Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

Agency for International Development and for an international NGO. 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. My early career was in international development, working for the U.S.

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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. Around this time, through a friendly IT consultant, WORTH Trust heard about NASSCOM Foundation's software donation initiative, BigTech. "We were able to educate many more children with the funds saved on the IT expenses.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 20, 2007

It is a project of the start-up NGO, Mali Health Organizing Project. If the Sigida Keneyali Project can be among the top two in terms of donations, they will get the opportunity to be permanently on the Global Giving web site, and get additional funding and consulting from the IYVS. Mali health NGO

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NTEN

APRIL 25, 2012

I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" Plan with other local NGOs and create an informal board of IT advisors. What can small nonprofits do to benefit from collaboration?

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 26, 2023

They require major, ongoing, and reliable funding to sustain the support they provide to children living in the hardest-to-reach places on the planet. Imagine a supporter has donated to three different funding streams within an organization. In addition, she founded her own consulting practice in 2010.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

They have the resources to hire and consult highly-skilled website design firms and graphic designers. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ).

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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. If you look at the path that information must travel, there is a point where the tools that NGOs have used for data collection work well.

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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. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. The site was developed by Democracy in Action. There is much much commentary and grieving taking place online as well as a memorial in SecondLife , and an article in Wikipedia.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

Netsquared Technology Innovation Fund which is high on the agenda of this year's Netsquared Conference. Usha from Beaconfire Consulting notes that it was conducted in the Louise Bethune conference room and fills us in on why this is symbolic. One suggestion is vikono.org, Swahili plural for insect antennae. Follow the links from here.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 10, 2014

Don''t miss Idealist Consulting ''s free Engagement Party for social changemakers. Speaking of Salesforce , they just announced NGO Connect , a new app to help nonprofits connect every aspect of their work for greater impact. Are you headed to Salesforce ''s annual Dreamforce in San Francisco next week? RSVP and boogie on down.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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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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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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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 16, 2007

Tara Hunt's reflection describes Twitter's value, attraction, and benefits while Andy Carvin looks at the potential value from an ngo perspective. BeaconFire Consulting asks " What Language Can Your Bulk Email Too Speak ?" Here's a number crunching perspective on its recent growth. Extreme Email Makeover.

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