ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

Creating Opportunities for Training and Employment. WORTH, which stands for Workshop for Rehabilitation and Training of the Handicapped, aims to create opportunities for vocational training and avenues for employment for people with different needs in India. It is this section of society that WORTH Trust aims to help.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2009

This nonprofit helps to care for children in Cambodia. If you want to know more about why my family and I care about the children of Cambodia and this charity, take a minute to watch this video my son, Harry, made last year.). As I do every year for my birthday, I ask for donations to the Sharing Foundation in lieu of gifts or cards.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

Technology product donations, training, and nonprofit data are all part of TechSoup Global’s offering to civil society in India. For example, the Surf Excel India's Back to School Campaign reached out to needy children who go to learning centers and schools run by NGOs.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

They partner with a range of NGOs to create an ongoing community video unit to support the NGO's programs by placing a full-time trainer in the NGO for a one-year period. The trainer trains up to ten community members to create videos. This work provided an income stream as well as helped educate villagers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 17, 2006

Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance, and other school supplies. The Sharing Foundation gave them to needy children in Roteang Village, to the Street Children's Assistance NGO, and to a poor government orphanage.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 3, 2010

Upon hearing the news of the earthquake, many of us here at TechSoup Global immediately turned our thoughts to our colleagues at El Comité para la Democratización de la Informática , our Chilean partner NGO. CDI director Javier Figueroa told us this morning that CDI's staff is all safe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

As of this writing, we also have the only online course through Udemy that trains nonprofits in managing this grant. Ads for terms like ‘movies’ or ‘children’ are common in accounts looking for broad awareness,” Michelle pointed out. Beyond this, Whole Whale will continue to create Google Ad Grant trainings , webinars and courses.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. They are very focused on education linked to vocational outcomes: the goal is to help these children move up the economic ladder with real job skills. The children were simply delightful.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 26, 2006

Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance, and other school supplies. The sewing girls, who are employed by the Sharing Foundation's vocational training program, earn from the first day of their training, so this is a win-win situation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2009

In Roteang Village, where the Sharing Foundation has programs that help over 1,500 children each and every day, there was a birthday bash at the orphanage for the 70 plus children. Many children in Cambodia do not go to school because their families lack the $10 for a uniform, required for school attendance.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 4, 2012

Note from Beth: I’m packing my bags for a trip to India to lead a training for NGOs that are Packard Grantees to kick off a peer learning project called “Networked NGO.” As childhood obesity disproportionally impacts children of color, we specifically used social media strategies to reach communities of color.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 23, 2006

Annette is involved with a ngo called Half the Sky Foundation that supports orphans in china with educational and development programs. Very similar work to the Sharing Foundation that works in Cambodia with children - disclosure- I'm on the board). I also met Lorretta Donovan, President of Worksmarts, and an appreciative inquiry guru.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 2, 2006

The Asthma Free School Zone aims to reduce asthma-related illness and absenteeism in school children by creating a protective school zone that is free of unhealthy and unnecessary environmental hazards. You won't get rich. You will work with the best of people. There is a lot of room in public health for creativity. women nonprofit leader

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Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Caitlin tells it like it is--the nitty gritty of starting up an NGO, and why she believes it is important to help the people you are serving to create the change they want to see, not to create the change for them. The biggest challenge is definitely the fact that an “NGO” in Mali is seen as a “waritigi” (money owner).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010. The man denied it and left.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Buses and trains have a much lower environmental impact. The Planetary Health diet is a guideline developed by independent NGO commission ‘Eat Forum’ for the UN. Take holidays closer to home, and travel by bus or train. Electric cars are also an option, or you could cycle or walk if your commute is short.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

Buses and trains have a much lower environmental impact. The Planetary Health diet is a guideline developed by independent NGO commission ‘Eat Forum’ for the UN. Take holidays closer to home, and travel by bus or train. Electric cars are also an option, or you could cycle or walk if your commute is short.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

." - Amira Diamond Women's Earth Alliance (WEA), unites women on the front lines of environmental justice causes by coordinating training, technology, and financial support for thriving communities and the Earth. We do that by coordinating training, technology, and advocacy support. This training was tremendous. What was that?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

So she started an NGO to work on the issues outside the doctor's role of treatment, that are needed to break the cycle of hospitalization that leads to death. They provide food, buy medicine, fix up houses, train the (typically single) mothers with job skills, encourage school attendance, etc.

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Connection Cafe

NOVEMBER 8, 2017

Today, your next door neighbor is seen as just as credible a source of information as an academic, government, business or even an NGO. It’s about providing training and right tools for them to amplify their voice through by making it easy to share on social media, easy to record video testimonials, easy to get involved.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. I ask people to share what is top of mind when they think about social media and their NGO.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

She’s got a really cool training course called Social Media for Social Good, her academy there. And I wrote two books which are also like my other two children. So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. Learn more.

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