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The First Global Martus Users Group Meeting

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Guest Beneblog by Vijaya Tripathi The first ever Martus users group meeting took place earlier this month in Chiang Mai, the capital of Northern Thailand. Since we began developing Martus 10 years ago, we’ve been able to enhance it only incrementally as project specific funding allowed. This is a truly unique moment in Martus’ history.

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Some Thoughts About Remote Presentations: Mekong ICT Camp

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I was invited to present a key note at the Mekong ICT Camp in Thailand about nonprofits, social media, and measurement. The camp was organized by Thai Fund Foundation in partnership with Opendream , , Thai Netizen Network , Frontier Foundation and Tactical Technology Collective. The theme for the training was “ Data, Data.”

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Celebrate Community Storytelling

Tech Soup

Previously, Lisa served as the founding CEO of the 1:1 Fund, a project incubated by CFED to build a broad online and high net-worth donor base for children’s savings accounts. Lisa graduated from Mount Holyoke College with degrees in philosophy and critical social thought. Dress snazzy if you like, to be red-carpet ready.

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Vietnam and Indonesia Join TechSoup Asia’s Growing Family

Tech Soup

They are all part of TechSoup Asia , which serves charities in the Philippines, Malaysia, Singapore, Thailand — and now Vietnam and Indonesia. It also matches philanthropists with volunteer opportunities and funding recommendations. It uses a crowd-funding matching system like the famous Kiva.org system.

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UniversalGiving: Impact, with a little help from friends (SocialActions)

Amy Sample Ward

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. maybe you want to join forces for a longer-term project for real impact.

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New Year’s Resolutions for Grantmakers

Connection Cafe

Britain didn’t adopt January 1 as the New Year until 1752; Thailand didn’t until 1941. Reflection: Do your foundation’s governing documents or bylaws allow you to change or adjust funding strategy? I know of at least one private foundation that can only fund certain named organizations. Neil isn’t wrong.

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Big News in Benetech's Human Rights Program: New Funding and Enhanced Tools!

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

Department of State Bureau of Democracy, Human Rights, and Labor (DRL) to realize some of those possibilities.

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