Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

TechSoup donor partner, Huddle , which is our cloud-based collaboration and content management donor partner has just broken that mold. Collaboration Is How Charities Function. According to our 2012 NGO Global Cloud Survey , collaboration is already one of the top ten current uses for cloud-based software among charities.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 2, 2016

All nonprofit social media campaigns – even those of large, well-funded organizations – can be improved upon. Not even large, well-funded nonprofits are doing all ten. The lack of an international database that can be used to prevent fraud is the number one obstacle to raising funds online internationally.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Agency for International Development and for an international NGO. We also welcome and encourage collaboration, including between technical and social sector experts. Selected applicants will receive coaching from Google’s AI experts, Google.org grant funding from a $25 million pool, and credits and consulting from Google Cloud.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 22, 2016

Funded by Google Inc., If you work with an NGO, it means that donors will be able to find your organization more easily to support your cause. Ongoing synchronization makes it easier to share and compare data among databases. Expect More Innovation.

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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. It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations.

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John Kenyon

NOVEMBER 15, 2018

More Collaborative Delivery of Digital Services like SafeChatSV.org. SafeChat Silicon Valley is the first collaboratively managed online peer counseling chat service in the United States for those impacted by domestic violence or intimate partner abuse. Nonprofits Act on #Cybersecurity . flickr: blogtrepreneur.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For his day job, Robert runs Communications without Borders and the NGO Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization. As an unpaid volunteer, he organizes NetSquared in-person events where people from NGOs from all over the region come to talk shop and help each other. What NGOs in Uganda Need. NGOs have many needs here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. Maybe it takes the form of collaboratively interupting the results of the evaluation. Maybe it leads to other collaborative creation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. Long story short, Jeff built a prototype fundraising platform, and we were able to raise more than enough funds to go.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 19, 2015

To automate systems, a part of the funds was invested in buying computers. "We were able to educate many more children with the funds saved on the IT expenses. Not only are we enjoying a more efficient system with the help of relevant technology, we did not have to divert away a lot of funds to the IT expenses."

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners. There are different types of NGOS in the Arab World. February 27, 2011.

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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.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

The project is being managed by IIE and builds on a highly successful program launched in the Middle East five years ago, Women in Technology that trained over 10,000 women from 9 countries in the Middle East and in collaboration with over 60 training partners.

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NTEN

AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. You are funded to do this by a US foundation. It’s an old problem, made worse by the tantalizing potential that technology provides: how do you collect and aggregate quality data when you work in low resource areas?

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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

OCTOBER 6, 2007

non-IT professionals understand web applications for collaboration. See also the post on TechSoup, " How to Fund and Cost ICT ," a publication from the ICTHUB. So, do check out the Audio/Video Edition of the NGO-in-a-Box which includes a collection of Free and Open Source Software tools. Edge4Dev blog aims to help.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2011

Nonprofits often believe they can’t afford excellent visual content, that it isn’t worth the effor, but there are many photographers and media producers looking to collaborate with nonprofits. Here's how the Bhopal Medical Appeal and the World Wildlife Fund did just that: Bhopal Medical Appeal. World Wildlife Fund.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

FORGE uses a collaborative, rather than top-down model, to serve refugees' needs, and much has been written in the blogosphere and media about Erickson's "radical transparency" around the organization's financial challenges. You use a process that on your website was described as the, "collaborative project planning process."

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org. We've been developing Miradi for three years together with the Conservation Measures Partnership (which includes groups like The Nature Conservancy and the World Wildlife Fund), and began beta testing the software in 2007.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 24, 2014

My current favorite digital inclusion NGO is our newest TechSoup Global partner, Computers For Schools Kenya. I just had a chance to chat with Dr. Tom Musili who runs that incredible NGO to find out what all they’re doing to bring the knowledge economy to school children and electronics recycling to Africa. What the heck.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

Based on the underlying theme of women’s empowerment with a focus on education and entrepreneurship, the 70 participants of the Tel Aviv event included representatives of NGOs active in the fields of employment, education, women’s empowerment, consultancy, and tech training from all over Israel.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2013

This years’ Nobel Prize for Peace has been awarded to one of our own - the technology oriented Dutch NGO, Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This is a model collaboration website in the foundation world that attracts many contributors. See the CNET video on this new technology for good here.

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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. Radical Collaboration. These volunteers have creative and powerful ideas for how they want to make a difference, but they aren’t waiting for permission or a playbook.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

"To us, it's really about collaboration. There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. This was a collaboration among several organizations, A Single Drop, Crabgrass, ProNet Accra, and Women's Earth Alliance. To us, it's really about collaboration. There is not a shortage of resources.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

The Omidyar Network has launched team-based collaborative funding projects. Disclosure: I'm on the board of the Sharing Foundation and our NGO was nominated. For example, here is a request from a second grade teacher in the Bronx who needs a digital camera. So, if you're Omidyar Network member, check it out.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Specifically for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds. Loomly is an online social media calendar that allows multiple users to collaborate from one master calendar.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Ideal for small nonprofits with limited funds for digital marketing. Ideal for small nonprofits with limited funds for digital marketing. Dropbox is a cloud storage service (sometimes referred to as an online backup service) that is frequently used for file sharing and collaboration. The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 23, 2006

Heddy also writes for the Global Youth Fund blog. In the US context, we are focused on building an awareness of issues involved in genocide and post-conflict peacebuilding as well as connecting American youth to our partners in other parts of the globe to plug them into cross-national, cross-cultural collaboration.

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