Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

You have to measure accurately, as well as create an environment where problems can be discussed openly so you can effectively evaluate what’s working and what’s not.” The blog goes on to make a proposal to Gates about how to change the culture: Please round up a bunch of venture capitalists. Simple, but hard to accomplish.

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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. When we canvassed the environment and talked to small and medium non-profits, three themes kept on bubbling up.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 15, 2006

My primary destination in Bangladesh was to meet with BRAC , which is the world's largest NGO (nonprofit organization) with nearly 100,000 employees. BRAC is one of the social entrepreneurship field's best example of what a results-oriented team can accomplish even in the most difficult and poverty-stricken environment.

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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 have paper and pen, but in this harsh environment, even collecting data the old fashioned way can be unreliable. Sometimes the problem is cultural. Sometimes the environment is too harsh or too dangerous. So what do you do?

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Cloud 4 Good

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

I’ve also seen firsthand the importance of having the right staff available to support ongoing maintenance of your salesforce environment and the employer challenges of finding the right fit.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 2, 2006

Viet-Ly: I really think that a lot of classrooms I've been to that are taught by white teachers, there's a certain kind of environment, or a certain kind of atmosphere that's set, and there have been some situations where I've seen that a student's home life, or a student's home culture is not necessarily valued in the classroom.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As Forbes reports, it legitimises a throw-away culture; we are told that it doesn’t matter how much plastic or paper we use, because we can recycle it, so throwing it away is a-okay. Whilst this is important, it’s not actually the biggest change we can make for the environment. Recycling also has a dark side.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

He did his degree in NGO Management, and will be graduating this coming June. I was inspired by the possibilities that I saw in the refugee camp environment, and the possibilities for using refugees as agents of peace and change, and training them to be that, but I didn't think that I would be doing that on any kind of organizational level.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

As Forbes reports, it legitimises a throw-away culture; we are told that it doesn’t matter how much plastic or paper we use, because we can recycle it, so throwing it away is a-okay. Whilst this is important, it’s not actually the biggest change we can make for the environment. Recycling also has a dark side.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

Culturally specific communication is the second thing. So always consider what are some aspects of the culture you’re working with. So, for example, is it a hierarchical culture? Is it a culture that, you know, respects elders a lot? people from other cultures, you can just say, “Hi. ” Right?

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. And we also know that when they make a purchase, they want it to impact their family as well as the environment. We celebrate that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 7, 2006

We also run after school programs, where we have curriculum that is based on teaching youth –mostly elementary and middle school aged kids – about community service and civics and cultural awareness. I mean, we work on campaigns that are helping to fight poverty, save the environment and promote voting.

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