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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms. Program Design.

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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Early last year my colleague Noel Dickover and his co-workers at PeaceTech Lab organized a workshop in Mumbai, India to help activists use technology and media to prevent gender based violence. These young girls are growing up in the Dharavi neighborhood of Mumbai India, one of the largest slums in the world.

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SAP Gives Back

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In India, one out of two SAP employees is volunteering on a community project focused on improving educational opportunities through tutoring or enhancing school infrastructure and resources. movement, a world of 7 billion has implications for sustainability, urbanization, access to health services, and youth empowerment.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. That’s the theory at least.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

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Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Genève, Switzerland: Do-camp: Hackaton UX Design — Responsibility.digi­tal. Seattle, Washington: Bolder and Wiser: Nonprofit Advocacy Rights (Part 1). Asia and Pacific Rim. Wednesday, September 6, 2017. Saturday, September 9, 2017.

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Women's Global Green Action Network: An Interview with Melinda Kramer

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For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. They really got things done, and they designed a very strong network and a very strong set of values and principles and goals for the coming years. regions and sub-regions.

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The Dragonfly Effect: Win A Copy, Leave A Comment, Swab Your Cheek

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Design for collaboration. Employ empowerment marketing. So, it was no surprise that this book launch also included a bone marrow registry campaign. Jennifer Aaker and Andy Smith also announced their plans to go to India to help establish a bone marrow registry there in December. Tell your story. Act, then think.

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