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The Networked NGO in Pakistan

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am looking forward to the next six months of working with this amazing group of Packard Foundation grantees half-way around the world. Grantees Implement A Modest and Realistic Action Learning Pilot. Social media practices are just that – they get strong and stay strong with practice – so success means consistent application and learning.

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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. This was the launch of a peer learning group called β€œThe Networked NGO,” based on [.]

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12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

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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Spotlight on South Africa: Nonprofit Profiles from SANGONeT

Tech Soup

The Media and Training Centre for Health specializes in the design and development of community learning models that promote health and empowerment in marginalized communities. Peace Parks Foundation was spearheaded by former South African President Nelson Mandela with the mission to protect natural preserves in South Africa and beyond.

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Increasing Accessible Publishing Globally

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Under the theme β€œAchieving Our Vision through Empowerment and Partnerships,” this was the first-ever combined General Assembly of both WBU and the International Council for Education of People with Visual Impairment ( ICEVI ), another world-class organization in the field. The November 2012 General Assembly took place in Bangkok, Thailand.

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WORTH Trust Solves Tech Woes to Help More Kids in India

Tech Soup

Not only does WORTH work towards creating a barrier-free world for the physically challenged, it does this work with the help of people who have different abilities, creating a circle of empowerment. Around this time, through a friendly IT consultant, WORTH Trust heard about NASSCOM Foundation's software donation initiative, BigTech.

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What is your β€œIndividual Social Responsibility (ISR)?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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