Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

Microsoft will match individual donations through Give for Youth, through October 1st and up to $100,000. Mary Mwende told us about her journey from Mombasa, Kenya, to being one of ten girls chosen for the Global Give Back Circle , a mentoring and empowerment program. ” Their solution is Microsoft YouthSpark.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 3, 2009

The dual purpose was to promote Comm's recently published book and to raise money for a ministry that provides clean water in Kenya. During the four-day campaign, each Tweet will leverage a 10 cent donation – up to 50,000 Tweets – from NCM Fathom to the global humanitarian organization CARE. According to Joel Comm , $13,000 was raised.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 18, 2014

Kisumu, Kenya: Social Media Week. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in: Africa. Vancouver, Canada: Small Changes for Big Results: How to Optimize Your Online Donations. Busia, Kenya: Building for the Future with Appmaker-Mozilla Western Kenya Network.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Orlando's October event explores donation platforms for Giving Tuesday , and in Vancouver, the focus will be on creating effective matching donation campaigns. So far we've scheduled events in Kenya and Uganda, and will be adding more cities throughout the fall. Orlando, Florida: Donation Platforms for #GivingTuesday.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 3, 2017

Office 365 — how nonprofits can take leverage Microsoft's donated suite of tools to modernize their organizations and embrace the cloud. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa + Middle East. Asia + Pacific Rim.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 1, 2016

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Austin, Texas: Microsoft | How to Obtain a Donation and the Benefits of Microsoft 365. Busia, Kenya: Stop Cyberbullying Day SCD 2016. The link need to be like so: Africa. Africa and Middle East. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 13, 2014

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Morrisville, North Carolina: Does Your Donation Page Need Work? Busia, Kenya. Maker Party Western Kenya. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 3, 2015

Its first event focuses on the free Google for Nonprofits donation program. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Busia, Kenya: Safer Internet Campaign — February 10 to March 25. Busia, Kenya: Teaching Mobile Apps Development to High School Students.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 9, 2009

On the Water is Life site there is not a fleshed about "About" page that tells me anything about the organization's board, founding, budget, or a donation link. After a bit of googling, I discovered that the nonprofit has a different name " Hearts and Hands International " and the Water Is Life is a project. I can relate to that!

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 14, 2014

Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. What's at Cost: This is an all-or-nothing platform , meaning that if you don't meet your set goal for funds, you don't get to keep any of the donations. Kickstarter. based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 13, 2015

From this moment on, I truly felt an emotional connection to the foundation's work in Kenya and Tanzania and appreciated the reality of these everyday problems that are so often looked over in favor of more dramatic conflict. I don't think I have been more blown away by a technological advance than this one. My Prediction.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 20, 2008

million refugees outside their countries, as well as 26 million others displaced internally by conflict or persecution at the end of 2007." A sponsor of UNCHR will donate $.10 will be donated on your behalf. Today, there is a total of 11.4 The Dispatch also reports that the reason for the increase is the war in Iraq.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 3, 2013

Project creators offer rewards and incentives for donations to thank backers for their support. What's at Cost: This is an all-or-nothing platform , meaning that if you don't meet your set goal for funds, you don't get to keep any of the donations. Kickstarter. based projects, pledges are processed by Amazon Payments.

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Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

This was originally posted on the GuideStar International blog. The International Telecommunications Union (ITU). For those nonprofits working on economic issues - In Kenya, the M-Pesa. For nonprofits working on fundraising - Comic Relief in the United Kingdom raised over £7m from text message donations in 2011.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Austin, Texas: Microsoft | How to Obtain a Donation and the Benefits of Microsoft 365. Busia, Kenya: NetSquared Kenya Supporting Encryption and Journalism. The link need to be like so: Africa. Mukono, Uganda.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

Red Cross tweets, news, and updates generated so much credibility among the Chicago community that offers of cash, blood donations, and volunteer assistance immediately followed the crisis. One of the main ones that anchors this work is Ushahidi.

