Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 21, 2012

I’m here at the Dead Sea in Jordan where I delivered the key note for the E-mediat Networking Conference, “New Media for the Networked NGO.” 83% of participants are applying their social media skills to engage local and global communities. The program accomplished the following: 220 organizations participated.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 2, 2006

Sangonet , an organization that focuses on capacity building with ICT for NGOS in South Africa, recently announced the finalists for the NGO Web awards. After the explanation of th judging process, I found this note: Low Budget Options and Freebies For NGOs who. NGOs website, SANGONeT suggests that you take a look at creating a.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 1, 2012

The project is designed and implemented by IIE/Sub-Saharan Office and funded by the David and Lucile Packard Foundation PRH program. While I was not able to find the First Lady Mrs. Jeannette Kagame on Twitter (if anyone does know her account, please share in the comments), I discovered that her NGO, Imbuto Foundation , was on Twitter.

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ASU Lodestar Center

SEPTEMBER 26, 2012

The end of the Guatemalan Civil War resulted in a flood of non-governmental organization (NGO) programs spreading across the country in the hope of helping desperately poor people gain everything from their human rights, to better health care, food and nutrition, and training in governance. Make sure you know what minimum wage laws provide.

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Tech Soup

MAY 31, 2013

We proudly welcome NGO partners Vietnet-ICT and the Lin Centre in Vietnam, as well as ASEAN Foundation , Kopernik Marketplace , and YCAB Foundation in Indonesia to the TechSoup Global family. Our New NGO Partners in Vietnam. It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

The post I had originally planned to publish before leaving on a plane for Tunis, Tunisia was going to be all The Women’s Enterprise for Sustainability (WES) , funded through the U.S. But, not just skills training, but learning to understand the impact of connected society and transformation.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 24, 2014

We are now confident that we have enough funding to finish the technical development of the system and maintain and enhance it incrementally in the near term. To that end we are investing some of our funding into the development of a deep business model analysis project, the results of which should be available in a couple months.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 7, 2013

This event is a biannual training workshop on information, communication, and technologies for citizen media, community health, and civil society development in Mekong Region and included participants are coders, journalists, and NGO staff from Burma, Cambodia, Laos, Thailand, and Vietnam. The camp took place in Cha-am, Petchburi, Thailand.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2011

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. The group has an impressive breadth and depth of expertise, including NGO capacity building, social media expertise and training design and delivery. Working with NGOs. February 27, 2011. Nerds, Geeks, and Hackers.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

SEPTEMBER 18, 2016

003% of referral traffic to Nonprofit Tech for Good comes from Instagram which means very, very few (if any) of our Instagram followers have registered for a free webinar or downloaded our Global NGO Online Technology Report. The survey for the 2017 Global NGO Online Technology Report is now available in English , French , and Spanish.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

NGO Pulse (South Africa). Learn how a nonprofit in South Africa, the Papillon Foundation , helps unemployed people learn new skills and find jobs. From funding challenges to the need for better governance, find out about the current state of NGOs in South Africa and what must be done for it to improve.

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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. Maybe the scaffolding for learning in public for an evaluation goes something like this: Transparent: This is the first step to make learning products visible.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 18, 2011

A true public/private partnership, the funding partners include Microsoft and craiglist Charitable Fund. The goal is to train over 150-250 NGOs in Jordan, Lebanon, Yemen, Morocco, and other countries and help them put social media skills into practice. We created a network map.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 5, 2020

They have the resources to hire and consult highly-skilled website design firms and graphic designers. 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 ).

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AUGUST 28, 2009

UniversalGiving is making great impact on communities around the world, both in the work, funds or volunteer efforts contributed to individuals and groups via their platform, but also in effectively and passionately empowering donors and volunteers to contribute.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 11, 2006

They typically run out of steam when the funding runs out, assuming they worked at all. This school is run by an NGO (a nonprofit) and provides free education to children who come from disadvantaged backgrounds. The school has almost a dozen different social enterprises that provide access to these job skills.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 19, 2011

Volunteering 100,000 hours and using employees' skills to help nonprofits run more effectively and reach more people. Most nonprofits (understandably) spend the majority of their funding on accomplishing their mission, meaning there's not always enough left over for technology investments. Making Social Investments.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 10, 2007

My Dad is involved in the creation of the Global Center for Cultural Enterprise and Entrepreneurship which will support cultural entrepreneurs around the world with training, tech support, and policy and funding resources. They are looking for general social networking advice as well.

