sgEngage

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Throughout the pandemic, we saw individuals far and wide rally around local and global causes and missions that were important to them. In fact, in 2021, we saw 13% growth in online crowdfunding globally through JustGiving from Blackbaud. Add a peer-to-peer fundraising component to increase your reach and bolster your results.

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Tech Soup

SEPTEMBER 24, 2013

As part of Social Media September (#SocMedSep), we've been tapping into the wisdom of our global TechSoup and NetSquared communities as well as experts in nonprofit technology. AP: One of our most successful campaigns is attached to an annual documentary photography exhibition, Global Visions.

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DipJar

APRIL 20, 2021

In a normal year, the Center welcomes more than 350,000 guests, including more than 70,000 students on school field trips, to its campus for free. Most recently, LMC began offering virtual educational lessons, videos and activities for at home learners. The Center uses donations to create programs and initiatives locally and globally.

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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. GlassLab ( [link] ) explores the potential for existing, commercially successful digital games to serve both as potent learning environments and real-time assessments of student learning. You can register here. Around Gender.

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Bloomerang

SEPTEMBER 18, 2021

Lots of videos on there you can watch. They moved to a transitional campus, and they began to add students and kind of expand their services to those students. The post [VIDEO] Counting the Costs: Where Capital Campaigns Often Miss the Mark appeared first on Bloomerang. So check that out if you’re interested.

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Top Nonprofits

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Wendy has worked with senior executives of global organizations to transform their leadership, culture, and organizations. Years later, in collaboration with a colleague, she launched her second initiative, an after-school program in New York City to help under-served high school students with career planning and workplace readiness.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JUNE 23, 2014

Highlights of this Update: Human Rights Global Literacy Benetech Labs and Board of Directors Human Rights In the age of hyper-surveillance, it is clear that at-risk human rights defenders are no longer the only ones who need the know-how to protect sensitive information. I encourage you to read his powerful story on our website.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

AUGUST 20, 2014

Take for example, #GivingTuesday, a global day dedicated to giving back that will take place on Tuesday, December 2, 2014, a day for charities, families, businesses, community centers, and students around the world will come together for one common purpose: to celebrate generosity and to give. See you in Summer School!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 31, 2006

" It is about an eco-themed video game that is helping the PlayStation generation understand global warming. students about environmental issues, Adventure Ecology is one example of a growing field of ???serious??? Developed to teach Australian and U.K. Our choices have consequences, like they do in real life.???

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

OCTOBER 29, 2014

This past summer, I was an instructor at GivingTuesday’s Summer School where I made a video with some encouragement and tips for using GivingTuesday to experiment with new techniques, donor segments, or practices. How do businesses and nonprofit reach out to this generation? The Giving 2.0

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Media Cause

JANUARY 26, 2024

Verve, a global insight consultancy, released a trends report November 2023 , finding that Gen Z is “pushing against expectations of productivity and polished perfection to embrace a messier, more chaotic style.” But this isn’t the trend anymore. 2024 is about authenticity, baby! Sure, it’s a curated post, but it’s meant to look low-effort.

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Twenty Hats

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

It’s no secret that this was a bumpy transition for many of us, exacerbated by the stress and grief of a global pandemic. One theme we’re seeing over and over again is how the pandemic changed the way volunteer managers educate and train their volunteers and clients, often using Zoom or other video sharing platforms.

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Amy Sample Ward

MARCH 14, 2011

There’s no engagement quite the same as having responses include personal messages, pictures, videos, or even re-worded messages. A recent study from University of California’s Humanities Research Institute, backed by MacArthur Foundation, involved more than 2,500 high school students (the study followed some students for up to 3.5

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Nimble AMS

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

join as a student, new grad, or within the first five years of employment. From Disruption to Opportunity: How a global crisis has shifted member expectations. TECH TIP: Nimble Communities functionality in Nimble AMS allows you to upload and share all file types – from PDFs and images to video files.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JULY 9, 2018

Ending the Book Famine: the Marrakesh Treaty The World Blind Union talks about the global book famine experienced by blind people, and the negative impacts on education and employment on many millions of people around the world. Ten years ago, I was one of a handful of leaders who got together to create a first draft of a global treaty.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

JANUARY 17, 2014

It affected every step of the evolution of digital media—from the VCR to the digital video recorder to YouTube. We called this idea Bookshare , which is now Benetech’s largest Global Literacy initiative. students) with a collection of 220,000+ (and counting) accessible books—the world’s largest library of its kind. In the U.S.,

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Saleforce Nonprofit

AUGUST 30, 2021

An organization that operates after-school programs was concerned about its financial bottom line and wondered if increasing the size of the student groups overseen by each staff member would help. They actively seek funding based on their hitting of outcomes, and prioritize hitting those outcomes when making financial decisions.

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Saleforce Nonprofit

JULY 22, 2021

The results allowed the executive team to launch a video channel, rather than sending text updates, in order to reach the numerous indigenous language speakers whose languages did not have a written form. Read more about impact management, and learn more about Mobile Pathways’ story. About the Author. Mélodie Kinet.

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 3, 2011

Her students consistently score at the top of over 120 schools in the Arusha district of Tanzania. Mama Lucy is an Epic Change fellow, and has been an invited speaker at the European Summit for Global Transformation. And now I hope you’ll join me! To Mama With Love is an open, community campaign. Learn more!

