Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 3, 2010

Note from Beth: During my trip to India in February, I was introduced to a nonprofit children's book publisher in India, Pratham Books. “It was set up to fill a gap in the market for good quality, reasonably priced children’s books in a variety of Indian languages. India has a reading problem and the problem is two fold.

India 99

India Strategy Skype Remix 99

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

AUGUST 7, 2013

have been asking about the Treaty of Marrakesh (formal name: The Marrakesh Treaty to Facilitate Access to Published Works by Visually Impaired Persons and Persons with Print Disabilities. The Treaty of Marrakesh, Top Issues: What’s the goal of the Treaty? or similar laws in other countries like India and the EU.

Copyright 158

Copyright Law United States Library 158

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 1, 2010

Younger, GEN Y employees like Adnan Mahmud, founder of Jolkona Foundation , a micro giving site for projects in developing countries, and Xiang Li, founder of Givology , a site that facilitates micro loans for education in developing countries are two examples. Chatting with David Connor , we both had the same reaction – who knew?

Network 103

Network Change Technology Social 103

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Many of us have been up early playing with Jumo, setting up our individual profiles and finding issues and organizations or setting up profiles for organizations. The platform was seeded with some initial organization profiles and a focused set of issues. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&#

New York 104

New York Profile Argentina New York City 104

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 28, 2006

Katie Salen Parsons (She co-wrote the book Rules of Play ) We're facilitating a process of games versus making games. When the students have a change to choose the games, they most often relate to an actvist issues. A way to keep alive the ancient tales of India and storytelling in India. How can we facilitate change?

Game 50

Game Change Conference India 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 10, 2010

In fact, just last month, I took it to India. Last year, I facilitated a version of the Social Media Game for Packard Grantees as part of a convening on Network Effectiveness in Washington, DC. For example, everyone who works on ocean issues was on the same team. Each of the six large teams divided again into tables of 10.

Social Media 94

Social Media Media Remix Social 94

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Beth is an expert in facilitating online and offline peer learning, curriculum development based on traditional adult learning theory and other instructional approaches. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization.

Social 28

Social Nigeria Student Cancer 28

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 4, 2009

Others examples include loans to schools in India and capital for small manufacturers in Ghana. The group, in collaboration with other impact investors and intermediaries, has developed a set of standards (taxonomy) that would facilitate comparisons of financial, operational, and impact data. An easy example is green technology.

Taxonomy 61

Taxonomy Metrics San Francisco Ghana 61

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 28, 2008

Dr. Mani holds an annual Heart Kids Blogathon on Valentine's Day to raise money for heart surgeries for poor kids from rural India. So, what better way to love the earth than contributing to a charity that works on environmental issues. What about a gift in their honor to celebrate the special day.

Giving 50

Giving Hunger Charity Blogger 50

Tech Soup

AUGUST 5, 2011

Clever Together: “A world in which highly coordinated and successful strategies emerge for addressing both urgent and entrenched worldwide issues.” This vastly improves the management and allocation of financial and environmental resources and facilitate technology-enabled breakthroughs on climate change and disease outbreaks.

Philanthropy 36

Philanthropy Develop Technology Government 36

Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. For example, some of our women in Africa and India are interested in taking the ideas and the best practices that came out of this training into their regions. We also take part in trainings that are relevant to most of their work.

Green 40

Green Global Action Network 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 7, 2012

By the time you read this post, I’ll be somewhere in the air between California and India to facilitate a “Networked NGO” training for NGOs in India that are Packard Foundation grantees. More about that later. But I have some exciting news! There’s a cool infographic included – of course!

Content 108

Content Benefit India Journal 108

Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 29, 2010

Who : Facilitating: Amy Sample Ward | NetSquared; Billy Bicket | NetSquared. The NetSquared team will be working the room to activate and facilitate conversations so everyone can enjoy the ride. East-West Technology, Culture & Food Exchange: Innovation and culture sharing with NGO counterparts in India. When : 9:00 a.m.

NTC 126

NTC Netsquared NGO API 126

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 15, 2012

Note from Beth: While I’m facilitating “Networked NGO Workshops” in Delhi for Packard grantees in India, I’ve lined up a few guest posts. Do you think some causes or issues are too serious to be addressed well by a social impact game?

Game 104

Game Lesson Change Build 104

Tech Soup

MAY 3, 2011

" Causes facilitates these communities and combines them together, though Jen was quick to differentiate them from a software as a service. Another example, Give India , shows off the community features provided by a Causes page. Recognizing this, Causes facilitated a matching grant with Salesforce.com.

Causes 64

Causes Community Online Fundraising 64

sgEngage

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

“We saw on the Obama campaign you’ve got to combine content and technology to facilitate action. Argentina, France, India, or Kenya?&# Jumo was seeded with more than 3,000 issues and groups, but anyone with a social mission can create a page. The site then uses your location to show organizations in your area.

Trend 82

Trend New York Blackbaud Argentina 82

Have Fun - Do Good

SEPTEMBER 25, 2007

Marsha Wallace is the founder of Dining for Women , a nonprofit that facilitates women's giving circles to create change for women living in poverty. It just kind of hit me that that same format would work but - my passion is women's issues and specifically women in poverty internationally.

Interview 40

Interview Chapter Giving India 40

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Dining for Women is a seven-year-old organization that facilitates a network of 130 giving circles across the country. The Somaly Mam organization focuses on rehabilitation for girls who are victims of sex trafficking, and that's a really, really tough issue, but really important. Actually, they're jewelry (e.g.

Chapter 57

Chapter Uganda Giving Interview 57

Museum 2.0

DECEMBER 28, 2007

We went on opening weekend and elected to watch a couple of short films related to humor, including one by Mira Nair on the laughing clubs of India. This fall, I went with friends to see the new Mind exhibition at the Exploratorium. By training staff and lecturers as listeners.

Program 20

Program People Museum Lecture 20

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

The next area, where Women's Earth Alliance works, is in India , where we learned from our colleagues on the ground that support around creating sustainable agriculture would be the best thing we could do to help. We had women who had expertise in community organizing, micro-finance, facilitation and leadership development.

Director 40

Director Ghana Africa North America 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 24, 2012

Unfortunately, our presenter from Lebanon had connectivity issues and was unable to present. This is a common experience when you attempt to facilitate global presentations, discussions or peer groups. I work as a trainer and capacity builder for nonprofits and technology and more lately social media and networked approaches.

Tech 100

Tech Rwanda Tunisia Kenya 100

Forum One

NOVEMBER 6, 2008

The project should address a specific problem or issue, be achievable, innovative, and have a positive impact that touches the lives of people in a significant way. Submit a project in the following categories: Arts & Culture, Community Development, Education, Environment & Wildlife, and Health. AMEX gave away $2.5m

Interview 52

Interview Project Experiment Contest 52