EveryAction

MARCH 2, 2017

And even though Bao Bao is now back in China , her brother and parents (also Giant Pandas) are still the Zoo's main attraction here in DC. At the end of your visit, you can donate your Metro card and remaining funds to DC nonprofit Martha's Table , which supports local children, families, and communities. The National Zoo.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 27, 2013

By providing students with funds for school supplies, coats, eye care, class trips, test fees, and athletic gear, InvestED has encouraged over 16,500 youngsters to stay in school in the state of Washington. Every year, birth defect rates and the percentage of children with special needs entering institutional care in China has increased.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 28, 2009

UniversalGiving is making great impact on communities around the world, both in the work, funds or volunteer efforts contributed to individuals and groups via their platform, but also in effectively and passionately empowering donors and volunteers to contribute. maybe you want to join forces for a longer-term project for real impact.

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NOVEMBER 13, 2008

In short, the Rocekfeller Foundation funded a recent challenge on behalf of the TB Alliance to researchers in the Innocentive community to find simpler and safer ways to produce the TB drug candidate PA-824. The two winning proposals were identified as coming from a scientist in China, and a research fellow in Germany. "These

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Bloomerang

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

Search for experiences in countries known for their cuisine, like Italy, France, China, and Mexico. That’s why it’s essential to have the right fundraising software by your side to stay organized and reach your funding goals. Gathering all of the ingredients for a stellar charcuterie board can take a lot of work and become pricey.

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MAY 4, 2012

4 A broader look at the sources of funds moving from the U.S. The second largest source of funds moving from the U.S. billion in 2010 over funds sent in 2009. Close behind are China ($12.2 as well as other countries) no longer holds true. CAPITAL INVESTMENT (U.S. Private Capital Flows). in overall U.S. giving and a 15.3%

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

A recent publication titled Global Philanthropy , from the Mercator Fund , a project of the Network of European Foundations, helps bring the variable global philanthropic landscape to light. Direct help or assistance funds are mushrooming. The newness and lack of credibility of the philanthropic sectors in many countries.

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JANUARY 15, 2010

Thank you for this insight and visualization, Laura, and congratulations to Idealware on reaching their Idealware Research Fund initial fundraising goal! Speaking of Idealware , as a fellow Mainah , I really appreciated Laura Quinn 's "snow shoveling" and nonprofit IT planning metaphor.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Most nonprofits (understandably) spend the majority of their funding on accomplishing their mission, meaning there's not always enough left over for technology investments. According to the United Nations Population Fund’s (UNFPA) Seven Billion Actions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 1, 2008

s Super Bowl launch of a United Way fund-raising campaign using mobile phone text messaging. We'll definitely start seeing more of these "text to give" campaigns in the future, but it seems that, today, only Verizon seems to offer a campaign for China and Myanmar aid, which is disappointing. The campaign was also noted.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. She funded her first pilot with her allowance! Not matter what we call them, we are only just beginning to understand Gen Z and their impact on society as well as the implications for nonprofits.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 31, 2007

Here's the post he wrote: My name is Nhuong Son and I am doing an online fund raiser through the America Giving Challenge. 40 out of your pocket can fund English classes for a Cambodian child for an entire YEAR! But here's what has surprised me, Nhuong Son , a Cambodian American attending college in New Jersey. Just think about that???that???s

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Care2

FEBRUARY 25, 2008

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. And of course each individual donor who contributed during the challenge allowed even more precious funds to come in for the kids. How did they do it?

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Care2

FEBRUARY 13, 2008

Rather than simply saying their Cause was "helping orphans in China," LWB specifically picked 10 children dying of heart disease to offer help. And of course each individual donor who contributed during the challenge allowed even more precious funds to come in for the kids. How did they do it?

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

The project was originally funded by Microsoft for the Transforming Communities of Practice grant. If fraud is suspected, the company will reverse the fund transfer. Other important websites in the world include the Yandex search engine in Russia, Yahoo in Japan and Taiwan, and Baidu in China. You have to trust Square.

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NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. She funded her first pilot with her allowance! Not matter what we call them, we are only just beginning to understand Gen Z and their impact on society as well as the implications for nonprofits.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders).

