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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. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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International Women’s Day: Using Technology to Empower Women and Girls

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

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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Schwab Social Entrepreneurs Summit 2007

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Mirai Chatterjee of the Self Employed Women's Association in India explains social entrepreneurs as private initiatives that used business models around financial sustainability, self-help and empowerment. He pointed out that SEs are all about breaking away from charity and alms giving and focusing on pragmatic problem solving.

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SAP Gives Back

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They contribute curriculum ideas, teaching, and even an interactive social network so that members of their virtual university community can participate in webinars, blogs, and peer-to-peer coaching. movement, a world of 7 billion has implications for sustainability, urbanization, access to health services, and youth empowerment.

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. It’s more fun to teach this way and more fun to learn this. That’s the theory at least.

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Get Help in Telling the Story of Your Nonprofit's Impact

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Mumbai, India: Storymakers 2017. Kampala, Uganda: Teaching Youths the Dangers of the Internet. Mahikeng, South Africa: Rural Tech Empowerment. Seattle, Washington: Bolder and Wiser: Nonprofit Advocacy Rights (Part 1). Asia and Pacific Rim. Wednesday, September 6, 2017. Adelaide, Australia: Storymakers in Adelaide.

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What is your “Individual 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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