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Tech Soup

OCTOBER 17, 2012

The app was a finalist in Microsoft's 2011 Imagine Cup, a student technology competition. iPad, iPhone, MacOS) is a student planner that helps you keep track of your class schedule, track your grades and GPA, manage homework assignments, and create an interactive calendar. This app was developed as a Coding4Fun Community Project.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JULY 30, 2007

Cambodian young people are joining the global conversation in the blogosphere and sharing their perspectives through different forms of grassroots citizen's media thanks to the efforts of a dedicated team of Cambodian bloggers. at 14 different universities in Phnom Penh and Siem Reap with more than 1700 students participating.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

JUNE 19, 2015

The current population of Gen Z is estimated to be about 2 billion, or 27 percent of the global population. While there are larger numbers of Gen Z in India, China, and Nigeria compared to UK or US, they are truly a global organization. Talk in images: emojis, symbols, pictures, videos. Be Prepared to Be Blown Away by Gen Z.

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NTEN

FEBRUARY 29, 2012

NTEN is also fortunate to have the help of two great San Francisco-based organizations, VolunteerMatch and TechSoup Global , to help make the 2012 event a celebration of volunteer spirit. We need your help to get The Stride Center students interview ready! Bay Area nonprofits are doing some incredible work.

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. TweetsGiving is a global celebration of gratitude and giving on November 24-26. Find out more in the interview below! What is Epic Change? What is TweetsGiving?

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Amy Sample Ward

NOVEMBER 3, 2009

Avi is just back from Tanzania where he and other Epic Change team members were working with the students in the classroom built with last year’s TweetsGiving proceeds. TweetsGiving is a global celebration of gratitude and giving on November 24-26. Find out more in the interview below! What is Epic Change? What is TweetsGiving?

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Connection Cafe

MARCH 26, 2020

In light of that trend and all the recent travel upheaval due to COVID – 19, with increasing restrictions being placed on companies and their global workforce, we wanted to address creative alternatives to traditional volunteer events. . Global Volunteer Programs. There’s an app for that! H osting a virtual or local day of service?

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Amy Sample Ward

MAY 18, 2011

—– Whether it’s political or personal, global or local, funded or a grassroots effort, organizations and communities are campaigning for change in many ways, all of the time. Perhaps the campaign could have been anchored in that fact and asked people to make a 45 second or less video to get involved.

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Beneblog: Technology Meets Society

FEBRUARY 18, 2013

If our Bookshare team is trying to help a blind student in India get a book she needs for university, make it easy for us to do that. The ability of that Indian blind student shouldn’t depend on whether she can get her university or a local blindness charity to do it for her. That’s so 20th Century (or 19th?)!

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Tech Soup

JUNE 24, 2015

(Please visit the site to view this video). The Ordyslexie program, in combination with Les Ateliers du Bocage, has helped more than 1,500 dyslexic French students become more independent and confident in school. This program has improved academic performance and is loved by both students and parents.

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Tech Soup

MAY 4, 2012

Featuring a lively mix of nonprofit technology guests sharing their unique perspectives on ways to harness the power of gaming as a catalyst for good, you'll hear how some organizations are using games as a platform for teaching leadership skills, problem solving, and global community building to youth. Barry Joseph, Global Kids.

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Amy Sample Ward

OCTOBER 28, 2010

TechSoup Global has an upcoming Digital Story Telling contest, getting orgs to put together 60 second vid’s about what they do/who they are. Video is such an inclusive medium. The League of Women Voters of SF has found that making 1-3 minute (no longer than 5 min) videos gets much better pick-up online.

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Tech Soup

JULY 27, 2011

A competition that challenges students from all corners of the globe to develop technological solutions to social problems. What do all these things have in common? Providing technology training to United States military veterans looking to transition to civilian jobs. and Facebook. and Facebook.

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Gyrus

JUNE 28, 2016

Our learning instruction we receive from youth into early adulthood is fairly regimented; teachers are taught how to convey information to students, and for the most part, they engage in the same methodology across their efforts. Do the one-size fits all approach not work? The answer is: it’s complicated. Use various forms of media.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 13, 2012

One of things immediately struck me – the crowd was filled with younger people – teens, college students, and millennials who want to use the technology and do social change on their own terms. You can see it in the video above, well worth watching. Now, I can’t wait for my international projects in 2013!

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 11, 2015

I would urge you to take a few minutes to view this video and see what you can learn nonprofit storytelling. Global Giving: Syrian Refugee Crisis. Students on Ice. He shared incredible stories from over two decades of providing rehabilitation for disabled people in Afghanistan. Hatch for Good. Refugee Girls in Lebanon.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

NOVEMBER 25, 2008

My kids have posed for photos in t-shirts , emptied their piggy banks , helped me make fundraising videos , contributed clothing or other items to drives at school, and have attended lots of fund raising events. My kids have become more and more interested in playing video games.

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Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

MARCH 30, 2007

we're mobilizing a global conversation about the various forms of. Talk with your families, your colleagues, your students, your neighbors - we could all benefit from. of videos and other resources related to cyberbullying, along with a feed. via en email from Andy Carvin. I like this call to action! Hundreds of bloggers.

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