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Four Food Charities Fighting Hunger Locally During a Pandemic

Tech Soup Blog

We spoke to four food security organizations in Colombia, Portugal, South Africa, and the United States to better understand the challenges facing organizations working in food security and the ways the pandemic has shifted operations for them.

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Carfree Ciclovia in Colombia

Have Fun - Do Good

Earlier this year I posted about how Ode Magazine reported that The Happy Planet Index , a project of the New Economics Foundation , ranked Colombia as the 2nd happiest place for the planet. Bogotá Colombia Ciclovia biking public space Hat tip to Carfree USA Blog for the story.

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Colombia is the 2nd Happiest Place for the Planet

Have Fun - Do Good

According to Ode Magazine , The Happy Planet Index , a project of the New Economics Foundation , ranks Colombia as the 2nd happiest place for the planet. Colombia 3. I'm not sure if everyone in Colombia would agree with this index, but it is nice to see a positive portrayal of Colombia for once. Costa Rica 4. Dominica 5.

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Nancy White is in Colombia Playing the Social Media Game

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Nancy White is doing some workshops in Colombia. Nancy's Flickr Set. Here are some photos. She is using the Social Media Game -- can't wait to read about it! The live stream is here. More here from Stephen Downes.

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Dr. Karen Ramey Burns

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Over the last 17 years, Kar and I crossed paths in Haiti, Guatemala, Colombia, and many times at the American Association for the Advancement of Science, AAAS. Kar was a forensic anthropologist who specialized in human rights cases, and she was a founders of our Colombian partner organization EQUITAS ).

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Counting Deaths in the Rionegro Cemetery

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Although I began reading academic papers that described the social and political climate in Colombia, as I dove into the data, I never saw the names of victims-- only counts of those who had died. And then we went to Colombia. Tags: NNs Rionegro HRDAG human rights Casanare Colombia.

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How Nonprofits Can Steward Corporate Donors on Social Media

Nonprofit Tech for Good

Because of the ingenuity of GFN’s corporate donors, a Colombian hunger-relief organization – Banco de Alimentos Bogotá, a member of the national food bank network system, Asocación de Bancos de Alimentos de Colombia – was able to distribute a large quantity of high-value groceries.

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Counting the Uncounted

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Tags: HRDAG human rights disappearances Casanare Colombia.

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Colombia’s “False Positives�

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest blog from Beatriz, one of Benetech's human rights team members in Colombia. But today's mood in Colombia is more somber than usual. We Colombians are a resilient breed, accustomed to waking up to all kinds of distressing news and still somehow managing to go about our daily business.

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Dancing for Peace: Big Vision Podcast with Sara Potler

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Dance 4 Peace began in Bogotá, Colombia as part of Sara's Fulbright Scholarship project in 2007. New York City, Colombia, the Philippines, and Nepal. Today, the program works in Washington, D.C., You can listen and subscribe to the Big Vision Podcast via iTunes , or on the player above.

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International Human Rights Day 2011

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Through projects that integrated statistical analyses into multidisciplinary human rights work, we engaged in the public debate about human rights violations in Colombia. This analysis is now helping to reframe how sexual violence is studied and understood by groups in Colombia and by the United Nations. and the European Union.

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Clinton Global Initiative

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Clinton has a great talent for making everybody feel like they're important: I liked the way he interacted with Vicky Colbert, the great education social entrepreneur from Colombia.

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Benetech Human Rights Data Analysts Uncover Critical Evidence

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

The past year of research by HRDAG analysts has supported key criminal prosecutions and uncovered the truth about political violence in Guatemala, Iran, Colombia, Chad and Liberia. They revealed the culpability of powerful people who never expected that these records would ever be exposed to public scrutiny - let alone scientific analysis.

