSG that aims to retool our models to achieve maximum impact.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. Kopernik technology marketplace is a Bali, Indonesia-based online marketplace of innovative, life-changing technologies designed for the developing world.

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Social Media: Before You Get Started, Get Organized!

Nonprofit Tech for Good

That said, I am currently in Southeast Asia presenting social media trainings to nonprofits in Malaysia, Singapore and Manila – most of which are just getting started with using social media. To foster social good and create social change? Though most nonprofits in the United States, Canada and the U.K. To secure new volunteers?

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup

These involve detection and interruption, identifying individuals involved in transmission, and changing social norms of the communities where it occurs. Mideastyouth.com is creating platforms and web applications that amplify diverse voices advocating for change throughout the Middle East and North Africa using digital media.

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UNICEF Shares How You Can Support India Today Amidst the COVID-19 Surge

Saleforce Nonprofit

That outdated digital infrastructure changed a year and a half ago when we partnered with Salesforce and onboarded with Sales Cloud , followed a year later by Marketing Cloud. Before coming to UNICEF India, he worked in Malaysia and Switzerland, and before that worked in the UK as Head of Fundraising for Action for Children and Diabetes UK.

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NpTech Tag Summary: Face-to-Face or Mediated Experience, Open Source Software Communities, and Blog Days

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Interesting slide show about the Free and Open Source Software community in Malaysia that tells the story of their community in a visual way. My favorite phrase is "The code isn???t t documentation" from the list of what open source communities can learn from nonprofits.