Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 17, 2015

First, “NGO” is an acronym meaning “non-governmental organization” whereas “ONG” means “non-governmental organization” in countries where a romance language is spoken i.e., Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. For example, halfthesky.ngo : 3.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 19, 2017

Tharum has served as a communications director for a number of international NGOs based in Cambodia, but recently launched his own communications agency. So, it was really a great honor to co-teach a master class on digital strategy and two crowdfunding workshops.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 13, 2018

My early career was in international development, working for the U.S. Agency for International Development and for an international NGO. Can you give us some examples that are already being implemented by nonprofits? One great example is Thorn , an organization founded to stop child sexual trafficking and abuse.

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Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2010

In those conversations, we realized that we probably had some good examples to share and case studies to provide; but we also realized that there were many, many more people we wanted to be having the conversation with! Tags: case studies wiki best practices communities of practice global international launch learning scale.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 4, 2010

The Global Scale project aims to create a resource for NGO practitioners where guidelines, lessons learned, tips, links and other help for ‘scaling up’ effective programs can be found. Visit the wiki today and share your ideas and examples! How to Contribute. Global Scale Discussion Group. Global Scale Wiki. December Roundtable.

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NOVEMBER 8, 2022

Charity: Water’s annual report is the perfect example of keeping it simple, but effective. Based in Bangladesh, BRAC is one of the largest international development organizations in the world, and their 2018 Annual Report uses innovative design elements to present their numerous programs and initiatives in an accessible way.

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ASU Lodestar Center

JANUARY 30, 2013

This may be the most overused and least accurate phrase we hear nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) utter in Guatemala. Before raising the hopes of any community, one of the first things an NGO should ask itself is: After we leave, what will remain in the community, and is it something they want and can sustain?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 7, 2006

I'm trying to break out of my geographic silo and cross some boundaries as it pertains to ngo and nonprofit technology resources. Todays foray took me dipping into the NGO Learning Wiki where I discovered Capacity.org. their internal motivations ???fuel??? Examples: KM4DEV ). their activities.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

Seemingly simple questions, such as how to precisely define the term "organization" in a manner that will be useful globally, have spurred spirited internal debates that have yielded interesting new insights. NGO globalgiving nonprofit Foundation Center bridge grantmaking international nonprofits philanthropy Guidestar'

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 15, 2012

I was honored to be a trainer as part of the launch of the ACE Leaders Project, a program developed by the Institute of International Education Sub-Saharan Regional Office and supported by the Packard Foundation. I facilitated a session that introduced networks, networking, and the Networked NGO. Network assessment.

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JANUARY 8, 2024

For example, ChatGPT is easy to learn and use. Whether you’re a small community organization or a large international NGO, selecting the right technology is key for achieving fundraising success in 2024. Embrace ever-evolving social media trends.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 10, 2011

For the Packard Foundation OE Program, the first step to share their internal thinking and resources with their NGO, capacity building, and funding partners. You can learn in public in different ways – self-directed individual learning, with a peer group or in an organization, or as a network or entire field practice. .

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 26, 2016

For his day job, Robert runs Communications without Borders and the NGO Kikandwa Rural Communities Development Organization. As an unpaid volunteer, he organizes NetSquared in-person events where people from NGOs from all over the region come to talk shop and help each other. We also have individuals who are not attached to an NGO.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

It’s become abundantly clear over the past year – through both successes and mis-steps –that the human rights implications of new technologies that requires thinking by companies and advocates, sometimes together and sometimes vigorously independently (as for example with the rich variety of autonomous media projects).

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Get social at an NGO Ho Ho in Vancouver and Victoria or join Pittsburgh's Bagels & Bytes for its annual party. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. HTML EXAMPLE.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2014

Get social at an NGO Ho Ho in Vancouver and Victoria or join Pittsburgh's Bagels & Bytes for its annual party. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Ho Ho: A Holiday Party for Victoria's Nonprofits. HTML EXAMPLE.

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Tech Soup

JULY 13, 2012

This post was authored by Keisha Taylor, communications manager for the GuideStar International program of TechSoup Global. And the GuideStar India program was launched by our partner, Civil Society Information Systems (CSIS) India, through our GuideStar International program. million NGOs in India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 5, 2018

There are lot of productivity journals out there, for example, “ Best Self ” and I have reviewed those for inspiration for different checklists, formats, and questions to ask regularly. Digital transformation also impacts training and teaching delivery as well as internal collaboration for staff. Year in Review.

