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Can You Help Jeff Jackson Find His Godson in Chile?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Located the family I lived with in Chile. RT @JeffVallarta #Chile, help me find godson Amaro $ family: Eric Rojas e Ingrid Sepulveda, Melepilla, 601-5063, 8-568-5570, 9-423-1180. They were on a bus to Stgo during the night when the quake hit. Located best friends Carlos/Erika in Talca near the epicenter.

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Broadband Adoption in Chile

Tech Soup Blog

Cisco released the results of a study last week , reporting that growth in Chile's broadband penetration has dropped from 45 percent in 2006 to 10.5 TechSoup Global ’s NGO partner in Chile, CDI Chile , is currently piloting a Cisco donation program to provide small and medium NGOs with networking hardware products.

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3rd Update from CDI Chile's Mobile Telecentre: You Can Help!

Tech Soup Blog

Over the past two weeks, we've been reporting on CDI Chile's Mobile Telecentre, a project to reconnect individuals and NGOs in Chile after the recent earthquake ( first update , second update ). Each USD 1,000 raised will allow the telecentre to serve another city in Chile.

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20 Crowdfunding Services for Nonprofits Worldwide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Yo Dono (Chile). Donadora (Mexico). donadora.mx. Generosity (United States). generosity.com. South America. Doare (Brazil). Ideame (Multiple Countries). GlobalGiving. globalgiving.org.

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Mobile Fundraising Campaigns Begin For Chile

AFP Blog

Mobile Fundraising Campaigns Begin For Chile: "Following the earthquake in Haiti, mobile fundraising via texting exploded; with over $40 million raised via text messaging alone. magnitude earthquake that shook Chile over the past weekend."

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Social Media Responds to Chile's Earthquake: We Can Help | Dan's FC Blog | Fast Company

AFP Blog

Social Media Responds to Chile's Earthquake: We Can Help | Dan's FC Blog | Fast Company: "As Chilean and international rescue forces work through the rubble cause by the massive 8.8-magnitude Twitter, Facebook, and several of Google's properties aren't.

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Meet the Team: My Nonprofit Journey - Julia Bieniek

Charity Navigator

I have lived, studied, and volunteered at non-government organizations in Costa Rica, Ecuador, Chile, and Israel. My interest in community engagement brought me meaningful experiences throughout our global community.

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CDI's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs

Tech Soup Blog

In some ways, the impact of the recent earthquake in Chile wasn't as immediately obvious as that of the earthquake in Haiti. After their hugely successful text messaging campaign for Haiti , the Red Cross has set up a similar campaign for Chile: simply text "CHILE" to 90999 to make a ten-dollar donation. From CDI: read more.

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Hurricane Sandy Disaster Relief Resources

Tech Soup Blog

CDI Chile's Plan to Restore Communications to Chilean NGOs. Update from CDI Chile's Mobile Telecentre and How You Can Help. Lessons From Haiti: Uses of New Media in Disaster Recovery Efforts. Remote Access Proves Critical to New Zealand NGO After Earthquake. The Extraordinaries and Ushahidi Using Technology to Help in Haiti.

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Join Our 24-Hour Round-the-World Twitter Chat

Tech Soup Blog

SANTIAGO, CHILE. Chile Summer Time (1 p.m. SOUTH AFRICA. East Africa Time (11 a.m. Topic : How do you make storytelling a part of your organization's culture? Host : @TechSoupAfrica , @david_barnard. Host : @DonaTec , @VergaraEugenio.

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Update from CDI Mobile Telecentre and How You Can Help

Tech Soup Blog

Earlier this week , we told you about TechSoup partner CDI Chile 's plan to restore connectivity to Chilean NGOs. Today, the telecentre is in Lota , one of the poorest cities and Chile and one of the communities hit worst by the earthquake.

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Philanthropy and Social Media: New Whitepaper from The Institute for Philanthropy

Amy Sample Ward

Ushahidi, an open source project originally deployed in Kenya to report post-election violence has since been downloaded and deployed for many other events and disasters, including Haiti, Chile, and Japan. Philanthropy has been able to move into the real time web, too. Another great example is Epic Change.

