VQ Strategies

SEPTEMBER 24, 2020

Just this week, Points of Light released its Civic Life Today: A look at American Civic Engagement Amid a Global Pandemic report, which states that: Prior to the pandemic, voting and donations to nonprofits were the primary ways people participated in civic life. Today, people believe civic action is more important than ever before.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Ed Granger-Happ, Nethope; Claire Bonilla, Disaster Response Microsoft; Daniel Ben-Horin, TechSoup Global, Vida Durant, CARE USA. Microsoft’s technology capacity work in the nonprofit technology sector includes partnerships with Tech Soup Global , NetHope in disaster relief as well as others.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 27, 2008

Philanthropy, Fundraising, Disasters, and Video Good corporate citizenship was highlighted at Davis this past week. Intel unveiled its support for the Global Education Alliance's pilot program to create an education framework in Rwanda. The NpTech Tag started as an experimental community tagging project in 2005.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 10, 2010

It was the perfect storm: we knew it was time to host a meeting of TechSoup Global's partners in the Asia/Pacific region. Tags: Digital Divide. By coincidence, Nasscom (our partner NGO in India) was hosting its annual India Leadership Forum that same week in Mumbai, and several of our partners had staff attending the conference.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 19, 2010

This week we're featuring an article by TechSoup Global's expert in data security, Richard Collins. Richard also covers the important area of disaster recovery, a field much talked about in cloud security, which essentially means whether or not your critical data is secure and accessible in an emergency.

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Tech Soup

MAY 23, 2014

TechSoup Global donation partner, Cisco , is starting to talk about an alternative to cloud computing, the paradigm that relies on huge data centers to do all our processing. Disaster Relief in Eastern Europe. Find what TechSoup Global thinks about the new FCC net neutrality decision here. They’re calling it The Fog.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 5, 2013

Data Digest is a weekly round-up of the latest news on data-related projects in the nonprofit sector, compiled and authored by Keisha Taylor of GuideStar International and TechSoup Global. It originally appeared on NetSquared. The names of organisations have however been anonymized.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. The work of the CrisisCamps was indeed both global and local -- and the cloud infrastructure made it possible. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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NTEN

MARCH 18, 2010

CrisisCamps are independent, disbursed, volunteer efforts to develop lightweight technology solutions to help with disaster relief. The work of the CrisisCamps was indeed both global and local -- and the cloud infrastructure made it possible. CrisisCamps is not a rogue example.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 8, 2010

Roger told us about his job as a writer for Mercy Corps , where he's traveled to places like the Congo, Bosnia-Herzegovina, and most recently Haiti, writing about the man-made and natural disasters that have struck those places and the accompanying relief efforts. Tags: Digital Divide Reporting Running Your Organization.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 21, 2014

However, the backlash to it is gaining momentum and it's being tagged as slactivism. " This seems interesting considering that "downer news," more specifically disaster imagery, has always driven up donations. Note: TechSoup Global is donating to the ALA Association as well. million dollars compared to the 1.9

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 26, 2009

In a time when more and more nonprofits are blurring the line between local and global, I think that services like WWL can make a huge difference in how we communicate and collaborate. Last week, TechSoup published our new guide, The Resilient Organization: A Guide for Disaster Planning and Recovery. Tools Web 2.0

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Forum One

JANUARY 22, 2010

I was impressed by the number of developers who came out to support the idea that improved technology tools could help deliver aid more quickly, coordinate large numbers of people, allow for information transparency among aid groups, and potentially forecast humanitarian disasters to avoid huge loss of life. Photo above by Leslie Jenkins.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 14, 2009

We have a global economic meltdown. And we have this thing called the global climate crisis. When disaster strikes and people need water and shelter, they are not usually in a position to pay for that service. Tags: social entrepreneurs Summit Social Enterprise Alliance SEA09 social enterprise Social innovation.

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Amy Sample Ward

JUNE 6, 2011

Actions and messages were contextualized based on the issues and discussions taking place at both the global and local level. You want to be weary of hero worship in a movement, but that’s addressed by constantly changing out the spotlight – shining a light on people, partners, organizations and policy makers, actions local and global.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 17, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Tags: sxsw. Advanced Brand Monitoring: Let the Haters Hate : This panel will get into the whys and hows to monitor your brand in a social world. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Whole Whale

JANUARY 5, 2022

Let’s take a second to play a quick association game: Think about a natural disaster, such as a hurricane or an earthquake. Valentine’s Day does have groups like Eve Ensler’s V-Day that promotes ending violence against women globally through performances of The Vagina Monologues and other awareness events. billion ( NRF 2017 Survey ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 3, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Tags: sxsw. Advanced Brand Monitoring: Let the Haters Hate : This panel will get into the whys and hows to monitor your brand in a social world. Twitterstorm, anyone? Carie Lewis.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 4, 2007

Use Your Nonprofit Blog to Report Back From an Event, Trip or Disaster Do you have staff or constituents going to a conference that your supporters would be interested in hearing about? Blogs can also provide ways for people to find out information about loved ones if your organization works in disaster relief situations.