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Connection Cafe

AUGUST 26, 2020

We’ve been holding internal meetings with our board every two weeks to let them know where we are, what’s going on, and how we can support them, as well as weekly calls with Division Directors of 160 universities and school programs that have infectious disease divisions. imagine living in a refugee camp in Kenya.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Jumo helps connects people with issues and organizations on the first rung of the ladder of engagement, but the challenge will be how to cultivate relationships to bring people up that ladder to higher levels of engagement and involvement – from following and connecting to making donations to making change offline.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? We have a vision to build a sickle cell-centric hospital in Western Kenya.” We just recently we’ve got a project in Kenya with our partner Valley Light and their funding partner in America, Just One Africa. ” And they donated 90% of their design fees.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Monthly giving programs in particular have seen explosive growth, with revenue growing by 43 percent.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 31, 2006

They are donating the proceeds from next month's dinners to Maathai's project, Women for Change. In June 1975, during the the International Women's Year, governments and women from all over the world met in Mexico City for the United Nation's First International Wonmen's Conference.

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JUNE 19, 2009

. ** Kjerstin Erickson: FORGE is an international nonprofit organization that works with refugee communities in Africa. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. The biggest problem with international development is that people don't know where their money is going.

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MARCH 4, 2021

Optimize your donation page. Find matching donations. Optimize your donation page. Our first fundraising idea for 2021 to ensure that you’re getting the most donations throughout the year is optimize your donation page. Take a quick look at the donation page on your website. Find matching donations.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 18, 2012

The big nonprofit tech trends this past year seemed to be in the areas of making websites viewable on mobile phones, using mobile phones more in the workplace, cloud computing, social media fundraising, foundations and Microsoft donations, greater self-sufficiency among NGOs in developing countries, and some cutting edge things like hackathons.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 20, 2014

Because both companies provide significant software donations to charities, this bodes well for nonprofits. This offer is international. It’s a new international charity classification system that will pave the way for better grantmaking, especially online and international philanthropy.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. The success of mpesa in combination with the arrival of broadband there has stimulated the billion dollar ‘silicon savanah’ movement in Kenya.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Marsha Wallace: Dining for Women is an international giving circle, and our mission is to support and empower self-sufficiency for women and girls who live in extreme poverty in developing countries. Instead of eating in a restaurant and paying a tab for a meal, they make a donation. Then, we send one check to the featured program.

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AUGUST 20, 2008

For example, in Kenya, only 7% of the population, of the labor force, has a job in the formal private sector. We started off with equipment, for example, in Kenya, for manufacturing low-cost building materials. They live about 40 miles outside of the big city in Kenya, Nairobi. His name is Felix, and his wife is Lucy.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Now the bad news: the international NGO sector saw a decline in online giving. African countries are the primary users of mobile banking and a hotbed of innovation in this field like the Safaricom M-PESA mobile payment system in Kenya. Monthly giving programs in particular have seen explosive growth, with revenue growing by 43 percent.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

These issues and the nonprofits listed below will be at the forefront of my activism this year as well as the recipients of 10% of my webinar income (more than $10,000 donated thus far!): SOS Children’s Villages International :: @ SOS_Children. Girls Education International :: @ GirlsED. ECPAT International :: @ ECPAT.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

” Using a webinar and conference call platform, we were able to bring in participants from San Francisco, Rwanda, Kenya, Algeria, Tunisia, and Egypt. Next we heard from Dr. Wanjiru Kamau-Rutenberg is Founder and Executive Director of Akili Dada and based in Kenya. Originally from Kenya, she earned a B.A.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JULY 27, 2011

Over 550 cradles were created and donated by artists around the world. Connect with Kenya through CD Baby and Source Consulting Group. Naomi served as an artist-in-residence at Columbia College Chicago in 2008, 2010 and 2011. She speaks internationally on the topics of art and activism, as well as her installation works.

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NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. And, at a time when the international women's movement is facing challenges, it would be great to have a reminder that good news is going on, that good work is being done, that progress is happening. Paola Gianturco: My name is Paola Gianturco.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

of total philanthropic resources each year that actually directly go to benefit women and girls, and that includes both domestic and international grant making. It works in over 160 countries around the world. Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format.

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