Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 8, 2010

Counterproposals have been made, governments have been engaging with rights holders, consumers and NGOs (or not!) Government delegation, as a next step possibility. I think that over the last six months, the US Government has come out in favor of accessibility, splitting with some of its typical EU/rich country partners.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

MAY 17, 2015

First, “NGO” is an acronym meaning “non-governmental organization” whereas “ONG” means “non-governmental organization” in countries where a romance language is spoken i.e., Spanish, French, Italian, Portuguese, and Romanian. The same is true for.NGO and.ONG. For example, halfthesky.ngo : 3.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2019

An Interview with Fanny Villiers , Directora General of Donadora – an official partner of the Global Trends in Giving Report ( en español ). How has this impacted individual giving to NGOs in Mexico? Giving Trends in Mexico: 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. ? Is online giving growing rapidly as well?

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 7, 2016

Launched on February 4, the new BRIDGE Registry is a database of more than three million nonprofits, NGOs, and charities worldwide and each one of them has been assigned a new BRIDGE Number. The 2016 Global NGO Online Technology Report. 2,780 NGOs • 133 Countries • 6 Continents.

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Tech Soup

MAY 6, 2010

On Apriil 29 Microsoft and TechSoup held an NGO Connection Day at the Microsoft office in Singapore. TechSoup's partner NGO, the Hong Kong Council of Social Services , attended as well, giving local attendees a personal insight on how TechSoup's global network enables capacity and community building around the world.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

NOVEMBER 14, 2018

An Interview with Ruy Fortini , Founder and CEO of Doare and official partner of the 2018 Global Trends in Giving Report. According to the Institute of Applied Economic Research , there are 820,000 existing NGOs, also know as ONGs (organizaciónes no gubernamentales), in Brazil. Just don’t give up!

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 25, 2012

Here's a glimpse of what's happening internationally around TechSoup Global: Connecting Up Australia. NGO Pulse (South Africa). 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. Image: gabindu.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 4, 2010

As a capacity-building organization for the global nonprofit and social benefit sector, we at TechSoup are very conscious of the need to understand and work within different cultural contexts for philanthropy. It is easy to forget that the U.S. Direct help or assistance funds are mushrooming.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 15, 2010

Last week, I got to BoardSource at 8 am just so I could hear Marnie Webb and Rebecca Masisak, CO-CEOs of TechSoup Global share their lessons learned in developing, weaving, and stewarding two very different types of networks. TechSoup Global could have leveraged its resources in other programs to help with outreach.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 11, 2013

Global giving appeals to grantmakers of all sizes and types, from family foundations with enduring legacies to new foundations exploring novel pathways of giving. Yet the costs and challenges of complying with the regulations that govern cross-border grantmaking have been a barrier to U.S. organization is equivalent to a U.S.

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Candid

APRIL 14, 2022

Since March 11, when Candid last looked at the global philanthropic response to the Russian invasion of Ukraine, human suffering and economic devastation has only increased. In the meantime, individuals, governments, and private philanthropy fund relief on the ground, trying to keep up with displacement and need on a massive scale.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

MAY 17, 2013

Fundación Paraguaya was the country’s first microfinance program and first development NGO. His activities with the World Economic Forum include participation on the Education Global Agenda Council and he is a university professor of social entrepreneurship in the U.S. and Africa.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

APRIL 4, 2011

Governance and managing across difference in power and capacity in network participants / members. How to support NGO leaders who want to work with a network mindset but run into obstacles, like their board? TechSoup Global Summit: Notes from Plenary Session. How and when to catalyze networks? When don’t networks work?

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

SEPTEMBER 14, 2012

Many of you know that I have had the honor of working with IIE on some amazing Networked NGO and social media skills capacity building and train the trainer projects in the Middle East over the last 2-3 years. Department of State, Bureau of Near Eastern Affairs, Office of the Middle Eastern Partnership Initiative (MEPI) and managed by IIE.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 16, 2013

According to our 2012 NGO Global Cloud Survey , collaboration is already one of the top ten current uses for cloud-based software among charities. I used it to project manage our recent global NGO cloud survey. Collaboration Is How Charities Function. What Is a Perpetual License? Last year Huddle.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 25, 2012

Nonprofits, government agencies, schools, and corporations organize events bringing awareness to fundraising and volunteering. There were a total of 12 NGOs present at the event, including the Maharashtra Dyslexia Association and the Sujaya Foundation , which provides educational services to underprivileged youth.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 14, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. NASSCOM Foundation's Survey of NGO Cloud Readiness.

