TechImpact

JUNE 30, 2013

As discussed in a recent report from Jim Lynch at Techsoup, the NGO MyDigitalBridge just recently started its work in the mostly rural nation of Namibia. The crusade for digital inclusion, an undertaking still well underway here in the United States and throughout the developed world, is also alive well in rural regions of Africa.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

Our government is discussing providing free wifi throughout in Mexico City which is a very good sign for crowdfunding and even better for NGOs funding. Fundar is a 20-year old Mexican NGO in the filed of research and advocacy to fight corruption, impunity, and to adovcate for human rights.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 26, 2015

This tweetchat will highlight three reasons why your NGO/nonprofit,/charity should register the new domains and discuss how you can integrate the new domains into your online branding effort. After four years of planning and hard work, on May 6 the Public Interest Registry and OnGood will release the new.NGO and.ONG domains worldwide.

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VisionLink

FEBRUARY 10, 2014

At the Institute, 9 Community Colleges from Florida, Ohio, and North Carolina gathered to discuss engaging stakeholders around success for all community college students. Over the 2-day event, the groups formulated concrete messaging intended to gain legislator, faculty and media support for their work. VisionLink'

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 13, 2013

In honor of World NGO Day on Thursday, February 27, Nonprofit Tech for Good will be presenting a free webinar covering the top 10 online communications and fundraising best practices for NGOs. Date: Thursday, February 27, 2014. Time: 9am (New York City), 2pm (London), 5pm (Nairobi). Cost: Free. Duration: 90 minutes.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

They also discuss and explore the risks and common concerns. UK and a marketing support officer for the environmental NGO Become Carbon Negative. This session is for anyone interested in learning about how the technology is being used in fundraising and assumes the audience has no, or little, prior knowledge of the topic.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Current growth is occurring in parts of the world where “NGO” and “ONG” are commonly used terms and in regions where “nonprofit” and “charity” are more common, many nonprofits and charities are purchasing the domains (they are sold as a bundle) and having them forward to their.ORG website(s).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2018

Last week at the IFC-Asia , I co-designed and facilitated a 90 minute workshop with Marco Kuntze titled “ The Digital NGO: The Journey from Paper to Screen.” There are different approaches to assigning people to groups and facilitating small group discussions from assigning to letting participants self-organize.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

Raising awareness for bullying in schools, the organization GreatSchools.org drew on parents’ personal experiences with bullying and parenting to discuss the uncomfortable subject of bullying in schools. Personal stories lend credibility to the issue and can help donors connect on a deeper emotional level.

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Wild Apricot

AUGUST 23, 2010

A lively LinkedIn discussion was kicked off when Elizabeth Watkin , program coordinator at Africa Carbon Credit Exchange,asked, “ What makes a good non-profit website? What do you like to see on a charity/non-profit/NGO website and what do you dislike? Would a website encourage you to donate or get involved? read more ).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 24, 2012

If you work for an NGO in another region of the world or have experience delivering capacity building program, I encourage you to join the discussion here. He also emphasized that “organizational assessment” is a large umbrella term that encompasses a wide variety of tools and purposes, a fact that further complicates our discussions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” I delivered one of the keynotes and as you can see from this slide, we had two screens presenting materials in both languages.

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Candid

AUGUST 25, 2021

Nancy Lindborg and Candid’s President Brad Smith recently connected to discuss how the Packard Foundation came to this decision and the impact they hope it will have. I know from being in the NGO world for many years what kind of a burden that can be.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2006

Sangonet , an organization that focuses on capacity building with ICT for NGOS in South Africa, recently announced the finalists for the NGO Web awards. After the explanation of th judging process, I found this note: Low Budget Options and Freebies For NGOs who. NGOs website, SANGONeT suggests that you take a look at creating a.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JANUARY 25, 2022

A CRM integration can help you keep tabs on which team members have been in contact with particular donors, the dates of their last touchpoints, and what was discussed so your team can avoid saturating donors’ inboxes or, worse yet, forgetting to reach out. Connect directly to Nonprofit Success Pack or NGO Connect.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 25, 2010

More than 35 NGO and IT practitioners came together to explore ways of strengthening Romanian civil society through communications and local philanthropy development, lowering barriers to outreach through involvement of the Romanian IT&C community and developing a practical best practices repository with a platform for ongoing discussion.

