Nonprofit Tech for Good

OCTOBER 20, 2019

100% of profits help fund Surfrider’s mission to protect the world’s ocean, waves and beaches. 25) World Wildlife Fund Gifts :: gifts.worldwildlife.org. 20% of profits from Gorilla Conservation Coffee goes to help conserve critically endangered gorillas and their fragile habitat in the Bwindi Impenetrable Forest, Uganda.

Benefit 102

Benefit Online Asia Museum 102

Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 24, 2013

They paved the way for all of us and their contribution to nonprofit history should be noted: To Write Love on Her Arms; Invisible Children; National Wildlife Federation; the Humane Society of the United States; Seacology; Rape, Abuse, & Incest National Network; Americans for the Arts; Oxfam America; People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals; (..)

Myspace 204

Myspace Activities Active Activism 204

Tech Soup

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Mukono, Uganda: Second Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School and Community. Mukono, Uganda: Second Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School and Community. Mukono, Uganda: Second Net2uganda Computer Training Meetup for Poor Rural Primary School and Communit­y.

Netsquared 61

Netsquared South America North America Guatemala 61

Amy Sample Ward

JANUARY 26, 2011

A few years ago, Jeff and I went on a pro bono IT consulting project to Uganda to serve a Action for Children, an NGO that fights poverty by preserving families and delivering micro-finance. Long story short, Jeff built a prototype fundraising platform, and we were able to raise more than enough funds to go.

Interview 213

Interview Public Uganda Profit 213

CauseVox

AUGUST 18, 2022

Starting off as volunteers in Uganda, Rob and Jeff worked with a variety of organizations to stand up their infrastructure. By providing regular updates, CSI was accountable for the funds raised. By using different donation forms and pages, CSI can tailor for each individual fund, which helps their back office. Donation Tiers.

Storytelling 73

Storytelling International email Service 73

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

APRIL 20, 2013

But, by eventually following Donna’s advice and talking to the Office of Special Education Programs in DC, we discovered the funding and the way forward for Bookshare to begin to realize its potential. Isn’t that where good ideas go to die?” Thank you, George and Donna, for helping us make real our dreams of service!

eBook 221

eBook Award Copyright Syria 221

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 16, 2014

We competed against other participating organizations, racing against the clock to raise funds and secure matching funding from the Skoll Foundation. The Challenge ran for six weeks through December 5th. We did very well, and with the Skoll Foundation’s matching support, each gift to our campaign more than doubled its impact.

Open Source 183

Open Source Africa Zimbabwe Malawi 183

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 4, 2011

She is conducting an evaluation of a reproductive health voucher program in Uganda and Cambodia as part of her dissertation, and she co-instructs the International Maternal and Child Health Seminar, and the Maternal and Child Health Core course at UC Berkeley. Carinne Brody is a doctoral candidate in public health at UC Berkeley.

Sri Lanka 68

Sri Lanka Somalia Interview Global 68

AFP Blog

APRIL 19, 2013

According to The Guardian, the agency has focused on social media to build a strong and highly active online community to raise more money for child abandonment in Uganda. The source revealed that more than one quarter of the Childs i Foundation''s funds are produced through these efforts.

Analytics 24

Analytics Resource Uganda Technology 24

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

Take for example, Mary Grace Henry and her project, Reverse the Course , a site where she sells reversible headbands that she sews and donates all profits to support girls education in Uganda. She funded her first pilot with her allowance! This generation is doing more than clicking on line, they making change in the world!

Social 50

Social Nigeria Student Cancer 50

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 30, 2006

Jessica has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. Jessica is the co-founder and a board member of Kiva , a nonprofit that is using the Internet to connect people through loans to alleviate global poverty.

Kiva 40

Kiva Podcast Burma Tanzania 40

Have Fun - Do Good

FEBRUARY 22, 2012

In Uganda, a group of young people made incredible, heartfelt postcards filled with glitter and cut up magazine pictures to send to women in the Congo. We are also funding very special after school art classes in Afghanistan through our partnership with Trust In Education. The more people who know about Traveling Postcards the better!

Costa Rica 60

Costa Rica Interview Afghanistan Artist 60

Have Fun - Do Good

MARCH 12, 2006

What I didn't realize about Dining for Women, is that they research and choose the organization that will be receiving the funds from that month's gatherings so that all of the Dining for Women groups meeting across the country are donating to the same thing. This month's organization was the Village Enterprise Fund.

Kiva 40

Kiva San Francisco Help Giving 40

Saleforce Nonprofit

MARCH 8, 2022

In partnership with women’s rights funds, sport for development organizations and feminist sport activists, Women Win launched the ONSIDE Fund — a participatory grantmaking mechanism that rapidly mobilises unrestricted resources for girls and young women-led organisations and groups through a pooled fund.

