Empowerment, Language and Practice - Nonprofit Technology

Creating a Nonprofit Digital Strategy with ChatGPT: A Practical Guide

Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Crafting Your ChatGPT-Powered Nonprofit Digital Strategy Embark on a journey of strategic empowerment by leveraging ChatGPT throughout your digital strategy. The AI can suggest language that aligns with the SMART framework, aiding in conveying your goals succinctly. Utilizing ChatGPT, you can articulate these targets more effectively.

Digital

Digital Strategy Guide Create

An Evolution of Evaluation in Grantmaking With a Participatory Lens

sgEngage

OCTOBER 9, 2023

We offer some practical tips, some examples of funders doing this work, and some resources. And, the focus of MEL is generally on evaluating grantee projects or organizations, rather than on the grantmaker and its practices. Grantmakers want to know if their funding has created the change they have envisioned.

Participatory

Participatory Evaluation Empowerment Grant

Do Capacity Building Programs Help Nonprofits Achieve Better Results?

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 18, 2017

The Forgotten Roots of Capacity Development in the Movement for Ownership and Empowerment. Our practice emerged (and it truly emerged – our parent organization Counterpart International developed its theory of change after over 50 years of working in communities around the world) and was grounded in community led development.

Results

Results Program Build Help

12 Early Adopters of the.NGO and.ONG Domains

Nonprofit Tech for Good

DECEMBER 13, 2015

Unlike the.ORG domain which can be registered by any individual or brand (but mostly registered by nonprofits and socially conscious for-profits), the new.NGO and.ONG domains can only be registered by nonprofits, charities, NGOs (non-governmental organizations), and ONGs (non-governmental organizations in a romance-based language ).

Adopt

Adopt Pakistan Brazil Herzegovina

Hadley China

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MARCH 22, 2007

Just got some information on this cool program: The Hadley School for the Blind has launched an innovative program of English language learning and empowerment which spans the Pacific Ocean. Beginning English learners practice pronunciation and speak simple sentences. Hadley's international branch is located in Fuzhou, China.

China

China Skype Student Empowerment

Trainer’s Notebook: Facilitating Tech Training Internationally – Tips for Working with Interpreters

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 3, 2015

They started WAKE after working together for 15 years designing and leading global programs at the intersection of technology, civil society and women’s empowerment. It is always challenge to use participatory techniques when your participants are not native English speakers and you don’t speak the language.

Facilitation

Facilitation Training Train International

Bringing Millions of Books to Billions of People: Making the Book Truly Accessible

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Literacy and access to knowledge underpins just about every social good, from education, to economic development, to health, to women’s empowerment, democracy and respect for human rights. My point is that copyright exceptions enable the ebook to deliver far more social benefit than would be practical in an earlier era.

Accessibility

Accessibility eBook People Copyright

Future of Volunteering from the Volunteer Canada Perspective

Connection Cafe

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

Will these new practices be adopted even when we are an open society again? At Volunteer Canada we love to see companies expanding their employee community engagement programs (note our use of language…) to supporting the many ways employees can contribute to a better world. If so, why? I certainly hope so!

Canada

Canada Volunteer Virtual Companies

How to Prevent Burnout at Your Nonprofit, From the Experts

Classy

APRIL 27, 2021

Employees now have more access to stress management resources and empowerment to seek the support they need on an individual level. Ask for help when it’s appropriate with clear language. Daily Practices to Prevent Employee Burnout. There still is a personal responsibility today but I see successful companies stepping up.

Culture

Culture Nonprofit Attitude Awareness

Join the AI Revolution: Build Your First Low-Code Fundraising App

sgEngage

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Low-code is a practice, a platform, or a user experience that relies on a graphical user interface that automates aspects of the development process, eliminating dependencies on traditional computer programming approaches. There are now even natural language prompts powered by AI. What Is Low-Code and What Does It Have to Do with AI?

Build

Build Fundraising Blackbaud API

The 45 Social by Social Propositions

Amy Sample Ward

APRIL 7, 2009

It’s going to be called Social by Social: a practical guide to using new technologies to deliver social impact and it should be published and distributed by NESTA next month. Empowerment is unconditional. Think about mindset, language and skills before you think about tools, features and screen designs.

Social

Social Empowerment Conversation Skills

Our Museum: Extraordinary Resources on How Museums and Galleries Become Participatory Places

Museum 2.0

AUGUST 25, 2016

Our Museum started with a clear-eyed assessment of community engagement funding and practices across the UK. And in several cases, the projects constituted "empowerment lite" for participants rather than true collaboration, co-creation, or transformation. I recommend starting with the final report, No Longer Us and Them.

Museum

Museum Participatory Resource Place

Empowering Change: Caitlin Cohen of the Sigida Keneyali Project

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 8, 2007

Sigida Keneyali means “Health in Our Homes” in Bambara, the most common language in Mali. Practically, what this means is that the principle component of our program is a Community Health Action Committee (CHAG), responsible for designing, implementing, and evaluating their own public health and social development projects.

Mali

Mali Project Change NGO

Guest Post by Nora Grant: Lessons from A Year of Pop Up Museums

Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

We continuously iterated our pop up museum format with different set up designs and language to realize a structure that satisfied these objectives. Having a lot of pop up museums and observing what did and didn’t work enabled us to learn more about our community while providing practical, real-life content for the organizer’s kit.

Museum

Museum Grant Lesson History

The Global Fund for Women: An Interview with Kavita Ramdas

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Therefore, we are the only foundation I know of that will accept requests in any language, and in any format. Almost nowhere else in the world can you go and find the range of nationalities, ethnicities, race, language and backgrounds that you have here--not to mention the delicious food.

Global

Global Fund Interview United States

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