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Local Stories, Global Audience

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The text reads: Colombia, land of images. There is a lot of talk about war in Colombia. nera organized a video blogging workshop at the public library of the poor and often violent neighborhood of La Loma San Javier. ??lvaro Life and scenery. Dance, joy, and entertainment. ??? culture, faith, and hope. ??? We are also.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

One of our biggest areas of work is in Colombia, a place where violence and human rights abuses are not a thing of the past. They concentrate on recovering the remains of the many people disappeared during Colombia's complex and violent internal conflicts.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society - Untitled Article

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Patrick Ball is in Colombia for most of the next three months teaching the techniques of human rights statistics and information processing at the National University there. Our human rights group is active all over the place right now. Africa is definitely getting more attention from us. Kristen Cibelli is on her way to Uganda right now.

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Make #GivingTuesday 2021 Count!

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Andrea Ortega, Director of Nonprofit Services Andrea hails from Cali, Colombia by way of Miami, FL. She has a master’s degree in Nonprofit Management from the University of Central Florida (UCF) and is currently pursuing her Ph.D. in Public Affairs at UCF with a focus in Nonprofit Management.

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Announcing The Art of Relevance Audiobook! Get Your for Free Today.

Museum 2.0

And if you prefer your media in audio-visual form, here are two videos from recent talks about the book: A 12-minute talk about The Art of Relevance for a broad audience at TedXPaloAlto A 30-minute talk plus Q&A, with a slant towards science centers at ECSITE in Portugal Finally, I'll be sharing stories of relevance live and in-person this fall (..)

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Nonprofit Technology Celebrates International Women's Day

Tech Soup Blog

Catalina Escobar , executive director of MAKAIA in Colombia. Nonprofit Technology Leadership. Amy Sample Ward and Holly Ross from NTEN. Karen Graham and Laura Quinn from Idealware. International NGO Leadership. Janet Mawlyoo , executive director, Kenya Community Development Foundation. Law and Advocacy.

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Guatemalan Police Archive Finds Evidence in Disappearance Case

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

A Guest Beneblog by Tamy Guberek (Benetech HRDAG team member from Colombia) There is important news this month from our partners at the Guatemalan National Police Archive, which has worked since 2006 with Benetech’s Human Rights Data Analysis Group (HRDAG).

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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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President's Update: Summer 2008

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Our HumanRights team, including Benetech Research Fellow Amelia Hoover and fieldconsultants Tamy Guberek and Daniel Guzmán, presented our initial findings on violations in Colombia to an enthusiastic audience of ICC investigators and analysts. You can visit our Colombia Project Page to read more about this work.

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Bill Clinton Taps Revamped Causes ‘Birthday Wish’ To Raise Money For Charity

AFP Blog

Bill Clinton Taps Revamped Causes ‘Birthday Wish’ To Raise Money For Charity: "Former President Bill Clinton is looking to turn his 64th birthday into an opportunity to counter malnutrition in Colombia, reduce childhood obesity in the US, and improve lives around the world.

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Win 2 Tickets to the Global Fund for Women 20th Anniversary Gala

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Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, the Honorable President of Liberia, as well as women leaders from Colombia, South Africa, Malaysia, Liberia, Bosnia/Herzogovina and Egypt will be honored at the event. Ann Curry, News Anchor for The Today Show , and Co-Anchor of Dateline NBC will emcee.

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Wikileaks War Data Reveal Underreporting of Iraqi Civilian Casualties

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

This method has been used for estimating large-scale killings in Guatemala , Kosovo , Perú , Srebrenica , East Timor , and Colombia , among others. Depending on the degree of overlap of cases between the sources, the number of deaths that were not reported to any source will differ.

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8 Superpowers For Thriving In Constant Change

Eric Jacobsen Blog

v, AnyRoad, and Unsettled, as well as governments ranging from Singapore to South Africa, Canada to Colombia, Italy to India. Thank you to the book's publisher for sending me an advance copy of the book.

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NpTechTag Summary: NpTech Events, Twitters, and Green Web Hosting

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Global NpTech: African Civil Society to Colombia Saidia.Org Blog is gathering stories about Web2.0 and African civil society for Web2 for Dev Nancy White is doing workshops in Colombia. He did a video interview with Dirk Slater , too! Check out the nonprofitmanagement wiki ! Follow her trail here.