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APRIL 25, 2012

By Edward Granger-Happ, Global CIO, International Red Cross and Red Crescent Societies (IFRC). I often get the comment during a leadership seminar I teach that goes something like, "Well this is all well and good for large organizations, but what about my twelve-person NGO?" For example, LINGOs has a free nonprofit learning catalog.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

Large national and international nonprofits are often ahead of the curve. According to the Global NGO Technology Report , 44% of nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide use WordPress.org as their content management system (CMS) for their website ( 7% use Drupal and 3% use Joomla ). Study and implement modern design trends.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

This NGO runs a primary day school, a residential high school, and a residential polytechnic college. They’re a great example of an NGO that really knows their IT. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 6, 2013

When I ask an NGO “who are you trying to engage with?”, You can’t use this tactic in China, for example, where Facebook (and Twitter, among other social media channels) is blocked. You can even use this data to create illustrative content for internal stakeholders or to talk to your supporters.

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Tech Soup

JULY 2, 2012

An example is the nonprofit Hoshyar Foundation ’s beautiful presentation about educating girls in Pakistan that went viral and got 2,000 to 5,000 hits per day. This presentation is also a great example of what can be done with multimedia (music and video) in SlideRocket. How To Get SlideRocket.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

This is a communique on the current state of cloud adoption in India from Prashant Pandit and Pooja Jayna from TechSoup Global's, NASSCOM Foundation BIGTech Program , which is an NGO committed to building ICT capacity in civil society in India. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 30, 2010

In the hallways, you’re as likely to run into the head of an international NGO, as CEO of a Fortune 100 company, as a renowned professor as the foreign minister of a major country. Today was an example of this. You rush from session to session, often jumping a shuttle from one hotel to another or back to the Congress Center.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 2, 2015

Our chapter leaders believe that we can bridge the digital divide by giving every NGO the tools and skills to accomplish its mission efficiently and effectively. Toronto has scheduled a Pints not Profits social, Victoria is holding its annual NGO Ho Ho party, and the Research Triangle will hold an NPTech Mixer. Upcoming Events.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2012

For example, you can hear the story about how the above Tunisian NGO went from “crawling” to “running” over the course of the program. This blog post is a summary of reflections about the instructional design and how NGOs in these countries are becoming Networked NGOs. Quiet Reflection: Socoot.

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Tech Soup

AUGUST 9, 2011

A great example of crowdsourcing is Voluntweeters. Another great example of what Voluntweeters can do is the case of Red Cross voluntweeters responding to the more recent February 2011 Chicago blizzard. Another more recent example of Ushahidi's expanding work is its efforts in the recent Japanese earthquake and tsunami.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 6, 2016

For example, DocuSign is available to nonprofit foundations with operating budgets under $1 million. Our NGOsource Program Makes International Grantmaking Feasible. The process for clearing an NGO to receive a grant is much faster and much less expensive than it used to be — starting at $250 per equivalency determination.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

Gates shares many examples from their work. Ethiopia’s recent effort to monitor the progress of its immunization program is a good example of learning from data and—the hardest part—using data to improve delivery of the right solutions. 3. It’s About Sense-Making, Not Tools.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. Can cloud vendors simply close your account without notice?

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Tech Soup

APRIL 30, 2012

This NGO runs a primary day school, a residential high school, and a residential polytechnic college. They’re a great example of an NGO that really knows their IT. Ramakrishna Mission Students Home in India provides a home and education to orphaned boys from rural Tamil Nadu state in South India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

A statement to the international news agency Reuters read: “We revised our Ad Grants policies to help nonprofits be more effective with AdWords and improve the quality of their ads, which will lead to targeted awareness of their projects and mission.” Facebook, for example, has never had a formal ad grant system for nonprofits?—?though

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

He is also the co-founder of the International Folk Art Market. Before moving to Santa Fe, he was the Director of Aid to Artisans , an international artisan enterprise development NGO. That can mean, for example, language; it can mean architecture; it can mean food; it can mean artisan work, or artistic work.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Taipei, Taiwan: 民眾、社群與 NGO 的協作：飲水地. HTML EXAMPLE Image: NetSquared : Tannis Sullivan / CC BY-NC 2.0. --> spanhidden. Check each month that there are events in each region, and comment out the un-necessary regions.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

In December 2013, drones from the NGO Direct Relief were put to work assessing damage and participating in search and rescue operations in the super typhoon Haiyan-stricken Philippines. According to a recent economic study by the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International , the potential for the civilian drone industry in the U.S.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 2, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Peterborough, Ontario: Domains, Branding, and Identity — NGO,CA,ORG, and more. London, United Kingdom: Uses of Internal, External, and Open Data for Charities. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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