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AUGUST 23, 2007

And they say China is being Orwellian with language as they prepare for the Olympics.) I know because I helped work on several projects funded by those agencies. Obvious isn’t it. You can read about it more in today’s New York Times. This act contemplated and specifically allowed and encouraged MTM.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Philanthropic organizations fund grassroots initiatives focusing on the individual followed by the institutional rather than the reverse. The report does say that one “predetermined element” is the “near geopolitical certainty that with the rise of China, India, and other nations, a multi-polar global system is emerging.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. Social Media and Nonprofits Anshe Chung Studios in China has been quietly building a Second Life space, managed by TechSoup, for non-profits. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 19, 2008

What if organizations did not have government funding or pursue it? Disaster Relief: Described their efforts for Tsunami and Katrina and mentioned efforts for Burma and China. What if we were to audio and video record interviews with politicians and put them on the web? What if we faced up to really measuring the results of our work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders).

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 29, 2010

Because we're becoming so dependent on product from China and other countries, it's imperative that we have more farmers. As the government funding for parks declines, they're looking for people to care-take that land, essentially. So, that's one of my next things is, do I want to farm, and how is that going to happen?

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 24, 2007

So, we work with a village in China that grows the bamboo along the river, and every two years that bamboo shoots up about 20 feet, and they have a whole way of working with the trees there where they'll just cut them down, use them, and it will replenish itself. They have also put together a child care center. We are proud to do that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

Ali is the Founder of AVIF (ABLe Volunteers International Fund). She lived in China for 8 months with her 2 young children. She chronicles the program's start up on her personal blog ) She shares why she started her NGO, "The economic situation is far worse in Kenya than China so volunteer teachers were the only option.

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Care2

JUNE 1, 2009

We have raised funds for many hundreds of nonprofits by mail, and dozens online – a total exceeding half a billion dollars, largely in the form of small gifts. That the total funds raised by U.S. So I do know whereof I write. nonprofits in 2008. nonprofits in 2008. That’s $7 billion out of $306 billion. My 2 cents.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

With initial funding of $2,500, he started the CompuMentor Project to match computer enthusiast volunteers called computer mentors with Bay Area nonprofits that needed the help. Daniel started TechSoup, then named CompuMentor, in 1987. I just recently found myself reading Andrey Kurkov who writes magical realism noir novels about Ukraine.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" For example, World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign in China to encourage people to drive less. It can build on the way people already care about things, but it can also act as a reminder or invitation to like-minded people." WWF created an enormous, cloud-shaped balloon and attached it to a car's tailpipe.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2016

" For example, World Wildlife Fund ran a campaign in China to encourage people to drive less. It can build on the way people already care about things, but it can also act as a reminder or invitation to like-minded people." WWF created an enormous, cloud-shaped balloon and attached it to a car's tailpipe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. I saw a program that was well-intentioned, certainly well-funded, that was going to fail, in a community that was facing just tremendous poverty and challenge, environmental challenges, health issues. There is not a shortage of resources. There are solutions.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 7, 2013

ND-Burma member groups regularly send observers, at great personal risk, across Burma’s borders with India, Bangladesh, Thailand and China. We have extended Martus capacity building and technical support to ND-Burma since its inception in 2004. However, a great deal of work remains before realizing democracy in Burma.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2013

The leaders in adoption are China, India, Indonesia, Iran, Russia, Nigeria, the Philippines, Brazil, and Mexico. billion smartphone subscribers in the world; the majority of them are in China. It is a China-based company that now has merchandise sales volume that is more than Amazon and eBay combined. The Internet in 2013.

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Amy Sample Ward

FEBRUARY 22, 2010

That ethos continued until the last three years or so with issues in Burma, Iran, and China. Today, a China official said the internet is a new battlefield without gun powder. Even in China? We found that there were users in China couldn’t access the.com site so it was created to give them access.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 12, 2015

David Keyes is very clear that the mission of Movements.org and in fact all of the Advancing Human Rights programs is to empower human rights activists in closed societies like Russia, China, Iran, Syria, and North Korea. Keyes' vision is, "If you want to overthrow your dictator and advance human rights, you go to Movements.org."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2017

From Syria to China to Mexico, mass economic and politically-driven migration and refugee crises are triggering social tension, the rebooting of nationalisms and the emboldening of old prejudices. Our world – politically, economically, socially, technologically – is changing before our eyes. Mass migration.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. Since then, the network has grown to include hundreds of members residing in the UK, Rwanda, the Democratic Republic of Congo, Burundi, China, and Canada. I traveled to Rwanda in December 2005-January 2006 and did field work with Never Again-Rwanda.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JANUARY 6, 2007

There is a national network called Nonprofitcenters.org , that is a national network that, actually, I am happy to say was started by China Brodsky, who is on my Board of Directors, she's great, which is a network of these nonprofit-owned buildings which brought together a group of nonprofits to own their own building.

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