Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 28, 2017

This week Nonprofit Tech for Good donated $25 to 25 nonprofits in order to study how nonprofits are progressing in the design of their donation pages and in the efficacy of their online donation process. The Wilderness Society , UNICEF , and Conservation International have well-designed donation pages that were easy-to-use and effective.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JULY 7, 2013

Today, however, the program has been expanded to Australia, Canada, Germany, India, Ireland, Italy, and the United Kingdom and it offers some very powerful free tools to nonprofits: Google Wallet donate button. Initially the program was only offered to qualified U.S. Call-to-action overlays. Live streaming. Video annotations.

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TechImpact

MAY 12, 2014

In previous blog posts we’ve discussed responsive web design, formatting mobile friendly emails , and shown you even more statistics that will convince you to prioritize mobile sooner rather than later. Only 11,84% of newsletters use responsive design techniques to optimize their layouts for mobile devices. Equinux (June 2013).

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 10, 2022

Before you follow any account, ensure that your profile is complete with (1) a well-designed profile photo and header image; (2) a bio that expresses clearly your organization’s mission; and (3) a link to your website. It’s a community that takes a while to understand and adapt to.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 26, 2010

Jennifer is a textile and surface designer, and owner of Monaluna , a small business specializing in organic cotton fabrics. Jennifer Moore, Monaluna Designs: How I Have Fun, Do Good I find my joy from making things. Today's guest blogger is Jennifer Moore. You can follow her blog at [link]. Especially beautiful, useful things.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 8, 2013

I was in India this past summer to facilitate an intensive four-day training for Packard Foundation grantees working on family-planning issues. Energizers are activities designed to awaken a sleeping audience or activate a jaded one. In India, I designed the first one to celebrate the local culture: It was called “Bollywood Moment.”

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 21, 2010

The core of the design is "popular vote" - the group whose idea gets the most people to vote for them wins. 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. How can these goals be balanced? The submission form is simple. (3)

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Forum One

MARCH 18, 2021

Mobile-first can mean different things to different people: for developers, it may mean writing code for smaller viewports first with the goal of creating cleaner code; while for designers, it may mean starting with mobile designs with the goal of prioritizing its user experience. The genesis of the mobile-first approach.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2010

She emphasized that technology services for the bottom of the pyramid need to be designed with their needs in mind, and not to make presumptions. I shared the story of how Pratham Books used Twitter to help get children's books to children in rural India. Tags: india.

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AFP Blog

JULY 10, 2008

Techtree.com India > News > General > Microsoft Helping NGOs Better Use Tech: "Bill Gates leaves behind a rich legacy in terms of philanthropy. After him, Microsoft continues to come up with such initiatives, the latest being 'NGO Connection', designed as a new online resource for use by thousands of non-profits around the world.'NGO

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2010

The NASSCOM India Leadership Forum has multiple tracks based on theme. It also has a track that takes place in a large room with roundtables and a designated discussion topic and facilitator. At a roundtable, I had to chance to discuss this question with social media experts from India. Tags: india twitter.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Built on our Martus technology, Mobile Martus is designed to bring secure data collection, storage, and backup closer to activists working in the field. The Oak Foundation just awarded us a grant to provide accessible content to people with qualifying learning differences (like dyslexia) in Brazil, India, and the United Kingdom.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 2, 2012

This year, 2012, will have a focus on designing and delivering capacity building projects with NGOs outside the US. I will be working with a cluster of Packard grantees in Pakistan and India in collaboration with IIE.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 4, 2012

This charity also has offices in India , Nepal , and Tanzania operates its own projects and supports partners in Tanzania, India, and Nepal and works on behalf of children in places like the Occupied Palestinian Territories, Pakistan, Peru, Cambodia, China, and Bangladesh. I especially like Outlook 2007.

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Achieve

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Provide design templates. Provide design templates, pre-written text blocks, logos and photos that represent your nonprofit’s messaging and branding to help them get started building out their pages. . ?. He had a nomadic childhood, following his father’s foreign service career, living in India and Kenya and visiting many other places.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 28, 2014

TED gives me the chance to brainstorm with loads of people who gather to discuss ways to change the world through technology and design. I explained Benetech’s efforts to grow the impact of our Bookshare library globally, specifically discussing partnerships with groups in India and Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

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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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 23, 2011

By last month, the user ratio between male and female had come up to about 70/30 and the country with the second highest number of users was India at about 13 percent. So far, the demographics of Google+ skew toward American males working in technology.

