Amy Sample Ward

AUGUST 10, 2010

Collaboration and partnerships can easily come together and be successful under and umbrella that puts the work of all those involved toward the movement, instead of the one-time effort or project. 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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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. For the past ten days, I’ve been in Rwanda, Africa. Documentation of the Visioning Process.

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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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Whole Whale

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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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. The Goldmine Project is sharing a, well, goldmine of knowledge around what makes for a successful nonprofit consultant and organization relationship.

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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

” I create a few pages in the beginning to write about my themes, what makes me happy, what to improve, and major projects for the year. 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.

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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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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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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.

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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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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. In this project, the Candlelighters CyberKids program provides young cancer patients with a laptop with Microsoft Windows and Office.

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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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NTEN

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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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. NGOsource is a project of the Council on Foundations and TechSoup. NetSuite for online accounting, ERP, and CRM. New Dell discounted laptops.

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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. In this project, the Candlelighters CyberKids program provides young cancer patients with a laptop with Microsoft Windows and Office.

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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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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. Arlington, Texas: Bi-weekly Developers Call for the Joseph Storehouse Project. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Tech Soup

JUNE 22, 2015

Easily the most prominent drone delivery project is the Matternet project, which is building a drone-based package delivery service. 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. In the U.S.,

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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. Honolulu, Hawaii: Bi-monthly Code for Hawaii Project Night. 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. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 1, 2017

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America , or go international with events in. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Vancouver, British Columbia: Agile Project Management for Nonprofits. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Europe and UK.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 1, 2016

The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects. Saint Paul, Minnesota: Treading Lightly | The Delicate Art of Internal Communications. Ottawa, Ontario: Review Progress on Data Analysis Projects.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 14, 2007

In a couple of days, video bloggers Jay Dedman and Ryanne Hodson will be in Cambodia doing some work with Project Hope International to help them document the work they're doing to rehabilitate people involved in human trafficking. My holy grail would be something ongoing along the lines of the project in India. Click To Play.

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

The phone is a project of Sumit Dagar and the Indian Institute of Technology. Microsoft's new Surface Pro is an example of this type of new type of device. The project invited developers to create apps for social good in several categories including nutrition, health care, emergency response, and more. Social Media.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. Seven Billion and Counting (Projecting future population is a very uncertain business). The data, for example, shows an increasing number of older people - 700 million in 2009 and expected to rise to 2.4

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Connection Cafe

MAY 3, 2011

Guest blog alert: The following post is by Amy Misakonis, Project Manager for ACF Solutions. I’ve worked with several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) on their technology challenges as they fulfill their global missions. Author: Cheryl Black. Thanks for contributing Amy!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 9, 2007

More than $100,000 is on the table for innovate projects. And, if you want to see some excellent nonprofit examples of video, be sure to check out the entries in the NTC Video Contest. If you're interested in seeing more examples, Teresa Crawford , has been adding them into del.icio.us Follow the links from here.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 18, 2010

Workshop Ngo Feb 13 View more presentations from Beth Kanter. Finally, I taught two social media strategy workshops for NGO and CSR practitioners before having two days to get a taste of India and then a 24 hour journey home. . Teaching in an international context. My 8 day visit to India was a whirlwind. I'm still recovering.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MARCH 12, 2017

To date, Nonprofit Tech for Good has trained 49,000 nonprofit, charity, and NGO staff worldwide on how to succeed in online communications and fundraising. Any type of online campaign, project, or publication that has a release or launch date needs a corresponding set of social media promotional graphics. For example, bsr16.org

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

We are poised to grow not only Bookshare.org, but all of our projects. One example proves we'll reach our goals. The project has been so successful at raising student reading skills that they hope to provide similar services to their non-disabled students as well. The next day, Monday, Bookshare.org was free to all U.S.

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Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 16, 2009

If you are in charge of communications for your nonprofit or NGO, I recommend you read The She Spot: Why Women Are the Market for Changing the World, and How to Reach Them by Lisa Witter and Lisa Chen. Can you talk about what you mean by care, and some examples of organizations that have used this concept of care effectively?

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

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. Arlington, Texas: Bi-Weekly Developers Call For the Joseph Storehouse Project. Las Vegas, Nevada: Project Management Basics.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 6, 2021

And this also led me to work with a lot of social projects because it happens a lot of times the same, right? So this is really important in areas that, so, for example, in Latin America, in certain parts of Asia, in Sub-Saharan Africa, that the internet is not as fast. So, for example, is it a hierarchical culture?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 7, 2010

Some times they go on to form their own nonprofits like Amanda Rose and Manny Hernandez and like Mark Horvath has for his Invisible People and WeAreVisible project. Mark gave this wonderful example about the five-dollar airplane. Someone in the audience asked about the ecosystem of Free Agents. It got me thinking.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Microsoft's new Surface Pro is an example of this type of new type of device. The ideas submission process started last week and will be followed by online conversations, online community voting, jury voting, and a hackathons for the best projects in each of the countries. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe. Social Media.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

In Africa, we're running capacity-building trainings, and supporting women in launching sustainable businesses, and viable projects, to bring clean water to their communities. Solome is an example of someone who was able to take this training and really transform entire communities. They also learned business development skills.

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