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ASU Lodestar Center

APRIL 12, 2013

highlight current research reports or studies and discuss how they can. My days as an Ally are behind me, but the passion remains: in December of 2012 I found myself on a plane bound for a Tanzanian NGO. Toting my understanding of international development, and my NGO experience, I figured I knew to expect the unexpected.

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ASU Lodestar Center

OCTOBER 24, 2012

This post is a continuation of Seeds for a Future Part 1: Getting your NGO off the ground. When starting a nongovernmental organization (NGO) in a community other than your own, it is important to recognize that there are cultural barriers (try to call these "opportunities") to consider. Like this article? Get another!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

The design for this project was very different than my accustomed way of designing and delivering the Networked NGO trainings and social media skills. We were asked to reflect on how the objective represents Women’s Leadership and to find a partner to discuss our observations and get to know each other.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 10, 2012

I’m excited because that means friends and NGO colleagues in other parts of the world can get the book! October 17 from 4-6 pm, Book Party and Discussion – hosted by ZeroDivide, Northern California Grantmakers, and the Levi Strauss Foundation. New book by @ kanter @ kdpaine amz.to/measure-networ… measure-networ… DM me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 5, 2010

In less than 24 hours, I will be boarding a plane bound for Mumbai to present at the NASSCOM conference called NASSCOM India Leadership where I'll be on a panel on NGO and Social Media as well as lead a discussion at an unconference on whether CEO/Executive Director's should use social media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

On the afternoon of Tuesday, April 5th, here’s a few of the topics we’ll be discussing: Taking Risks with Networks. How to support NGO leaders who want to work with a network mindset but run into obstacles, like their board? How and when to catalyze networks? When don’t networks work? What are the different models?

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance. Make sure you know what minimum wage laws provide.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 24, 2012

This week on the Microsoft Citizenship blog , there's an interesting profile of Concern Worldwide , an NGO that fights poverty in 25 of the poorest countries in the world. Discussion: Secure Sites for Office Sharing. The profile shows how Concern uses Office 365 to connect its office staff and field workers.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

The larger questions about when and how the registry and its data will be rolled out for direct use by the larger nonprofit community are currently under discussion — but the question is more "when" than "if." Next Steps Toward Public Use. Special Thanks. Also, as major v1.0 spanhidden.

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Care2

MARCH 18, 2012

“The campaign prompted discussion online and here in the US about KONY, although hardly anyone in Uganda is talking about him. In my view, most of the larger, more well known NGO's won't produce a communications piece this successful, unless they radically change their structures.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country. Every table conversation brings a new perspective and a new idea: whether it’s new knowledge, a great contact or a new extension to the idea under discussion.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 10, 2009

The “State of Mobile” topical sessions will be facilitated by leaders in both the NGO and private-sector-sphere. Sessions promise to cover leading theories and practices.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

According to our 2012 NGO Global Cloud Survey , collaboration is already one of the top ten current uses for cloud-based software among charities. I used it to project manage our recent global NGO cloud survey. Huddle is offering its online service to charities and libraries at a one-time admin fee, and a very reasonable one at that.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2010

I'll not only be speaking at the conference and CSR Track, but will be leading two workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners. On Wednesday, February 10, I will leading a discussion on "Should CEOs or Executive Director's Use Social Media?" Been researching and asking for referrals for NGO examples in India. Nirav Sanghavi.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery. Day 1 included a detailed project orientation as well as a design discussion about the online learning community site lead by Andrea Burton from Meedan, a partner in the project.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 2, 2012

They will share our survey findings and the primary motivations and barriers that nonprofits, libraries, and NGOs have for moving their IT to the cloud. Register for our free webinar to discuss the 2012 Global NGO Cloud Survey and find out how to: Make more informed decisions about cloud computing adoption.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. Our New NGO Partners in Indonesia. The technology is shipped directly to the local NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 14, 2012

In the LinkedIn discussion, Suzanne McDonald gives the example of Coca Cola, which is funding AIDS prevention in Africa but being sued in India for contaminating groundwater. Which is why LinkedIn discussions are important. So, when Geri offered up this second post about nonprofits and LinkedIn, I couldn’t resist.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

We discussed cloud adoption in Brazil's NGO sector with Valter Cegal of TechSoup Brasil. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters. Brazil is one of the fastest-growing economies in the world, but the cost of broadband Internet is hobbling cloud adoption in the region.

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