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#GivingTuesday: How Sharing Best Practices Is Building A Global Philanthropic Movement

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

There are local leaders in Australia, Canada, Latin America, Mexico Chile, and Singapore organizing on the ground to expand the reach and spirit of generosity. And, it isn’t just about signing up, GivingTuesday makes it easy for partners to act with this partner toolkit.

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Way to #showyourculture!

Connection Cafe

But the winner is… Our winner for free tickets to an arts and cultural event is @DCDCLive, for their tweet of their performers in Santiago, Chile. This picture was submitted by @ptcentrum. What an amazing, international cultural experience! Thanks for participating everyone!

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Chana Saag Recipe from Vegan Slow Cooker

Have Fun - Do Good

Yield: 6 servings Total prep time: 15 minutes Total cooking time: 6 to 8 hours Recipe ideas and variations Add 1 or 2 chopped mild chiles during the last 30 minutes of cooking to give it more heat. Taste and adjust the seasonings. Serve over rice. Don’t like chickpeas?

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Around the TechSoup Global Blogosphere, February 27 - March 5

Tech Soup Blog

Carmina reports on the rate of adoption of broadband technologies in Chile. Becky points out a new document that explains some of the trickier points of Microsoft eOpen. TechSoup.org and Adobe announce the 2009 Show Your Impact challenge. From TechSoup Global's grant-funded projects: MaintainIT Project. read more.

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Daniel Ben-Horin on Campus Party

Tech Soup Blog

Since 1997, in Spain , Mexico , Brazil , Chile, Ecuador , Colombia - and soon in Peru - Paco and his team have been serving up their magic brew. It's not a. political party, and it's not Spring Break, and it doesn't happen on. campus, it's. Well, ask anyone under 30 who lives in a Spanish-speaking country about Campus Party.

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In Case of Emergency, Update Your Facebook Status

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

As we have seen in natural disasters from Hurricane Katrina to the Chile Earthquake, people are using social media to reach out for help. During an emergency, 41% of respondents would use social media to let their love ones know they are safe. Social media has radically changed how people communicate, including their calls for help.

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The Top 5 Presentations You Won’t Want to Miss at AFP International 2015

NonProfit Hub

She founded The Isabel Allende Foundation, which works with nonprofits in the San Francisco Bay Area and Chile to empower and protect women and girls. Finally, Isabel Allende is a novelist and memoirist of the highest caliber. As a writer, this presentation excites me most. Tom Ahern—Developing a Marketing and Communications Plan.

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Book Review: The Leader's Checklist By Michael Useem

Eric Jacobsen Blog

To demonstrate the power and value of having a leader's checklist, Useem examines accounts of extraordinary leadership, including the triumphant rescue of 33 miners in Chile last year. Through gesture, commentary and accounts, ensure that others appreciate that you are a person of integrity. He previously wrote, The Leadership Moment.

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How to Get Long Life Out of Laptop and Cell Phone Batteries

Tech Soup Blog

It is mined mainly in Chile and there are also large deposits in Bolivia. Lithium-ion batteries are actually pretty benign environmentally. EPA classifies them as non-hazardous waste, but lithium is an alkalai metal that is flammable.

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Building Refurbished Computers with Volunteers at InterConnection

Tech Soup Blog

During the past few years, InterConnection has also participated in supplying badly needed IT equipment to disaster stricken areas like Chile , Haiti and Pakistan , and Japan. I was going to list all the countries where they send computers, but it’s just too long. Suffice to say that they’re a leader in the U.S.

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Best of Online, The Top 5

Connection Cafe

Here are a few of my own personal best-ofs: the top three cheese-steaks in Philadelphia (Cosmi's, Jim's, John's Roast Pork), the best green chile in Denver (Santiago's, Benny's, Las Delicias), and the top breakfast tacos in Austin (Tamale House, Tacodeli, Mi Madre). I love "best-of" lists, and I love making them.

