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The Networked NGO in India

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

This year a lot of my work as Visiting Scholar at the David and Lucile Packard Foundation is working with grantees outside of the US. I’ve just returned from leading a training for Population and Reproductive Health grantees from India. Chandrashekar, India Country Advisor and his talented team members, Ms.

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President’s Update: Fall 2013

Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

We’re going to demonstrate what this could look like by piloting Bookshare International at scale in India. We just announced a Commitment to Action at the Clinton Global Initiative , to increase our impact in India by an order of magnitude. The Treaty was signed on the spot by over 50 countries.

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Symantec Gives Back

Tech Soup

Matching Gifts, Dollars for Doers, and Nonprofit Board Service. Symantec offers a generous Matching Gift Program — up to $1,000 per employee per year — and also rewards sustained volunteerism by making a contribution to organizations where employees volunteer their time through their Dollars for Doers Program.

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Adobe Is Creating Change

Tech Soup

Youth Voices: Creating with Purpose. Launched in 2006, Adobe Youth Voices is designed to provide youth in underserved areas with the critical skills they need to become active and engaged members of their communities and the world at large. students with a global audience.

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Resilient Fundraising: Show Donors the Love

Connection Cafe

But you can listen to their whispering voices on our quarterly reports. That same son spent four months training in India when he was fresh out of college. It is not “major gifts officer.” We were not prepared for the journey, and we had been ignoring the destination off on the horizon for a long time. How did we react?

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Creating Learning Experiences That Connect, Inspire, and Engage

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

I am very excited about upcoming peer learning projects that I’m working on in 2012, including several for Packard grantees in India, Pakistan, and Africa as well as the e-Mediat project in the Middle East. A few days ago I opened the door on a new learning journey.

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Resilient Fundraising with One Focus: Caring for Our Supporters

Connection Cafe

If you cannot live with yourself unless you offer something, offer a matching gift instead of a discount). During this crisis, we conducted a study on a sample of over 600 people from primarily the United States and India. Autonomy: Definition: Giving allows people to feel that they can have a voice into issues closest to their hearts.

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