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NTEN

AUGUST 21, 2009

you'll hear case studies of social media disasters and how they could have been prevented, as well as how brands have dealt with potential PR nightmares. Tags: beth kanter NPTech sxsw. Advanced Brand Monitoring: Let the Haters Hate : This panel will get into the whys and hows to monitor your brand in a social world. Carie Lewis.

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Forum One

FEBRUARY 24, 2010

Disaster Response. In coordination with its global, regional, and local disaster response partners, the Department of State should maintain a standing directory of point of contact information for governmental, intergovernmental, and nongovernmental organizations by country. International Disaster Community of Practice.

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NTEN

NOVEMBER 23, 2010

Combining maps with data can take you even further: Humaninet uses GIS to help disaster response teams; Movesmart.org helps people find apartments in Chicago; Map Kibera is adding a level of detail to one of Africa's largest slums even Google Maps can't offer. Tags: NPTech NTEN.

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NTEN

OCTOBER 4, 2010

By Edward Granger-Happ, Global CIO, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC) and Chairman, NetHope. I could point to the Haiti disaster as the tipping point in cell phones -- for the increased engagement with donors, and more importantly, for the contributions of information from survivors. Read his full bio.

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Museum 2.0

MAY 7, 2007

That may be fine for people who want the exercise of reinventing the wheel, but it's a disaster if our goal is to grow and improve what we offer to visitors. It was only 15 years ago we at ASTC did a global warming exhibition. Tags: Technology Tools Worth Checking Out exhibition Museums Engaging in 2.0

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 10, 2009

September is Preparedness Month: We know that September is usually a bad month for hurricanes and other natural disasters. NMC Future Symposium explore applications of techology that could impact issues of global importance over next five years or more. Global Voices Bloggers Mentor Others. Tags: nptechtagsummary.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 29, 2010

One, the key issue facing activists who wish for real social change is the mismatch between the scale of our problems (global) and the natural scale of our sociality (local). Marc VanBree talks about it from his experience as a free agent raising money for disaster relief in Nashville. I will make two main points in this post.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 12, 2009

Objective : 1) Measure the effectiveness among 18-45 year olds of event sponsorship and advertising in real-time and 2) Measure this audience’s interest in green issues raised by the global concerts and sponsors. Objective : Provide lifesaving assistance during the natural disasters that occurred in China and Myanmar.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 9, 2013

She’s one of our great forward-thinking people at TechSoup Global. She just did a presentation to the Gates Global Libraries Working Group in November 2013 on the top tech trends for libraries. Full disclosure, she also manages Simplify , a new partnership between TAG and GuideStar, which is a new approach to applying for grants.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 9, 2010

It was initially developed to map reports of violence in Kenya after the post-election fallout at the beginning of 2008 and has been used for many other projects, including tracking disaster relief efforts in Haiti. Tags: Networks mobile. More recently, the London Tube used it to track disruptions from the Tube strike.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 25, 2010

This latter category included such great projects as Tech Soup Global, which distributes donated Microsoft products at a deep, deep discount (a service we’ve used at Benetech for years) as well as support for the efforts of NetHope in disaster relief. Tags: photoDNA citizenship CSR exploitation NCMEC Microsoft.

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sgEngage

FEBRUARY 15, 2011

Share 0 saves Save If you enjoyed this post, please consider leaving a comment or subscribing to the RSS feed to have future articles delivered to your feed reader. I am cycling and walking on and off since 1991 and I do like to do it for charity cause from now on. Any suggestion?

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Non Profit Quarterly

AUGUST 3, 2022

Whether the tasks power autonomous weapons systems raining disaster down on slum districts or else power geographic data for humanitarian agencies that provide aid to such disaster zones is knowledge not available to the workers. A global ‘servant economy’ beckons, writes Jason E.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 29, 2010

From the global to the local, here are #10Ways geolocation is a positive force for good. It has revolutionized communications on a global scale, and the transformation continues with every status update, blog post, and video stream. The global citizenry has become a global network. Social media has changed the world.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

I love year-ahead forecasts and have looked a number of them from all over the global IT press. We also noticed a significant increase in the way that mobile technology is being used in disaster relief. Here’s what the buzz seems to be for 2013 from a nonprofit technology viewpoint. The Forecasts for 2012. Mobile Computing.

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