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Conquering a Cruel Continent for a Cause

Tech Soup Blog

The Atacama Desert in Chile is next. Stand with me and let's do more than talk about the problem, let's be active in finding solutions." " He's Just Getting Started. Eventually, David would like to do 10 of these ultramarathons. " Want More Ultramarathons?

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25 Ways You Said You Would Have Fun and Do Good + Paloma's Nest Winner

Have Fun - Do Good

Elliot: Bug some friends to donate to CDI Chile's earthquake-relief project. Below are how 25 people said they would have fun and do good: MAfrika: Complete my EVOLVE missions and thanks to you - I now have a mentor too. Niels Teunis: Enjoy the sun with a good friend!

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Don’t Be Fooled by Abstract Jargon: Internet Governance and ICT Policy

Tech Soup Blog

Net neutrality has been enshrined in law in the Netherlands and Chile. ” International Telecommunications Union (ITU) is inviting CSOs and corporations, entrepreneurs, and the general public to submit questions, ideas, and stories in the run up to ITU Telecom World 2011 in October. Not convinced yet?

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Data Digest: Global Open Data Initiative, OpenData Latinoamérica, Big Data for Disaster Response

Tech Soup Blog

Miguel Paz, the founder of Hacks/Hackers Chile in partnership with Mariano Blejman of Argentina’s Hacks/Hackers network , and with the support of the World Bank Institute’s Global Media Development program intends to open data from across Latin America through their OpenData Latinoamérica project.

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Little Penguins, Big Drama: Lessons on How to Go Viral from the National Aquarium of New Zealand

Connection Cafe

We received votes from all over the world including Iceland, Estonia, Israel, Germany, Poland, Chile, England, Brazil and Australia, with the most international votes coming from the United States. We continue to run our Penguin of the Month posts, and in October 2019 we repeated our Penguin of the Year online campaign.

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Microsoft’s Networked Approach To Accelerating Social Change Through Technology

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Ben Horin noted that TechSoup Global did not have a partner in Haiti, but they did in Chile. When the earthquake struck earlier this year, their partner, quickly put together a mobile telecentre equipped with servers, Internet, and software.

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Preparing for the Next Disaster: The Future of #crisisdata

NTEN

Andrew Noyes, manager of public policy communications at Facebook, noted Facebook's involvement after the earthquakes in Haiti and Chile, as well as after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, explaining how the platform is educating the public and letting them know how they can help.

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Reflections on the Science Center World Congress

Museum 2.0

I heard from CEOs whose center is the only one in their entire country (Chile), educators who work with students who have never encountered a computer before entering the science center (South Africa), and web managers whose sites are locked behind federal government firewalls and draconian restrictions (Australia).

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Book Club Part 3b: Talking Institutional Change with Elaine Gurian

Museum 2.0

In Puerto Rico and Chile, there are museums made out of posters so that kids in parks can come and visit real art—well, it’s not real art, but you’re getting access to Picasso for $5. The question you have to ask is: who are the people who have issues with what they are doing?

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25 Largest Online Fundraising Nonprofits in 2010 | Nonprofit.

sgEngage

Earthquakes in Haiti, Chile, and New Zealand along with floods and landslides in other parts of the world drove donors to give online. The makeup of this year’s list reinforces some of the findings in Blackbaud’s 2010 Online Giving Report. International organizations raised a tremendous amount online in 2010.

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The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

Last year, we had this fantastic experience of not only Michelle Bachelet winning the Presidential election in Chile, thanks to women's groups organizing and supporting her, but Ellen Johnson-Sirleaf winning the election for President in Liberia, again, also because women were hugely involved in mobilizing around her.

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Snapshot of Worldwide Electronics Recycling 2013

Tech Soup Blog

in Chile, has long been spearheading activities to develop country specific laws and also a regional strategy like the Guidelines for the Management of Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment (WEEE) in Latin America. One of my great heroes, Uca Silva, of the SUR Corporación de Estudios Sociales y Educación.

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