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AUGUST 31, 2010

Imagine this scenario: You’re an NGO working in an African country to advocate for clean water. You are funded to do this by a US foundation. Wikis and blogs require some writing skills (in addition to power). Sometimes the problem is the technology -- or rather, inappropriate technology. Sometimes, the procedures aren’t right.

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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. . Finally, when you are delivering the training, you need improvisation skills. NGOS in India.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 20, 2007

Netsquared Innovation Fund Netsquared Announces the 21 Featured Projects and solicits for feedback. NTEN blog points us to Code for Change this Summer , an opportunity for those with drupal skills to put them to good use. Someone tagged the NGO-in-a-Box with nptech just today. The site was developed by Democracy in Action.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

It's really designed to make sure that all solutions are both emerging from the local community and tailored to the community's needs, and are developing the leadership skills of the most promising and emerging leaders at the same time. They're walking away with skills. We like to refer to it as a "people-powered" development process.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

OCTOBER 21, 2008

This event was very exciting, as we have never previously received federal funding for Bookshare.org. 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. Humanity United (founded by Pam Omidyar) funded this work.

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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. Which is a really interesting observation if you think back on Hillary Clinton's fund-raising and Barack Obama's fund-raising.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 27, 2012

After finishing a four-day intensive training in Delhi for the Networked NGO , I stayed on a few days in India to visit colleague, Rufina Fernandez, who I met when she was the CEO of the Nasscom Foundation when she brought me to India to speak at the leadership conference and teach workshops back in 2010.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 29, 2012

Based on the underlying theme of women’s empowerment with a focus on education and entrepreneurship, the 70 participants of the Tel Aviv event included representatives of NGOs active in the fields of employment, education, women’s empowerment, consultancy, and tech training from all over Israel.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 15, 2004

So she started an NGO to work on the issues outside the doctor's role of treatment, that are needed to break the cycle of hospitalization that leads to death. They provide food, buy medicine, fix up houses, train the (typically single) mothers with job skills, encourage school attendance, etc.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She also asked some really good questions about blogging for ngos on the listserv. Ali is the Founder of AVIF (ABLe Volunteers International Fund). " The organization works directly with local ngos and volunteers matching them by interest, need, and skills. She lived in China for 8 months with her 2 young children.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. We had 15 teams from throughout West Africa coming to learn appropriate water technologies from West African women trainers, who are experts in these types of skills. They also learned business development skills. There is not a shortage of resources.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

APRIL 13, 2018

Creatives Without Borders connects nonprofits in need of graphic and web design skills with creatives that are willing to do the work pro bono for a good cause and increased exposure. Knowing basic HTML is a must-have skill for online marketers. Ideal for small nonprofits with limited funds for digital marketing. Productivity.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 9, 2006

" But even more impressive was Lucy Hooberman's pledge: "I will mentor a minimum of two people in the developing world in the area of my skills base and expertise (media, communications, broadcasting , democratic media building, participatory media, community video). So, if you're Omidyar Network member, check it out.)

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 20, 2019

Specifically for nonprofits, Lightful is a social media management platform that enables organizations to schedule social media posts ahead of time and provides analytics to help organizations raise more awareness and funds. Knowing basic HTML is a must-have skill for online marketers. Global NGO Technology Report :: techreport.ngo.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 27, 2005

Tharum started his blog in June 2004 while a student at the National University of Management and working for the Open Forum for Cambodia , a Cambodian NGO devoted to digital divide issues. A trainer with a manual can give an introduction of computer basic skills to as many trainees as it fit in a room. Young people are quick learners.

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Bloomerang

APRIL 2, 2021

So, yes, I think the Global NGO Technology Report found the majority of nonprofits do agree social media is effective for creating brand awareness. So nonprofits are building Alexa Amazon skills to reach new audiences and build relationships with potential donors. So take a look at these Amazon skills. So pretty neat.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 8, 2013

More and more nonprofit, library, and NGO offices worldwide will need to accommodate personally-owned tablets and smartphones on wireless networks in order to work and communicate. that can help anybody put together an attractive infographic without any special design skills. The Cloud in 2013.

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