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Training Afghani NGOs in Cambodia

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

You can read about some of the NGOs that have used Martus to back up their data in Guatemala, Sri Lanka, the Phillippines, and Colombia. Martus will protect their sensitive documentation by encrypting it on the local hard drive and automatically backing it up to remote servers if organizations wish to do so.

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Fueling Progress Towards Gender Equality and the 2030 Global Goals

Connection Cafe

And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. .

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How a Multi-Sectoral Partnership is Fueling Progress Towards Gender Equality and the 2030 Global Goals

Connection Cafe

And, in our initial six pilot countries (which include Colombia, India, Indonesia, Kenya and Senegal) we plan to take a deeper look, using national data, research and story-gathering to understand where progress is being made and where it is lagging. .

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Social Media Game in Khmer

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Most recently Nancy White did a version in Colombia. I done various remixes -- for example most recently for fundraising and a version for Filmmakers. A number of o ther folks have remixed the game -- and it's been translated into different languages too.

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Drive Attention and Gain Donations on Facebook with Video Storytelling

NonProfit Hub

Using a handful of photos and video clips shot entirely on a mobile phone, ShelterBox created a video days after the landslides hit Peru and Colombia in an effort to drive donations in the wake of the devastation. This video created by Animoto customer ShelterBox USA drove $3200 in donations with just a $100 Facebook video ad spend.

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This Young Woman Keeps Her Gloves On: Maria Estela Godinez

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Colombia???s She went on stage confidently and started to tell her story. She told Craig about her project and demonstrated how the electronic glove works. As she made every move everybody was fascinated with her story. s Minister of Communications began to cry in her front row seat; deeply touched, as most of us were.

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The Steep Challenges of Philanthropy to the Muslim World

Tech Soup Blog

I also liked the work we did a few years ago to support telecentres in poor communities affected by civil war in Colombia. She says: “I like to reach communities that we haven’t reached before in the developing world like what we’re doing to bridge the digital divide with the Aga Khan Development Network in Mozambique.

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Doctors without Borders Podcast Creates Connection

Have Fun - Do Good

It was a little over 10 minutes long and talked about medical needs in Sudan, the ongoing challenges in Colombia and how people with HIV/AIDS in the developing world are being denied access to new "second-line" AIDS medicine. (My I just listened to the first podcast.

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Lessons on Policymakers, Gender Equality, and Data

Connection Cafe

Last week at the United Nations General Assembly , Equal Measures 2030 launched a multi-country policymaker survey that explored perceptions of progress on gender-related issues and access to and use of data to inform decisions.

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In Search of Hope: The Global Diaries of Mariane Pearl

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Cambodia: Somaly Mam Acting for Women in Distressing Situations (AFESIP) Canada: Sheila Watt-Cloutier The Center for Environmental Law Colombia: Mayerly Sanchez World Vision Hong Kong: Anson Chan Hong Kong Committee for UNICEF Liberia: Ellen Johnson Sirleaf The Liberian Education Trust (LET) Mexico: Lydia Cacho Ciamcancun New York: Dr.

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Guest Post by Ivan Boothe: Social change takes more than social media

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Where it has been getting integrated into social justice organizing, it's largely been outside the United States, in places like Colombia and Egypt. With that in mind, I think social media and social networking hasn't entirely matured as part of long-term social change.

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Support Women Survivors of War with $27/month

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T he program works in Afghanistan, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Colombia, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Iraq, Kosovo, Nigeria, Rwanda and Sudan. Survivors can also participate in rights awareness and leadership education training, job skills training, and business development support.

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How Nonprofits Have Reframed Their Messaging in the Wake of COVID-19

Connection Cafe

Imagine living amidst conflict in Yemen, or avoiding your backyard in Colombia because there may be weapons leftover from war that are contaminating your land. Americans are extremely distracted, but there are Americans who are extremely generous and considerate of those living in worse-off situations overseas.