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Get Fully Funded

OCTOBER 31, 2022

Illuminate India has a fabulous video on their home page : 6. Videos are the most powerful format for storytelling and turning viewers into donors. Video can appeal to multiple senses to engage your viewer, helping them feel the pull to give. Here are some tips for making better videos. Update your blog.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program. I’m headed to Rwanda to participate in a training for the ACE project, a network of African Women’s Leadership organizations in the Sub-Saharan region.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 3, 2016

The Marrakesh Treaty was designed to address the biggest remaining obstacle: the existing system of providing books to society did not meet the needs of people with disabilities. And we’re now making this happen in countries beyond the United States who, like India, have implemented Marrakesh without commercial limitation provisions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 22, 2011

I was tapped to “live blog&# a plenary session called “Generational Divide&# with speakers Wendy Harman and Suzy DeFrancis, American Red Cross and David Smith and Michael Weiser, National Conference on Citizenship and moderated by Kari Dunn, Case Foundation. The panel was focused on how “Next Gen Leaders&# are influencing (..)

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 22, 2009

Although I designed the 4Cs framework to explain how I see social media, I have also found it to be a useful tools to evaluate specific social media initiatives. It’s important to note, however, that each layer is valuable in itself, and it’s OK to design an initiative to only exploit the Content or Collaboration layers.

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Kindful

AUGUST 9, 2021

Their educational focus areas include new designs to advance learning, pathways to postsecondary success, leadership and teaching to advance learning, public understanding, and integration, learning, and innovation. Areas served: US, India, South Africa. Areas served: Worldwide. The Kresge Foundation.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2012

Previously, she produced Our Social Times and Influence People’s North American Social Media Marketing and Monitoring conference series and started a web development and social media business, which leveraged an international team of programmers and designers across India, Romania, and the US.

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NonProfit Hub

FEBRUARY 25, 2015

UK and India. _. A few design details in particular, like font size and page navigation, are critical in accomplishing this. Try not to make frequent site and design changes, as these tend to frustrate older users and make your site more difficult to follow for regular users. Construct Clear and Concise Navigation.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2012

Also, developing countries like Egypt, South Africa, Mexico/Latin America, and India report plans to move to the cloud faster than everywhere else. Sam explains a bit about cloud computing and disaster recovery basics, and outlines the different types of cloud storage and products designed to help NGOs prepare for disaster recovery.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 27, 2010

Harish Hande of Selco of India advocated passionately to involve the poor in the planning for ventures and initiatives designed to help them. His proposal was that time-limited “smart subsidies” be used to encourage the adoption of these innovations until the adoption curve gets to the point where the commercial market takes over.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

In 2005, Shannon Keith visited India and was confronted by the harsh realities of brothels and prostitution. Here are some of the things that Shopify provides: Design your own store. No web design experience is necessary to use Shopify. Sounds great but wondering how it actually works in practice?

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AFP Blog

JANUARY 23, 2013

With TEDx in a Box, individuals in the developing world and other underserved areas are delivered all the resources they need for an event, packaged into a portable box designed by IDEO. So far, boxes have been shipped to organizers in Ecuador, Ghana, Nigeria, Kenya, Uganda, India and Pakistan — and counting.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 3, 2012

I will be designing and facilitating capacity building programs in the Middle East, Africa, and India. Networked NGO : I’ll be combing the two above in all my training work during 2012. I want to learn as much about how networked ways of working are used outside the US context.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 1, 2009

Offer ways for the community to create something together We designed an interactive map function on our website that shows where all the events are taking place. It has also allowed me to highlight some of the really hot areas of the map—like the UK, India, China, US, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

The event was designed for the Mashable audience, a younger and social media savvy group that has the hunger and capacity to consumer a lot of content as well as do good in the world. He mentioned developments in the technology – like the $35 tablet in India – that are getting many more people who were left out connected.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 22, 2011

Adobe’s software donation programs through TechSoup help organizations design powerful print collateral, create video accounts of their successes, build their web presence, and more. Check out some of the recent entries: The American Indian Foundation takes you on a tour of India’s slums. Youth Services.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 16, 2011

Of course Jason Hiner acknowledges that there will still be exceptions for people who rely on their computers to do more serious video editing, multimedia production, computer aided design, and software development. An even greater and far-reaching implication is the problem of rich countries leaving poor countries even further in the dust.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 19, 2014

But ebooks and audio books are by far the most popular accessible formats, and publishers do sell them (although ironically many of these have digital rights management technologies designed to defeat illegal copying but also stop accessibility technology).

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 15, 2011

Malhan’s approach to developing accessibility is informed by his experience in a developing country, namely India, where advanced technologies, like smartphones, are not as readily available or affordable. According to Malhan, the biggest challenge in the developing world for the disabled is a lack access to resources and information.

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