Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

It makes accessible the tools you need to engage a community, offer services, scale up activities and sustain projects. I brought to India to place it in the hands of Rufina Fernandez , CEO of Nasscom Foundation. I'm sure that after she is finished reading it, she will spread the ideas all over India.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 31, 2022

I grew up in a place where all kinds of expressions are suppressed, where marginalized communities are encouraged but denied any real authority, where pop cultural depictions of transgender people involve a glaring cisgender, heteronormative-ness. The umbrella term we use in India to generalize trans experiences is ‘Hijra.’

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Joy of Giving Week is a "festival of philanthropy" held October 2 through 8 all over India in conjunction with Mohandas Gandhi's birthday. To celebrate, TechSoup's partner in India, BiGTech , held the Find an IT Partner event in Mumbai to connect local nonprofits with IT students.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 3, 2017

Rapid population growth and migration is dramatically changing societies and ecosystems worldwide and as this future unfolds nonprofits, NGOs, and charities will play a central role in safeguarding the world’s most vulnerable communities, the land upon which they live, and the wildlife that surrounds them. billion now. billion by 2050.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2015

We first extended Bookshare services internationally in 2008 with the launch of Bookshare in India. Of course, in India and other developing countries, the gap is even larger. As part of this project, we are working with our lead Indian partner, the DAISY Forum of India, as well as other Indian disability organizations.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

It’s a community that takes a while to understand and adapt to. That said, for those nonprofits that do want to grow a community on Twitter, follow these best practices when writing your tweets to maximize the likelihood of your tweets getting noticed: 1. 10) Explore Twitter Spaces, Newsletters, and Communities.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 10, 2013

Senator, helped launch the Peace Corps and led the Corporation for National and Community Service. After visiting India in 1949, Wofford became a lifelong advocate of Gandhian nonviolence. Last February, Sen. Wofford received the 2012 Presidential Citizens Medal from President Obama for his seven decades of public service.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

DECEMBER 8, 2022

To serve a community, you have to be in the community. What makes this product particularly special is that our community developed it through The Commons program. Because Grassroots Mobile Survey was built for the community, by the community, I wanted the team to tell you about it in their own words.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 7, 2013

The first is developing strong local partners , such as disability NGOs, libraries or educational institutions that help us customize our services to the specific needs of their communities. They also provide outreach and user support, which helps us keep our costs low as well as build local capacity to meet accessibility needs.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 15, 2014

Thus far, more than 75 countries have signed the Treaty, and in June India became the first country to ratify it. We hope that many other countries will follow India’s ratification. Furthermore, the accessibility community can work together to prepare the ground for providing accessible books for people around the world.

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Candid

JULY 22, 2021

Her third round of grants in less than a year, Scott wrote that grant recipients were “286 high-impact organizations in categories and communities that have been historically underfunded and overlooked.” entities were also supported, including 11 based in India, two in Africa, and one in Mexico. . and Puerto Rico.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

MAY 11, 2021

By: Richard Beighton, Chief of Resource Mobilization and Partnerships, UNICEF India. India has become the first country to report more than 400,000 new coronavirus cases in a single day. Although over 160 million shots have been given, almost 32 million of these were second vaccines, meaning that only 10% of India’s 1.3

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 7, 2006

I recently learned about an nonprofit organization in India dedicated to using video to help alleviate poverty and accelerate social change in the developing world. They partner with a range of NGOs to create an ongoing community video unit to support the NGO's programs by placing a full-time trainer in the NGO for a one-year period.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Mission: To improve access and quality of education for 4 million children living in underserved communities in India. Mission: To help eradicate extreme poverty through community development projects in urban sanitation, water filtration, health, alternative energy, and economic empowerment. Educate Girls ● educategirls.ngo.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 25, 2014

Are you ready to join a global, Storytelling conversation on Twitter at #Storymakers2014 spanning the globe from India, Libya, Kenya across Europe, Canada and the United States. 10:00 am India Standard time / 4:30 am Coordinated Universal Time. Topic: Building Community with Digital Storytelling. New Zealand. Australia.

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Socialbrite

MARCH 8, 2020

501(c)(3) nonprofit based in Bangalore, India. The organization is accredited by one of the strongest academic curricula in India, the Council for the Indian School Certificate Examinations (CISCE), and conducts the ICSE and ISC exams for students in grades 10 and 12. Shanti Bhavan Children’s Project.

