Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 29, 2010

We want to give people an opportunity to really develop, innovate, and preserve their own culture." -- Tom Aageson, co-founder, Global Center for Cultural Entrepreneurship A week, or so ago I interviewed my Dad, Tom Aageson, for a special Father's Day show on the Big Vision Podcast. I've posted an edited transcript of the interview below.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 31, 2014

Video games are big — bigger than Hollywood in terms of revenue, as a $66 billion global industry. Since 2009, Zynga.org has enabled millions of players to contribute nearly $20 million to more than 30 nonprofit organizations globally. You can register here. Players, who collectively average about 30 years old in the U.S.,

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Tech Soup

APRIL 14, 2014

That’s why TechSoup Global also offers NetSquared, community of nonprofit technology meetups with groups in twenty countries. So join your local NetSquared group and start participating in the conversation. So join your local NetSquared group and start participating in the conversation. Upcoming Events. Tuesday, April 15.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 26, 2013

Random Hacks of Kindness (RHoK) is a global-wide community of hackers and social leaders with the common goal of building open technology for a better world. Microsoft's International Women's Hackathon challenged female developers to combat issues like human trafficking through new mobile apps and web programs.

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AUGUST 26, 2020

And they’re certainly not exempt from a global pandemic. responding to a global pandemic is a matter of doubling-down on what they know. That network supports local leaders in improving education policy through advocacy. Local communities were. We had to work closely to support local clubs in navigating this.

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Tech Soup

FEBRUARY 17, 2015

These global leaders are coming from Uganda, Australia, London, and Florida. Don't worry, there are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Busia, Kenya: Open Data Day. Newest Groups.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 5, 2016

Find your local #Tech4Good group. Every month our global network of community organizers hosts Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Busia, Kenya: Net2 Kenya Subregional Conferences — Kisumu Busia and Kakamega.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 16, 2015

There are NetSquared groups in 50 cities who are dedicated to holding events for their local nonprofit technology communities. We''re a [global movement]([link] with chapters in 20 countries. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Asia and Pacific Rim.

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Tech Soup

MAY 12, 2014

TechSoup Global’s Dara Westling attended the recent Global Donors Forum in Washington, D.C. She is our vice president of development alliances and global media for TechSoup Global’s domestic and international programs. We connect the local with global resources.” Dara Westling.

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 8, 2015

Your local NetSquared group is here to help with free, in-person events being held across the U.S. So far we've scheduled events in Kenya and Uganda, and will be adding more cities throughout the fall. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 8, 2015

Our events are powered by a global network of volunteers dedicated to building strong, self-sufficient, local communities of nonprofit technology practitioners. So give your local organizer a hug next time you see them! We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Newest NetSquared Groups.

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Tech Soup

JANUARY 14, 2015

TechSoup's NetSquared is a global network of nonprofit technology meetups. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Guatemala City, Guatemala: Global Game Jam — Guatemala 2015. Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso: Monthly Meeting of Local Members.

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Tech Soup

MAY 9, 2016

We're a global movement with chapters in 20 countries. Storytelling is our focus for May, but every month our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 50 cities. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Wednesday, June 8.

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Have Fun - Do Good

DECEMBER 28, 2006

From her Berkeley-based office, Melinda Kramer facilitates an international network of women leaders. Melinda Kramer: Women's Global Green Action Network is an international organization that is linking and empowering women working in environmental sustainability around the world. We do it in a number of ways.

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Tech Soup

NOVEMBER 14, 2013

mobile payment system in Kenya that allows people there to text each other money. Charity Digital News , Wired , and several other UK tech publications recently reported on Nominet Trust 100 , or NT100, which is a new comprehensive global list of promising applications of digital technology for social good. Oyster costs $9.95

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Tech Soup

MAY 7, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Have Fun - Do Good

JUNE 19, 2009

After meeting her at the Global Engagement Summer last spring, I knew I wanted to grab her for an interview before she became too famous. We bring communities together to identify their top problems, needs, and priorities, and solve them internally. Kjerstin Erickson is one of those people "shiny" people who lights up a room.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

I just had to take that chance." - Jensine Larsen Jensine Larsen is the Founder and CEO of World Pulse , a global media and communication network devoted to bringing women a global voice. Jensine Larsen: World Pulse is a global media enterprise fully devoted to bringing women a global voice. That wasn't fulfilling me.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

She caught my attention because she founded an organization that works with orphaned and disabled children in Kenya. Ali is the Founder of AVIF (ABLe Volunteers International Fund). In 2002, she established a 65-teacher international summer school in NE Asia. Organizations in Kenya are carefully vetted. Trade not Aid !"

