Tech Soup

MAY 26, 2011

Can you remember when a huge mobile. reported that this year there are over 5 billion mobile subscriptions. The mobile phone (henceforth to. be referred to as "the mobile" in this post) is an important ICT tool for. The mobile phone (henceforth to. A vast majority of these mobile users are in.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 6, 2014

Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. It’s a mobile service that allows individuals to support hotel placements for people urgently in need of safe shelter. The velocity of learning will be high. Ship often.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 8, 2016

At the workshop they met a group of fantastic young women – girls, really – who are teaching themselves to design mobile apps to address community problems like sexual violence. In 2015, Noel helped them to publish their mobile app, Women Fight Back , on the Google Play store. You can make a donation here.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

As part of the Transforming Communities project, we had the opportunity to explore apps targeted toward youth as well as apps developed by youth. Transforming Communities is a Microsoft-funded initiative that builds on what TechSoup and Microsoft already learned through the first App It Up project. Apps Made by Youth.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 1, 2015

What CSR projects have had the biggest impact? What have been the biggest pain points, obstacles, and weaknesses? What have been the biggest successes? How can non-tech CSR teams better use technology and innovate in their own missions? More About Our Participants. UN relations. unfoundation. Image: +SocialGood. spanhidden

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 3, 2011

Two such organizations are Apps for Good and Youth Radio's Mobile Action Lab , which are teaching youth to learn, create, and improve their communities through the development of apps. Apps for Good "is an award-winning course where young people learn to create imaginative mobile apps that change their world."

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Agile Project Management for Nonprofits. Atrisco, New Mexico: Working Group and Help Desk: Bring Your Projects and Tech Challenges. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Tuesday, September 12, 2017.

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Forum One

MAY 20, 2009

But wait, are people in developing areas, and even rural areas, even getting access to the web and/or to mobile technology? Can we really debate one laptop per child and mobile access when kids may really just need food, clothes and school books? Empowerment is key. Everyone had a mission and wanted to achieve their end goal.

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Tech Soup

MAY 11, 2015

This project began as a Code for America project in Detroit. They designed an open-source mobile browser-based app that allows the user to quickly collect and map data while on the ground. It was the first project of its kind in 28 years. The project was created by the St. Data Collecting and Mapping.

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Tech Soup

JULY 8, 2011

mobile technologies, distribution of power and wealth, transparency in. data and governance, profiting from social change projects, and access to data and tools. “[In Africa] the race is on to find what mobiles can do in areas as disparate as public health, governance and education.” It kept me interested in the.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2014

Human trafficking survivors are better able to access the kinds of resources necessary to get safe and stable housing, social services, and economic empowerment. In our case, one of the finalists was the human trafficking housing locator from Polaris Project and the New Jersey Department of Children and Families.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 7, 2022

NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). Proposals can be for either core or project-specific support. Areas served: US. Boulware Foundation. Areas served: Worldwide.

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Kindful

MARCH 5, 2021

NVF for GPA funds projects across a broad range of issues, including but not limited to: Family planning, Financial services for the poor, Gender equality, Maternal, Newborn, and Child Health (MNCH). Proposals can be for either core or project-specific support. Areas served: US. Boulware Foundation. Areas served: Worldwide.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JULY 27, 2008

James Young, on the Connection Cafe, suggests that we think about constituent empowerment when we think about organizational websites. ’&# She gives some great suggestions and examples Joanne Fritz talks about three big mistakes – outdated information, insufficient contact information, and outdated design.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

Exxon Mobil ($213 million cash). In the case of Microsoft, their current mission is youth empowerment. Once you do get a conversation with someone in corporate philanthropy, do your homework beforehand on organizations and project that they’re supporting. The 2012 leaders were: Wells Fargo Bank ($315 million cash).

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

JUNE 19, 2008

But in the nonprofit realm, my perspective on helping nonprofit organizations with technology issues has a lot to do with client empowerment, learning based on what’s needed at the moment, and active collaboration. Sounds a lot like Edupunk, doesn’t it?

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 8, 2013

Exxon Mobil ($213 million cash). In the case of Microsoft, their current mission is youth empowerment. Once you do get a conversation with someone in corporate philanthropy, do your homework beforehand on organizations and project that they’re supporting. The 2012 leaders were: Wells Fargo Bank ($315 million cash).

