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Is it a movement or a moment?

Candid

The champions transform local attitudes and behaviors related to nutrition, help foster collaboration, and engage decision-makers. It is a model that nonprofits can seek to emulate, providing engagement opportunities that help shift masses of people from casual observers to passionate supporters.

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Social Media, Networking, and African Women’s Leadership Training in Rwanda

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

My experience so far has been to develop curriculum – mostly focused on technology that is adapted in different countries by local organizations. The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills.

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Hackathons for Good: Techies, Thinkers, and Activists Unite

Tech Soup

A hackathon is an event where programmers, developers, designers, and leaders come together to collaborate on an app, website, or software projects. The hackathon model is ideal for nonprofits and libraries because it brings together motivated volunteers to expedite a project on a limited budget. or Code for Oakland ).

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Data for Global Health, Part II

Forum One

This session we focused on issues of health data collection--represented by the form shown here, which is a brand-new data collection instrument from Kenya (brought to the group by PATH's David Lubinski). This form is emblematic of the profound challenges in gathering accurate, reliable, consistent data at the field level.

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Nonprofit Technology News for November 2013

Tech Soup

The idea for Hacker Helper was born through collaboration with partners, such as Random Hacks of Kindness who are trying to improve the hackathon process and improve results from the events. mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. I admit to being a bit envious of the Safaricom M-PESA.

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Nonprofit Technology News: 2013 Year in Review

Tech Soup

Neverware’s pricing is a subscription model – monthly per PC fee. Adobe Creative Cloud also provides online storage and collaboration web services, which includes a new Sync Settings feature that maintains your preference setting across multiple computers. gear up to administer standardized tests digitally next year.

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Empowering Refugees: Interview with Kjerstin Erickson of FORGE

Have Fun - Do Good

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."