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

And for those that aren’t aware in relation to the construction industry, you know, construction globally and in the United States has continued to grow and hasn’t stopped throughout the pandemic. That’s our internal evaluation of are they even ready? Then we look at land acquisition and land planning.

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Tech Soup

DECEMBER 2, 2016

Every month, our global network of community organizers host Tech4Good events in more than 70 cities. The targets need to be linked like so: --> Jump to events in North America or go international with events in. Busia, Kenya: Netsquared Kenya Joins MLH Hackathon 3 December 2016. The link need to be like so: Africa.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 9, 2013

Find my piece, “ Will Facebook’s Internet.org Bridge the Global Digital Divide? The service has 17 million users and is transforming the way wealth is distributed in poor countries, which now include Tanzania, India, and Afghanistan as well as Kenya. Smart Watches. Another post-PC device to buy and pay attention to.

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Have Fun - Do Good

AUGUST 20, 2008

KickStart is a nonprofit that develops and markets new technologies in Africa that help local entrepreneurs to establish small businesses. Martin Fisher: The problem we're trying to solve is global poverty. Unless we solve this problem of global poverty, the other problems won't be able to be solved.

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Tech Soup

MARCH 17, 2014

To kick off a series of profiles on leaders in nonprofit technology, we thought we’d start close to home by featuring our TechSoup Global founder, Daniel Ben-Horin. CompuMentor in due course turned into TechSoup when it became a national nonprofit, and TechSoup Global in 2008 after it had become an international organization.

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Tech Soup

APRIL 23, 2013

Fundacja TechSoup in Poland, in a close partnership with Dokukino and other local organizations from the Western Balkans, has launched open challenges for the best technology-based social projects that address transparency and accountability issues in the the Bosnia and Hercegovina, Kosovo, and Serbia. NPTech Innovation in Eastern Europe.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 21, 2010

Ushahidi Board Meeting at iHub in Kenya. I’ve just spent the last couple of days in Nairobi, Kenya because I’m a board member of an NGO based here, Ushahidi , an organization that builds tools for democratizing information and increasing transparency. The Networked Nonprofit In Kenya. Response was laughter).

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Have Fun - Do Good

MAY 4, 2010

Melinda Kramer: Women's Earth Alliance is a global organization and we work around the world uniting women who are on the front lines of environmental causes. While many of the women had traveled the world, many of them had also devoted their lives to local solutions. MK: One of the highlights for me was the Global Peers program.

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Nonprofit Tech for Good

JANUARY 2, 2013

SOS Children’s Villages International :: @ SOS_Children. 10×10 is global action campaign with a film as its centerpiece.Their message is simply this: Educate girls and you can change the world. Girls Education International :: @ GirlsED. ECPAT International :: @ ECPAT. Wildlife SOS :: @ WildlifeSOS.

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Have Fun - Do Good

NOVEMBER 28, 2007

She is donating 100 percent of the royalties from the book to the Global Fund for Women. I've now documented women's lives in 40 countries, over the past 10 or 12 years, and everywhere I went, I found women who were helping each other, local women. PG: I want to talk a little bit about the Global Fund for Women.

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Have Fun - Do Good

APRIL 2, 2008

Kavita Ramdas, President and CEO, Global Fund for Women. Kavita Ramdas is the President and CEO of the nonprofit, the Global Fund for Women. I think it's worth it (: Kavita Ramdas: The Global Fund for Women is the largest independent, publicly supported grant-making foundation to advance women's human rights internationally.

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