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 27, 2012

It marked the start of a six month peer learning exchange where I, along with colleague Stephanie Rudat will work remotely with grantees as they implement an action learning project to put techniques into practice and facilitate organizational change from the inside out. Program Design. Peer Learning Exchange: Theory of Change.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 10, 2015

Transcending "Social:" Visibility and Empowerment In An Uber-Mega-Meta Self-Conscious Age Speaker: Jianda Johnson, Business and Resource Development Specialist, Guadalupe Montessori School. But they aren’t going to cure cancer, reduce hunger, or improve pre-K education.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 20, 2015

Empowerment, Shelter, and Support. On October 3, it held a Purple Paw Project festival at a local park. By providing mobile advocacy, we are able to take our services to locations that are convenient for the people we serve. Brighter Tomorrows, Inc.: The mission of Brighter Tomorrows, Inc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

But as Daniel Ben-Horin said, “Our theory of change states that software products are necessary, but not sufficient for empowerment of social change organizations. When the earthquake struck earlier this year, their partner, quickly put together a mobile telecentre equipped with servers, Internet, and software.

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NTEN

AUGUST 25, 2009

And as web-enabled mobile devices gain popularity, actual computers may become less and less important to the information economy, but monthly fees won't. While it's possible to argue that the role money plays in the persistence of digital inequality is diminishing , it is difficult. And who needs libraries when we have Wikipedia and Kindles?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2012

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. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey. Then he asks one of the multiple-choice questions.

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Cloud 4 Good

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

Across ten incredible years, Cloud for Good has experienced tremendous year-over-year growth, granting the opportunity to work on increasingly larger and more complex projects with enterprise nonprofits and higher education institutions. Optimizing + Enhancing New Entry Sustainable Farming Project’s Technology.

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Care2

NOVEMBER 20, 2008

57) Mobile (15) Nonprofit Benchmark Studies (15) Nonprofit Events (36) nptech (8) Online Advertising (5) Online Advocacy (47) Online Fundraising (97) Online Marketing (59) Online Organizing (32) SEO (3) Social Networking (109) Technology (31) Trends (51) Video (27) Volunteering (2) Web 2.0 (60) Created a wall of 5,000 signers photos.

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Everyaction

JULY 23, 2018

Our work started by focusing on long term empowerment projects. For the past 5 or 6 years we've had a small but steady group of supporters who are primarily invested in our empowerment projects. It really showcases our efforts moving from beyond just relief to empowerment. Our culinary school is just one example.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 7, 2011

While I faced a difficult decision culling winners from the forty focused initiatives described in the entries, I selected the following based on their innovative and courageous approaches to a variety of social issues, from new types of housing for the underserved, to animal welfare, to women’s empowerment. Mobilizing 1 million people!

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

APRIL 24, 2007

Certainly, if you are a technology provider that values empowerment of your clients, this is probably a good model to consider. Empowerment – as you help them with a problem, teach them about the problem, and ways to troubleshoot (or possibly solve) the problem themselves in the future. Second, Empowerment.

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sgEngage

JUNE 2, 2011

It gets into some real finite looks at strategy, too, and types of approaches that work, including participation, serving great content, top down influencer approaches and empowerment techniques like crowdsourcing. Mobile initiatives, like the Human Society of the United States hiring a mobile manager.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 2, 2007

Holly has now been out meeting with the International Labor Organization and thinking about different ways that you really help create empowerment for women who work in informal markets. The other thing we do through World of Good Development Organization, is we make grants back to the communities for economic development projects.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

That said, in 2012 I had the opportunity to travel to Africa and Asia and from those travel experiences three themes emerged that inspired the selection of this year’s nonprofits: 1) Women’s and girls empowerment; 2) Conservation of wildlife and wild lands; and 3) Access to medical care. Ewaso Lions :: @ EwasoLions.

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EveryAction

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

Lakota People's Law Project. Lakota People’s Law Project has been partnering with tribes and leaders in South Dakota since 2005, exposing serious ongoing State violations of the Indian Child Welfare Act. Latino Victory Project. Donate | Stay Informed | Twitter | Facebook. Donate | Twitter | Facebook. NARAL Pro-Choice America.

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Museum 2.0

JUNE 11, 2014

“Pop Up” has become an international buzz term to describe ephemeral, experimental projects--from pop up restaurants to pop up boutiques--but a “Pop Up Museum” is still somewhat mystifying. There are many different models, including The Pop-Up Museum of Queer History , The New York Met , SF Mobile Museum , and even a Pop Up Prison Museum.

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Zen and the Art of Nonprofit Technology

SEPTEMBER 9, 2006

are about empowerment of individuals, and connecting people to each other by the content that they create, or are interested in. I think Web 2.0, like it’s version number suggests, is a much richer, more rewarding experience than Web 1.0 And, I think that there is a lot that the nptech field can get from using Web 2.0

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

Britt Bravo: In so many of the groups you profiled, the women were using the arts for education, empowerment, or healing. They write poems about their experiences, and when they recite them in community meetings, their neighbors are outraged, and mobilized immediately to action. And the little girls do exactly that.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2006

Britt: Tell us a little bit about your work here, like what does your day look like, what kind of brought you to this work, for people who are like, "Oh, I want to work in a project like that!" They create list servs, they create projects together. Kind of like what brought you here, what skills and things like that?

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