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Tech Soup

MAY 19, 2014

Sarah Potts is the Community Manager at Not For Sale, and that is her challenge. She recently shared her social media and community-building wisdom at an event organized by the SF Tech4Good group and the San Francisco Online Community Meetup Group. Not For Sale operates in Peru, the Netherlands, India, South Africa, and Romania.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 8, 2020

WhatsApp is also an excellent tool for community building with stakeholders, for crowdsourcing information and knowledge and for traditional and peer-to-peer fundraising. By obtaining a free WhatsApp for Business Account and managing it on the desktop version, a nonprofit can integrate WhatsApp into its storytelling toolbox.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

An early adopter of social media, the Lance Armstrong Foundation leverages social media to engage, connect, and celebrate its community. The LAF uses its Facebook fan page and Twitter profile as a way to directly connect with cancer survivors on a personal basis and animate the community.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

How can they enable their institutions to reach the next level of student success, community engagement, and research impact? colleges said they are prioritising student outreach in India and China, the two primary markets for international students for Australian universities. Lifelong Learning to Lifelong Relationships.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 19, 2017

We’re already delivering services at scale in three other countries—Canada, the UK, and India. because we rely on the community to build the digital library. Bookshare adapts to the needs of all readers with a disability that makes reading hard, whether they read with their eyes, ears, or fingers. This one does.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 22, 2010

The staff I work with at Benetech are committed to the communities that we serve with our technology. Viji, who is from India, received a BA in accounting from Madras University and moved with her husband to the Bay Area. Since Viji was raised in India, she began looking at the educational challenges faced by people from that country.

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NTEN

AUGUST 17, 2021

Samara brings a passion for community and problem-solving. I also really want to go to India to see the Taj Mahal. The NTEN team continues to grow! We’re excited to welcome Samara Islam as our new Program Coordinator. I asked her five questions to help us get to know our latest teammate. What was your first job?

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 9, 2014

Investing in education has an incredible multiplier effect as it leads to increased prosperity not just for individuals, but also for their communities and societies. But the 2014 Global Philanthropy Forum clearly highlighted the role that the philanthropic community can play in affecting this shift. It provides returns for decades.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2010

To enter the contest, readers had to share their " Theory of Change." Megha is a passionate human rights advocate in India and also lawyer. I am a lawyer by profession and presently a student of human rights law in my masters at India. Her blog is here. My theory for a change has some linkages to my law specific profession: 1.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Read on for a little Monday morning inspiration and then take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you serve your community. Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Send it to community@techsoup.org with "Community Story" in the subject line. spanhidden.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 17, 2009

So, your effort to address the needs of your community through a new water or sanitation project is going to be evaluated by a group of people who have been through doing the same thing in their communities. Get this: the funding decisions on their new clean water projects are made by peer project leaders.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Recently, Social Misfits Media’s Community Manager, Angharad Francis, interviewed the brilliant Pushpa Aman Singh, Founder of GuideStar India. In this interview, Pushpa discusses her journey prior to founding GuideStar India, her role in helping NGOs and how WhatsApp is driving strong communication among stakeholders.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

SEPTEMBER 20, 2009

Situated on the banks of the Vellayani fresh water lake, on the outskirts on Thiruvananthapuram in Kerala, India , IISE is a testimony to social enterprise at its very best. The participants would get hands on training at a non profit organization in India and will train in all aspects of non profit management.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

California Community Foundation. Oregon Community Foundation. Arizona Community Foundation. Baltimore Community Foundation. Mellon foundation seeks to build just communities enriched by meaning and empowered by critical thinking, where ideas and imagination can thrive. Areas served: US, India, South Africa.

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AccelEvents

JUNE 28, 2021

Every year I’m learning more about these topics and I look forward to learning and growing more with the LGBTQIA+ community in my education. ” “We’re extremely loving and supportive of each other in the LGBTQ+ community 365 days a year. GAY RIGHTS!!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

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Care2

JULY 11, 2013

In India, for example, “missed calls” have become a campaign tool. Greenpeace India has used missed calls as a cheap and quick way to engage people and build lists. In one campaign, citizens rallied to oppose wide scale coal mining in central-eastern India ’s forests.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JUNE 28, 2022

With the advent of the stakeholder economy and its belief that the business of business is improving the state of the world, we have heard a lot about employee engagement, corporate philanthropy, and the role of business in supporting community action and change. She believes that when people and communities thrive, business thrives.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2010

Many of the publishers do provide us with permissions do not have global rights, and limit the availability of these books to certain jurisdictions • We first launched international Bookshare in India and have more than 1000 members there, as well as permissions agreements with more than ten publishers in India • We have recently concluded agreements (..)

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

Read on for a little Monday morning inspiration and then take a moment to tell us how donations you've gotten through TechSoup have helped you serve your community. Orphans Getting an Elite Education in India. Send it to community@techsoup.org. Here is just a sampling of what we have collected so far. Want to share.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

I've written a lot lately about contests ( Chase Community Giving and Pepsi Refresh ) here in the United States that are focused on "social media for social media." I've just returned from a trip to India where there is a different approach to solving complex social problems using social media and the Internet.

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