Costa Rica 111

Costa Rica Game Change Uganda 111

NonProfit Hub

OCTOBER 16, 2015

Take for example, Mary Grace Henry and her project, Reverse the Course , a site where she sells reversible headbands that she sews and donates all profits to support girls education in Uganda. She funded her first pilot with her allowance! This generation is doing more than clicking online, they’re making change in the world!

Social 28

Social Nigeria Student Cancer 28

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 2, 2007

However, the fellowship does give me much more flexibility: I don't have to justify spending Benetech's funds for something that isn't directly connected to our current projects. For example, I'm planning on going to India and Bangladesh next month for the first time, and to Uganda and Sudan next year.

Literacy 100

Literacy San Jose Guatemala Bangladesh 100

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 23, 2013

charity: water even has an entire section of their site dedicated to stories from the field, where people who work for or collaborate with the nonprofit tell stories about the experiences they’ve had bringing clean water to people in Rwanda, Uganda, Bangladesh and more. Learn more here.

Charity 128

Charity Lesson Marketing Digital 128

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 28, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders).

eBook 277

eBook China Copyright Library 277

See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners.

El Salvador 40

El Salvador Story Philanthropy Camera 40

See3

NOVEMBER 12, 2007

You need to subscribe to see the whole thing, but here’s an except: When the American Jewish World Service used to talk about using video to illustrate its overseas aid projects, it usually meant gathering enough footage for a seven-minute spot to be shown to the people who would attend its annual fund-raising dinners.

El Salvador 40

El Salvador Story Philanthropy Camera 40

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 9, 2007

There are many ways to connect with Life in Africa's war-affected communities in Uganda: shop for community-made gifts that make a difference, invest in the LiA community through a Kiva loan, help Ugandans plan projects online, or my favorite, give to help provide school fees for 200 orphans in LiA households. Life in Africa.

Gift 50

Gift Costa Rica Charity Africa 50

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

DECEMBER 8, 2011

Stopping fund raising and subscription revenue for Bookshare, the largest online library for people who have print disabilities. We serve over 150,000 students with disabilities alone with free online services funded by the Department of Education (however, nothing contained in this post has anything to do with our funders).

eBook 107

eBook Copyright China Law 107

Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

He was actually on a business trip, on his bike, to Uganda. He showed so much leadership and promise that we ended up sponsoring him to a university through our FORGE education fund. We can look at some of the people that we most immediately, and most originally started to work with. It had been bombed.

Interview 40

Interview Sudan Africa Congo 40

Bloomerang

NOVEMBER 20, 2021

Paul to teach them a bit about what goes on in Ethiopia, or Uganda, or wherever their camps are. And your money story means you’re telling me that there’s a person but what it takes to fully fund your mission. . They’ve been using this term “funding gap” for many, many years.

Video 91

Video Fundraising Louisiana Minnesota 91

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 27, 2011

2. On September 7, 2006, Scott Harrison launched charity: water by throwing a birthday party, charging people $20 to attend, sending 100% of the money to build wells in a refugee camp in Uganda and then proving the work by sending photos and GPS coordinates to every guests. The 2011 September Campaign.

Interview 101

Interview Central African Republic Ethiopia Metrics 101

Have Fun - Do Good

OCTOBER 6, 2010

Last month [August], we featured BeadforLife , which is an organization that sells paper beads made by women in Uganda. All that money goes back to support the beaders in Uganda. We had a group that went to Kenya to visit BOMA Fund , and we went to Uganda to visit the BeadforLife program. Actually, they're jewelry (e.g.

Chapter 57

Chapter Uganda Giving Interview 57

Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 10, 2006

She has worked in rural Kenya, Tanzania, and Uganda with the Village Enterprise Fund, and Project Baobab on impact evaluation and program development. We didn't actually have a specific organization that would work with us besides Village Enterprise Fund , which is a great non-profit. Shout out to them! So it's very personal.

Kiva 40

Kiva Uganda Kenya Money 40

Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

There are resources, information, training, and funding available in plenty. Solame was just an absolute, silent and powerful woman leader who, as it turned out, had been involved in fighting for freedom in her home country, Uganda, and was one of two women that was present for the rewriting of the Ugandan constitution.

Director 40

Director Ghana Africa North America 40

Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 29, 2009

This challenge benefited the Cambodian Children's Fund out of Cambodia. Of those 100, 20 people actually raised the $20,000, but those 80 people, who didn't raise the $20,000, still raised significant funds so that all together we ended up raising $524,000 that benefited CCF. Of course, it came down to, as it should, funding.

Interview 46

Interview Cambodia Children Uganda 46

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

NOVEMBER 24, 2015

We’re a former grantee and we hope that our work and Gates funding priorities coincide again in the future. This time I had three agenda items for my conversations with congressional staff: Advocating for funding for special education. Kampala, Uganda The Sixth Africa Forum was the main reason for my Africa trip.

New York 100

New York Boston Washington Africa 100