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Tech Soup

JULY 18, 2017

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. UNESCO views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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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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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 4, 2012

Education is a major focus for nonprofits and NGOs, accounting for 9% of NGO activity worldwide. views NGOs' role in fundamental economic development as crucial, especially in countries where governments are unable to adequately educate schoolchildren. Education Is a Major Nonprofit Activity. Even in the U.S.,

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

FEBRUARY 4, 2013

“Yet while measurement is critical to making progress in global health, it’s very hard to do well. All this information goes into a government information system to generate regular reports. The government is now working to develop better plans for the poorer performing regions.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 26, 2011

And the circumstances under which user data is provided to governments, or human rights information and accounts are taken down from services are not always transparent. Access , the organizers of RightsCon, who work for digital freedom worldwide, consciously pitched this not as a human rights NGO conference. Sam Gregory.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 3, 2011

During the month of October, join TechSoup.org and the TechSoup Global Network for our Cloud Computing Worldwide campaign. Check back throughout the month for blog posts, webinars, and dispatches from around the world on cloud computing for nonprofits, NGOs, and public libraries. ATN is an NGO association of over 2,000 telecenters.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2016

You can help your tech-shy NGO friends cross the digital divide by bringing them to a nonprofit tech meetup. Every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 60 cities. Victoria, British Columbia: NGO Summer Social. In fact, you probably know a few of these beginners. Seattle, Washington.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

DECEMBER 10, 2011

On International Human Rights Day, we pay tribute to all human rights defenders, celebrate the recent victories of the human rights community, and recognize the challenges that still lie ahead in the global struggle to advance justice, accountability and an end to impunity. 2011 has been an amazing year for human rights defenders.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 15, 2012

This week we got a great comment from a TechSoup member to our Cloud Technology and the NGO Community blog post. In our TechSoup Global NGO cloud survey we found that people in nonprofits and libraries are indeed concerned about data security in the cloud the world over. What should nonprofits do about this?

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The Science Behind Engaging your Supporters

NOVEMBER 27, 2018

The 36th Annual Nonprofit Organizations Institute will feature nationally recognized experts from private foundations, public charities, law, finance, and government discussing the latest tax, legislative and governance issues affecting nonprofit organizations. 15th Annual Nonprofit Governance Symposium. Jan 24 - 25.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 10, 2011

This post originally appeared on the Netsquared blog and was authored by Bari Samad, an NGO domain expert for NetSquared. SAP , a TechSoup Global donor partner and a leader in enterprise software applications partnered with the UNFPA to unveil two interactive population dashboards to mark the milestone. billion by mid-century.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MAY 9, 2018

The 2018 Edelman Trust Barometer data are in, and while we are living through a multi-year decline in public trust, the NGO sector remains the leader in what trust we have left in four major sectors. This erosion is a symptom of globalization, polarization, attacks on the media, and a general lack on consensus on facts.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2011

Robert Kirkpatrick of the UN Global Pulse project spoke of the pervasiveness of mobile technology in the developing world, and how together with mobile carriers they form a sort of sensor networks that give " digital smoke signals. NGO capacity is still lacking, but they must learn to own technology.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JANUARY 11, 2006

If you are a regular reader of the Cambodia4kids Blog or read Global s Online , you already know about the Cambodian Government's actions to silence critics of the ruling party hit its peek when Human Rights activists Kem Sokha, Yeng Virak and Pa Nguon Teang were all arrested regarding banners displayed on Human Rights Day December 10, 2005.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

FEBRUARY 27, 2018

Bond: Top 11 Resources on Blockchain for Global Development. A defining feature of a cryptocurrency, and arguably its most endearing allure, is its organic nature; it is not issued by any central authority, rendering it theoretically immune to government interference or manipulation. The 2018 Global NGO Technology Report.

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Tech Soup

JULY 1, 2014

The Local Impact Map is a rich storytelling platform that uses mapping technology to place stories in a global context as you can see in the picture below. It reaches our global network resources and, combined with TechSoup.org, has over 5 million annual site visits. Dispute Resolution/Governing Law/Waiver of Jury Trial.

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 3, 2006

she worked on a program called the “African Peace and Development Initiative” at the NGO, World Learning for International Development , doing project backstopping for peacebuilding initiatives in East Africa. Up with People is apolitical and nonsectarian with no ties to any government, religious or political organization.

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Connection Cafe

MAY 3, 2011

I’ve worked with several Non-Governmental Organizations (NGOs) on their technology challenges as they fulfill their global missions. You might not be surprised to find out that they have unique challenges because of their global nature. building a fundraising organization to supplement their traditional government funding.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 5, 2016

one a global norm and allows for easy import and export of accessible materials. Benetech successfully spun off our data team as the Human Rights Data Analysis Group, an independent NGO. everybody in the field of social justice understands that governments are probably spying on them. It makes a copyright exception like the U.S.

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Twenti - Digital Marketing For Nonprofits

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

We need a combination of political action and big personal changes to get the global community moving forward to protect our home. Leading organisations like the UN are telling us unanimously that we need to act now with global systematic change in order to save the planet. It’s not just about institutional change.

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